Franz Boas

GPTKB entity

Statements (100)
Predicate Object
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gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Elliott_Medal
gptkb:Royal_Anthropological_Institute_Huxley_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1858-07-09
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Minden,_Kingdom_of_Prussia
gptkbp:children gptkb:Franziska_Boas
gptkbp:citizenship gptkb:German_Empire
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:deathDate 1942-12-21
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:New_York_City,_United_States
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Gustav_Karsten
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Edward_Sapir
gptkb:Margaret_Mead
gptkb:Ruth_Benedict
gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston
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gptkb:Alfred_Kroeber
gptkb:Ashley_Montagu
gptkb:Ella_Cara_Deloria
gptkb:Frances_Densmore
gptkb:Frederica_de_Laguna
gptkb:Gene_Weltfish
gptkb:Gladys_A._Reichard
gptkb:Gladys_Reichard
gptkb:John_Peabody_Harrington
gptkb:Leslie_Spier
gptkb:Melville_Herskovits
gptkb:Paul_Radin
gptkb:Robert_Lowie
gptkbp:employer gptkb:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkbp:ethnicGroup gptkb:German_Jews
gptkbp:field anthropology
geography
linguistics
physics
ethnology
folkloristics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Franz Boas
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Claude_Lévi-Strauss
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gptkb:Margaret_Mead
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gptkb:Ashley_Montagu
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gptkb:Ella_Cara_Deloria
gptkb:Frances_Densmore
gptkb:Frederica_de_Laguna
gptkb:Gene_Weltfish
gptkb:Gladys_A._Reichard
gptkb:Gladys_Reichard
gptkb:John_Peabody_Harrington
gptkb:Leslie_Spier
gptkb:Melville_Herskovits
gptkb:Paul_Radin
gptkb:Robert_Lowie
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Adolf_Bastian
gptkb:Gustav_Karsten
gptkb:Rudolf_Virchow
gptkbp:knownFor Boasian anthropology
cultural relativism
founder of modern anthropology
historical particularism
linguistic fieldwork
opposition to scientific racism
studies of Native American cultures
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkb:Yiddish
gptkb:Kwakiutl
English
Indigenous people
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science
gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkb:German
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Handbook_of_American_Indian_Languages
gptkb:Kwakiutl_Ethnography
gptkb:Race,_Language,_and_Culture
gptkb:The_Mind_of_Primitive_Man
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Baffin_Island
gptkb:Berlin
gptkb:New_York_City
gptkb:Minden
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Dale_Cemetery,_Ossining,_New_York
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gptkb:anthropologist
gptkb:moral_relativism
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4