Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who...

kayak, which was described by Franz Boas as the most widely known Inuit legend in the circumpolar region. Boas, Franz (March 1904), "The Folk-Lore of...

communications with Franz Boas in 1903 about the existence of the Shrine, photographing it meticulously to gauge his interest; Boas was excited to purchase...

The houses were about 20–60 feet wide and 50–150 feet long. In 1888, Franz Boas published "The Journal of American Folk-Lore" a journal discussing American...

classifications of race. It is said that before Boas, anthropology was the study of race, and after Boas, anthropology was the study of culture. The 20th-century...

established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: "...civilization...

dog-like fidelity which has stood the supreme test." Since the 1920s, Franz Boas and his school of anthropology at Columbia University were criticising...

Look up boas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boas might refer to: Boidae, snakes Boas' sign, pain below the right shoulder BOAS is an acronym for...

work as a graduate student with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1921. She developed a close friendship with Boas, who took on a role as a kind of...

(Natsilik proper aqigžeq) Utkuhiksalik ipřit 'you' (Natsilik proper ižvit) Franz Boas included the Ukusiksalirmiut as a tribe of the "Central Eskimo" in the...