Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de in Duitsland geboren, Amerikaanse antropoloog. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de biografie van een van de grondleggers van de antropologie Fraz Boas. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.
Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie recensie, review en informatie
- “Noga Arikha presents a wonderfully three-dimensional portrait of Franz Boas: family man, secular German Jew, cosmopolitan polymath, scientific anti-racist, a model of empathy and tolerance, and a beacon of light in challenging times.” (Adam Kuper, author)
- “Noga Arikha successfully depicts the life, work, thought, and influence of Franz Boas, the towering figure who shaped the development of modern American anthropology. She perceptively stresses his lifelong battle against racism, ethnocentrism, eugenics, and for freedom of thought.” (Herbert S. Lewis, author)
Franz Boas
In Praise of Open Minds
- Auteur: Noga Arika
- Soort boek: biografie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Yale University Press
- Reeks: Jewish Lives
- Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
- Omvang: 280 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek
- Prijs: $ 28,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de biografie van antropoloog Franz Boas
A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology
Franz Boas born on 9 July 1858 in Minden, Germany en died 21 December 1942 in New York City is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studies of variations across societies were aimed at demonstrating that cultures and peoples were not shaped by biological predispositions. This book traces Boas’s life and intellectual passions from his roots in Germany and his move to the United States in 1884, partly in response to growing antisemitism in Germany, to his work with First Nations communities and his influential role as a teacher, mentor, and engaged activist who inspired an entire generation.
Drawing from Boas’s numerous but rarely read writings, Noga Arikha brings to life the man and the ideas he developed about the complex interplay of mind and culture, biology and history, language and myth. She provides a comprehensive picture of the cultural contexts in which he worked, of his personal and professional relationships, and of his revolutionary approach to fieldwork. He was celebrated in his lifetime for the cultural relativism he developed and the arguments he marshaled against entrenched racialism. But his was a constant battle, and Arikha shows how urgently relevant his voice and legacy have become again today.
Noga Arikha is a research associate at the European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind and Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. She currently lives in Florence, Italy.
