Professor boas‘ new theory of the form of the head—a critical contribution to school anthropology
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This article is published in American Anthropologist.The article was published on 1911-07-09 and is currently open access. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Four field approach & Head (linguistics).read more
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The First Americans: Race, Evolution and the Origin of Native Americans
TL;DR: The first Americans: Native American origins Bibliography as mentioned in this paper contains a brief history of race and evolution, including the Kennewick Controversy, and evolutionary approaches to human variation.
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Changing Times, Changing Faces: Franz Boas's Immigrant Study in Modern Perspective
Corey S. Sparks,Richard L. Jantz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the historical, political, and social setting of the study that could have led Boas to overstate the importance of his findings and concluded that while some of the changes observed by Boas have statistical credibility, they generally lack biological meaning when considered in the scope of the degree of modern human variation.
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Whatever Happened to the Cephalic Index? The Reality of Race and the Burden of Proof
TL;DR: The authors examines the work of anthropologist Franz Boas who, in the early twentieth century, argued against the existence of the stability of the cephalic index, a measure of head shape, and its relation to the mental and moral capacities of human races.
Une pensée de la relation : Franz Boas et le concept de « type »
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of type was examined in the travail of Franz Boas (1858-1942), who prefere penser les "types" au pluriel for mieux observer les jeux d'emprunts and de melanges which se manifestent dans les limites de la plasticite humaine.
Anthropometric Variation in California: A Study of Native American Populations
TL;DR: The authors compared cephalic and nasal index means from four Native American populations using modern statistical methods, including one-way ANOVA tests and Games-Howell comparison tests, to examine the relationship between the mean cranial and nasal indices and the environments in which the populations lived.
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