Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)