Franz Boas: the Science of Man in the Making by Melville J. Herskovits
By Melville J. Herskovits
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And bewildering to conventional stuniques of study were strange the first was the trait most dents of the physical form of man. Head-form of racial beloved of those who were concerned with the question most physical anthrodifferences, the problem that occupied time. The stability of head-form in a population, pologists of the as it had to be unless however, had been taken for granted, on its use were to be based numerous conclusions that had been to be anything results the this trait was shown by questioned.
It is not strange that his influence in the field was so great, however. The way he envisaged and phrased problems, and the methods he devised to study them, were such as to appeal both to those whose concern with child development was centered about the scientific problems involved, and to those whose interests were of a more practical nature. Yet, whether occupied with the one approach or the other. Boas always took the long view. His ultimate goal, here as in other phases of his research, was to further the gathering and analysis of fundamental knowledge in this case, knowledge of the processes of growth that determined the adult form of the human body.
What is the significance of the increase in average stature of Europeans and Americans? These were the questions that framed long years of measuring, analyzing and testing. Boas' researches in the field of growth and development flowered in a series of three papers, published in the journal Human Biology from 1932 to 1935 under the general title "Studies in Growth," and in another paper presented before the National Academy of Sciences, "The Tempo of Growth of he brought together much data from Newark Academy, Horace Mann and Ethical Culture schools and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York City long series of repeated measurements of the same children.