Franz Boas (1858-1942)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Müller-Wille, Ludger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Anthropology; Biographies; Boas; Franz; 1858-1942; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Human ecology; Mapping; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Cumberland Sound; Clearwater Fiord; Arctic; The Schooner; Pivot; Baffin; International Polar Year; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65320

A desire to delve into "the simple relationships between man and land" among the Baffin Island Inuit was the ambitious goal of a 25-year-old German scientist who left Hamburg aboard the Germania on 20 June 1883. The schooner was bound for Kingua Fjord in Cumberland Sound, where the young G...