Franz Boas Is the Undisputed Father of Four-Field U

question 15

Multiple Choice

Franz Boas is the undisputed father of four-field U.S. anthropology. One of his most important and enduring contributions to anthropology was

• A) the field's earliest example of multi-timed and multi-sited ethnography.
• B) providing evidence that both biology and culture are susceptible to evolutionary forces, thus providing a framework for the comparative method.
• C) stressing the relevance of independent invention in human cultural history.
• D) showing that human biology was plastic, and that biology (including race) did not determine culture.
• E) expanding the local ethnographic focus to include a regional perspective.

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