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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Franz Boas"”.
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Comparisons in the cranial form of the Blackfeet Indians: A reassessment of Boas' Native American data
Franz Boas proposed almost one hundred yeas ago that cranial plasticity explained the differences in cranial form between European-born immigrants and their American-born children. Plasticity refers to the idea that the body responds to environmental forces during growth and development. If the …
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Comparisons in the cranial form of the Blackfeet Indians: A reassessment of Boas' Native American data
Franz Boas proposed almost one hundred yeas ago that cranial plasticity explained the differences in cranial form between European-born immigrants and their American-born children. Plasticity refers to the idea that the body responds to environmental forces during growth and development. If the …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
… populations collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas and coworkers between 1909 and 1910. Boas was asked by the United States Immigration Commission to write a report that examined how the influx of European immigrants into the United States might affect the morphology of the American …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
… populations collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas and coworkers between 1909 and 1910. Boas was asked by the United States Immigration Commission to write a report that examined how the influx of European immigrants into the United States might affect the morphology of the American …
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Ndeme ya folukuloo "folklore" khau u vhuedzedza mikhwa kha vhana ho sedzwa Mvelele ya Tshivenda
… Relativism’. Mutumbuli wa thyiori iyi ndi Franz Boas henengei murahu nga ‘20th century’. Thyiori iyi yo vhonala yo tea vhunga i tshi lwela u anḓanya mikhwa na vhuḓifari ha lushaka na mvelele yalwo. I hanedzana na fhungo ḽa u nyadza kana u dzhiela fhasi mvelele ya vhaṅwe zwi tshi ḓa kha uri …
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Chehalis stories
… edition of the Chehalis stories collected by Franz Boas on the Chehalis Reservation in 1927. The primary goal of this project is to repatriate these stories to the Chehalis people. Boas’ field notes and typescripts, held at the American Philosophical Society, serve as the foundation for this …
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The Sorcerers' Apprentice: A life of Reo Franklin Fortune, Anthropologist
… and the British. The former was dominated by Franz Boas and his graduate students, while in Britain and its Empire the dominant figures were A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski. These leaders acted as patrons to their students, assisting them in getting access to funding, field …
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Ella Deloria: a biographical sketch and literary analysis
… language to students under the direction of Dr. Franz Boas of the Department of Anthropology. After teaching briefly at All Saints, she returned to St. Elizabeth'.s Mission at Wakpala. Then, from 1923 to 1928, Ella Deloria was a physical education instructor at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, …
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Theories of the mind and the disciplining of anthropology, c.1875-1914
This thesis revises key assumptions concerning the organisation of knowledge into social science disciplines at the turn of the twentieth century, taking anthropology as its main case study. Historians of anthropology have approached their subject in a fragmentary manner that centres on national …