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Harry Lionel Shapiro
Harry Lionel Shapiro
Pages 368-387
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at Harvard between 1925 and the early 1950s, a generation that contributed significantly to the development of academic physical anthropology in the United States. Although his professional career unfolded in a museum context (namely, the American Museum of Natural History)
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for a place at the prestigious Boston Latin School. At the Latin School Harry's intellectual sensibilities were refined and tuned by a rigorous classical education, which also generally prepared him for the eventual passage to Harvarc!
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human genetics was augmentec! by William Ernest Castle (1867-1954)
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As luck wouIc! have it, early in 1925 an assistant curatorship at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
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He was apparently introclucec! to the pleasures of pipe smoking sometime in late aclolescence by his brother Barney a lifelong habit sustainer!
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in the early 1900s by the German anthropologist Felix von Luschan (~8541924) from charnel houses in the Greifenberg region of western Carinthia, Austria.
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through eastern en c! southwestern Polynesia aboard the private yacht Zaca owned and skippered by Templeton Crocker ~ ~ 884-!
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1930s in spite of supporting evidence from newer studies such as the one macle by the American anthropologist Leslie Spier (~893-1961) , a former student of Boas.
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or in semi-popular summations, such as his Thomas Burke Memorial Lecture on "The Peopling of the Pacific Rim" cleliverec! in Seattle in 1964.
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national law enforcement agencies anxious to employ his expertise in identifying skeletal remains such as the time he was called to examine the charrec! bones of two young girls brutally murdered by a man in Brooklyn who had been dubbed by the
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He was also the principal architect of the equally successful Travelers Insurance Company exhibit, "The Triumph of Man" (a life-sizec! clioramic presentation of human biocultural evolution)
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retreat from China. While superficially a vehicle for an account of the fruitless search for these lost remains (clealt with essentially in the final chapters en c!
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1960s he was actively engaged in the work of various NAS committees, served as chairman of the anthropology section from 1953 to 1957,
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on him by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 1983. ALONG WITH INFORMATION CULLED from archival sources26 in the Library of the American Museum of Natural History and a recorded interview with Shapiro made by the author in December 1976 (RI:HLS/ FS-1976)
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16. Another significant reflection of Shapiro's posture on race can be found in his involvement in the 1952 UNESCO "Statement on the Nature of Race and Race Differences by Physical Anthropologists and Geneticists." In A
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B Davenport dated July 7, 1941 (Gregory Papers, Library of the American Museum of Natural History)
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A series of crania from the Nagel burial ground, New York.
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386 B I O G RA P H I C A L 1940 EMOIRS The distribution of blood groups in Polynesia.
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1964 The peopling of the Pacific rim. Thomas Burke Memorial Lecture.
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