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Boas, Franz

Born July 9, 1858, in Minden, Westphalia; died Dec. 21, 1942, in New York. American linguist, and social and physical anthropologist; a specialist in the languages and culture of American Indians, principally of the northwest coast, and of the Eskimos.

Boas took part in Arctic expeditions in 1883–84. He moved to the USA in 1886 and began teaching at Columbia University in 1896. He was a founder and president (1928) of the American Linguistics Society. As one of the founders of American descriptive linguistics and of a very significant school in American ethnography (social anthropology), Boas developed a procedure for formal descriptions of native American languages.

Boas’ work on the physical anthropology and archaeology of North America is of great importance. While criticizing various trends in the bourgeois ethnography of his time, Boas often took stands reflecting a spontaneous materialist outlook in his analysis of concrete social phenomena. He unmasked and denounced racist teachings. Boas was known as an antifascist and was an active participant in various organizations of the US liberal intelligentsia that fought for democratic reforms.

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Handbook of American Indian Languages, vols. 1–2. Washington, D.C., 1911–22.
Anthropology and Modern Life. London, 1929.
Race, Language, and Culture, 2nd ed. New York, 1948.
Race and Democratic Society. New York, 1946.
In Russian translation:
“Vvedenie k ’Rukovodstvu po iazykam amerikanskikh indeitsev.’” In V. A. Zvegintsev, Istoriia iazykoznaniia XIX i XX vekov v ocherkakh i izvlecheniiakh, 2nd ed., part 2. Moscow, 1965. 2nd ed., part 2. Moscow, 1965.
Um pervobytnogo cheloveka. Moscow-Leningrad, 1926.

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Osnovnye napravleniia strukturalizma. Moscow, 1964.
Averkieva, Iu. P. “F. Boas (1858–1942).” Kratkie soobshcheniia In-ta etnografii AN SSSR, vol. 1, 1946.

IU. P. AVERKIEVA and V. V. RASKIN

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No references found	Among their topics are Benjamin Lee Whorf and the Boasian foundations of contemporary ethnolinguistics, the impact of language socialization on grammatical development, and interpreting language variation and change. Language, culture, and society; key topics in linguistic anthropology by Reference & Research Book News Price points out that, in an era when both mainstream Democrats and Republicans accepted racial orthodoxies, Communists and Anthropologists who had adopted the Boasian, scientific view on racial equality and cultural relativism were among the few to speak out openly against them. The promise and peril of public anthropology by Feinberg, Ben / Human Rights & Human Welfare Of these, Montagu (ne Israel Ehrenburg) emerged from the anthropological atelier of Franz Boas--who devoted his whole later life to condoning and publicising environmentalist mythomania, most notoriously in the case of Mead's Samoans--and became, even by Boasian standards, a gross apologist for Stalinism. Goodbye to all that: Keith Windschuttle on white Australia by Stove, R.J. / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs	board level board measure board metre Board of Trade unit board rule board sheathing board siding board-and-batten construction board-and-batten door board-foot board-on-board construction boarded door boarded wall boarder boarding boarding house boarding in boarding joist Boarding School boardinghouse boardroom boardwalk boart Boas' test Boas, Franz Boasian boast boasted ashlar boasted work boaster Boastfulness boasting chisel boasting drawing Boat boat anchor boat boom boat conformation boat deck boat dock boat fall boat hook boat people boat plug Boat Race Day boat scaffold boat spar boat spike Boat-Ax Culture boat-billed heron Boat-Handling Gear Boatbill	boardwalk boardwalk Boardwalk Enterprise Spreadsheet Boardwalk fries Boardwalk Pipelines Holding Corp. boardwalks boardwalks boardware boarfish boarfishes boarhound Boarish Boars Boars Boars Boars Boart Boart Boart Longyear Limited Boas Boas Boas Boas Boas Franz Boas' test Boas, Franz Boas, Franz Boas-Oppler bacillus Boas-Oppler bacillus BOASAS Boasian Boasians boast boast boast boast boast boast about boast of Boastance boasted boasted boasted boasted boasted ashlar boasted work boaster boaster boaster boaster boasters boasters boasters boastful boastful boastful boastful Boastful speech Boastful speech boastfully boastfully

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Among their topics are Benjamin Lee Whorf and the Boasian foundations of contemporary ethnolinguistics, the impact of language socialization on grammatical development, and interpreting language variation and change.

Language, culture, and society; key topics in linguistic anthropology by Reference & Research Book News

Price points out that, in an era when both mainstream Democrats and Republicans accepted racial orthodoxies, Communists and Anthropologists who had adopted the Boasian, scientific view on racial equality and cultural relativism were among the few to speak out openly against them.

The promise and peril of public anthropology by Feinberg, Ben / Human Rights & Human Welfare

Of these, Montagu (ne Israel Ehrenburg) emerged from the anthropological atelier of Franz Boas--who devoted his whole later life to condoning and publicising environmentalist mythomania, most notoriously in the case of Mead's Samoans--and became, even by Boasian standards, a gross apologist for Stalinism.

Goodbye to all that: Keith Windschuttle on white Australia by Stove, R.J. / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs

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