Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist who is considered by many to be the ‘Father of American Anthropology’. He may be most commonly known for refuting the basic principles of racist ideology. He pioneered the concept of dioramas for exhibitions. He studies and collected information on archaeology, art, dance, linguistics, and race, and upon these studies and collections based his theory of relativism which debunked the prevailing beliefs that Western Civilization is superior to less complex societies.
He was born in 1858 and died in 1942.
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1858 – he is born in Minden, Westphalia, Germany
1881 – he gets a Ph.D in physics with a minor in geography from University of Kiel
1883-1884 – he gets his first fieldwork experience amongst the Inuit people of the Baffin Island in Canada
1885-1886 – he conducts fieldwork in Canada for museums. He also gets involved in a project to bring the cultures of Native Americans to the general public for Chicago World’s Fair from 1892-1893
1896 – he moves to New York and is appointed Assistant Curator of Ethnology and Somatology at the American Museum of Natural History, and Lecturer at Columbia University
1899 – he becomes the first Professor of Anthropology at Columbia
1902 – he helps in the founding of the American Anthropological Association
1905 – he resigns from his position at the museum
1907-1909 – he is the president of the American Anthropological Association
1911 – his ‘The Mind of Primitive Man’ is published
1927 – his ‘Primitive Art’ is published
1931 – he is the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
1937 – he becomes Professor Emeritus
1940 – his ‘Race, Language, and Culture’ is published
1942 – he dies
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References;
(1) – https://anthropology.columbia.edu/department-history/franz-boas
(2) – http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095514368
(3) – https://news.yale.edu/2011/08/23/yale-celebrates-anthropologist-franz-boas-who-refuted-racism
(4) – https://www.biography.com/people/franz-boas-9216786
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