Boas, Franz

Boas, Franz. 1987. Anthropology and Modem Life. New York Dover Publications. 

And so this history of whiteness and its fluidity is very much a history of power and its disposition. But there is a second dimension race is not just a conception it is also a perception. The problem is not merely how races are comprehended, but how they are seen. In her 1943 obituary of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict recounted how Boas the physicist, having gone to the Arctic to study the properties of water, became Boas the anthropologist upon discovering that his observations did not at all match those of the Eskimos he encountered. Remarked Benedict, He returned with... 

Koester, D. (2003). Life in lost villages Home, land, memory and the sense of loss in post-Jesup Kamchatka. In L. Kendall I. Krupnik (Eds.), Constructing cultures then and now Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (pp. 269-283). Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution Press. 

Boa, Elizabeth, Franz Kafka Gender, Class and Race in the Letters and Fictions (Oxford, 1996)... 

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