Posts Tagged: Franz Boas
Remembering a Jewish Anthropologist — and a Spy
Franz Boas was the archetypal anthropologist as truth teller. Boas’ antithesis -- the anthropologist as a spy without a conscience -- was Mark Zborowski. His two...
Remembering a Jewish Crusader Against Racism
A gruff old professor when the “Jazz Age” of the 1920s opened, Franz Boas was nevertheless an intellectual trendsetter during that youth-oriented decade. Boas was born...
