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- the Humboldtian tradition developed ideas that would become central in Boasian anthropology. Leopold von Ranke defined the task of the historian as "merely...
- Boasian anthropology was a school within American anthropology founded by Franz Boas in the late 19th century. It was based on the four-field model of...
- and as a professor at Columbia University, was situated firmly in the Boasian lineage) suggested that the first claim "may have been a loophole to exclude...
- program statement for the modern study of linguistic typology, and a very Boasian approach. In 1906 he finished his coursework, having focused the last year...
- research in Brazil produced an unremarkable village study that carried on the Boasian descriptive tradition in anthropology—a tradition he would later denounce...
- material, Boasians felt a growing urge to generalize. This was most obvious in the 'Culture and Personality' studies carried out by younger Boasians such as...
- disappearing languages of indigenous peoples. The ethnographic dimension of the Boasian approach to language description pla**** a role in the development of disciplines...
- needed] Changes within scientific disciplines, such as the rise of the Boasian school of anthropology in the United States contributed to this shift....
- Colonialism / Postcolonialism Key theories Actor–network theory Alliance theory Boasian anthropology Cross-cultural studies Cultural materialism Culture theory...
- Stocking, George W. (1996). Volksgeist as Method and Ethic : Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition. University of Wisconsin...