Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love at first sight; from the day he entered Sumner's class he began to prepare to follow in the great man's steps, meekly bore Sumner's pronouncements on his habits, studies, marriage (Sumner was against it). Keller became as great a sociologist and anthropologist as Sumner, learned ten of Sumner's 13 languages (bogging down only on Hebrew, Russian, Polish...
Died. Elsie Clews Parsons, 66, woman anthropologist; after an appendectomy; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late banker Henry Clews, in 1906 she published The Family, a textbook which sold like a novel after its treatment of marriage drew the wrath of ministers. She wrote 21 books on anthropology, was a leading authority on Pueblo Indians...
...these four faces of young men (above) and middle-aged men (below} the two on the left are Chinese, the two on the right Japanese. There is no infallible way of telling them apart, because the same racial strains are mixed in both. Even an anthropologist, with calipers and plenty of time to measure heads, noses, shoulders, hips, is sometimes stumped. A few rules of thumb - not always reliable...
...Since there are about 100,000 of these natives, you can see the results of a mass uprising should it ever take place," emphasizes the studying anthropologist...
...citizenry (178,000) is an anthropologist's dream. Below the 1,000 Dutch is a weird blend of Javanese, British Indian, Chinese, aboriginal Indian and Bush Negro. The Negroes are descendants of 17th-Century imported African slaves, who live and dress much like their savage forefathers, but still speak a kind of stubborn English.* Surinam produced 615,434 tons of bauxite in 1940, exported all of it to the U.S. The chief bauxite mine is at Moengo, up the narrow Cottica River close to the boundary of Dutch and French Guiana...