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  Earnest Hooton - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Earnest A. Hooton (November 20, 1887 Clemansville, Wisconsin -- May 3, 1954 Cambridge, Massachussets) was a physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Apes.
Hooton was educated at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Many of Hooton's research projects were endebted to his training in physical anthropology at a time when this field consisted most of anatomy and focused on physiological variation between individuals.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Earnest_Hooton   (487 words)

  
 Brief summary of original theory:
Hooton’s theory involved the notion that criminals are physically inferior to non-criminals and was based upon his measurement and analysis of the physical characteristics of criminals (Schafer, 1969: 187).
Earnest Albert Hooton was born on November 20, 1887 in Clemansville, Wisconsin, the son of an English immigrant to the United States.
Hooton (1939a: 16), on the other hand, felt that Goring was "...frankly and violently prejudiced against Lombroso and all of his theories," and in 1927 began a massive project which he intended to be the final proof that Lombroso’s theory was correct, that deviant behavior is due to a "low-grade mentality" (Hooton, 1939b: 300).
www.criminology.fsu.edu /crimtheory/hooton.html   (1586 words)

  
  Earnest Albert Hooton, November 20, 1887—May 3, 1954 | By Stanley M. Garn and Eugene Giles | Biographical Memoirs
Earnest Albert Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, on November 20, 1887, the third child and only son of an English-born Methodist minister married to a Canadian-born woman of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Hooton also operated an anthropometric booth at the New York World's Fair, gathering novel dimensional data on the visitors, and he was involved in annual anthropometric studies on Harvard freshmen, extending investigations originally initiated by Dudley Sargent at the turn of the century.
As a result, Hooton's students were diverse in their interests, some excelling in primate comparisons; some concentrating on prehistoric and protohistoric skeletal remains and skulls; other working in population biology, demography, and the secular (generational) changes of Americans or immigrant populations; and some in human genetics and histology.
stills.nap.edu /html/biomems/ehooton.html   (2485 words)

  
 Earnest Albert Hooten
Earnest Hooton, a physical anthropologist, was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin on November 20, 1887.
Hooton held several positions in his life some of which were an Instructor from 1913 to 1921, an Assistant Professor from 1921 to 1927, an Associate Professor from 1927 to 1930 and Professor between 1930 and 1954 all held at Harvard University.
Other positions include Curator of Somatology at the Peabody Museum from 1913 to 1954, Chairman of the Division of Anthropology between 1935 and 1954, Editor of Harvard African Studies from 1918 to 1954, Research Fellow of the Department of Anatomy for the Harvard Medical School from 1915 to 1916 and several others.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/hooton_earnest.html   (237 words)

  
 Earnest Hooton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Earnest A. Hooton (November 20, 1887 Clemansville, Wisconsin -- May 3, 1954 Cambridge, Massachussets) was a physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Apes.
Hooton was educated at (additional info and facts about Lawrence University) Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Many of Hooton's research projects were endebted to his training in physical anthropology at a time when this field consisted most of anatomy and focused on physiological variation between individuals.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/earnest_hooton.htm   (536 words)

  
 Carleton S. Coon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However he, like many students, was swayed to the study of anthropology by Earnest Hooton and he graduated magna cum laude in 1925.
Coon continued on in Harvard, making the first of many trips to North Africa in 1925 to conduct fieldwork in the Rif area of Morocco, which was still politically unsettled after a rebellion of the local populace against the Spanish.
Coon was a colorful character who both undertook adventuresome exploits and like his mentor Earnest Hooton he wrote widely for a general audience.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carleton_S._Coon   (887 words)

  
 Archival Collections/Inventory of the Papers of Earnest A. Hooton
Records of Earnest A. Hooton, as Curator of the Peabody Museum and member of the Dept. of Anthropology, were donated to the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, by Earnest A. Hooton and the department from ca.
Responses to these writings were addressed to Hooton as a leading authority of the time on the issues of "racial anthropology," body build and behavior, criminal anthropology, human evolution and the methods and statistics of physical anthropology.
Hooton's original folder headings have been retained whenever possible.
www.peabody.harvard.edu /archives/hooton.html   (391 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Criminology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Undaunted by these results, Harvard anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton conducted an ambitious 12-year study that compared 13,873 male prisoners in 10 states with a haphazard sample of 3,023 men drawn from the general population, searching once more for physical differences.
Hooton's research was ridiculed in particular, one sociologist dismissing his findings as comically inept in historic proportions (or "the funniest academic performance...
Hooton was condemned for his circular reasoning: offenders were assumed to be biologically inferior, so whatever features differentiated criminals from noncriminals were interpreted as indications of biological inferiority.
www.routledge-ny.com /ref/criminology/physical.html   (1292 words)

  
 Earnest Albert Hooton
Professor Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, and educated in the classics at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin.
Professor Hooton was a superb teacher and trained many of the academic practitioners of physical anthropology who were active in America during the first part of the twentieth century.
Hooton EA (1925) The ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
www.physanth.org /annmeet/prizes/hooton.html   (336 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk - Query Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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 Behind The Hits: J.R. Higgenbotham: Apes, Men and Eminem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hooton published so as not to perish (thus following the academic law of survival of the fittest), and it was one of his most famous books that caught my attention in my teen years.
Hooton's publication practically predicts Eminem's emergence in the evolutionary timeline, or at least the sorry state of human development he represents.
Hooton, writing in 1937, accurately zeroes in on a trend that finds fruition in our time in the combination of music for the masses and demagoguery, exemplified by Eminem.
www.bobshannon.com /jr/apesmen.html   (1314 words)

  
 Darn Tootin', Earnest Hooton
= = = Earnest Hooton was one of the last honest = physical anthropologists who had some balls.
Lombroso's theory was challenged by Charles B. Goring, who felt that Lombroso's research methods were inadequate, and set forth to disprove his theory (Jones, 1986: 107).
= Earnest Hooton was one of the last honest physical anthropologists who had some balls.
www.science-one.com /new-5497920-4248.html   (381 words)

  
 Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and
Historians of the field have often remarked that over the course of the 1930s, Harvard University's department under the direction of Earnest Hooton became the unquestioned leader in the shaping of the discipline, creating what would become the standard graduate curriculum and graduating nearly all of the country's new Ph.D.s and the next generation's practitioners.
While Hooton's research in race and criminal anthropology has since been discredited, it was this legacy of his curriculum and his students that more than any other thing shaped physical anthropology as a graduate institution in the United States.
And as Earnest Hooton forthrightly admitted in his annual reports to his benefactors, it would not have been possible to this scale without the crucial funds from the Rockefeller Foundation (Hooten, 1936, p.
www.aabss.org /journal1999/f20Jones.html   (2115 words)

  
 Hooton Burt Hooton Batting, Fielding And Pitching Major League Baseball Lifetime Statistics For Each Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Burt Hooton batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he has won and his rank on various season and.
HARRY HOOTON (1908-1961) Poet and philosopher of the 21st Century In modern Australian literature, Harry Hooton stands in 'idiosyncratic isolation' 2 an unjustly neglected writer.
Who did a personal interview with the artist: Robert Hooton (1917-) was born in Washington, D. C of the first abstract painters.
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 Crime and the Man
Of course, the notion that criminals might have different facial features or shape of head was far from a new one, even back in the 1930s: folklore has long had it that someone whose eyes are "too close together" is not to be trusted, for example.
While Earnest Albert Hooton was too sophisticated to believe anything quite so naive, his dogmatic belief that there must be some relationship between face and felony, coupled with an overestimation of his own knowledge of statistics, led him into some laughable absurdities.
If there were a straightforward connection between cranium and criminality, doubtless Hooton would have found it and his name would not now be forgotten.
www.oddbooks.co.uk /oddbooks/hooton.html   (525 words)

  
 Piltdown Proves a Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The paleontologist Earnest Hooton pushed this Piltdown case aside as unique, but the creationists pulled it back as typical of what evolutionists always do: deceiving themselves and others by turning apes into people.
After the exposé, Hooton managed to say, while eating crow, that the great lesson of the Piltdown case is this: it's wrong to fix on scientific discoveries as irrevocable.
Earnest Hooton was proud of the detectives, who did "honor to science by their fearlessness and their candor; they reflect credit upon anthropology by their skill and thoroughness." H.V. Vallois, a paleontologist who had been skeptical about Eoanthropus, was glad that the hoax had stimulated the development of new techniques.
www.clarku.edu /~piltdown/map_expose/pilt_proves_point.html   (1040 words)

  
 Caroline Bond Day Finding Aid
CBD was introduced to the field of anthropology in a class at Radcliffe taught by Earnest A. Hooton.
The research that CBD began with Hooton in her senior year at Radcliffe (1919) was "continued only in her spare time" over the next thirteen years.
In 1927, when Hooton received a grant from the Bureau of International Research (BIR) of Harvard University and Radcliffe College, CBD received funds to support her research.
www.peabody.harvard.edu /archives/cbd.html   (1644 words)

  
 Search Results for earnest - Encyclopædia Britannica
Hooton, Earnest A. American physical anthropologist who investigated human evolution and so-called racial differentiation, classified and described human populations, and examined the relationship between personality...
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 Active Skim View of: Earnest Albert Hooton
Besides teaching introductory physical anthropology and iron-age archeology, he busied himself with descriptive analyses of skeletal remains, writing many acIclencia or technical notes to archeological reports and lecturing to alumni and professional groups on the relevance of physical anthropology to medicine and dentistry.
From such endeavors Hooton was able to provide alternative employment for many of his students, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, for example, and at the Quartermaster Laboratories in Natick, so that academia was no longer the only source of jobs for physical anthropologists.
Hooton excelled as a teacher, teaching all of the courses n physical anthropology himself until the postwar expansion of physical anthropology demanded additional course offerings.
www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309052394&chap=167-180   (510 words)

  
 Point magazine for Oct 1954 edited by Fr Leonard Feeney
With the stage thus set, Earnest Hooton was launched on another season of instructing young men and women that their remote grandfathers were all soulless, simian tree-dwellers.
Whether or not Earnest Hooton was a Jew (and there are arguments on both sides) is irrelevant.
As a fitting postscript to Dr. Hooton, right after his death one of the principal Jewish hoaxes for establishing the authenticity of anthropology, was exposed.
www.fatherfeeney.org /point/54-oct.html   (2304 words)

  
 The Individualist: Carleton S. Coon
However he, like many students, was swayed to the field of anthropology by Earnest Hooton and he graduated magna cum laude in 1925.
Coon continued on in Harvard, making the first of many trips to North Africa in 1925 to conduct fieldwork in the Rif area of Morocco, which was still politically unsettled after a rebellion of the local populace against the Spanish.
Coon was a colorful character who both undertook adventuresome exploits and like his mentor Earnest Hooton he wrote widely for a general audience.
www.dadamo.com /wiki/wiki.pl?Carleton_S._Coon   (636 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: This month in Harvard history
17, 1944 - In the Harvard Service News, Anthropology Professor Earnest A. Hooton advocates the election of a woman to the U.S. presidency, noting that the females of our species have certain qualities that ought to render them superior to males in statesmanship.
17, 1944 - In the "Harvard Service News," Anthropology Professor Earnest A. Hooton advocates the election of a woman to the U.S. presidency, noting that "the females of our species have certain qualities that ought to render them superior to males in statesmanship." His comments are widely quoted in the general press.
Disavowing himself as a "burning feminist," Hooton observes that "[i]f women had run the affairs of the world for the past few thousands years, they could hardly have made a worse mess of them than the men have.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/10.23/02-history.html   (305 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Hooton Plans War to Benefit Mankind Which Would Be Fought by Misfits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
His plan for a war in which "mankind might derive a biological benefit" requires that the minimum age limit for service should be set at 45 years.
Professor Hooton also adds that he would send out the statesmen and diplomats that make wars "to lead reconnoitering parties, as did the late General Werner von Fritsch."
While writing for the Associated Press, Professor Hooton made the statement, "The masters of our destiny are too wise to conduct a war on the lines I have laid down."
www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=198508   (186 words)

  
 William and Muriel Howells Endow Peabody Museum Directorship
"Early anthropologists such as Alfred Tozzer, Roland B. Dixon, and Earnest Hooton used the Museum's collections extensively for their research, and continually strengthened the collections with items found on their own expeditions," explained Pilbeam.
(They are now being repatriated.) Hooton is perhaps best known for training a generation of physical anthropologists who, in pursuing their careers across the country, defined the discipline.
"Hooton's students, including Howells, honored him by strengthening the discipline," said C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, the Peabody Museum's director from 1977 to 1990 and Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/01.22/WilliamandMurie.html   (1102 words)

  
 Measuring Mankind and Muskrats  (July-August 2006)
McKennan (1903-1982) went on from Alaska to spend the rest of his career at Dartmouth, where he was cofounder of the anthropology department.
As a graduate student at Harvard, he studied under physical anthropologist Earnest Hooton, who measured people, and McKennan dutifully measured Native Alaskans, write the editors, “in service to the now largely discredited field of anthropometry.” McKennan’s journals suggest that he did not enjoy this measuring, finding it intrusive.
One wonders how he explained its purpose to the people he sized up.
www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/070639.html   (484 words)

  
 Human Biology: Happenings and Hearsay: Experiences of a Biological Anthropologist
Lasker followed their advice and entered the Ph.D. program with Hooton as his mentor.
I found most fascinating the descriptions of the methods used to train the physical anthropologists at Harvard and Lasker's descriptions of the faculty-Earnest Hooton, Carleton Coon, Eliot Chapple, Conrad Arensberg, and Clyde Kluckhohn.
Chapters 6 and 7 focus on Hooton's graduate students while Lasker was at Harvard.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200102/ai_n8949993   (1140 words)

  
 Re: MAN AS OLD AS COAL -- Evidence Galore!!
> > > >[snip] > > > >> And Earnest Hooton, longtime professor of anthropology at Harvard > >> University, seconded the motion years later in his book, "Apes, Men > >> and Morons," citing the absence of undeniable physical evidence.
I adhere to the old-fashioned > > belief that the more numerous and detailed the resemblances > > between two animals the closer the relationship between them.
I wiped the floor with you when we debated Hooton's beliefs, and I can do it again...
www.talkaboutpeople.com /group/alt.fan.ed-conrad/messages/2147.html   (718 words)

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