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CU Boulder Assistant Professor William Taylor’s new study offers a telling glimpse into the lives of humans and horses in South America A new study from a University of Colorado Boulder researcher, ...
That’s Wade Davis in an op-ed titled “The Unraveling of America” in Rolling Stone magazine published Aug ... state of the U.S. Wade Davis is an anthropologist at the University of British ...
An outgrowth of the pseudoscientific theory of racial and cultural hierarchy, William McGee’s words in American Anthropologist, anthropology’s flagship academic journal, echoed racist 19th ...
Some anthropologists also used scientific racism to claim ... Boas also established the International Journal of American Linguistics, and another of his students, Edward Sapir, went on to become one ...
In 1956, anthropologist Horace Miner published an article, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," in the journal American Anthropologist. The Nacirema were a fascinating people, prone to strange ...
By 1930, she says, most American anthropology departments were chaired by Boas students. Like two other influential professors, John Dewey and Thorstein Veblen, both of whom were his exact ...