January LaVoy
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A century ago, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex, by birth and biology. But Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. He proposed that cultures did not exist on a continuum from primitive to advanced. Instead, every society solves the same basic problems-- from childrearing to how to live well-- with its own set of rules, beliefs, and taboos. Boas's students mapped vanishing civilizations from the Arctic...