what did Fran Boas famous 1911 study Changes in Bodily Form Among Immigrants Show"?

-- cheryl snyder-roy (csnyder-roy@dvusd.hl.org), May 02, 2002

Answers

Start with the Boas links at

http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/pboas.htm

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/lgravlee/hba02.htm [this link provides an abstract with some numbers]

http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/AA1912.htm [this link provides a fairly lengthy summary of the article]

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), May 03, 2002.

[Posted for ASW by cdg.]

A brief, nontechnical answer is available at: http://www.pbs.org/fmc/interviews/baker.htm

-- Andrew S. Winston (awinston@uoguelph.ca), May 03, 2002.