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BLACK METROPOLIS-St. Clair Drake & Horace R. Cayton-Harcourt, Brace $5). In the same sort of cool, clinical case history in which Robert and Helen Lynd dissected the U.S. small town in Middletown, Anthropologist Drake and Sociologist Cayton have card-indexed the manners, mores and living conditions of the U.S. Negro in a northern city. Because of the tragic, potentially explosive material with which it deals, Black Metropolis is more engrossing, and may be more important, than the Lynds' book. Educators, politicians, ordinary thoughtful citizens- and perhaps even a few Southern Senators -may find in this well-organized, well...
Does a high brow necessarily make its owner a highbrow? Anthropologists have long and solemnly argued the relative braininess of long-headed v. roundheaded men. Now, an anthropologist who deplores the whole argument - Dr. Franz Weidenreich of the American Museum of Natural History-contends that they have been wasting their time. In a well-documented report in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, he offers a convincing case against the prevailing notion that a long head (or a high brow) denotes a superior brain. Intelligence, he concludes flatly, has nothing to do with the shape of the head...
...major responsibilities. The committee proposed that Yale's Department of Religion, which now offers only four courses, taught by instructors from other departments, be enlarged. As a starter, the department might employ full-time instructors in psychology and the history of Christianity. Eventually it should include an anthropologist, a historian, a linguist, specialists in non-Christian religions and in the philosophy of religion...
...Winchester Castle, "frankly perspiring" white passengers paid friendly visits to Africa-bound Anthropologist Eslanda and her eight-year-old son, Pauli, in their double first-class stateroom. But Eslanda noticed reluctance to discuss "the all-important subject of Native affairs," recognized her British callers as " 'Deep South' white folks . . . only more so." In Cape Town it was a relief to hear the white telephone operator say: "We hope you both have a pleasant visit, and we hope Mr. Robeson comes out soon." She took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa...
...Archbishop of Canterbury appointed a "Commission on Prohibited Degrees" which consulted such famed lay experts as Biochemist J. B. S. Haldane, Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, finally recommended extensive relaxation of the Table. But nothing happened...