A participant of the 1902 Jesup North Pacific expedition, his works include The Growth of Children. His observations of the Central Eskimos of Baffin Island rendered him unable to assign their culture a place on the evolutionary scale, thus arguing against the "ascent from savagery" model of cultural growth. Instead, he suggested that developments of societies are historical in nature rather than biological, and should be studied using the "four-field approach," applying
A participant of the 1902 Jesup North Pacific expedition, his works include The Growth of Children. His observations of the Central Eskimos of Baffin Island rendered him unable to assign their culture a place on the evolutionary scale, thus arguing against the "ascent from savagery" model of cultural growth. Instead, he suggested that developments of societies are historical in nature rather than biological, and should be studied using the "four-field approach," applying his methodology to Native American societies like the Kwakiutl. The author of The Mind of Primitive Man, FTP, name this first Columbia University professor of anthropology.
A participant of the 1902 Jesup North Pacific expedition, his works include The Growth of Children.
Franz {Boas}