Franz Boas

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Franz Boas

Franz Boas is affiliated with the following schools: Heidelberg University, Clark University, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Bonn, University of Kiel

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

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Published Papers

Race, Language and Culture (497)
THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN. (296)
THE LIMITATIONS OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGY. (274)
Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants. (218)
The Mind of Primitive Man (133)
Anthropology and modern life (116)
Anthropology and Modern Life (107)
Kwakiutl grammar : with a glossary of the suffixes (93)
ON ALTERNATING SOUNDS (91)
THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY. (85)
THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY. (82)
SOME PRINCIPLES OF MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION. (72)
Handbook of American Indian languages. Part 1 (56)
RACE AND PROGRESS. (55)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (55)
On Alternating Sounds (50)
Mythology and Folk-Tales of the North American Indians (49)
Geographical names of the Kwakiutl Indians (48)
Language and culture (46)
THE AIMS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (45)
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 (45)
Race And Democratic Society (45)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (44)
Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia (44)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (43)
The occurrence of similar inventions in areas widely apart. (43)
Publications of the American Ethnological Society (42)
Franz Boas' Approach to Language (41)
Adolescencia y cultura en Samoa (39)
Ethnology (37)
Contributions to the ethnology of the Kwakiutl (35)
Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants (33)
THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF THE SKULL AND THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF THE COMPARISON OF VARIABLE FORMS. (33)
The Mind of Primitive Man (33)
The people of the Polar north (32)
HISTORY AND SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY: A REPLY (30)
The Eruption of Deciduous Teeth Among Hebrew Infants (30)
The Origin of Death (28)
Stylistic Aspects of Primitive Literature (28)
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)
RACE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA. (26)
RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. (26)
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE KWAKIUTL (26)
Kwakiutl Grammar with a Glossary of the Suffixes (26)
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. (26)
THE CEPHALIC INDEX (25)
The Cephalic Index (24)
Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin tribes (22)
Migration of Asiatic Races and Cultures To North America (21)
Classification of American Indian Languages (20)
RUDOLF VIRCHOW'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK. (20)
The middle Columbia Salish (19)
Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North America (19)
THE AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (19)
Bella Bella Texts (18)
Some Traits of Primitive Culture (18)
The Growth of Indian Mythologies. A Study Based upon the Growth of the Mythologies of the North Pacific Coast (18)
THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMISM.1 (17)
THE GROWTH OF FIRST-BORN CHILDREN. (17)
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. (17)
SOME PHILOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (17)
THE RELATION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. (17)
Current Beliefs of the Kwakiutl Indians (17)
Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (17)
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TRIBES OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST (16)
The Half-Blood Indian, an Anthropometric Study (16)
CREATIVE DANCE IN THERAPY (16)
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RACE (16)
ON THE VARIETY OF LINES OF DESCENT REPRESENTED IN A POPULATION (16)
The Mythology Of The Bella Coola Indians (16)
HEREDITY IN HEAD FORM (15)
Bella Bella Tales (15)
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE VARIABILITY OF ORGANISMS AND THAT OF THEIR CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS. (15)
Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U. S. National Museum (15)
Age changes and secular changes in anthropometric measurements (14)
The Growth of Indian Mythologies (14)
Ethnological Problems in Canada. (14)
THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST. (13)
A Journey in Cumberland Sound and on the West Shore of Davis Strait in 1883 and 1884 (13)
PROPERTY MARKS OF ALASKAN ESKIMO (12)
Aims of Anthropological Research (12)
Coming of Age in Samoa. (12)
The Folk-Lore of the Eskimo (12)
Second General Report On The Indians Of British Columbia: Ii. The Nootka (12)
Report on an Anthropometric Investigation of the Population of the United States (12)
Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (12)
Note on the Chinook Jargon (11)
A Year among the Eskimo (11)
RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. II. (11)
Some Problems in North American Archaeology (11)
Sound Shifts in Salishan Dialects (11)
Notes on Mexican Folk-Lore (11)
On Certain Songs and Dances of the Kwakiutl of British Columbia (10)
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST (10)
NOTES ON THE SNANAIMUQ (10)
SKETCH OF THE KWAKIUTL LANGUAGE1 (10)
New Evidence in Regard to the Instability of Human Types. (10)
The Tempo of Growth of Fraternities. (9)
THE HEAD‐FORMS OF THE ITALIANS AS INFLUENCED BY HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT (9)
The graying of hair (9)
THE ETHNOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ESOTERIC DOCTRINES. (9)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN.--II. (9)
Mythology of Puget Sound (8)
DETERMINATION OF THE COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION. (8)
Notes on the Iroquois language (8)
Remarks on the Theory of Anthropometry (8)
THE CORRELATION OF ANATOMICAL OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS (7)
Edward Sapir (7)
THE CHINOOK JARGON. (7)
Methode der Ethnologie (7)
Kultur und Rasse. (7)
Teton Sioux Music (7)
THE FOUNDATION OF A NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (7)
THE EFFECTS OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT ON IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. (7)
Notes on the anthropology of Sweden (7)
NOTES ON THE CHINOOK LANGUAGE (7)
A Critique of Psycho-Physic Methods. (7)
ANTHROPOMETRY OF SHOSHONEAN TRIBES (6)
Notes on the Kwakiutl Vocabulary (6)
REPORT ON THE ACADEMIC TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY (6)
Ten Folktales in Modern Nahuatl (6)
Kinship Terms Of The Kutenai Indians (6)
THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. (6)
The decorative art of the Indians of the North Pacific coast. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 9, article 10. (6)
Kwakiutl tales : new series (5)
NORTHERN ELEMENTS IN THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NAVAHO (5)
NOTES ON THE CHEMAKUM LANGUAGE (5)
THE FORM OF THE HEAD AS INFLUENCED BY GROWTH. (5)
Traditions of the Tillamook Indians. II (5)
The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion (5)
Notes on the Dakota, Teton Dialect (5)
The Negro and the Dance as an Art (5)
ON DR. WILLIAM TOWNSEND PORTER'S INVESTIGATION OF THE GROWTH OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF ST. LOUIS. (5)
Baffin-Land : georgraphische Ergebnisse einer in den Jahren 1883 und 1884 ausgeführten Forschungsreise (5)
Notes on the Eskimo of Port Clarence, Alaska (5)
FREDERIC WARD PUTNAM. (5)
HEREDITY IN ANTHROPOMETRIC TRAITS (4)
Additional Notes on the Kutenai Language (4)
Race against man (4)
Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa (4)
The Eskimo of Smith Sound. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 12, article 21. (4)
Tales of Spanish Provenience from Zuni (4)
The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 4 (4)
POETRY AND MUSIC OF SOME NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES. (4)
Race, Language and Culture (4)
ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS. (4)
Census and Reservations of the Kwakiutl Nation (4)
Statistical Study of Anthropometry (4)
The Doctrine Of Souls And Disease Among The Chinook Indians (4)
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN SCHOOLS. (4)
Introductory (4)
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. (3)
The anthropometry of Porto Rico (3)
Spanish Tales from Laguna and Zuni, N. Mex (3)
THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE ESKIMOS OF EAST GREENLAND. (3)
The Influence of Environment upon Development. (3)
Eskimo Tales and Songs (3)
RECENT WORK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES. (3)
Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Languages (3)
Facial paintings of the Indians of northern British Columbia (3)
The Negro Races. (3)
The Poetical Works of Giles and Phineas Fletcher (3)
'THE CHILD AND CHILDHOOD IN FOLKTHOUGHT.'. (3)
Race, language and culture / by Franz Boas (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)
The Avunculate Among the Vandau (2)
Venus & Anchises (Brittain's Ida) : and other poems (2)
The Growth of U. S. Naval Cadets (2)
Third report on the Indians of British Columbia (2)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (2)
Truman Michelson (2)
A Keresan Text (2)
Vocabulary of an Athapascan Dialect of the State of Washington (2)
The Anthropology of the North American Indian (2)
Family Traits as Determined by Heredity and Environment. (2)
Pliny Earle Goddard (2)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURE OF NORTH-WEST AMERICA. (2)
Publications of the American Ethnological Society: Volume I. Fox Texts@@@Wishram Texts, together with Wasco Tales and Myths@@@Wasco Tales and Myths (2)
The language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia. (2)
The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 2. (2)
A Revised List of Kwakiutl Suffixes (2)
Mr. Melville's plan of reaching the north pole. (2)
IN MEMORIAM: HERMAN KARL HAEBERLIN1 (1)
A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities (1)
Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens (1)
The Lillooet Indians (1)
Die Sprache der Zimshïan‐Indianer in Nordwest‐America. Von Dr A. C. Graf von der Schulenburg (1)
Einfluss von Erblichkeit und Umwelt auf das Wachstum (1)
The Origin of Totemism (1)
Hall 105 : ethnological collections from the North Pacific Coast of America (1)
The Formation and Dissipation of Sea-Water Ice. (1)
A Chehalis Text (1)
The Chilkat blanket. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 3, pt. 4. (1)
ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Die Weltanschauung der Naturvölker. Von L. Frobenius (1)
Note on Some Recent Changes in the Kwakiutl Language (1)
A.J. Stone's measurements of natives of the Northwest Territories. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 6. (1)
SUPAN'S JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY. (1)
HOW CAN ENDOWMENTS BE USED MOST EFFECTIVELY FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHE. (1)
The Mythology of All Races. Volume X, North American (1)
THE NICARAGUA CANAL (1)
Psychological Aspects in the Practice and Teaching of Creative Dance (1)
Some Traits of the Dakota Language (1)
Kwakiutl Tales: Part II –Texts (1)
PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAIN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY (1)
The measurement of variable quantities (1)
The hair color of the Italians (1)
Anthropometry of central California. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 17, article 4. (1)
THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. (1)
A rock painting of the Thompson River Indians, British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 8, article 12. (1)
Response : Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification (1)
Mixed Races. (1)
Kwakiutl texts. Second series. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 14, pt. 1. (1)
Scientific Literature: Antropometria Militare (1)
EXPLORATIONS IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA, 1886. (0)
A Critique of Psycho-Physic Methods (0)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. (0)
A Family History (0)
My dear Professor Hale: At the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (0)
REPLY TO WALLIS (0)
Otis Tufton Mason (0)
The Horizontal Plane of the Skull and the General Problem of the Comparison of Variable Forms (0)
Elsie Clews Parsons, Late President of the American Anthropological Association (0)
THE CONFIGURATION OF GRINNELL LAND AND ELLESMERE LAND. (0)
Archeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound . By Harlan I. Smith. (Vol. II., Part VI.) (0)
Bureau of American Ethnology (0)
The Racial History of Man (0)
THE CENSUS MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES. (0)
WREN AND GRIZZLY BEAR (0)
A Hunting Trip (0)
RAVEN CREATES THE SALMON (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. (0)
PLINY EARLE GODDARD. (0)
Queries (0)
Notes and News (0)
Response : Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification (0)
Archeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound . By Harlan I. Smith. (Vol. II., Part VI.) (0)
Vocabulary of the Athapascan Tribe of Nicola Valley, British Columbia (0)
The Bureau of American Ethnology (0)
The Teaching of Geography. By Archibald Geikie. London, Macmillan. 12° (0)
A bronze figurine from British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 5. (0)
THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS (0)
Calls for Domestic Animals. (0)
Hă’nʟ!ēkŭnas (Rivers Inlet and Kwakiutl) (0)
Anthropology (0)
Major Prophet of Democracy@@@Race and Democratic Society (0)
Ethnological Collection from Alaska (0)
Scientific Books: Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (0)
Kwakiutl Texts—Second Series . By Franz. Boas and George Hunt. (0)
A Critique of Psycho-Physic Methods (0)
EXPLANATION OF ALPHABET USED IN RENDERING INDIAN SOUNDS (0)
Traditions of the Ts'ets'a prime ut. I. (0)
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. (0)
In Memoriam William Wells Newell, Died at Wayland, Massachusetts, 21st January, 1907 (0)
Mixed Races (0)
Cat's Cradles from Many Lands. By Kathleen Haddon (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 (0)
The Coefficient of Correlation (0)
Kwakiutl Texts—Second Series . By Franz. Boas and George Hunt. (0)
Kwakiutl texts. Memoirs of the AMNH ; vol. 5 (0)
The International Congress of Americanists (0)
The Chinook Jargon (0)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. (0)
Traditions of the Ts'ets'a'ut. II (0)
The Formation and Dissipation of Sea-Water Ice (0)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (0)
12. Continuation of the marriage ceremonies (0)
A Fight with the Haida (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. (0)
SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAINISTS. (0)
The Language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia (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.) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Experimental Study of Children. By Arthur Mac Donald (0)
Response : Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification (0)
ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere. (0)
Bax.bakwā’lanuxusīwa (0)
RAVEN AND THE THUNDERBIRD (0)
Naual oder die Die Hohe Wissenschaft der Architectonischen und Künstlerischen Composition bei den Maya-Völkern deren Descendenten und Schülern (0)
Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens . Von Dr. Paul Ehrenreich. Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn. 1897. 4to. Pp. 168. 30 Plates. (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. (0)
Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens . Von Dr. Paul Ehrenreich. Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn. 1897. 4to. Pp. 168. 30 Plates. (0)
Totem Tales (0)
Archiv Fur Mikrobiologie(1937) (0)
Queries (0)
Ein Beweis des Talbot'schen Satzes und Bemerkungen zu einigen aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen (0)

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