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     The American anthropologist, Franz Boas, founded Boasian Anthropology: he introduced the idea that culture was what differed between races and ethnicities and, therefore, was what must be studied to understand humanity.

Boasian anthropology changed the idea of culture, as a whole, from what a person, "ate, drank, religious views and their music tastes," to the complete “mental and physical reactions and activities that characterize the individuals of a social group."  Boasian anthropology is known to divide the anthropology discipline to include the four subfields of linguistic, biological, archaeological, and cultural anthropology, a view that is still popular in anthropology departments of many universities today.

The most notable and attributed ideas of Boasian anthropology though are cultural relativism, di Franz Boas’s Anthropological Theory: Key Concepts LYZ