When1: 1887
When2: 1940
Who: Franz Boas [Boas, Franz]
What: anthropologist/linguist
Where: Germany/USA
works\ Principles of Ethnological Classification [1887]; On Alternating Sounds [1889]; Anthropology [1907: essay]; Mind of Primitive Man [1910 and 1938]; Growth of Children, 1896 to 1904 [1911]; Culture and Race [1913]; Methods of Ethnology [1920: essay]; Primitive Art [1927]; Anthropology and Modern Life [1928 to 1938]; General Anthropology [1938: editor]; Race, Language, and Culture [1940]
Detail: He lived 1858 to 1942 and studied Pacific-Northwest native societies [1910]. He studied perception and sensation, such as not hearing spoken sounds {sound blindness} and seeing color categories, and believed that contexts determined them.
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