Franz Boas

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Franz Uri Boas was a German-born American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as Historical Particularism and Cultural Relativism.

Published Works

• Changes in the Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants
• Introductory
• The Mind of Primitive Man
• Mythology and Folk-Tales of the North American Indians
• History and Science in Anthropology: A Reply
• The Growth of Indian Mythologies. A Study Based upon the Growth of the Mythologies of the North Pacific Coast
• The graying of hair
• Psychological Problems in Anthropology
• Age changes and secular changes in anthropometric measurements
• A Journey in Cumberland Sound and on the West Shore of Davis Strait in 1883 and 1884
• Classification of American Indian Languages
• Some Traits of Primitive Culture
• The Social Organization of the Kwakiutl
• El Dialecto Mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca
• Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U. S. National Museum
• Report on an Anthropometric Investigation of the Population of the United States
• RACE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
• The Indians of British Columbia
• Current Beliefs of the Kwakiutl Indians
• Physical Characteristics of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast
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• Note on the Chinook Jargon
• Stylistic Aspects of Primitive Literature
• Notes on the anthropology of Sweden
• Growth
• The Correlation of Anatomical or Physiological Measurements
• The Head - Forms of the Italians as Influenced by Heredity and Environment
• On the Variety of Lines of Descent Represented in a Population
• Remarks on the Theory of Anthropometry
• Some Problems in North American Archaeology
• Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North America
• : Notes Ethnographiques sur les peuples communement appeles Bakuba ainsi que sur les peuplades apparentees. - Les Bushongo . E. Torday, J. A. Joyce.
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• The Folk-Lore of the Eskimo
• Ten Folktales in Modern Nahuatl
• Mythology of Puget Sound
• The Measurement of Differences between Variable Quantities
• Sound Shifts in Salishan Dialects
• Summary of the Work of the International School of American Archeology and Ethnology in Mexico
• Report on the Academic Teaching of Anthropology
• In Memoriam: Herman Karl Haeberlin
• Handbook of American Indian Languages
• Notes on the Eskimo of Port Clarence, Alaska
• On Certain Songs and Dances of the Kwakiutl of British Columbia
• Chinook Songs
• The Doctrine of Souls and of Disease among the Chinook Indians
• Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa
• The houses of the Kwakiutl Indians, British Columbia
• Anthropological Investigations in Schools
• Vocabulary of the Athapascan Tribe of Nicola Valley, British Columbia
• Pliny Earle Goddard
• Notes on the Kwakiutl Vocabulary
• Truman Michelson
• Edward Sapir
• Chinook [contributions by Sapir] (1911): Diminutive and Augmentative Consonantism in Wishram. Post-positions in Wishram. Wishram Text and Analysis. Modal Elements
• Heredity in Anthropometric Traits
• Kinship Terms of the Kutenai Indians
• Waldemar Bogoras
• 24
• Ethnological Problems in Canada.
• Eskimo Tales and Songs
• The Origin of Death
• The Origin of Totemism
• Notes on Mexican Folk-Lore
• Cuentos en Mexicano de Milpa Alta D.F.
• Tales of Spanish Provenience from Zuni
• The hair color of the Italians
• Notes
• A Comparative Investigation of Gestural Behavior Patterns in "Racial" Groups Living Under Different as Well as Similar Environmental Conditions
• New Evidence in regard to the Instability of the Human Types
• The Mind of Primitive Man
• In Memoriam William Wells Newell, Died at Wayland, Massachusetts, 21st January, 1907
• A Keresan Text
• Vocabulary of an Athapascan Dialect of the State of Washington
• A Revised List of Kwakiutl Suffixes
• Additional Notes on the Kutenai Language
• Note on Some Recent Changes in the Kwakiutl Language
• Notes on the Dakota, Teton Dialect
• A Chehalis Text
• Kultur und Rasse
• Notes on the Chemakum Language
• Anthropologic Miscellanea
• Anthropological Notes
• Reply to Wallis
• The Half-Blood Indian, an Anthropometric Study
• The Anthropology of the North American Indian
• General Anthropology
• The Mind of Primitive Man
• Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants
• The Mind of Primitive Man
• The Mind of Primitive Man.
• American Indians
• The Negro Races.
• Race, Language and Culture.
• Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants.
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• 51
• 98
• 69
• Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Languages
• The Cephalic Index
• Publications of the American Ethnological Society
• Coming of Age in Samoa.
• The Coefficient of Correlation
• The Mind of Primitive Man
• Einfluss von Erblichkeit und Umwelt auf das Wachstum
• Some Traits of the Dakota Language
• Handbook of American Indian Languages
• Primitive Art
• Chinook Texts
• Eskimo Tales and Songs
• Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kuste Amerikas
• Traditions of the Tillamook Indians. II
• A Study of Omaha Indian Music
• Traditions of the Tillamook Indians
• The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians
• The Thompson Indians of British Columbia
• Traditions of the Ts'ets'a'ut. II
• Traditions of the Ts'ets'a prime ut. I.
• The Evolution of Literature
• Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
• Otis Tufton Mason
• The Mythology of All Races. Volume X, North American
• Publications of the American Ethnological Society: Volume I. Fox Texts
• Tales of North American Indians
• Teton Sioux Music
• Spanish Tales from Laguna and Zuni, N. Mex
• Race, Language and Culture
• Geographical Names of the Kwakiutl Indians
• The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion
• Kwakiutl Tales
• Anthropology and Modern Life
• The Limitations of the Comparative Method of Anthropology (1896)
• Ethnology at the Exposition (1893)

Other Resources

• en.wikipedia.org
• www.franz-boas.com

Schools

Heidelberg University

Public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Clark University

American private university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts

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Columbia University

Private Ivy League research university in New York City

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University of Bonn

Public research university located in Bonn, Germany

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University of Kiel

University in Germany

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