| LC control no. | n 80044863 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 |
| Variant(s) | Boaz, Franz, 1858-1942 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1858-07-09 |
| Death date | 1942 1941-12-21 |
| Place of birth | Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Kwakiutl Indians Anthropology |
| Affiliation | Columbia University Universität Kiel |
| Profession or occupation | Anthropologists Ethnologists College teachers |
| Found in | Anthropology and modern life, c2004: CIP t.p. (Franz Boaz) His The social organization of the Kwakiutl ... 1895. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Boas, Franz; anthropologist, ethnologist, science educator, lecturer; born 09 July 1858 in Minden, Germany; PhD in physics from the University of Kiel (1881); conducted first fieldwork, among the Inuit people of Baffin Island; began research among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest (1887); was the first professor of anthropology at Columbia University (1889); developed a methodology that focused on gathering hard evidence first and delaying the development of grand theories until serious research had been conducted; conducted research that found its way into legal briefs against segregation, including the famous Brown v. Board of Education (1954); died 21 December 1941 in New York) |
| National bib agency no. | 0100L2244E |
| Quality code | nlc |
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