Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Roxbury politician had introduced a resolution in the House which called Hooton a fascist who has been corrupting American youth for over a generation. He quoted the noted anthropologist as having called democracy "government of the unfit, by the unfit, and for the unfit," and saying that the Declaration of Independence was a "pathetic document...
This book is a discussion of the U.S. future written by an anthropologist-Margaret Mead, author of Growing Up in New Guinea, Sex & Temperament. Says Miss Mead: "This is not an attempt to take off Americans' clothes. ... It is an attempt to say: In the last 17 years I have been practicing a certain way of looking at peoples. I bring it ... to you ... at this moment when no American can escape the challenge to use what special or accidental skills...
Composed originally of a seven man crew: a physician, an anthropologist, a physiologist, two psychiatrists, a psychologist, and a personnel worker, plus over 270 students who have participated, the Grant Study has been gathering material for the past four years to analyze the forces which go to produce normal men. It is this material which will be the basis of their officer candidates selection program...
...hairy Ainu), some 16,000 of them, inhabit northern islands of Japan. A few live on the half-Soviet island of Sakhalin. How they got there is one of anthropology's darkest mysteries. Last week the Smithsonian Institution reported to the U.S. the findings of Russian Anthropologist Lev Yakolevich Sternberg...
Most scientists agree that the Ainus are relics of an early Caucasian or "proto-Nordic" stock, somewhat less evolved than modern Western man. Anthropologist Sternberg suspects that many thousands of years ago the Ainus migrated to Japan via more southerly islands-perhaps the Philippines, the Moluccas, Oceania. His evidence is that the Ainus, unlike any other tribes in northern Asia...