ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indigenous Languages Of The Americas, Franz Boas, Barnard College
12 Dec 2019
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As anthropology comes out of the 19th century there is a focus on social evolution and evolution remains the focus of the century. Franz boas, professor of anthropology at columbia, teaching many of the anthropologists who become important in the early 20th century. Climate determining culture, does some cartographic work as well. And so writes in the 1880s the central eskimo. Decides not to go into physics and go into anthropology and goes to new england starts to teach then moves to columbia and starts to gather other scholars who want to do doctoral research in anthropology. German anthropology at the time was looking at invention or diffusion of things in culture but boas broke with that and started looking at the native. Americans who he assumed were going to go extinct and so wanted to record more images of them and document linguistic stuff, which is what he trained his students to do.
