Franz Boas, German-born American anthropologist
Franz Boas, German-born American anthropologist in 1906, at the age of 48. He established his leadership of the relativistic, culture-centered, school of American anthropology from Columbia University in New York City from 1899 to 1942. His great contribution was that race was a cultural construct, and opposed ideas of European racial superiority
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