Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missing persons has been sought as assiduously as Peking Man, whose bones, unearthed from a quarry outside the Chinese capital in 1926, disappeared when the Japanese invaded the capital 15 years later. The two leading hunters have now written books. Christopher Janus, a Chicago businessman and amateur anthropologist, has spent a small fortune on the search. Professor Harry Shapiro, chairman emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History's department of anthropology, has been pursuing the missing bones ever since the war. In that time he has followed up scores of tips from strange people who are rarely willing...
...American Women condenses vast amounts of scholarship into three volumes, presenting the complicated questions that feed into women's history in an objective, thoughtful and readable manner. The individual portraits were written by numerous scholars and authors from around the country (one of the best, on the pioneer cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, was penned by Donald Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, who is not known for his sympathy towards women) and double-checked by scores of graduate students and researchers. The comprehensiveness of the work is borne out by the fact that the editors have been notified of only...
...Hopkins University Press; 403 pages; $14). The stern Amish and their more moderate Mennonite brothers are better known than the Hutterites, another wing of German Anabaptists, whose long religious journey led them to Moravia, Transylvania and Russia before they came to North America in the last century. Hosteller, an anthropologist and sociologist at Temple University, comes from an Amish background and has already demonstrated his expertise in the well-known 1963 study called Amish Society. His new book draws an impressive picture of a people who share the general Anabaptist rejection of worldly frills and pleasures, but who have...
...American leader of the expedition, Anthropologist Carl Johanson of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, rushed to Asfaw's find. "I recognized the fossil almost at once as one of the oldest human remains ever discovered." he recalls...
Beetle-Browed Brute. Johanson's conclusion is bound to cause controversy in the scientific community. Most anthropologists have been convinced that the first member of the genus Homo, or true man (as opposed to the hominids, or man-apes), was a beetle-browed, stoop-shouldered brute called Homo erectus, who appeared in Africa about a million or so years ago. But two years ago, Richard Leakey, following in the footsteps of his famed anthropologist father, the late Louis B. Leakey, undermined that theory. Digging near Kenya's Lake Rudolf, he uncovered fragments that were assembled into a nearly...