Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and Social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture.
Franz Boas is a magisterial biography of Franz Boas and his influence in Shaping not only Anthropology but also the sciences, humanities, Social science, visual and performing arts, and America\'s public sphere during a period of great global upheaval and democratic and Social struggle..
At the end of his career Boas guided a network of former student anthropologists, who spread across the country to university departments, museums, and government agencies, imprinting his Social science more broadly in the world of learned knowledge.
He assisted German and European émigré intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany to relocate in the United States and was instrumental in organizing the denunciation of Nazi racial science and American eugenics.
Boas was instrumental in the American cultural renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, training students and influencing colleagues such as Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Botkin, Alan Lomax, Langston Hughes, and others involved in combating racism and the flourishing Harlem Renaissance. entry into World War I, reveals his struggle against the forces of nativism, racial hatred, ethnic chauvinism, scientific racism, and uncritical nationalism.
Boas\'s emergence as a prominent public intellectual, particularly his opposition to U.
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Zumwalt takes the reader through the most vital period in the development of Americanist Anthropology and Boas\'s rise to dominance in the subfields of cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics.
Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt\'s two-part biography of the renowned anthropologist and public intellectual.
Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and Social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture
