Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...
...rock shelter. Copenhagen's Helge Larsen, now a curator at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, was heard to observe that the 17th-Century Indians had a lower culture than did the Alaskan Eskimos whose remains he had just been studying. His colleague, Anthropologist Junius B. Bird, was pleased that the girls had made good use of the lectures they had heard...
Last year the noted anthropologist was attacked, following publication of a similar article, by a member of the Massachusetts legislature, who claimed that the ideas embodied in the suggestion were "fascistic." Professor Hooton ends his latest article with an answer to such a claim, stating that "opposition to better breeding comes from those who are determined to retain power over the masses...
Psychologist Wolff reports that this finding was confirmed by an anthropologist studying African savages. The anthropologist photographed Kais tribesmen, who had never seen themselves in a mirror, and showed them the pictures. One tribesman, when he saw himself, screamed: "Kill this disgusting animal...
...year ago the famous anthropologist's plan for the creation of a new synthetic German race from foreign elements, to replace the natural inhabitants of the Reich whom he proposed to scatter after obliterating their state, was denounced by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, as untenable...