Why Is Franz Boas Influential?
According to Wikipedia , 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.
Franz Boas's Published Works Race, Language and Culture THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGY. Handbook of American Indian languages Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants. The Mind of Primitive Man The shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911 : a Franz Boas reader (129)The central Eskimo (123)Anthropology and modern life Anthropology and Modern Life A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911 (92)Kwakiutl grammar : with a glossary of the suffixes Introduction to the Handbook of American Indian languages THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY. THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY. The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (76)The Salishan tribes of the western plateaus (75)ON ALTERNATING SOUNDS SOME PRINCIPLES OF MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION. The Methods of Ethnology Handbook of American Indian languages. Part 1 THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. RACE AND PROGRESS. On Alternating Sounds Kwakiutl culture : as reflected in mythology (50)Mythology and Folk-Tales of the North American Indians Language and culture Race And Democratic Society Geographical names of the Kwakiutl Indians THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas' 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia (43)THE AIMS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. Publications of the American Ethnological Society OBSERVATIONS ON THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. The ethnography of Franz Boas (40)Franz Boas' Approach to Language The occurrence of similar inventions in areas widely apart. The Function of dance in human society (38)Adolescencia y cultura en Samoa (37)The religion of the Kwakiutl Indians (36)Ethnology Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF THE SKULL AND THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF THE COMPARISON OF VARIABLE FORMS. The Mind of Primitive Man The people of the Polar north Contributions to the ethnology of the Kwakiutl The Eruption of Deciduous Teeth Among Hebrew Infants HISTORY AND SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY: A REPLY Scientists as Spies Kwakiutl Grammar with a Glossary of the Suffixes Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 The Origin of Death THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE KWAKIUTL 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. (26)Stylistic Aspects of Primitive Literature 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. (25)RACE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA. Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 : journals and letters THE CEPHALIC INDEX RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin tribes (22)Migration of Asiatic Races and Cultures To North America (21)RUDOLF VIRCHOW'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK. Classification of American Indian Languages Bella Bella Texts Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North America Some Traits of Primitive Culture THE AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. The Growth of Indian Mythologies. A Study Based upon the Growth of the Mythologies of the North Pacific Coast THE GROWTH OF FIRST-BORN CHILDREN. THE RELATION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island (16)The middle Columbia Salish (16)THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TRIBES OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RACE The Half-Blood Indian, an Anthropometric Study SOME PHILOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. The Mythology Of The Bella Coola Indians THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE VARIABILITY OF ORGANISMS AND THAT OF THEIR CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS. THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMISM.1 Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U. S. National Museum HEREDITY IN HEAD FORM CREATIVE DANCE IN THERAPY Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition Ethnological Problems in Canada. The Mind of Primitive Man: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911 (14)Current Beliefs of the Kwakiutl Indians Bella Bella Tales (14)Age changes and secular changes in anthropometric measurements The Cephalic Index The Growth of Indian Mythologies The Folk-Lore of the Eskimo Report on an Anthropometric Investigation of the Population of the United States Coming of Age in Samoa. THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST. Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl A Journey in Cumberland Sound and on the West Shore of Davis Strait in 1883 and 1884 Note on the Chinook Jargon Sound Shifts in Salishan Dialects PROPERTY MARKS OF ALASKAN ESKIMO RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. II. Aims of Anthropological Research Grammatical Notes on the Language of the Tlingit Indians (11)Second General Report On The Indians Of British Columbia: Ii. The Nootka (10)NOTES ON THE SNANAIMUQ PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST New Evidence in Regard to the Instability of Human Types. Notes on Mexican Folk-Lore Psychological Problems in Anthropology Notes on the Chatino Language of Mexico Some Problems in North American Archaeology On Certain Songs and Dances of the Kwakiutl of British Columbia The Eskimo Of Baffin Land And Hudson Bay: From Notes Collected By Capt. George Comer, Capt. James S. Mutch, And Rev. E. J. Peck... (9)CLARENCE C. GRAVLEE H. RUSSELL BERNARD WILLIAM R. LEONARD Boas's Changes in Bodily Form: The Immigrant Study, Cranial Plasticity, and Boas's Physical Anthropology (9)The Tempo of Growth of Fraternities. THE ETHNOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ESOTERIC DOCTRINES. A Year among the Eskimo THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN.--II. Mythology of Puget Sound Remarks on the Theory of Anthropometry ON THE VARIETY OF LINES OF DESCENT REPRESENTED IN A POPULATION The graying of hair THE HEAD‐FORMS OF THE ITALIANS AS INFLUENCED BY HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT SKETCH OF THE KWAKIUTL LANGUAGE1 THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. Kultur und Rasse. Introduction to Handbook of American Indian Languages and Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico (7)Methode der Ethnologie THE EFFECTS OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT ON IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. Notes on the anthropology of Sweden NOTES ON THE CHINOOK LANGUAGE Notes on the Iroquois language (7)THE CORRELATION OF ANATOMICAL OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS Teton Sioux Music A Critique of Psycho-Physic Methods. THE FOUNDATION OF A NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Anthropology in the Ironic Mode: The Work of Franz Boas The decorative art of the Indians of the North Pacific coast. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 9, article 10. THE CHINOOK JARGON. REPORT ON THE ACADEMIC TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY Notes on the Kwakiutl Vocabulary DETERMINATION OF THE COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION. ANTHROPOMETRY OF SHOSHONEAN TRIBES An Anthropologist's View Of War (6)The Kwakiutl Indian language (5)Kwakiutl tales : new series (5)Rasse und Kultur NOTES ON THE CHEMAKUM LANGUAGE Notes on the Eskimo of Port Clarence, Alaska Notes on the Dakota, Teton Dialect Kinship Terms Of The Kutenai Indians A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art (5)Baffin-Land : georgraphische Ergebnisse einer in den Jahren 1883 und 1884 ausgeführten Forschungsreise (5)ON DR. WILLIAM TOWNSEND PORTER'S INVESTIGATION OF THE GROWTH OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF ST. LOUIS. The Negro and the Dance as an Art THE FORM OF THE HEAD AS INFLUENCED BY GROWTH. Distribution and history Ten Folktales in Modern Nahuatl The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion Edward Sapir NORTHERN ELEMENTS IN THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NAVAHO Traditions of the Tillamook Indians. II FREDERIC WARD PUTNAM. Handbook of American Indian Languages: Text Census and Reservations of the Kwakiutl Nation The Doctrine Of Souls And Disease Among The Chinook Indians Race, Language and Culture Statistical Study of Anthropometry The Eskimo of Smith Sound. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 12, article 21. (4)Race against man (4)The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 4 (4)ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN SCHOOLS. HEREDITY IN ANTHROPOMETRIC TRAITS The Indians of British Columbia Some Recent Criticisms Of Physical Anthropology THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE ESKIMOS OF EAST GREENLAND. Tales of Spanish Provenience from Zuni Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa Additional Notes on the Kutenai Language Eskimo Tales and Songs The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths (3)Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Languages The anthropometry of Porto Rico The Negro Races. Facial paintings of the Indians of northern British Columbia (3)Anthropology & modern life (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)The Influence of Environment upon Development. The Measurement of Differences Between Variable Quantities The Poetical Works of Giles and Phineas Fletcher A Precise Criterion of Species. POETRY AND MUSIC OF SOME NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES. Race, language and culture / by Franz Boas (2)Pliny Earle Goddard Indian folktales from British Columbia (2)Venus & Anchises (Brittain's Ida) : and other poems (2)The Diffusion of Cultural Traits (2)Kwakiutl Texts - Second Series (2)Aby Warburg and Franz Boas: Two Letters from the Warburg Archive: The Correspondence between Franz Boas and Aby Warburg (1924-1925) Publications of the American Ethnological Society: Volume I. Fox Texts@@@Wishram Texts, together with Wasco Tales and Myths@@@Wasco Tales and Myths Das Geschöpf des sechsten Tages (2)The Houses of the Kwakiutl Indians, British Columbia A Revised List of Kwakiutl Suffixes Anthropology in North America (2)Vocabulary of an Athapascan Dialect of the State of Washington The Anthropology of the North American Indian 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)The language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia. Handbook of American Indian Languages: Introduction The Growth of U. S. Naval Cadets ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS. 'THE CHILD AND CHILDHOOD IN FOLKTHOUGHT.'. Tattooing and face and body painting of the Thompson Indians, British Columbia (2)Family Traits as Determined by Heredity and Environment. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURE OF NORTH-WEST AMERICA. Third Report On The Indians Of British Columbia (2)A Keresan Text Spanish Tales from Laguna and Zuni, N. Mex SUPAN'S JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY. The classification of American languages Archæological Investigations in the Valley of Mexico by the International School, 1911–12 Die Sprache der Zimshïan‐Indianer in Nordwest‐America. Von Dr A. C. Graf von der Schulenburg The Chinook Indian language (1)The Lillooet Indians A Chehalis Text RECENT WORK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES. Note on Some Recent Changes in the Kwakiutl Language Truman Michelson "One Does Not Get as Much from the Girls": Franz Boas and Women Students (1)Franz Boas and Paul Rivet's Relationship: Militancy as a Scientific Commitment (1)Anthropometry of central California. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 17, article 4. (1)The Formation and Dissipation of Sea-Water Ice. THE NICARAGUA CANAL IN MEMORIAM: HERMAN KARL HAEBERLIN1 Handbook of American Indian Languages: Linguistics and ethnology The Vocabulary of the Chinook Language HOW CAN ENDOWMENTS BE USED MOST EFFECTIVELY FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHE. The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 2. (1)Scientific Literature: Antropometria Militare Some Traits of the Dakota Language The Mythology of All Races. Volume X, North American Kwakiutl texts. Second series. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 14, pt. 1. (1)The Chilkat blanket. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 3, pt. 4. (1)A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities The Avunculate Among the Vandau Einfluss von Erblichkeit und Umwelt auf das Wachstum Chinook [contributions by Sapir] (1911): Diminutive and Augmentative Consonantism in Wishram. Post-positions in Wishram. Wishram Text and Analysis. Modal Elements Statistics of Growth Kwakiutl Tales: Part II –Texts Hall 105 : ethnological collections from the North Pacific Coast of America (1)The Origin of Totemism American Anthropologists on the Neva: 1930-1940 (1)THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. The hair color of the Italians Race and language Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens Psychological Aspects in the Practice and Teaching of Creative Dance PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAIN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Die Weltanschauung der Naturvölker. Von L. Frobenius The measurement of variable quantities (1)RAVEN CREATES THE SALMON Elsie Clews Parsons, Late President of the American Anthropological Association (0)Handbook of American Indian languages : With illustrative sketches (0)Vocabulary of the Athapascan Tribe of Nicola Valley, British Columbia Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, and the Ogburns of Science: The Statistical and the Clinical Models in the Presentation of Mead's Samoan Ethnography (0)1. Comparative table of pronominal forms The Interrelation of Races Glimpses of Impending Generational Change: A Franz Boas Miscellany (0)A rock painting of the Thompson River Indians, British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 8, article 12. (0)Tsimshian - An Illustrative Sketch (0)Calls for Domestic Animals. Boas Family Papers (0)Handbook of American Indian Languages: Texts EXPLORATIONS IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA, 1886. Modern life and primitive culture ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere. The Racial History of Man Bax.bakwā’lanuxusīwa Handbook of American Indian Languages: The Characteristics of language Liberty Among Primitive People Handbook of American Indian Languages: Euphemism Boasian Critiques of Race in The Nation, by Franz Boas, et al., edited by Alex Golub and Angela Chen, with an introduction by Richard Handler (0)Putnam anniversary volume (0)The Tsimshian Indian language (0)Distribution and dialects The Methods of Ethnology by Franz Boas, edited and with an introduction by Alex Golub (0)A bronze figurine from British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 5. (0)The Coefficient of Correlation Table of Contents DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. The Tuskegee Nod in American Anthropology (0)ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Experimental Study of Children. By Arthur Mac Donald Handbook of American Indian Languages: PREFACE Afterword to the Transaction Edition: The Passion of Franz Boas * Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals) Naual oder die Die Hohe Wissenschaft der Architectonischen und Künstlerischen Composition bei den Maya-Völkern deren Descendenten und Schülern 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 Ein Beweis des Talbot'schen Satzes und Bemerkungen zu einigen aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen Scientific Books: Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (0)EXPLANATION OF ALPHABET USED IN RENDERING INDIAN SOUNDS Modernity, the Cold War, and New Whig Histories of Ideas, Pt. 2 October 21, 2012 (0)The Teaching of Geography. By Archibald Geikie. London, Macmillan. 12° Ideas expressed by grammatical processes and forms Traditions of the Ts'ets'a prime ut. I. Characteristics of American languages Handbook of American Indian Languages: ALGONQUIAN (FOX) Cat's Cradles from Many Lands. By Kathleen Haddon Handbook of American Indian Languages: THE TAKELMA LANGUAGE OF SOUTH-WESTERN OREGON by Edward Sapir Introductory Strangers Abroad - Franz Boas (0)REPLY TO WALLIS My dear Professor Hale: At the meeting of the American Anthropological Association Notices of Books What is Anthropology Handbook of American Indian Languages: Ideas expressed by grammatical categories The Mexicano (Nahuatl) Dialect of Pochutla, Oaxaca1 THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. PLINY EARLE GODDARD. Distribution of language and dialects THE CENSUS MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES. Handbook of American Indian Languages: Grammatical processes Traditions of the Ts'ets'a'ut. II A.J. Stone's measurements of natives of the Northwest Territories. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 6. (0)WREN AND GRIZZLY BEAR Methodological Problems of Social Sciences (0)Classes of words, base and stem Hă’nʟ!ēkŭnas (Rivers Inlet and Kwakiutl) Handbook of American Indian Languages: Distribution Kwakiutl texts. Memoirs of the AMNH ; vol. 5 (0)Handbook of American Indian Languages: Morphology Vocabulary of the Kwakiutl Language (0)Distribution of the Athapascan family Handbook of American Indian Languages: Contents RAVEN AND THE THUNDERBIRD Handbook of American Indian Languages: Vocabulary THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS The dialect of the Fox Handbook of American Indian Languages: Idiomatic expressions LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. (0)Archiv Fur Mikrobiologie(1937) (0)Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) and Ontology (0)Ethnological Collection from Alaska (0)Bureau of American Ethnology The Problem of Race A Family History THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. A Fight with the Haida Handbook of American Indian Languages: Ideas expressed by grammatical processes Structure of sentences Major Prophet of Democracy@@@Race and Democratic Society The Idea of the Future Life Among Primitive Tribes THE CONFIGURATION OF GRINNELL LAND AND ELLESMERE LAND. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. (0)Handbook of American Indian Languages: Phonetics Handbook of American Indian Languages: LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Colonel John Scott of Long Island, 1634-1696 (0)Handbook of American Indian Languages: Description of grammar Mr. Melville's plan of reaching the north pole. Otis Tufton Mason Stability of Culture Classification of languages SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAINISTS. Totem Tales Handbook of American Indian Languages: Discussion of grammar Mixed Races. Specimen texts with analysis Handbook of American Indian Languages: The adverb In Memoriam William Wells Newell, Died at Wayland, Massachusetts, 21st January, 1907 12. Continuation of the marriage ceremonies General principles of grammatical structure Handbook of American Indian Languages: Haida text (Skidegate dialect) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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What Are Franz Boas's Academic Contributions? Franz Boas is most known for their academic work in the field of anthropology. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of communications, earth sciences, and philosophy.
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