Blog Session 9: One or the Other "Franz Boas"

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about Franz Boas a German-American anthropologist; he was born on 9th July of 1858 on Germany. Boas studied physic in three german universities, but after an experience with some Canadian natives known as “Inuit” who helped him after he got lost doing a geological field work, he turned to anthropology. He is called “The father of American Anthropology” because his influence and contribution to the construction of modern anthropology.  

Boas is very important for the study of social sciences because he proposed the relativist concept of “historical particularism”, which denies the evolutionist current, and establishes that all the societies have a unique form to gain their cultural form depending on their historical processes.
This is the reason because I like Boas, because I think that he is maybe the principal responsible of the change of direction of anthropology, from an evolutionist point of view that based on the reality of Europe, segregated another ways of life and considered them inferior, to a point of view that respect and try to understand why certain society has so many differences with ours, but with no judgment between.