Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another area Moore hopes to salvage is "as much of my academic career as possible." While she says she'll miss writing and African research trips, she says she has no intention of giving up her job as an anthropologist--which includes continuing workshops, seminars, at least one course, and work with the African Studies Committee...
...Ebanos, Texas, 80 miles northwest of Brownsville, Postmaster Lucio Flores was asked how many of the town's 800 residents are Anglos. Flores held up one finger and said with a grin, "We call him El Gringo." What is happening along the border, says University of Arizona Anthropologist Tom Weaver, is "the Americanization of Mexico and the Mexicanization of America." It is a relatively painless way for neighbors to become friends...
...bones, added Brazilian Forensic Anthropologist Daniel Munoz, conflicted in not a single respect with the medical records of the man who sent 400,000 people, mostly Jews, to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II. Earlier, experts had found that the handwriting on documents discovered in Brazil corresponded to Mengele's, and that photographs found in the Bossert home matched old pictures of the doctor. Most telling of all, an advanced method of matching the reconstructed skull against old photographs convinced the investigators that they had found their man. "I came here...
...addition, "bone responds to what we do," says Anthropologist Stephanie Damadio of the Smithsonian Institution. A clarinetist's jaw will sometimes suggest his profession or a waitress's developed arm strength may be evident in the bone...
...success of the Mengele investigation will ultimately depend on the availability and quality of old documents, dental charts, X rays and medical records. "This is the decisive point and, I think, the weak point in the Mengele case," observes Rainer Knussmann, an anthropologist at the University of Hamburg. Mengele's 1938 dental records (a written description of the teeth, not including X rays), received last week from West Germany, proved to be "imprecise" and "incomplete," according to Ayrton Martini, director of the Sao Paulo state police scientific department. Also, there is scant information on a pelvic fracture Mengele is said...