Franz Boas (jan 1, 1858 – jan 1, 1942)

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Major Works:
"The Methods of Ethnology" (1920)
"The Central Eskimo" (1888)
"The Mind of Primitive Man" (1911)
"Primitive Art" (1927)
"Race, Language, and Culture" (1940)

Major Concepts/Contributions:
- Founded "American" Anthropology
- Four-Field Approach
- Cultural Relativism
- Historical Particularism
- No hypotheses before data collection
- "Salvage" Ethnography
- learn the language!
- Race as a Social Construct

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