Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Lewis R. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Franz Boas ◽  
Africana Philosophy

Franz Boas in Africana Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis R. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Africana Philosophy ◽  
The World ◽  
Redemptive History ◽  
Legitimate Reason

This chapter discusses how Franz Boas's contributions to Africana thought make him an Africana thinker. Boas's arguments ultimately showed the error in making whites the standard for all other groups. While European societies produced their standards of how to live as a human being, the error is to conclude that theirs were and continue to be the standards or, worse, the only ones. In stream with many Africana thinkers, Boas addressed the question of whether people rendered homeless in the world that created them “belong,” so to speak, to the story of humankind. Although they were rejected by European modernity, there was no legitimate reason for them to be denied their membership in the human community. Boas's historicism was, in other words, a form of redemptive history, one linked to a conception of freedom as also a portrait of belonging.

Franz Boas' Rede an der Universität Kiel zum 50jährigen Doktorjubiläum

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Pöhl
Keyword(s):  
Franz Boas

Ethnographie, Ethnologie und Anthropologie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Einheit, Vielfalt und Zusammenhang

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 91-117
Author(s):  
Han F. Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
Vergleichende Studie ◽  
Franz Boas

Die Geschichte der Ethnologie beginnt für viele erst ab 1860 mit Adolf Bastian in Deutschland und E.B. Tylor in England oder ab 1887 mit Franz Boas in den USA. So kann man es in den Lehrbüchern lesen: Die Wurzeln der Ethnologie liegen im 19. Jahrhundert; in Deutschland fängt die Ethnologie mit Bastian an. Ähnlich wird die Genese der Anthropologie oft mit dem Wirken von Rudolf Virchow in Berlin verbunden. Meine Recherchen haben jedoch ergeben, dass beide Disziplinen bereits im 18. Jahrhundert entstanden sind, und zwar als parallele Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Wissensbereichen. Im Vortrag werde ich hierauf Bezug nehmen und zeigen, dass die Ethnographie 1732-1747 im Rahmen der Erforschung Sibiriens von dem Historiker G.F. Müller als eine beschreibende und vergleichende Studie aller Völker hervortrat; dass die Ethnologie 1771-1775 von A.L. Schlözer in Göttingen als eine allgemeine Völkerkunde eingeführt und 1781-1783 von A.F. Kollár in Wien als ethnologia definiert wurde; und dass die Anthropologie als eine "Naturgeschichte des Menschen" durch Linné in den Jahren 1735-1758, durch Buffon von 1749 bis 1777 und durch Blumenbach in den Jahren 1775-1795 herausgebildet wurde. Diese Entwicklungen kann man bis zur Gründung der BGAEU im Jahr 1869 gut nachvollziehen

O que é Antropologia?

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Breno Rodrigo Alencar
Keyword(s):  
Modern Life ◽  
Franz Boas

O presente texto, uma tradução do livro Anthropology and Modern Life, de Franz Boas, chama a atenção para as discussões suscitadas pelo cenário científico pós II Guerra Mundial, onde biológico e social se confundem na compreensão da realidade cultural européia e norte-americana. O autor, maior expoente da escola histórico-comparativa, mostra que a dedução antropológica surge com a análise da distribuição das características anatômicas, das funções fisiológicas e das reações mentais, que nestes termos são o objeto desta ciência em transformação.

Mapping Afro-Caribbean Political Thought

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Jane Anna Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Africana Philosophy

Drawing on Paget Henry’s field-defining Caliban’s Reason and Lewis R. Gordon’s Introduction to Africana Philosophy, this chapter maps the historical terrain of Caribbean political thought written primarily in English and in French. Beginning with explicitly antislavery writings, it then turns to the range of intellectual efforts to forge an independent, no longer colonial, Caribbean future. It concludes by emphasizing the irony of Caribbean political writings teeming with philosophical insights in a tradition that has not until very recently explicitly cultivated philosophical endeavor and by arguing that, in exemplifying a creolizing orientation, Caribbean thought shares an affinity with some, but not all, models of comparative political theorizing.

Franz Boas: The Science of Man in the Making.Melville J. Herskovits

1954 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-311
Author(s):  
John Gillin
Keyword(s):  
Franz Boas

scholarly journals : Geographical Names of the Kwakiutl Indians . Franz Boas.

1937 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
R. L. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Franz Boas

“Stern Champion of the Human Race, of Man as Human”: Alexander F. Chamberlain and Reform in the Age of Imperialism and Jim Crow

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 833-864
Author(s):  
JOHN DAVID SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
World War I ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
World War ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Academic Interests

This essay examines the broad and understudied contributions of pioneer American anthropologist Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1865–1914), who earned America's first PhD in anthropology at Clark University under the legendary anthropologist Franz Boas. Before his untimely death on the eve of World War I, and Boas's rise as a leading scientific spokesman of antiracism at Columbia University, Chamberlain contributed as significantly as Boas to the fields of linguistic and cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, child development, comparative folklore, and Native American and African American culture, and to the cause of equality and justice for all humans. Chamberlain subscribed to an antiracist cultural evolutionism, frequently and passionately condemning ethnocentrism and insisting on the “generic humanity” of all persons, of all races. Close reading of Chamberlain's work suggests not that Boas's work mattered less, but rather that both men participated in an emerging debate on the nature and meaning of race that informed social policy and shaped academic interests during the Progressive Era.

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