Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communists have already accused the U.S. of abducting one of the world's two oldest relics of human existence : Peking man (Sinanthropus pekinensis}, whose 250,000-year-old remains* were first unearthed near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist W. C. Pei. Dr. Pei, apparently a Red convert, claimed in 1951 that the Japanese had heisted the bones during World War II, and (worse yet) that U.S. "agents" had snatched them from Japan after...
According to Dean Francis Keppel '38, Whiting is one of a group of leading social scientists at the Graduate School of Education which is investigating America's educational problems. Though primarily an anthropologist, he has an extensive knowledge of psychiatry and psychology as they apply to education...
With the organization of the Native American Church (approximately 1918), the peyote cult was formally Christianized. Members of the church believe in the Trinity and in the divinity of Christ; peyote helps them experience their faith as an immediate reality. According to one anthropologist the Indians say: "A white man uses prayers out of a book; they are just words on his lips. But with us, peyote teaches us to talk from our hearts...
...MOTHER DITCH, by Oliver La Farge (Houghton Mifflin; $2.25), follows a young Spanish-American boy as he earns his bread by the sweat of his brow in the arid New Mexican soil that Novelist-Anthropologist La Farge (Laughing Boy) knows and loves...
...diggers made no announcement. Like most anthropologists, they had been intimidated by the recent British proof that the remains of Piltdown man, reputedly 950,000 years old, were a deliberate fake. They did not want to say anything until the bones, which had been sent to Anthropologist T. Dale Stewart of the U.S. National Museum at Washington, had been scientifically authenticated...