“I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time”
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Franz Boas
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 - December 21, 1942) was a German-born American anthropologist considered one of the founders of modern anthropology. Known for his fieldwork and cross-cultural comparative studies, Boas had a profound impact on the development of cultural relativism and structuralist anthropology. more
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