I gave a talk on #franzBoas a couple weeks ago - the hegemony-smashing #antiracist founder of American #anthropology, who swam upstream during the leadup to WW2 (and got pushed out of his job at #ColumbiaUniversity for it - good job Columbia!).
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Join us tomorrow to explore the life and ideas of Franz Boas with Noga Arikha and John Tresch.
🗓️ 11 Nov 2025, 6pm | 📍 Warburg Institute | Free with advance booking
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#FranzBoas #CulturalAnthropology
Franz Boas reshaped how we understand culture — rejecting biological determinism and arguing for the diversity and equality of human experience.
Explore his life and ideas with Noga Arikha and John Tresch.
🗓️ 11 Nov 2025 | 6pm
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#FranzBoas #CulturalAnthropology
Parecería que los mundos mitológicos hubieran sido construidos sólo para ser demolidos y para que nuevos mundos se construyeran con los fragmentos..
Franz Boas 🎂🇺🇸🇩🇪
nace el #09julio de 1858
#FelizMiércoles
#FranzBoas
#Anthropology
#OtrebordmXCultura
"#Ethnography must become self-critical, imaginative, and constructive; the field worker must be a willing agent of reform, but without sacrificing his scientific integrity." - #FranzBoas
One #critique of the French Sociological School’s could be the influence of #FranzBoas who argued that focusing too much on overarching social structures neglects individual #agency, historical #context, and the complex, unpredictable nature of social #change. ⬇
One #critique of the French Sociological School’s influence is #FranzBoas who argued that focusing too much on overarching social structures neglects individual #agency, historical #context, and the complex, unpredictable nature of social #change. ⬇
