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Adolf Bastian
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Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian was a 19th-century polymath remembered best for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline. His theory of the
Adolf Bastian, 1892
Adolf Bastian, 1892
Bastian's gravestone in Berlin.
Bastian's gravestone in Berlin.
Memorial plaque, Adolf Bastian, Stresemannstraße 110, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
Memorial plaque, Adolf Bastian, Stresemannstraße 110, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
Franz Boas
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Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated wit
Adolf Bastian
…of the Elementargedanke resulted in Carl Jung's development of the theory of archetypes. His ideas influenced the "father of American anthropology" Franz Boas and comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell. Bastian was born in Bremen, at the time a state of the German Confederation, into a prosperous bourgeois…
Boas c. 1915
Boas c. 1915
Boas's dissertation: Beiträge zur Erkenntniss der Farbe des Wassers
Boas's dissertation: Beiträge zur Erkenntniss der Farbe des Wassers
Franz Boas posing for figure in US Natural History Museum exhibit entitled "Hamats'a coming out of secret room" 1895 or before. Courtesy of National A
Franz Boas posing for figure in US Natural History Museum exhibit entitled "Hamats'a coming out of secret room" 1895 or before. Courtesy of National Anthropology Archives. (Kwakiutl culture)
Drawing of a Kwakiutl mask from Boas's The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Wooden skulls hang from below
Drawing of a Kwakiutl mask from Boas's The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Wooden skulls hang from below the mask, which represents one of the cannibal bird helpers of Bakbakwalinooksiwey.