Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is any way to discover 'the" American it is that of the Physical anthropologist. The observer who approaches the question from the nationalistic or cultural standpoint fails to draw a conclusive answer, on the one hand from his natural bias, and on the other by confusion and multiplicity of definitive bases...
...HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY-Harry L. Shapiro-Simon & Schuster ($3). Anthropologist Shapiro, who went to Pitcairn Island to find out how heredity worked out in an isolated community whose ancestors are all known (TIME, March 11, 1935), makes his report...
...houses or crannogs-lake dwellings. Still being explored is a royal crannog where Irish kings held court for two centuries. To get a complete picture of Irishmen old & new, Harvard scientists are making anthropological measurements and sociological observations of thousands of living inhabitants. The whole project is directed by Anthropologist Ernest Albert Hooton (TIME, March 30 et ante...
That his sardonic mind can also generate constructive ideas, Dr. Hooton proved last week in the leading article of Science, entitled "An Anthropologist Looks at Medicine." Therein he suggested a common ground whereon Anthropology and Medicine might get together for the benefit of mankind...
Medicine's store of clinical experience shows gaps which Anthropologist Hooton believes anthropological methods might well help to fill in. "Medical science is nurtured in the fetid atmosphere of pathology and has no chance to breathe pure ozone in the congregation of mentes sanae in corporibus sanis. . . . Doctors are so preoccupied with the sick that they do not know the well and are forced to evolve the normal from their inner consciousness, as the German scholar evolved the camel...