Word: barker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throw ridicule on me and my people. In the article [about Anthropologist Paul Barker's dealings with Haitians while digging for evidence of the civilization Columbus described-Oct. 10, you and Professor Paul Barker depicted my people as the worst uncivilized savages. And that [the god] Dambala removes strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. This is not true. Instead, Professor Barker's job in Haiti was not especially tough...
...rectify any implication that Dambala is vindictive. I have never denounced voodoo, nor do I intend to. I consider it one of the twelve great religions, and I consider M. Cadet the greatest voodoo priest in Haiti. (THE REV.) PAUL BARKER Professor of Anthropology Gorham State Teachers College Gorham...
...townsite near the shore looks very much like the place that Columbus described. Its 1,000-odd houses probably sheltered 15,000 inhabitants, and there were many smaller settlements nearby. Dr. Barker and his Haitian helpers found stone tools, fishing sinkers and a probable ball court, as well as the two gold pendants...
Stumped by the Stones. Even more interesting anthropologically is a cave found on the nearby island of Tortuga by Clement Manigat, a Haitian working for Dr. Barker. It must have been either a ceremonial burial cave or a place for cannibal feasts, possibly both. In it Dr. Barker found human bones that had been broken so that their marrow could be eaten. Other bones were engraved with the faces of gods. There were earthen pots that had perhaps been used for religious or cannibalistic rituals. Dr. Barker is especially stumped by 64 human gall and kidney stones. What this...
...Next To Me, by Anthony Barker. The journal of an Anglican medical missionary to the Zulus, written with modesty and skill, is an inspiring account of brotherly love in the troubled land of apartheid...