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Franz Boas

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Profession
Anthropologist
Died
Dec 21, 1942
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
MindenGermany
About
German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology." He argued that culture developed historically through the interactions of groups of people and that consequently there was no process towards continuously "higher" cultural forms.
Family
He got married to Marie Krackowizer Boas and had six children together.

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