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Boasian
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English
Etymology
From en de:Boas ian.
Adjective
Of or relating to Franz Boas (1858–1942), German-American anthropologist and linguist.
Noun
A supporter of Franz Boas's theories.
George Emanuel Marcus One Man's Mead https://web.archive.org/web/20150524142650/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/27/books/one-man-s-mead.html 27 March 1983 The Boasians - including Margaret Mead - were primarily concerned with the study of cultural variation, which they presumed took place within a context of general biological tendencies in human behavior.
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