What to read after Anthropology and Modern Life?

The present volume, written for the layman, is one of his most influential and widely read works. Still considered the classic, definitive statement on race and culture, this book refuted the myth of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority by showing that all human groups have evolved equally but in different ways. Moreover, in his emphasis on family lines, rather than race, as the mechanism of inheritance, Boas established the scientific basis of individualism. Each human being is unique, the product of his own heredity, environment and culture. In a truly democratic society every individual, regardless of color, class or sex is entitled to equal participation in the rewards of his culture, and the fullest development of his unique potentialties.