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BOAS, Franz (1858-1942):

German/Jewish/American whose is considered one of the founders of ANTHROPOLOGY. He pioneered the technique fieldwork among the Kwakiutl of British Columbia. His works include: The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897), The Mind of the Primitive (1911) and Kwakiutl Ethnography (1966).