Franz Boas

Biographic Data

ID75392
NAMEFranz Boas
GIVEN NAMESFranz
FAMILY NAMEBoas
SIGNATUREBOAS F
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS172
TOTAL CITATIONS870
AUTHOR COUNT170
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1887
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX13

  • Decorative Designs Of Alaskan Needlecases

    Franz BoasCHAPTERAnthropology of the Arts2024

    We have at the present time three distinct theories regarding the development of decorative design: first, the theory of the realistic origin of conventional motives; second, that of the technical origin of conventional motives; and, third, the theory that the explanations of conventional motives are essentially secondary in character, and due to a later association of the existing decorative forms with realistic forms.

  • The Classification of American Languages (Translated from English by Igor V. Kuznetsov)

    Open AccessFranz BoasARTICLESibirskie istoricheskie…2024

    The readers are invited to familiarize themselves with an article, ‘The Classification of American Languages' (1920, with an extension of 1929), by Franz Boas, who was one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology, as well as the “heroic mentor” of the Historical School and American descriptivism, including the field devoted to the study of unwritten languages. By the time Boas's article was published, linguistic anthropologists from North A…

  • Instabilidade dos tipos humanos

    Open AccessFranz BoasARTICLEREPOCS - Revista Pós Ciências…2024

    Tradução do texto: BOAS, Franz. Instability of human types. In: Papers on inter-racial problems, communicated to the first Universal Races Congress, held at the University of London. London: P.S. King & son, 1911. p. 99-103. Disponível em: https://archive.org/details/papersoninterrac00univiala/page/102/mode/2up. Tradução de Fernanda Müller e revisão de Luiz Eduardo Abreu

  • Classification of American Indian Languages

    Open AccessFranz BoasARTICLELanguage2024Cited by: 7

    The author points out cases in which contiguous languages, though different in structure and vocabulary, exhibit in common striking morphologic peculiarities that must have spread by borrowing from language to language. A simple genealogical classification cannot therefore adequately represent the development, but ‘hybridization’ must also be taken into account

  • The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2

    Franz Boas, Andrea Laforet et al.BOOKThe Franz Boas Papers, Volume 22024

    The second volume of The Franz Boas Papers focuses on Boas's extensive work with James Teit on Salish ethnography in the early twentieth century. It features correspondence, field notes, manuscripts, and publications, offering insights into their collaborative process and the challenges of ethnographic research during this period. The volume explores the development of Boas's anthropological theories and methods as applied to the study of Salish …

  • Os índios Bella-Coola do Capitão Jacobsen

    Open AccessFranz Boas, M C VieiraBOOKProa Revista de Antropologia e Arte2024Cited by: 1

    Este artigo apresenta uma tradução inédita do alemão para o português de um texto jornalístico escrito por Franz Boas em 1886. O texto descreve o primeiro encontro de Boas com nativos da costa noroeste americana, especificamente o grupo Bella Coola, durante uma exibição da trupe em Berlim. Boas, que viria a ser considerado o pai da antropologia cultural, relata suas impressões sobre os costumes, cantos e danças dos Bella Coola, oferecendo um visl…

  • Introdução ao Manual das Línguas Indígenas Americanas

    Open AccessFranz Boas, Boas Franz et al.ARTICLERevista de Antropologia da UFSCar2023

    Tradução do texto: Boas, Franz. 1911. Introduction. Handbook of American Indian Languages, vol. 1, pp. 1-83

  • Anthropology and Modern Life

    Franz BoasBOOKAnthropology and Modern Life2021

    Franz Boas (1858–1942) is widely regarded as the founder of American anthropology. 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 novelist Zora Neale Hurston. Towards the end of his life he also lectured widely in an attempt to educate the public on the dangers of Nazi ideology. Anthropology and Modern Life demonstrates the incredi…

  • Liberty Among Primitive People

    Franz Boas, Ruth Nanda AnshenBOOKFreedom2019

    This chapter, "Liberty Among Primitive People," from Franz Boas's classic work "Freedom" (originally published in 1938), examines the concept of liberty within the context of diverse primitive societies. Boas challenges the prevailing ethnocentric view of liberty as a uniquely Western ideal, arguing that the desire for individual autonomy and freedom from external constraints exists in various forms across cultures. He explores how social structu…

  • Anthropology and Modern Life

    Franz BoasBOOKAnthropology and Modern Life2017

    Anthropologist Franz Boas was a stalwart fighter for human rights and against racism. He was passionately concerned about individual liberty, freedom of inquiry and speech, equality of opportunity, and the defeat of prejudice and chauvinism. His Anthropology and Modern Life shows how Boas uses science in the service of humanity, hoping to break down racial and cultural barriers.From the book's very opening, Boas shatters the myth that anthropolog…

  • The Mexicano (Nahuatl) Dialect of Pochutla, Oaxaca

    Franz Boas, David BeckARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2017Cited by: 1

  • Facial Paintings of the Indians of Northern British Columbia

    Franz BoasCHAPTERA Wealth of Thought2015

  • The Diffusion of Cultural Traits

    Franz BoasARTICLESocial research2015

    [originally published in Volume 4, No.3] Excerpt: "...In modern society the conditions favorable to cultural contact are ever so much greater than those existing in primitive society. First of all, the numbers of individuals constituting each unit are infinitely larger than those occurring in primitive society, and within each group diffusion occurs with the greatest rapidity. Our schools, the commercial exploitation of inventions, are of such a …

  • A Wealth of Thought

    Franz Boas, Aldona JonaitisBOOKA Wealth of Thought2015

    A Wealth of Thought: Franz Boas on Native American Art brings together a significant collection of Franz Boas's writings on Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast and other regions of North America. Edited by George W. Stocking Jr., this volume offers valuable insights into Boas's anthropological approach to art, emphasizing its cultural context and challenging prevailing evolutionary theories of the time. The book explores Boas's meticulous docum…

  • Handbook of American Indian Languages

    Franz BoasBOOKHandbook of American Indian…2014

  • Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

    Franz BoasBOOKAnthropology and Modern Life2014

    Anthropology and Modern Life, first published in 1929, addresses itself to an immensely broad field with clarity, introducing anthropology as a unique and coherent discipline, and demonstrating its importance in the understanding of socio-cultural change throughout history. The author covers varied and diverse areas of study: ethnicity, including a lengthy discussion of the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘nationality’; criminology, and the importance of …

  • Handbook of American Indian Languages

    Franz BoasBOOKHandbook of American Indian…2013

    Edited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858–1942), this work was first published in two huge volumes between 1911 and 1922. Comprising detailed studies of four Native American languages, Volume 2 focuses on the Takelma, Coos, Siuslaw and Chukchi languages. Each chapter contains a discussion of the speakers of the language, its geographical distribution, the phonetic system, and an analysis of the grammar and vocabulary. The…

  • Handbook of American Indian Languages

    Open AccessFranz BoasBOOKHandbook of American Indian…2013Cited by: 113

    Edited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858–1942), this work was first published in two huge volumes between 1911 and 1922. Comprising detailed studies of several Native American languages, Volume 1 has been split into two parts for this reissue. Part 2 contains chapters on the Chinook, Maidu, Algonquian, Siouan and Inuit languages. Each chapter contains a discussion of the speakers of the language, its geographical distrib…

  • Rasse und Kultur

    Franz BoasARTICLEZeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie2012Cited by: 2

  • Aby Warburg and Franz Boas

    Open AccessAby Warburg, Franz Boas et al.ARTICLERes: Anthropology and Aesthetics2007Cited by: 1

  • Scientists as Spies

    Open AccessFranz BoasARTICLEAnthropology Today2005Cited by: 18

  • Culture

    Open AccessFranz BoasARTICLESocio-anthropologie2000

    L’un des objets de l’enquête anthropologique, pour laquelle des éléments peuvent être obtenus par l’étude des sociétés existantes, est l’inter-dépendance des phénomènes culturels. Alors que dans l’étude des processus de diffusion et de développement parallèle les caractères et la distribution de traits singuliers sont communément les objets de l’analyse, nous sommes conduits, ici, à considérer la culture, dans toutes ses manifestations, comme un …

  • Archæological Investigations in the Valley of Mexico by the International School, 1911–12

    Franz BoasCHAPTERAmericanist Culture History1997

  • The shaping of American anthropology, 1883-1911

    Franz Boas, George W Stocking

  • Franz Boas

    Douglas L Cole, Franz Boas

    Boas is one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. In Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906, Douglas Cole provides a personal and intellectual biography of Boas from his childhood in Germany to his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in 1906. This account of the development of Boas's thought is unprecedented in drawing extensively from the vast collection of Boas papers at Philadelphia's American Ph…