PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 154, NO. 1, MARCH 2010 1 Read 25 April 2008, as part of the symposium “Cultural Subjects and Objects: The Legacy of Franz Boas and Its Futures in Anthropology, Academe, and Human Rights.” Much of this essay will appear as a chapter in the author’s Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture (Duke University Press). The Cult of Franz Boa...