People from Minden-Lubbecke - People from Bad Oeynhausen, People from Espelkamp, People from Lubbecke, People from Minden (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: People from Bad Oeynhausen, People from Espelkamp, People from Lubbecke, People from Minden, People from Petershagen, People from Porta Westfalica, People from Preussisch Oldendorf, People from Rahden, Franz Boas, Arne Friedrich, Christian Kalkbrenner, Stefan Wessels, Wilhelm Normann, Chris von der Ahe, Curse, Karl-Friedrich Hocker, Kurt Wiese, Hermann von Mallinckrodt, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Abraham Jacobi, Hans Cramer, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Fritz Tegtmeier, Ulrich Daldrup, Helmuth Schlomer, Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, Heinrich Hofer, Josephine Clifford McCracken, Ludolph Businck, Hans Wollschlager, Rene Rast, Otto von Emmich, Hermann Bartels, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Gertrud von Le Fort, Frederick G. Niedringhaus, Jacob Katzenstein, Tine Wittler, Finn Holsing, Edelgard Bulmahn, Antje Vollmer, August Fick, Otto Wilhelm Konigsmarck, Pauline Mallinckrodt, Jan-Martin Broer, Willi Brase. Excerpt: Franz Boas (; July 9, 1858 - December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He applied the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies; previously this discipline was based on the formulation of grand theories around anecdotal knowledge. Boas once summed up his approach to anthropology and folklore by saying: "In the course of time I became convinced that a materialistic point of view, for a physicist a very real one, was untenable. This gave me a new point of view and I recognized the importance of studying the interaction between the organic and inorganic, above all the relation between the life of a people an..