Franz Boas Awards -

Here is a look at the two most significant "Franz Boas Awards." This is the highest honor bestowed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) , the world’s largest professional organization of anthropologists. Established in 1976, it was originally called the "AAA Award." However, in 1987, the association formally renamed it the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology .

The SAS’s Franz Boas Student Prize is awarded for the best student paper that demonstrates a rigorous, empirical, and methodologically sound approach to anthropology. It directly echoes Boas’s insistence on "historical particularism"—the idea that one must gather detailed data about a specific culture before making any generalizations. franz boas awards

Unlike a lifetime achievement award for research, the Boas Award specifically honors extraordinary service to the discipline itself . Recipients are recognized for their efforts to advance anthropology as a profession, protect academic freedom, apply anthropology to public policy, or defend human rights. Here is a look at the two most