Franz Boas Papers 1878-1943

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Franz Boas Papers 1878-1943

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Anthropologist, linguist, ethnologist, educator, and curator. Microfilm of originals held by the American Philosophical Society of personal and professional correspondence, diaries, and family papers relating chiefly to Boas’s career as an anthropologist and social scientist.

44 microfilm reels

eng,

fre,

spa,

ger,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Boas, Franziska, 1902-1988

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Franziska Marie Boas, the youngest of six children of anthropologist Franz Boas and Marie Krackowizer, worked as an educator, percussionist and a founder of dance therapy who was born January 8, 1902 in New York City. From the guide to the Reminiscences of Franziska Boas : oral history, 1972, 1972, (American Philosophical Society) Dancer and educator. From the description of Franziska Boas collection, 1920-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014268 ...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Boaz family.

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