Rosy Boas ' activity season follows local weather patterns ; however, they are generally dormant during the winter, and active during the spring, summer and fall.

She enjoyed the class and took another anthropology course with Alexander Goldenweiser, a student of noted anthropologist Franz Boas.

Boas ' student, the linguist Edward Sapir later noted that also English speakers pronounce sounds differently even when they think they are pronouncing the same sound, for example few English speakers realize that the sounds written with the letter < t > in the words " tick " and " stick " are phonetically different, the first being generally affricated and the other aspirated-a speaker of a language where this contrast is meaningful would instantly perceive them as different sounds and tend not to see them as different realizations of a single phoneme.

During this act, Boas noted that the female did not kiss him but instead nipped him on the chin.

The same Smith Sound Eskimo also told a variant of the Adlet story related by Boas in " The Central Eskimo.

But by the 1940s, many of Boas ' anthropologist contemporaries were active in the allied war effort against the " Axis " ( Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan ).

At this point the only Canadian first nation languages that were well known were Kwakiutl, described by Boas, Tshimshian and Haida.

The first to challenge the concept of race on empirical grounds were anthropologists Franz Boas, who demonstrated phenotypic plasticity due to environmental factors, and Ashley Montagu who relied on evidence from genetics.

In contrast to von Humboldt, Boas always stressed the equal worth of all cultures and languages, and argued that there was no such thing as primitive languages, but that all languages were capable of expressing the same content albeit by widely differing means.

Boas and his students realized that if they were to conduct scientific research in other cultures, they would need to employ methods that would help them escape the limits of their own ethnocentrism.

His transcription, a translation by H. Rink, and an explanation ( by Boas ) were published in The Journal of American Folklore in 1889.

These customs were the subject of extensive study by the anthropologist Franz Boas.

Coon eventually resigned from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, while some of his other works were discounted because he would not agree with the evidence brought forward by Franz Boas, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Leonard Lieberman and others.

Though similar stories had circulated for years beforehand, Vilas Boas ' claims were among the first alien abduction stories to receive wide attention.

Boas and Grant were involved in a bitter struggle for control over the discipline of anthropology in the United States while they both served ( along with others ) on the National Research Council Committee on Anthropology after the First World War.

The presenters then were Renato Machado, Belisa Ribeiro and Luciana Villas Boas, with Carlos Monforte as program commentator.

An elder of the Kalapalo, Vajuvi, claimed during a filmed BBC interview with Allen that the bones found by Villas Boas some 45 years before were not really Fawcett's.

During this period his views on race were arguably more progressive and in tune with modern standards than any other white academic of the time, with, of course, the exception of Boas, who is sometimes credited with doing more than any other American in combating the theory of White supremacy.

When Hymes retranslated “ The Sun ’ s Myth ,” he recovered the poetic and stylistic devices that were used in the original recorded performance, but which had been lost in the myth ’ s earlier translation by Franz Boas.

Franz Boas argued that cultures were unique entities shaped by a unique sequence of events.

She claimed many prominent figures were Communist sympathizers, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Franz Boas and Sigmund Freud.

While there were critics in the scientific community such as Franz Boas, eugenics and scientific racism were promoted in academia by scientists Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant, who argued " scientific evidence " for the racial superiority of whites and thereby worked to justify racial segregation and second-class citizenship for blacks.

Cultural anthropologists such as Franz Boas, typically regarded as the leader of anthropology's rejection of classical social evolutionism, used sophisticated ethnography and more rigorous empirical methods to argue that Spencer, Tylor, and Morgan's theories were speculative and systematically misrepresented ethnographic data.

Boas and his students eventually wrested control of the American Anthropological Association from Grant and his supporters and used as a flagship organization for his brand of anthropology.

Sapir gathered a volume of Wishram text, published 1909, and he managed to achieve a much more sophisticated understanding of the Chinook sound system than Boas.

Over 2, 000 individual patterns have been recorded worldwide since 1888, when anthropologist Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo string figures ( Boas 1888a, 1888b, Abraham 1988: 12 ).

Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown's influence stemmed from the fact that they, like Boas, actively trained students and aggressively built up institutions that furthered their programmatic ambitions.

As Eddie Bullard pointed out to me, the fact that the Villas Boas family possessed a tractor put them well above the peasant class ... We now know that AVB was a determinedly upwardly mobile young man, studying a correspondence course and eventually becoming a lawyer ( at which news the ufologists who had considered him too much the rural simpleton to have made the story up, now argued that he was too respectable and bourgeois to have done so ).

However, Hilke Thuer examined the old notes and photographs of the now-missing skull, and concluded that it shows signs of an admixture of African and Egyptian ancestry mixed with classical Grecian features – despite the fact that Boas, Gravlee, Bernard and Leonard and others have demonstrated that skull measurements are not a reliable indicator of race.

Van Emde Boas ( 1990 ) calls these three plus the pointer machine " sequential machine " models, to distinguish them from " parallel random-access machine " models.

( Boas claimed that he was able to memorize these symbols and later reproduced them for investigators.

Throughout most of their range the winter is too cold for these functions and the Rosy Boas go into a dormant state called brumation.

While Frederick S. Boas admitted a few details had parallels in Nashe's published works and some words or meanings are found in Nashe's works but not otherwise used by Marlowe, " the scenes in which these passages and phrases appear have, as a whole, the stamp of Marlowe.

He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas who inspired him to work on Native American languages.

Robert Lowie later said that Sapir's fascination with indigenous languages stemmed from the seminar with Boas in which Boas used examples from Native American languages to disprove all of Sapir's common-sense assumptions about the basic nature of Language.

This first experience with Native American languages in the field was closely overseen by Boas, who was particularly interested in having Sapir gathering ethnological information for the Bureau.

In 1907-1908 Sapir was offered a position at the University of California, where Boas ' first student Alfred Kroeber who was the head of a project under the California state survey, to document the Indigenous languages of California.

In his senior year, he attended a class taught by Franz Boas on American Indian languages.

" posthumously by Truman Michelson Franz Boas, ed., Handbook of American Indian languages, Part I, 735-873.

Boas ' student Edward Sapir reached back to the Humboldtian idea that languages contained the key to understanding the differing world views of peoples.

Although language is commonly thought of as a means of communication, Boas called attention especially to the idea that it is also a means of categorizing experiences, hypothesizing that the existence of different languages suggests that people categorize, and thus experience, language differently ( this view was more fully developed in the hypothesis of Linguistic relativity ).

He provided an example of this in his 1889 article, " On Alternating Sounds " A number of linguists at Boas ' time had observed that speakers of some Native American languages pronounced the same word with different sounds indiscriminately.

The first reference to Inuit having multiple words for snow is in the introduction to Handbook of American Indian languages ( 1911 ) by linguist and anthropologist Franz Boas.