Franz Boas,his field of expertise is Modern Anthropology

Franz Boas

Date of Birth :

July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942

Place of Birth :

Minden

Country :

Germany

Field of Expertise :

Modern Anthropology

Educational background :

Ph.D. in geography in 1881, at Kiel

Acheivements / Contributions :

The expedition to Baffinland yielded a number of papers, both popular and technical, on the region, the ethnographic publications culminating in the monograph on "The Central Eskimo" (6th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington. 1888).

Bibliography :

The Mind of Primitive Man (1911) Anthropology and Modern Life (1928) Kwakiutl Ethnography (1966). The relation of Darwin to anthropology Changes in the Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants