Editing Franz Boas (section)

==Legacy==
{{main|Boasian anthropology}}
Nevertheless, Boas has had an enduring influence on anthropology. Virtually all anthropologists today accept Boas's commitment to empiricism and his methodological cultural relativism. Moreover, virtually all cultural anthropologists today share Boas's commitment to field research involving extended residence, learning the local language, and developing social relationships with informants.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Darnell|first1=Regna|title=American Anthropology and the Development of Folklore Scholarship: 1890–1920|journal=Journal of the Folklore Institute|date=1973|volume=10|issue=1–2|pages=23–39|doi=10.2307/3813878|jstor=3813878}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Epps|first1=Patience L.|last2=Webster|first2=Anthony K.|last3=Woodbury|first3=Anthony C.|title=A Holistic Humanities of Speaking: Franz Boas and the Continuing Centrality of Texts|journal=International Journal of American Linguistics|date=2017|volume=83|issue=1|pages=41–78|doi=10.1086/689547|s2cid=152181161}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Andersen|editor1-first=Chris|editor2-last=O'Brien|editor2-first=Jean M.|title=Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|location=New York}}</ref><ref>Regna Darnell. 1998.  And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology. John Benjamins Publishing</ref> Finally, anthropologists continue to honor his critique of racial ideologies. In his 1963 book, ''Race: The History of an Idea in America'', Thomas Gossett wrote that "It is possible that Boas did more to combat race prejudice than any other person in history."