December 22, 1942 (the Horse the winter on 15), American anthropologist Franz Boas died. of


1906 Franz Boas In December 1942, the founder of the American Anthropological Franz - Boas, died at 84 years old. the
Boas was born in Germany, studying physics there. He came to Baffin Island Travel and Eskimo culture interest. Kwakiutl Indians in the Pacific Northwest, he conducted site visits the correctness of experience is unprecedented. Previously, anthropology mostly sitting in the chair theorists have come up. Boas has been any ethnological curator of the Museum of American History in New York. Until his death, he has been a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, and his book "primitive mind" and "ethnic, linguistic and cultural.