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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.
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 ...
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...
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.
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.
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.
For years Earnest Hooton was the principal source of graduate stu-dents in physical anthropology and, through his students, was responsible for much of the growth and direction of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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. Education and Academic ...
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
