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Revision as of 22:49, 28 March 2013
Harry Lionel Shapiro (March 19, 1902—January 7, 1990) was an American author, eugenicist, and Professor of Anthropology.
Biography
Shapiro was born into a Jewish family and was educated in Boston, Massachusetts.
While he was a senior at Harvard he was awarded a graduate fellowship from Yale in 1923 to pursue a genetic study of the descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty. Shapiro was a student of Earnest Hooton at Harvard University.[1]
After completing his graduate work in 1926 he went to work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and while there conducted a few field trips. He is also known for his work with Frederick S. Hulse on Japanese migrant studies.[2]
Dr. Shapiro was married in 1938, and he taught at Columbia University from 1938 to 1973.
He was president of the American Eugenics Society from 1956-63.
Selected bibliography
- The Heritage of the Bounty (1936; now retitled The Pitcairn Islanders)
- Migration and Environment (1939)
- Aspects of Culture (1956)
- Man, Culture and Society (editor; 1956)
- Peking Man (1974)
- The Jewish People: A Biological History (1976)[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association By Regna Darnell, Frederic Wright Gleach, American Anthropological Association
- ^ Clark Spencer Larsen Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton 1999, p. 228
- ^ Biography and Bibliography detail taken from a copy of Peking Man, which was first published by George Allen & Unwin (UK) in 1974, and published by the Book Club Associates in 1976.
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- 1902 births
- 1990 deaths
- People from Boston, Massachusetts
- Jewish American writers
- American anthropologists
- Harvard University alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Columbia University faculty
- American eugenicists
- People associated with the American Museum of Natural History
- Non-nationals associated with the Pitcairn Islands