Franz Boas was born in Germany in 1858 and educated at the University of Kiel. His first anthropological fieldwork was among the Inuit in Northern Canada in 1883, a turning point in Boas’s life as he became fascinated with the role of culture. He began lecturing at the University of Columbia in 1896, establishing the first department of Anthropology in the United States and becoming Columbia’s first professor of Anthropology, a position he held for thirty-seven years. He influenced an astonishing variety of scholars and researchers, from the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict to the philosopher W. E. B. DuBois and writer Zora Neale Hurston. Boas is the early-twentieth-century scholar most responsible for discrediting the then-dominant scientific theories of racial superiority. Through his elaboration of cultural relativism as an alternative theoretical framework, he came to have an enormous influence on the development of American anthropology. The Mind of Primitive Man (1911), demonstrated that there was no such thing as a ‘pure’ race or a superior one. His books were banned in Hitler's Germany. He was a fierce advocate of intellectual freedom, supported many democratic causes, and was the founder of the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom.
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Indianische Sagen
In "Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas" entführt Franz Boas den Leser in die faszinierende Welt der indigenen Völker dieser Region. Durch lebendige Erzählungen und detaillierte Analysen gewährt er Einblicke in die mythologischen Geschichten, die von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wurden. Die Sagen offenbaren tiefe kulturelle Werte, Weltanschauungen und das Verhältnis der Menschen zur Natur, Göttern und Geistern. Boas zeigt, wie diese traditionellen Erzählungen das soziale Gefüge stärken und identitätsstiftend wirken. Indianische Sagen - von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1895.
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