Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Franz Boas
Born: July 9, 1858
Died: December 21, 1942 (aged 84)
Bio: Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".
Known for:
- Race, Language and Culture (1940)
- Anthropology and modern life (1928)
- Primitive Art (1927)
- The Mind of Primitive Man (1911)
- The central Eskimo (1888)