California State Normal School, Waynesburg College, Harvard University
Known for
Demonstrating Mendelian inheritance in humans; Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru
Spouse
Sylvia Manilla Holdren
(m. 1897)
Awards
Honorary faculty member, University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society
Scientific career
Fields
Physical anthropology, human genetics
Thesis
Heredity and Sexual Influences In Meristic Variation: A Study of Digital Malformations in Man
Doctoral advisor
William E. Castle
William Curtis Farabee (1865–1925), the second individual to obtain a doctorate in physical anthropology from Harvard University, engaged in a wide range of anthropological work during his time as a professor at Harvard and then as a researcher at the University Museum, Philadelphia, but is best known for his work in human genetics and his ethnographic and geographic work in South America.
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time of his death, Scharff was $3,000,000 in debt. Anthropologist WilliamCurtisFarabee referred to him as "the most notorious of all rubber gatherers in...
until 1894, when he was replaced (against his will) by BAE archeologist William Henry Holmes. In 1896, Boas was appointed Assistant Curator of Ethnology...
Elizabeth Mead (1909–1983), an artist and teacher, married the cartoonist William Steig, and Priscilla Mead (1911–1959) married the author Leo Rosten. Mead's...
(1915–1916) Alfred L. Kroeber (1917–1918) Clark Wissler (1919–1920) W. C. Farabee (1921–1922) Walter Hough (1923–1924) Ales Hrdlicka (1925–1926) Marshall...
language and social context. Together with John Gumperz, Erving Goffman and William Labov, Hymes defined a broad multidisciplinary concern with language in...
anthropology program still maintained something of the evolutionary tradition of William Graham Sumner, a quite different emphasis from the historical particularism...
Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. New York: William Morrow. Memoir of Margaret Mead by her daughter, documenting the relationship...
Saxon, Icelandic, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish. Through Germanics professor William Carpenter, Sapir was exposed to methods of comparative linguistics that...
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Institution, 1932. List of important publications in anthropology Peace, William (2006). "Introduction: The University of Michigan's Department of Anthropology:...
Languages of the Americas website. 2015. Retrieved December 2, 2016. Farabee, WilliamCurtis (1922). Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru. Cambridge, Massachusetts:...
941–952). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. Opler, Morris E; Bittle, William E (1961). "The death practices and eschatology of the Kiowa Apache". Southwestern...
Anthropologist. 79 (1): 105–110. doi:10.1525/aa.1977.79.1.02a00100. Bright, William (1964). "A bibliography of the publications of Harry Hoijer through 1963"...
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