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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.

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Race, Language and Culture (1940) (475)
THE MIND OF PRIMITIVE MAN. (1938) (449)
THE LIMITATIONS OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGY. (1896) (288)
Changes in Bodily form of Descendants of Immigrants. (1913) (248)
Anthropology and Modern Life (1929) (235)
Kwakiutl grammar : with a glossary of the suffixes (1947) (101)
ON ALTERNATING SOUNDS (95)
THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY. (1887) (92)
THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY. (1904) (89)
SOME PRINCIPLES OF MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION. (1907) (71)
Handbook of American Indian languages. Part 1 (61)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (61)
RACE AND PROGRESS. (1931) (55)
Geographical names of the Kwakiutl Indians (55)
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) (48)
Franz Boas' Approach to Language (1944) (47)
Language and culture (1942) (45)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (1930) (45)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (1892) (43)
THE AIMS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (1932) (43)
Publications of the American Ethnological Society (43)
Ethnology (1887) (42)
The occurrence of similar inventions in areas widely apart. (1887) (42)
THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF THE SKULL AND THE GENERAL PROBLEM OF THE COMPARISON OF VARIABLE FORMS. (1905) (39)
Adolescencia y cultura en Samoa (1945) (39)
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE KWAKIUTL (1920) (36)
The people of the Polar north (35)
HISTORY AND SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY: A REPLY (1936) (32)
Stylistic Aspects of Primitive Literature (1925) (30)
The Eruption of Deciduous Teeth Among Hebrew Infants (1927) (30)
RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. (1943) (28)
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (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)
The Cephalic Index (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)
On Alternating Sounds: (1889) (26)
RACE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA. (1909) (25)
Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin tribes (23)
Kwakiutl Grammar with a Glossary of the Suffixes (1948) (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)
SOME PHILOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. (1906) (19)
The middle Columbia Salish (19)
Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North America (19)
Bella Bella Texts (1928) (18)
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)
THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMISM.1 (1916) (18)
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. (1887) (18)
Some Traits of Primitive Culture (1904) (18)
Current Beliefs of the Kwakiutl Indians (1932) (17)
The Half-Blood Indian, an Anthropometric Study (17)
CREATIVE DANCE IN THERAPY (1941) (17)
THE GROWTH OF FIRST-BORN CHILDREN. (1895) (17)
THE RELATION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. (1941) (17)
ON THE VARIETY OF LINES OF DESCENT REPRESENTED IN A POPULATION (1916) (16)
The Mythology Of The Bella Coola Indians (16)
Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases: a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U. S. National Museum (16)
Ethnological Problems in Canada. (1910) (16)
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RACE (1912) (16)
HEREDITY IN HEAD FORM (1903) (16)
Age changes and secular changes in anthropometric measurements (1940) (15)
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE VARIABILITY OF ORGANISMS AND THAT OF THEIR CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS. (1902) (15)
Aims of Anthropological Research (1933) (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)
Note on the Chinook Jargon (1933) (12)
Coming of Age in Samoa. (1930) (12)
A Critique of Psycho-Physic Methods. (1888) (12)
New Evidence in Regard to the Instability of Human Types. (1916) (12)
Second General Report On The Indians Of British Columbia: Ii. The Nootka (12)
The Folk-Lore of the Eskimo (12)
PROPERTY MARKS OF ALASKAN ESKIMO (1899) (12)
On Certain Songs and Dances of the Kwakiutl of British Columbia (1888) (11)
RECENT ANTHROPOLOGY. II. (1943) (11)
Notes on Mexican Folk-Lore (1912) (11)
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST (11)
THE ETHNOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ESOTERIC DOCTRINES. (1902) (11)
Some Problems in North American Archaeology (11)
Sound Shifts in Salishan Dialects (1927) (11)
Cephalic Index (1899) (11)
A Year among the Eskimo (11)
SKETCH OF THE KWAKIUTL LANGUAGE1 (1900) (10)
THE CHINOOK JARGON. (1892) (10)
The Tempo of Growth of Fraternities. (1935) (10)
NOTES ON THE SNANAIMUQ (1889) (10)
Teton Sioux Music (1925) (9)
Mythology of Puget Sound (1924) (9)
The Origin of Death (1917) (9)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN.--II. (1892) (9)
THE HEAD‐FORMS OF THE ITALIANS AS INFLUENCED BY HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT (1913) (9)
Edward Sapir (1939) (9)
Kultur und Rasse. (8)
Remarks on the Theory of Anthropometry (1893) (8)
Notes on the Iroquois language (8)
The graying of hair (1932) (8)
NOTES ON THE CHINOOK LANGUAGE (8)
DETERMINATION OF THE COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION. (1909) (7)
THE EFFECTS OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT ON IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. (1936) (7)
Notes on the anthropology of Sweden (1918) (7)
THE CORRELATION OF ANATOMICAL OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS (1894) (7)
ON DR. WILLIAM TOWNSEND PORTER'S INVESTIGATION OF THE GROWTH OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF ST. LOUIS. (1895) (7)
Methode der Ethnologie (1911) (7)
THE FOUNDATION OF A NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (1902) (7)
Ten Folktales in Modern Nahuatl (1924) (6)
The decorative art of the Indians of the North Pacific coast. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 9, article 10. (6)
Bureau of American Ethnology (1902) (6)
Notes on the Dakota, Teton Dialect (1933) (6)
Kinship Terms Of The Kutenai Indians (1919) (6)
REPORT ON THE ACADEMIC TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY (1919) (6)
NOTES ON THE CHEMAKUM LANGUAGE (6)
ANTHROPOMETRY OF SHOSHONEAN TRIBES (1899) (6)
Notes on the Kwakiutl Vocabulary (1931) (6)
ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS. (1942) (5)
The Serpent in Kwakiutl Religion (1933) (5)
Baffin-Land : georgraphische Ergebnisse einer in den Jahren 1883 und 1884 ausgeführten Forschungsreise (5)
The Negro and the Dance as an Art (1949) (5)
FREDERIC WARD PUTNAM. (1915) (5)
Traditions of the Tillamook Indians. II (5)
Notes on the Eskimo of Port Clarence, Alaska (1894) (5)
THE FORM OF THE HEAD AS INFLUENCED BY GROWTH. (1896) (5)
Kwakiutl tales : new series (1935) (5)
POETRY AND MUSIC OF SOME NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES. (1887) (4)
Statistical Study of Anthropometry (1901) (4)
NORTHERN ELEMENTS IN THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NAVAHO (1897) (4)
The Doctrine Of Souls And Disease Among The Chinook Indians (4)
The anthropometry of Porto Rico (1920) (4)
Additional Notes on the Kutenai Language (1926) (4)
Introductory (1917) (4)
Race against man (1939) (4)
The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 4 (4)
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN SCHOOLS. (1891) (4)
Tales of Spanish Provenience from Zuni (4)
Census and Reservations of the Kwakiutl Nation (4)
Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa (1922) (4)
HEREDITY IN ANTHROPOMETRIC TRAITS (1907) (4)
RECENT WORK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES. (1932) (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 CHILD AND CHILDHOOD IN FOLKTHOUGHT.'. (1896) (3)
Spanish Tales from Laguna and Zuni, N. Mex (3)
The Eskimo of Smith Sound. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 12, article 21. (3)
Eskimo Tales and Songs (1889) (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 Influence of Environment upon Development. (1920) (3)
A Precise Criterion of Species. (1898) (3)
The Poetical Works of Giles and Phineas Fletcher (1910) (3)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURE OF NORTH-WEST AMERICA. (1888) (2)
The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 2, pt. 2. (2)
The language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia. (1886) (2)
Truman Michelson (1938) (2)
A Revised List of Kwakiutl Suffixes (1924) (2)
A rock painting of the Thompson River Indians, British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 8, article 12. (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)
Publications of the American Ethnological Society: Volume I. Fox Texts@@@Wishram Texts, together with Wasco Tales and Myths@@@Wasco Tales and Myths (1909) (2)
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. (2)
Family Traits as Determined by Heredity and Environment. (1928) (2)
Vocabulary of an Athapascan Dialect of the State of Washington (1924) (2)
HOW CAN ENDOWMENTS BE USED MOST EFFECTIVELY FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHE. (1903) (2)
A Keresan Text (1923) (2)
Race, language and culture / by Franz Boas (1940) (2)
The Anthropology of the North American Indian (2)
Venus & Anchises (Brittain's Ida) : and other poems (2)
Pliny Earle Goddard (1928) (2)
The Growth of U. S. Naval Cadets (1895) (2)
Third report on the Indians of British Columbia (2)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (2)
The Avunculate Among the Vandau (1922) (2)
Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens (1897) (1)
Anthropometry of central California. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 17, article 4. (1)
Kwakiutl Tales: Part II –Texts (1943) (1)
A Chehalis Text (1935) (1)
THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN. (1)
Die Sprache der Zimshïan‐Indianer in Nordwest‐America. Von Dr A. C. Graf von der Schulenburg (1899) (1)
SUPAN'S JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY. (1887) (1)
A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities (1911) (1)
The Chilkat blanket. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 3, pt. 4. (1)
IN MEMORIAM: HERMAN KARL HAEBERLIN1 (1919) (1)
The measurement of variable quantities (1)
The Mythology of All Races. Volume X, North American (1916) (1)
A Hunting Trip (1928) (1)
Scientific Literature: Antropometria Militare (1896) (1)
Psychological Aspects in the Practice and Teaching of Creative Dance (1942) (1)
The Formation and Dissipation of Sea-Water Ice. (1887) (1)
Some Traits of the Dakota Language (1937) (1)
The hair color of the Italians (1)
The Lillooet Indians (1908) (1)
Hall 105 : ethnological collections from the North Pacific Coast of America (1)
Note on Some Recent Changes in the Kwakiutl Language (1932) (1)
Kwakiutl texts. Second series. Memoirs of the AMNH ; v. 14, pt. 1. (1)
The Origin of Totemism (1910) (1)
Response : Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification (1887) (1)
PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAIN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY (1907) (1)
Mixed Races. (1)
A.J. Stone's measurements of natives of the Northwest Territories. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 6. (1)
ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Die Weltanschauung der Naturvölker. Von L. Frobenius (1899) (1)
Einfluss von Erblichkeit und Umwelt auf das Wachstum (1)
Archiv Fur Mikrobiologie(1937) (1937) (0)
A Fight with the Haida (1928) (0)
Calls for Domestic Animals. (0)
Kwakiutl Texts—Second Series . By Franz. Boas and George Hunt. (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)
Mixed Races (1891) (0)
The Coefficient of Correlation (1921) (0)
The Racial History of Man (1923) (0)
RAVEN CREATES THE SALMON (1928) (0)
Archeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound . By Harlan I. Smith. (Vol. II., Part VI.) (1908) (0)
WREN AND GRIZZLY BEAR (1928) (0)
Vocabulary of the Athapascan Tribe of Nicola Valley, British Columbia (1924) (0)
Traditions of the Ts'ets'a'ut. II (0)
The Teaching of Geography. By Archibald Geikie. London, Macmillan. 12° (1887) (0)
Hă’nʟ!ēkŭnas (Rivers Inlet and Kwakiutl) (1928) (0)
Elsie Clews Parsons, Late President of the American Anthropological Association (1942) (0)
Family History (1925) (0)
12. Continuation of the marriage ceremonies (1925) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: Experimental Study of Children. By Arthur Mac Donald (1899) (0)
EXPLORATIONS IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA, 1886. (1888) (0)
RAVEN AND THE THUNDERBIRD (1928) (0)
Otis Tufton Mason (1908) (0)
Cat's Cradles from Many Lands. By Kathleen Haddon (1911) (0)
SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAINISTS. (1908) (0)
THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. (1928) (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)
The Language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia (1886) (0)
THE CENSUS MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES. (1888) (0)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. (0)
Traditions of the Ts'ets'a prime ut. I. (1896) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGIC LITERATURE: The Distribution of the Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere. (1899) (0)
In Memoriam William Wells Newell, Died at Wayland, Massachusetts, 21st January, 1907 (1907) (0)
EXPLANATION OF ALPHABET USED IN RENDERING INDIAN SOUNDS (1928) (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)
Kwakiutl texts. Memoirs of the AMNH ; vol. 5 (0)
Ethnological Collection from Alaska (0)
My dear Professor Hale: At the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (1919) (0)
REPLY TO WALLIS (1941) (0)
A bronze figurine from British Columbia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 14, article 5. (0)
Fallacies of Racial Inferiority (1927) (0)
Naual oder die Die Hohe Wissenschaft der Architectonischen und Künstlerischen Composition bei den Maya-Völkern deren Descendenten und Schülern (1896) (0)
Totem Tales (1897) (0)
Ein Beweis des Talbot'schen Satzes und Bemerkungen zu einigen aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen (0)
Queries (1887) (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)
Anthropologische Studien ueber die Ureinwohner Brasiliens . Von Dr. Paul Ehrenreich. Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn. 1897. 4to. Pp. 168. 30 Plates. (1897) (0)
Queries (1887) (0)
Bax.bakwā’lanuxusīwa (1928) (0)
Major Prophet of Democracy@@@Race and Democratic Society (1946) (0)

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