Anthropology Posters & Charts

Skeletons of Australopithecus Boisei and Homo Sapiens

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Franz Boas
b. 7-9-1858; Germany
d. 12-21-1942; NY

Franz Boas, considered the "Father of American Anthroplogy", received his doctorate in physics, and post post-doctoral work in geography. By applying the scientifc method to the study of human cultures, he moved anthrology past anecdotal knowledge.

Boas, who attended a Froebel kindergarten, also had Margaret Mead as a student.

Zora Neale Hurston
b. 1-7-1891; AL (raised in FL)
d. 1-28-1960

Author Zora Neale Hurston studied with Franz Boas.

Poster Text: “Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.” Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Great Black Innovators - Katherine Dunham Poster

Great Black Innovators -
Katherine Dunham Poster
b. 6-22-1909; Joliet , IL
d. 5-21-2006; NYC

Katherine Dunham is a noted dancer and choreographer who brought the dance styles of black people of the Caribbean and the United States to the attention of America at large. Born in Chicago, she attended the university there and majored in anthropology. She did a year of field work in the west Indies. This helped give her the insight she needed to develop innovative dance forms expressing Caribbean cultural styles. She choreographed and performed in a number of stage productions and films during the 1930s and '40s. She also founded the first black dance troupe – the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. But she is most proud of the Perfoming Arts Training Center, which she founded in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1967 – and where, in her later years, she continues to touch and offer her guidance. This oasis in the middle of the poverty-stricken city has offered hope and a way out for countless numbers of troubled youth. It is here where her legacy continues, and where many young lives are changed. (published before 2006)

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• Eartha Kitt began her career in the Katherine Dunham company.

Mary Leakey, Anthropologist
b. 2-6-1913; London, England
d. 12-9-1996

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Bronislaw Malinowski
b. 4-7-1884; Kraków, Austria-Hungary
d. 5-16-1942

Bronislaw Malinowski, "stranded" in the Trobriand Islands during World War I, 1914-18, became involved in the daily lives of the islanders, which inspired his theories of "participation observations".

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