Franz Boas Quote

Anthropology is the science that endeavors to reconstruct the early history of mankind, and that tries, wherever possible, to express in the form of laws ever-recurring modes of historical happenings.


Lectures on Science, Philosophy and Art, 1907-1908, Anthropology (p. 8), The Columbia University Press. 1908


Anthropology is the science that endeavors to reconstruct the early history of mankind, and that tries, wherever possible, to express in the form of...

Anthropology is the science that endeavors to reconstruct the early history of mankind, and that tries, wherever possible, to express in the form of...

Anthropology is the science that endeavors to reconstruct the early history of mankind, and that tries, wherever possible, to express in the form of...

Anthropology is the science that endeavors to reconstruct the early history of mankind, and that tries, wherever possible, to express in the form of...