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Sep. 6, 2019
What is culture
In “Gods of the Upper Air” (August 2019), Charles King traces the vast and quite positive influence of Franz Boas, the towering Prussian-Polish anthropologist who virtually invented anthropology’s cultural branch when he fled Hitler to set up camp at Columbia and Barnard in the 1920s.
Richard Wirick
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Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
BOOK REVIEW
It does not get much better than this in a profile of the history of ideas and disciplines. In "Gods of the Upper Air" (August 2019), Charles King traces the vast and quite positive influence of Franz Boas, the towering Prussian-Polish anthropologist who virtually invented anthropology's cultural branch when he fled Hitler to set up camp at Columbia and Barnard in the 1920s. The man started out by being culturally embattled for his left-wing p...
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