What Did Franz Boaz Learn From the Innuits?

Franz boaz was an explorer who spent time on baffin island, in the arctic. He learned how to survive by relying on other innuits for food and shelter. From that experience he came up with what would turn out to be a theory of human society. Who we are depends very much on where we are, the social context we grow up in,. institutions that surround us... all these things go into shaping who we are as individuals.