The great Franz Boas

Franz Boas was a famous anthropologist. He was born on July 9th, 1942 in Minden, Westfalia . And he died on December 21, 1942. He was called "the father of American anthropology". He studied in many of the Universities of Germany, but his PhD did it in University of Kiel. He was a representative of the relativism school and, in turn, predecessor of the historical particularity.

In his first time of student, he studied physics. But in a travel to Canada, he got lost of the route, and he was rescued by the indians Inuit, and he decided to turn into an anthropologist.

He was the creator of the historical particularity and in addition he was the creator of the Anthropology as we know it today, it separated it in physical Anthropology, social Anthropology, Archaeology and linguistics.

I like Boas because he understood the culture as something that could change and like a thing that was not certain. And he was giving him value, for the same thing, to all the cultures, he didn`t discriminate the cultures for it degree of civilization, because he was anti-evolucionist.

Well, i think that Boas was a great anthropologist for all the things that i said and for many more.