Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice

by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an anti-racist and anti-colonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice is the second volume in Rosemary L?vy Zumwalt's two-part biography of the renowned anthropologist and public intellectual.

Zumwalt takes the reader through the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496216911
• ISBN13: 9781496216915
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"