“No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.”
Quote by Franz Boas
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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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