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Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape.
Earnest A. Hooton was an American physical anthropologist who investigated human evolution and so-called racial differentiation, classified and described human populations, and examined the relationship between personality and physical type, particularly with respect to criminal behaviour.
Feb 12, 2013 · You can place Earnest A. Hooton in the latter school of thought. The January 1950 issue of Redbook magazine included the predictions of Hooton, a pioneering and often controversial...
Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification. Hooton conducted detailed research on physical and racial characteristics, and used his data to develop wide-reaching analyses of the racial components of American Indians and, more controversially, to ...
From 1913 until he died in 1954, Earnest Albert Hooton taught anthropology at Harvard. Born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, in 1887, he lived in a succession of small towns in the state, moving from one to another as his father, a Methodist minister, received calls from various churches.
Nov 20, 2017 · On November 20, 1887, Jewish-American physical anthropologist Earnest Hooton was born. Hooton investigated human evolution and racial differentiation, classified and described human populations, and examined the relationship between personality and physical type, particularly with respect to criminal behaviour.
This chapter presents a biographical sketch of Earnest Albert Hooton. This is followed by a discussion of his contributions to paleopathology. Hooton's influence in American physical anthropology is usually judged as being greatest as a teacher of a large and diversified cadre of graduate students.
On the afternoon of May 3, 1954, Professor Earnest A. Hooton, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, suffered a heart attack and died. This premature and unexpected death has deprived anthropologists of a brilliantly effective teacher, an able scholar, and a most kindly and charming personality.
HOOTON AND HIS PH.D. STUDENTS For three decades, 1920-50 approximately, Earnest Albert Hooton was the major source of Ph.D. recipients in physi- cal anthropology in the United States and indeed the world.
KEY WORDS Earnest A. Hooton; racism; eugenics; history; AAA multimedia project ‘‘Race’’ ABSTRACT The American Anthropological Associa-tion’s multimedia project, ‘‘Race: Are We So Different?’’ alleges that Earnest A. Hooton (1887–1954) of Harvard University was a racist eugenicist who ‘‘perhaps more
