This man worked under ethnologist Frederick Ward Putnam at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, helping one tribal people build two traditional "Big Houses" on the Midway Plaisance.
This man worked under ethnologist Frederick Ward Putnam at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, helping one tribal people build two traditional "Big Houses" on the Midway Plaisance. He alienated others in his field by dismissing the "cepahlic index," a cranial measurement used to reinforce racial notions of head shape and size. He ended his most famous book with a withering critique of American racism, arguing that the "Nordic races" had no innate intellectual advantage over the titular, less modern peoples. Founder of the first anthropology PhD program in the US, FTP who was this author of The Mind of Primitive Man?
This man worked under ethnologist Frederick Ward Putnam at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, helping one tribal people build two traditional "Big Houses" on the Midway Plaisance.
Franz Boas