Seiferle - Valencia Anna - An Analysis Of Franz Boas's Race Language And Culture - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Franz Boas's 1940 Race Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline collecting the articles and essays that helped make Boas known as the father of American anthropology. An encapsulation of a career dedicated to fighting against the false theories of so - called scientific racism that abounded in the first half of the 20th - century Race Language and Culture is one of the most historically significant texts in its field and central to its arguments and impact are Boas's formidable interpretative skills. It could be said indeed that Race Language and Culture is all about the centrality of interpretation in questioning our assumptions about the world. In critical thinking interpretation is the ability to clarify and posit definitions for the terms and ideas that make up an argument. Boas's work demonstrates the importance of another vital element: context. For Boas who argued passionately for cultural relativism it was vital to interpret individual cultures by their own standards and context not by ours. Only through comparing and contrasting the two can we reach he suggested a better understanding of humankind. Though our own questions might be smaller it is always worth considering the crucial element Boas brought to interpretation: how does context change definition?
Title: An Analysis Of Franz Boas's Race Language And Culture
Author(s): Seiferle - Valencia Anna
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912128389
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/4/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Political Science & Theory