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Carleton Stevens Coon
Carleton Stevens Coon
Pages 108-131
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With his cotton broker father, the young Car} made a number of trips abroad, especially to Egypt. His mother was solicitous of his education, anct the family maid (also Yankee)
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Hooton, keeping the Harvard community in touch with his hypera(lventurous stuclent, wrote an article for the Alumni Bulletin entitlect "An Untamed Anthropologist among the Wilcler Whites." Earning his doctorate from Harvard in 1928' he stayer!
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This freedom of approach suited Coon's temperament, giving his originality wicle scope anct allowing him to explore peoples with gusto. With his natural flair and engaging writing style, he soon became well known to the public.
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Z Ripley's 1900 work but endecl as a new opus that used every scrap of published information on living populations and prehistoric human remains and much recordecl history besicles.
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Coon's last book, published posthumously in 1982, Racial Adaptations, was a culmination of his efforts to marshal! the evidence now including biochemical data and to suggest explanations for physical variation in man.
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. In the early days of television, he appeared on "What in the World," an educational program dealing with various objects in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
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Fuego to study the few remaining Alakaluf Indians' bodily adaptation to a cold, wet environment, which they endure with very little clothing. His posthumously published, autobiographical Adventures and Discoveries gives firsthand accounts of these and many other expeditions.
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performed many special undercover errancls, often posing in uniforms of his own devising as a British officer. He also invented an explosive designed to to look like mule dung that would blow the treacis oh German tanks.
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In 1926, Car} married Mary Goodale. Their children are Carleton Stevens Coon, Jr., and Charles Aclams Coon.
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Review of The Living Races of Man. Identifying spaces: Geography and genetics.
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Reviews of The Living Races of Man.
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An untamed anthropologist among the wilder whites.
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The function of religion in primitive and modern society. Pamphlet, Harvard Peabody Museum Library.
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New York: Henry Holt and Company. Review of A
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Sumer, 6:91-92. The mountains of giants: A racial and cultural study of the North Albanian Mountain Ghegs.
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Archaeology, 4: 116-18. Recent stone age discoveries in Iran, chaeol.
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267-270. (Comptes rendus de la XIX session du Congres Geologique International.)
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Nat., 89~848~:257-79. Operation Bultiste, promoting industrial development in Saudi Arabia.
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New York Times Book Review, 6 April: 18-19. Review of O
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: 1 78-79. Comment on an article, Racial analysis of human populations in relation to their ethnogenesis, A
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1971 A fossilized human mandibular fragment from Kangatotha, Kenya, East Africa.
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1980 A North African Story: The Anthropologist as OSS Agent, 1941 - 1943. Ipswich, Mass.: Gambit.
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