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Franz Boas and the Culture Concept in Historical Perspective
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The history of anthropology has tended towards two extremes in its analyses of the works of Franz Boas: aggrandizement or underestimation. This disparity can be explained by the author's liminal relationship with two research approaches in anthropology: universalist theories (evolutionism, difussionism, racialism, etc.) and culturalist theories, prevalent between the late nineteenth and early t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Anthropologist
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0002-7294,1548-1433
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1967.69.6.02a00130