The shackles of tradition - Franz Boas (1858-1942).

Central Television's major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop 'armchair theorising' and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. In 1883, a young German scientist - Franz Boas - arrived in the Canadian Arctic to map the coastline and indulge...

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Other Authors: Singer, André, 1945- (Director, Producer), Dakowski, Bruce (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1986.
Series:Ethnographic video online ; v. 2.
Strangers abroad : pioneers of social anthropology ; 3.
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