Chronology
| 1858, July 7 | Franz Boas born in Minden, Germany |
| 1877, April | Boas becomes a student at the University of Heidel- berg |
| 1877, October | Boas transfers to the University of Bonn |
| 1879, October | Boas transfers to the University of Kiel |
| 1881, September | Boas completes his examinations in geography, physics, and philosophy at the University of Kiel for a doctorate |
| 1882, April 10 | Boas records in a letter to Abraham Jacobi that he is convinced that his "previous materialistic Weltanschauung" is "untenable" |
| 1883 |
In Berlin, Adolf Bastian and Rudolf Virchow be- come Boas's mentors |
| 1884 | Boas arrives in New York after almost a year in Baf- fin Land |
| 1885 | Boas appointed docent in geography, University of Berlin |
| 1887, March 10 | Boas marries Marie Krackowiser and settles in New York |
| 1889 | Boas takes up appointment as docent in anthropol- ogy, Clark University |
| 1899 | Boas is appointed professor of anthropology at Co- lumbia University |
| 1901, December 16 | Margaret Mead is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1917 | A. L. Kroeber "The Superorganic" published in the American Anthropologist; R. Lowie Culture and Ethnology published in New York |
| 1920, September | Mead enters Barnard College on transfer from De Pauw University |
| 1920 | Herbert E. Gregory becomes director of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu |
| 1921, June | Edward Craighill Handy appointed ethnologist at the Bishop Museum |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead:A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research.
Contributors: Derek Freeman - Author.
Publisher: Westview Press.
Place of publication: Boulder, CO.
Publication year: 1999.
Page number: 263.
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