ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Original Affluent Society, Franz Boas, Marshall Sahlins
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Most victorian social scientists believed europeans were superior. Born in 1858 in prussia (northern part of germany, wealthy) In the 1860s & 1870s, prussia would be merged into kingdom of germany. In order to create a sense of german national identity & german patriotism, the new king of germany, kaiser william i, prompted a police of xenophobia. Franz boas went to a university in prussia - suffered discrimination. His physics research took him to the arctic - baffin land. Boas will argue that the eskimo are as civilized as europeans. Boas would leave germany for the u. s. in the mid-1880. Boas knows that craniometry studies are being used to claim that anglos are more intelligent & evolved than other group. Boas would developed a research method comparing skull sizes of anglo-american children & other children - conducted a long term study. 1896 - on the growth of children .
