This thinker supplemented his funding with support from Elsie Clews Parsons, who published Pueblo Indian Religion. This thinker’s criticism of Madison Grant and protection of “non-conformist thought” led his university to bar him from teaching male undergraduates. Marvin Harris criticized this thinker for practicing “historical particularism” instead of universal laws of cultural development. This thinker’s work on immigration for the Dillingham Commission led him to reject correlations between brain size and ability, which he expanded in a book based on his fieldwork with the Kwakiutl. This anthropologist’s students included Zora Neale Hurston and Margaret Mead. For 10 points, name this author of The Mind of Primitive Man, known as the “father of American anthropology.” ■END■
ANSWER: Franz Boas
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