Franz Boas criticized attempts to propose stages of cultural evolution while maintaining that each society must be understood as a product of its own unique history.

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Franz Boas was a cultural anthropologist who rejected the idea of unilineal cultural evolution and instead stressed the importance of understanding each society in its own historical and cultural context. He believed that attempts to propose stages of cultural evolution were oversimplified and did not accurately reflect the complexity of human societies. Therefore, option A is correct.

Franz Boas Criticized Attempts to Propose Stages of Cultural Evolution