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...Died. Ethnologist Stephen Chapman Simms, 73, director of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History since 1928, Portuguese Consul at Chicago since 1918; of heart disease; in Chicago...
...Africa is the biography of Kalola, head of the once-powerful Snake Guild of the Nyamwesi tribe in British Tanganyika. Based on Kalola's story as he told it to Ethnologist Carnochan, it is written in a fictional narrative that robs it of authority, covers the period from Kalola's birth in 1856 to his death in 1933. Illustrated with photographs of charms and initiations, it is most interesting in its account of intertribal politics and in its account of Kalola's fighting in the war with German conquerors...
...boys and babies captured during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing. The survival of atrocious practices, such as cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence...
...Although Ethnologist Lowie writes for plain readers, avoids the technicalities of advanced ethnology, laymen are likely to find his conclusions too cautious, may be irritated by the qualifications and exceptions he notes to the general patterns of Crow behavior. That even primitive society was complex, dense, marked with restrictions and taboos, is plain from The Crow Indians, and readers who follow Ethnologist Lowie's account of his difficulties with native language and customs are likely to be made permanently skeptical of most popular accounts of life among the Indians. Where more superficial observers, for example, might be content...
...Author. Born in Vienna in 1883, Ethnologist Lowie arrived in the U. S. at the age of 10, was educated at City College and Columbia, became associate curator at the American Museum of Natural History in 1913. A member of the staff of the American Anthropologist from 1912 to 1933, he served as its editor for nine years, has been professor of anthropology at the University of California since 1925. Of his twelve published volumes, five deal with the Crow Indians. Married two years ago, he now lives in Berkeley, Calif...