Franz Boas
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German-American anthropologist
Why Is Franz Boas Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Franz Uri Boas was a German-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.
Franz Boas's Published Works
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Published Papers
- Race, Language and Culture (1940) (476)
- THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN. (1938) (449)
- THE LIMITATIONS OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGY. (1896) (287)
- Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants. (1913) (248)
- Anthropology and Modern Life (1929) (233)
- Kwakiutl grammar : with a glossary of the suffixes (1947) (99)
- ON ALTERNATING SOUNDS (92)
- THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY. (1887) (91)
- THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY. (1904) (85)
- SOME PRINCIPLES OF MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION. (1907) (70)
- Handbook of American Indian languages. Part 1 (61)
- THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (61)
- RACE AND PROGRESS. (1931) (55)
- Geographical names of the Kwakiutl Indians (53)
- Mythology and Folk-Tales of the North American Indians (1914) (53)
- Race And Democratic Society (1946) (49)
- Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (1925) (47)
- Franz Boas' Approach to Language (1944) (46)
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (1930) (45)
- Language and culture (1942) (45)
- THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (1892) (43)
- Publications of the American Ethnological Society (42)
- THE AIMS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (1932) (42)
- Ethnology (1887) (41)
- The occurrence of similar inventions in areas widely apart. (1887) (41)
- Adolescencia y cultura en Samoa (1945) (39)
- THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF THE SKULL AND THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF THE COMPARISON OF VARIABLE FORMS. (1905) (37)
- THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE KWAKIUTL (1920) (35)
- The people of the Polar north (35)
- The Eruption of Deciduous Teeth Among Hebrew Infants (1927) (30)
- HISTORY AND SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY: A REPLY (1936) (30)
- Stylistic Aspects of Primitive Literature (1925) (29)
- On Alternating Sounds: (1889) (28)
- The Cephalic Index (28)
- RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. (1943) (27)
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (27)
- The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay : from notes collected by George Comer, James S. Mutch, and E.J. Peck. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 15, article 1. (27)
- Second report on the Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay : from notes collected by George Comer, James S. Mutch, and E.J. Peck. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 15, article 2. (27)
- RACE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA. (1909) (25)
- Kwakiutl Grammar with a Glossary of the Suffixes (1948) (24)
- Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin tribes (23)
- THE AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (1943) (22)
- Classification of American Indian Languages (1929) (22)
- Migration of Asiatic Races and Cultures To North America (21)
- Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1906) (20)
- RUDOLF VIRCHOW'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK. (1902) (20)
- The middle Columbia Salish (19)
- Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North America (19)
- The Growth of Indian Mythologies. A Study Based upon the Growth of the Mythologies of the North Pacific Coast (18)
- THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TRIBES OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST (1924) (18)
- FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. (1887) (18)
- SOME PHILOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (1906) (18)
- Bella Bella Texts (1928) (18)
- Some Traits of Primitive Culture (1904) (18)
- CREATIVE DANCE IN THERAPY (1941) (17)
- Current Beliefs of the Kwakiutl Indians (1932) (17)
- THE GROWTH OF FIRST-BORN CHILDREN. (1895) (17)
- The Half-Blood Indian, an Anthropometric Study (17)
- THE RELATION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. (1941) (17)
- THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMISM.1 (1916) (17)
- ON THE VARIETY OF LINES OF DESCENT REPRESENTED IN A POPULATION (1916) (16)
- The Mythology Of The Bella Coola Indians (16)
- Ethnological Problems in Canada. (1910) (16)
- HEREDITY IN HEAD FORM (1903) (16)
- THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RACE (1912) (16)
- Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U. S. National Museum (16)
- Aims of Anthropological Research (1933) (15)
- THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE VARIABILITY OF ORGANISMS AND THAT OF THEIR CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS. (1902) (15)
- Age changes and secular changes in anthropometric measurements (1940) (15)
- The Growth of Indian Mythologies (1896) (14)
- Bella Bella Tales (14)
- Report on an Anthropometric Investigation of the Population of the United States (1922) (13)
- A Journey in Cumberland Sound and on the West Shore of Davis Strait in 1883 and 1884 (13)
- The Folk-Lore of the Eskimo (12)
- A Critique of Psycho-Physic Methods. (1888) (12)
- Coming of Age in Samoa. (1930) (12)
- Note on the Chinook Jargon (1933) (12)
- Cephalic Index (1899) (12)
- PROPERTY MARKS OF ALASKAN ESKIMO (1899) (12)
- Second General Report On The Indians Of British Columbia: Ii. The Nootka (12)
- On Certain Songs and Dances of the Kwakiutl of British Columbia (1888) (11)
- A Year among the Eskimo (11)
- RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. II. (1943) (11)
- New Evidence in Regard to the Instability of Human Types. (1916) (11)
- THE ETHNOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ESOTERIC DOCTRINES. (1902) (11)
- Sound Shifts in Salishan Dialects (1927) (11)
- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST (11)
- Notes on Mexican Folk-Lore (1912) (11)
- Some Problems in North American Archaeology (11)
- THE CHINOOK JARGON. (1892) (10)
- NOTES ON THE SNANAIMUQ (1889) (10)
- The Tempo of Growth of Fraternities. (1935) (10)
- The Origin of Death (1917) (10)
- SKETCH OF THE KWAKIUTL LANGUAGE1 (1900) (10)
- THE HEAD‐FORMS OF THE ITALIANS AS INFLUENCED BY HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT (1913) (9)
- THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN.--II. (1892) (9)
- Teton Sioux Music (1925) (9)
- Mythology of Puget Sound (1924) (9)
- Edward Sapir (1939) (9)
- Remarks on the Theory of Anthropometry (1893) (8)
- The graying of hair (1932) (8)
- Notes on the Iroquois language (8)
- ON DR. WILLIAM TOWNSEND PORTER'S INVESTIGATION OF THE GROWTH OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF ST. LOUIS. (1895) (7)
- THE CORRELATION OF ANATOMICAL OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS (1894) (7)
- Methode der Ethnologie (1911) (7)
- THE FOUNDATION OF A NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (1902) (7)
- Kultur und Rasse. (7)
- Notes on the anthropology of Sweden (1918) (7)
- DETERMINATION OF THE COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION. (1909) (7)
- NOTES ON THE CHINOOK LANGUAGE (7)
- THE EFFECTS OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT ON IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. (1936) (7)
- REPORT ON THE ACADEMIC TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY (1919) (6)
- The decorative art of the Indians of the North Pacific coast. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 9, article 10. (6)
- Notes on the Dakota, Teton Dialect (1933) (6)
- Bureau of American Ethnology (1902) (6)
- NOTES ON THE CHEMAKUM LANGUAGE (6)
- Kinship Terms Of The Kutenai Indians (1919) (6)
- ANTHROPOMETRY OF SHOSHONEAN TRIBES (1899) (6)
- Notes on the Kwakiutl Vocabulary (1931) (6)
- Ten Folktales in Modern Nahuatl (1924) (6)
- ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS. (1942) (5)
- The Negro and the Dance as an Art (1949) (5)
- The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion (1933) (5)
- Notes on the Eskimo of Port Clarence, Alaska (1894) (5)
- FREDERIC WARD PUTNAM. (1915) (5)
- Traditions of the Tillamook Indians. II (5)
- Baffin-Land : georgraphische Ergebnisse einer in den Jahren 1883 und 1884 ausgeführten Forschungsreise (5)
- THE FORM OF THE HEAD AS INFLUENCED BY GROWTH. (1896) (5)
- Kwakiutl tales : new series (1935) (5)
- Statistical Study of Anthropometry (1901) (4)
- Additional Notes on the Kutenai Language (1926) (4)
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN SCHOOLS. (1891) (4)
- Census and Reservations of the Kwakiutl Nation (4)
- Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa (1922) (4)
- POETRY AND MUSIC OF SOME NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES. (1887) (4)
- The Doctrine Of Souls And Disease Among The Chinook Indians (4)
- HEREDITY IN ANTHROPOMETRIC TRAITS (1907) (4)
- Tales of Spanish Provenience from Zuni (4)
- Race against man (1939) (4)
- The anthropometry of Porto Rico (1920) (4)
- NORTHERN ELEMENTS IN THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NAVAHO (1897) (4)
- The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 4 (4)
- Introductory (1917) (4)
- The Poetical Works of Giles and Phineas Fletcher (1910) (3)
- Eskimo Tales and Songs (1889) (3)
- Spanish Tales from Laguna and Zuni, N. Mex (3)
- A new race of the great blue heron ; with, Remarks on the status and range of Ardea wardi. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 8. (3)
- A Precise Criterion of Species. (1898) (3)
- The Influence of Environment upon Development. (1920) (3)
- The Negro Races. (1908) (3)
- The Horizontal Plane of the Skull and the General Problem of the Comparison of Variable Forms (1905) (3)
- THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE ESKIMOS OF EAST GREENLAND. (1909) (3)
- The Eskimo of Smith Sound. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 12, article 21. (3)
- 'THE CHILD AND CHILDHOOD IN FOLKTHOUGHT.'. (1896) (3)
- RECENT WORK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES. (1932) (3)
- HOW CAN ENDOWMENTS BE USED MOST EFFECTIVELY FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHE. (1903) (2)
- THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (2)
- The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 2. (2)
- DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. (2)
- The Growth of U. S. Naval Cadets (1895) (2)
- Race, language and culture / by Franz Boas (1940) (2)
- Pliny Earle Goddard (1928) (2)
- Publications of the American Ethnological Society: Volume I. Fox Texts@@@Wishram Texts, together with Wasco Tales and Myths@@@Wasco Tales and Myths (1909) (2)
- The Avunculate Among the Vandau (1922) (2)
- Truman Michelson (1938) (2)
- Family Traits as Determined by Heredity and Environment. (1928) (2)
- Vocabulary of an Athapascan Dialect of the State of Washington (1924) (2)
- A Revised List of Kwakiutl Suffixes (1924) (2)
- A Keresan Text (1923) (2)
- A rock painting of the Thompson River Indians, British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 8, article 12. (2)
- Venus & Anchises (Brittain's Ida) : and other poems (2)
- The language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia. (1886) (2)
- The Anthropology of the North American Indian (2)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURE OF NORTH-WEST AMERICA. (1888) (2)
- Third report on the Indians of British Columbia (2)
- The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island. Memoirs of the AMNH ; [v. 8, pt. 2]; Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v. 5, pt. 2. (2)
- Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens (1897) (1)
- Die Sprache der Zimshïan‐Indianer in Nordwest‐America. Von Dr A. C. Graf von der Schulenburg (1899) (1)
- Kwakiutl texts. Second series. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 14, pt. 1. (1)
- ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Die Weltanschauung der Naturvölker. Von L. Frobenius (1899) (1)
- Kwakiutl Tales: Part II –Texts (1943) (1)
- Psychological Aspects in the Practice and Teaching of Creative Dance (1942) (1)
- SUPAN'S JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY. (1887) (1)
- IN MEMORIAM: HERMAN KARL HAEBERLIN1 (1919) (1)
- Hall 105 : ethnological collections from the North Pacific Coast of America (1)
- The Chilkat blanket. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 3, pt. 4. (1)
- PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAIN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY (1907) (1)
- Some Traits of the Dakota Language (1937) (1)
- The Mythology of All Races. Volume X, North American (1916) (1)
- Anthropometry of central California. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 17, article 4. (1)
- A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities (1911) (1)
- A.J. Stone's measurements of natives of the Northwest Territories. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 6. (1)
- Scientific Literature: Antropometria Militare (1896) (1)
- The Lillooet Indians (1908) (1)
- A Hunting Trip (1928) (1)
- THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (1)
- Einfluss von Erblichkeit und Umwelt auf das Wachstum (1)
- Response : Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification (1887) (1)
- The hair color of the Italians (1)
- The Formation and Dissipation of Sea-Water Ice. (1887) (1)
- The Origin of Totemism (1910) (1)
- Note on Some Recent Changes in the Kwakiutl Language (1932) (1)
- The measurement of variable quantities (1)
- A Chehalis Text (1935) (1)
- Mixed Races. (1)
- A bronze figurine from British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 5. (0)
- The Coefficient of Correlation (1921) (0)
- Family History (1925) (0)
- Cat's Cradles from Many Lands. By Kathleen Haddon (1911) (0)
- Bax.bakwā’lanuxusīwa (1928) (0)
- RAVEN AND THE THUNDERBIRD (1928) (0)
- Kwakiutl Texts—Second Series . By Franz. Boas and George Hunt. (1908) (0)
- In Memoriam William Wells Newell, Died at Wayland, Massachusetts, 21st January, 1907 (1907) (0)
- Otis Tufton Mason (1908) (0)
- 12. Continuation of the marriage ceremonies (1925) (0)
- Vocabulary of the Athapascan Tribe of Nicola Valley, British Columbia (1924) (0)
- Mixed Races (1891) (0)
- SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAINISTS. (1908) (0)
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. (0)
- American Indians@@@Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America@@@Indians of the United States: Four Centuries of Their History and Culture@@@Race, Language, and Culture (1941) (0)
- Elsie Clews Parsons, Late President of the American Anthropological Association (1942) (0)
- My dear Professor Hale: At the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (1919) (0)
- Major Prophet of Democracy@@@Race and Democratic Society (1946) (0)
- Fallacies of Racial Inferiority (1927) (0)
- REPLY TO WALLIS (1941) (0)
- A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities . By George Grant MacCurdy. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. II., March, 1911. New Haven, Conn. Pp. 249, 384 text figures, 49 plates. (1911) (0)
- EXPLANATION OF ALPHABET USED IN RENDERING INDIAN SOUNDS (1928) (0)
- The Racial History of Man (1923) (0)
- Ethnological Collection from Alaska (0)
- THE CENSUS MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES. (1888) (0)
- Archeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound . By Harlan I. Smith. (Vol. II., Part VI.) (1908) (0)
- Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition . Edited by Franz Boas. Leiden, E. J. Brill Limited; New York, G. E. Stechert & Co. 4to.; The Lillooet Indians . By James Teit. (Vol. II., Part v.) (1908) (0)
- WREN AND GRIZZLY BEAR (1928) (0)
- Calls for Domestic Animals. (0)
- ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Experimental Study of Children. By Arthur Mac Donald (1899) (0)
- The Teaching of Geography. By Archibald Geikie. London, Macmillan. 12° (1887) (0)
- The Language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia (1886) (0)
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. (0)
- Traditions of the Ts'ets'a prime ut. I. (1896) (0)
- Hă’nʟ!ēkŭnas (Rivers Inlet and Kwakiutl) (1928) (0)
- RAVEN CREATES THE SALMON (1928) (0)
- Kwakiutl texts. Memoirs of the AMNH ; vol. 5 (0)
- THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. (1928) (0)
- ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere. (1899) (0)
- A Fight with the Haida (1928) (0)
- EXPLORATIONS IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA, 1886. (1888) (0)
- Queries (1887) (0)
- Ein Beweis des Talbot'schen Satzes und Bemerkungen zu einigen aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen (0)
- Totem Tales (1897) (0)
- Queries (1887) (0)
- Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens . Von Dr. Paul Ehrenreich. Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn. 1897. 4to. Pp. 168. 30 Plates. (1897) (0)
- Traditions of the Ts'ets'a'ut. II (0)
- Naual oder die Die Hohe Wissenschaft der Architectonischen und Künstlerischen Composition bei den Maya-Völkern deren Descendenten und Schülern (1896) (0)
- Archiv Fur Mikrobiologie(1937) (1937) (0)
- Naual oder die Die Hohe Wissenschaft der Architectonischen und Künstlerischen Composition bei den Maya-Völkern deren Descendenten und Schülern . By A. Eichhorn. Berlin. 1896. Pp. 1-126. (1896) (0)
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