Read the bio below and try to give details on franz boas 's: - death place - signature - death date - spouse - parents - education - children - birth date - name - image size - image - birth place - occupation Bio: franz uri boas -lrb- ; ; july 9 , 1858 -- december 21 , 1942 -rrb- was a german-american anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the '' father of american anthropology '' . studying in germany , boas was awarded a doctorate in 1881 in physics while also studying geography . he then participated in a geographical expedition to northern canada where he became fascinated with the culture and language of the baffin island inuit . he went on to do field work with the indigenous cultures and languages of the pacific northwest . in 1887 he emigrated to the united states where he first worked as a museum curator at the smithsonian , and in 1899 became professor of anthropology at columbia university where he remained for the rest of his career . through his students , many of whom went on to found anthropology departments and research programmes inspired by their mentor , boas profoundly influenced the development of american anthropology . among his most significant students were manuel gamio , a. l. kroeber , ruth benedict , edward sapir , margaret mead , and zora neale hurston . boas was one of the most prominent opponents of the then popular ideologies of scientific racism , the idea that race is a biological concept and that human behavior is best understood through the typology of biological characteristics . in a series of groundbreaking studies of skeletal anatomy he showed that cranial shape and size was highly malleable depending on environmental factors such as health and nutrition , in contrast to the claims by racial anthropologists of the day that held head shape to be a stable racial trait . boas also worked to demonstrate that differences in human behavior are not primarily determined by innate biological dispositions , but are largely the result of cultural differences acquired through social learning . in this way , boas introduced culture as the primary concept for describing differences in behavior between human groups , and as the central analytical concept of...
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- death place is new york , u.s.- signature is franz boas signature.svg- death date is 21 december 1942- spouse is marie krackowizer boas -lrb- 1861 -- 1929 -rrb-- parents is meier meyer boas -lrb- 1828 -- 1916 -rrb- boas -lrb- 1823 -- 1899 -rrb- , sophie- education is ph.d. -rrb- in physics , university of kiel -lrb- 1881- children is helene philip boas -lrb- 1891 -- 1955 -rrb- hedwig boas -lrb- boas 1893/94 -rrb- gertrud boas -lrb- 1897 -- 1924 -rrb- henry yampolsky herbert donaldson boas -lrb- 1899 -- 1925 -rrb- marie franziska -lrb- boas -lrb- 1902 -- 1987 -rrb- 1888 -- 1963 -rrb- ernst- birth date is 9 july 1858- name is franz boas- image size is 225px- image is franzboas.jpg- birth place is minden , westphalia , germany- occupation is anthropologist