Quotes About Franz Boas

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

For the folklore Hurston collected so meticulously as Franz Boas's student at Barnard became metaphors