Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matted jungle of Brazil's Matto Grosso, a state twice as big as Texas with a population little more than that of Houston, lives an Indian tribe called the Yawalapiti. Last summer the Yawalapiti had a colossal surprise, concerning which Vincent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, anthropologist of last year's Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante) last week issued a monograph...
...statistics presented below have been grouped together under convenient headings, but no attempt to list all occupations has been made. Business 202 (including insurance, advertising, etc.) Undecided 171 Law 116 Medicine 89 Teaching 75 Engineering 34 Miscellaneous 34 (including such diverse pursuits as chemist, physicist, anthropologist, professional tennis instructor, etc.) Banking 30 Journalism, Publishing and Writing 28 Architecture 15 Ministry 9 Diplomacy and Foreign Service 6 Aviation 2 Farming 1 Cinema...
Selectmen can easily assume an injured attitude; that is probably what they do best. But now they have overstepped all bounds in resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers...
...anthropologist's interest in items human is protean. Neatly arranged cases, cupboards and drawers at the Smithsonian Institution contain 1.500 human skeletal remains which Dr. Hrdlicka has collected. In filing cabinets are his records of American whites and Negroes, of Egyptians and Slavs (he is a Bohemian), of peoples in Peru, Mexico, Asia, of little understood midgets. A small cabinet, labeled tetrapodisis and still only meagrely filled, contains the case histories of children who ambled, like little animals, on hands and feet before they walked upright (TIME, Jan. 6 & Jan. 27, 1930). The "walking-on-all-fours" records form...
...high honor the A. A. A. S. offers elder scientists is its presidency. President Thomas Hunt Morgan, 65, zoologist, director of the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences at California Institute of Technology retired at last week's meeting. His 1932 successor, Professor Franz Boas, 73, Columbia anthropologist, was too ill to travel from Manhattan to New Orleans to assume office. In his absence the A. A. A. S. chose his successor for 1933?Dr. John Jacob Abel, 74, Johns Hopkins' great pharmacologist, the crystallizer of insulin (hormone which controls diabetes) and synthesizer of epinephrine (hormone which regulates...