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Half a Man - The Status of the Negro in New York - With a Forword by Franz Boas

Half a Man - The Status of the Negro in New York - With a Forword by Franz Boas

Ovington, Mary White
Boas, Franz

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Biographies GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1473309468
ISBN13: 9781473309463
Publisher: Read Books
Published: Jul 15 2013
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Half a Man' is an anthropological work on the status of black people in society. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. Boas completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. Boas became a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1899 and founded the first Ph.D program in anthropology in America. He was also a leading figure in the creation of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Franz Boas had a long career and a great impact on many areas of study. He died on 21st December 1942.

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