Franz Boas

Anthropology and Modern Life (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486148694
• Artikelnr.: 40022982

Autorenporträt

Franz Boas was born in Germany in 1858 and educated at the University of Kiel. His first anthropological fieldwork was among the Inuit in Northern Canada in 1883, a turning point in Boas's life as he became fascinated with the role of culture. He began lecturing at the University of Columbia in 1896, establishing the first department of Anthropology in the United States and becoming Columbia's first professor of Anthropology, a position he held for thirty-seven years. He influenced an astonishing variety of scholars and researchers, from the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict to the philosopher W. E. B. DuBois and writer Zora Neale Hurston. Boas is the early-twentieth-century scholar most responsible for discrediting the then-dominant scientific theories of racial superiority. Through his elaboration of cultural relativism as an alternative theoretical framework, he came to have an enormous influence on the development of American anthropology. The Mind of Primitive Man (1911), demonstrated that there was no such thing as a 'pure' race or a superior one. His books were banned in Hitler's Germany. He was a fierce advocate of intellectual freedom, supported many democratic causes, and was the founder of the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Regna Darnell Introduction
Herbert S. Lewis 1. What Is Anthropology? 2. The Problem of Race 3. The
Interrelation of Races 4. Nationalism 5. Eugenics 6. Criminology 7.
Stability of Culture 8. Education 9. Modern Civilisation and Primitive
Culture Afterword Herbert S Lewis References Index