Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

The person that I admire in my field is Franz Boas, yes, it is quite old, however it is one of the reasons that I admire him, because within anthropology it produces a change of thought, in contrast to the evolutionism that predominated in his era.

Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 - December 21, 1942) was an anthropologist of German origin, but he worked in the United States. He is considered the father of American anthropology. He rejected evolutionism and diffusionism, since he did not believe that the same facts in places and times separated from each other could come from universal laws that would direct the human spirit. He was a representative of the relativist school and, in turn, a forerunner of historical particularism.

The most important works where he bases his anthropological thoughts (previously he was a geographer) start coherent with the work methodology, where he highlights the importance of taking the data from the first hand, accepting to travel to the Arctic sea, between 1883-1884 where his scientific exploration begins , where he knows the Inuit or Eskimo cultures, Kwakiutl and the Tsimshian. This is the moment where the Boas Ethnographer emerges, proposing a new working hypothesis; After this trip concludes how the environment influences the way of life and the thinking of each of these peoples