https://soar.wichita.edu/bitstream/handle/10057/1880/LAJ_31_p42-51..pdf
Franz Boas (1858-1942)--
He grew up a German born Jew under the roof of a prosperous businessman.
He left his position at Clark and from 1892-1894 he worked on the anthropological
exhibits at the Chicago World's Fair, which he left due to personalconflicts. From Chicago, Boas moved to the American Museum of
Natural History in New York (where he again was forced to resign due to
further personality conflicts).
Stubborn and abrasive.
Cultures unique and separate entities: customs, language, social systems.
Individual not important.
the four-field approach in his fieldwork
(cultural, archaeology, physical/biological, and linguistics),BOAS ON THE NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE--
RED MEN SCORN ENGLISH. Prof. Franz lions Sun Indian tongues Will Hie Oat Only With the Indians. Prof. Fraaz Boas, of the American Nin-set.m of Naturn1 History. who has Just re-ti.rned front :he west. says that the Indian lc egue will die out only with the Indians. lie spent this summer studying the Ian-grago of the For Retspert tribe in Brit-Ish Columbia. He has conducted expedl-tkns In Britigh eninmblit several times. and has dug up relies that have been of extrema value to science. This year he went alone and devoted his entire time to the study of the langauge. "The In Thins. as a people will not learn English." sail Prof. Bons to a 1:111 and Ex-press repntqr. "Some individuals learn a. of course. but the red men stick to their !HUI cuctlms. traditions and tongues. with remark tble pertinacity. Very few of their diolorts have been reduced to writ-ing by whites. and they still present a sub-•el with enough freshness and mystery to attract science. Both tongue is spoken by but a few thousand persons. All these t gues are :rude." Prof. Boas is an expert in Indian ton-gt.es. and can talk with most of the In-tar ns with whom he comes in contact In his expeditions.—New York Mail.
DETROIT FREE PRESS— NOV 05, 1900
"World Peaceways"-- Wisconsin Jewish Journal, 1933
Curious that after coming out with the position that all races have equal capacity mentally, he appears to short change the Native North American.
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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was born to an aristocratic and cultured
family in Krakow, Poland.Functionalism-- 7 basic needs--
nutrition, reproduction, bodily comforts,
safety, relaxation, movement, and growth.
The individual is imperative.
Fieldwork the key to ethnography.
eth·nog·ra·phy
eTHˈnäɡrəfē/
noun
- the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
His diary (1967) repeatedly shows slanderous and racial remarks towards informants
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