Franz Boas's 1940 Race, Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline, collecting the articles and essays that helped make Boas known as the `father of American anthropology.
' In critical thinking, interpretation is the ability to clarify and posit definitions for the terms and ideas that make up an argument.
Boas's work demonstrates the importance of another vital element: context.
For Boas, who argued passionately for `cultural relativism,' it was vital to interpret individual cultures by their own standards and contextnot by ours.
Only through comparing and contrasting the two can we reach, he suggested, a better understanding of humankind.
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