Abstract
Based on Boas's life and achievements, Claudia Roth Pierpont's article ?How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism' deals with the origins of anthropology in the United States, laying emphasis on the importance of Boas, the "rebel anthropologist?, in the transformation of the common knowledge in those days. As a matter of fact, the young German émigré had decided to settle in the United States and to pursue an academic career. As he wrote, "What I want to live and die for (...) is equal rights for all, equal possibilities to learn and work for poor and rich alike!" Hence the question that arises is, to what extent did Franz Boas deeply changed the conception of anthropology?
