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        Hello! This is the last post I will upload, because the course ends and there is no more to do u.u Today I will talk about Franz Boas, who was born in Minden, Westphalia on July 9, 1858, and died in New York on December 21, 1942. He studied at the University of Heildelberg and received his doctorate at the University of Kiel in 1881. In 1899 He was appointed professor at Columbia University. Franz Boas is known for his work studying the Kwakiutl Indians in northern Vancouver (Canada), which allowed him to establish a new concept of culture and race, as well as one of the most influential anthropological currents: cultural relativism. In addition, Boas was one of the most prominent opponents of the ideas of scientific racism, very popular at that time, who defended race as a biological concept and claimed that human behavior was explicable through the typology of biological characteristics. I like this anthropologist sin...