Boas

The person that im goint to talk, is Franz Boas. He was a North American anthropologist born in Germany. He was one of the first modern anthropologists to propose a new method to work. Even, I was not a clever ethnographer, but he started to work in America and Latin America. He opened the first Latin American school of Anthropology in México. In other way, Boas propose a method to understand the different cultures approaching into their particularities, he started to talk about cultural relativism and historic particularism. While his perspective it is not entirely convincing, he started to give a grat and complex discussion against the difussionism and the evolutionism. The approach of Boas overcame the physical racism, and he proposed understand the cultures in relation with their own environment, unlike the evolutionism or the difussionism which understand the culture like a linear and global process whose ultimate expression is the Occidental Civilization. Boas, in my 1^st semester, was the sole author that convinced me.

Finally, He tries to understand the anthropology like one discipline with 3 (o even 4) subdisciplines, like linguistic anthropology, arqueology, fisical or biological anthropology  and cultural anthropology.