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100 1 _aBoas, Franz,
_d1858-1942,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAnthropology and modern life /
_cFranz Boas.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York, New York :
_bRoutledge,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (227 pages).
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aRoutledge classics
520 _aFranz 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 incredibly rich and fertile range of Boas's thought, engaging with controversies that resonate loudly today: the problem of race and racial types; heredity versus environment; the significance of intelligence tests; open versus closed societies; the nature versus nurture debate'; and nationality and nationalism. Believing passionately that science should be used to break down racial and cultural barriers, from the book's very opening Boas shatters the myth that anthropology is simply a collection of curious facts about exotic peoples'. Thanks to Boas's influence, anthropologists and other social scientists began to see that differences among the races resulted not from physiological factors, but from historical events and circumstances, and that race itself was a cultural construct. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Regna Darnell and an Introduction and Afterword by Herbert S. Lewis, who details Franz Boas's life, influence, and ideals. "In writing the present book I desired to show that some of the most firmly rooted opinions of our times appear from a wider point of view as prejudices, and that a knowledge of anthropology enables us to look with greater freedom at the problems confronting our civilization." - Franz Boas, Anthropology and Modern Life
588 _aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650 0 _aAnthropology.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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856 4 0 _3Taylor & Francis
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