Salute to Franz Boas

Inspired by the totally fucking riveting article in the new New Yorker, not available online sadly enough. But more than worth whatever effort it costs to track down. I'd heard his name but knew almost nothing about him. Amazing. He taught Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston and inspired Claude Levi-Strauss, but that barely touches on his influence (at least according to this article, which doesn't flinch from some of his fuckups -- even those seem to have been largely committed in the service of the angels). So anyway, here's to 'im. In a good world, every schoolchild would know his name.