The Anthropologists Who Thought They Could End Racism, Sexism

Franz Boas concluded that “there is not one human culture but many,and he started referring to ‘cultures,’ in the plural. He was engaged inethnography, and he believed that the job of the ethnographer was todisappear, in effect, into the culture of the people being studied, tounderstand from the inside what it means to be male or female, to giveor receive a gift, to bury one’s dead.” – The New Yorker