anthropologists

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Topical Term
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a
Alias: 
anthropologists

Go and come back

2000
Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a village in the Amazonian jungle of Peru, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study her people's way of life.

The Leakeys

1993
Highlights the accomplishments of the family of paleoarchaeologists which made important fossil discoveries in Africa.

Regeneration

1991
In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.

Skeleton dance

2001
French police inspector Lucien Anatole Joly calls in his old friend Gideon Oliver to help solve the mystery of old buried bones, and several other dead bodies that follow in their wake.

She never looked back

Margaret Mead in Samoa
1980
A brief biography of the well-known anthropologist concentrating on her first important studies in Samoa in the mid-1920's.

Margaret Mead

the world was her family
1988
Examines the life of the pioneer anthropologist who popularized the field and used her ideas to promote world unity and peace.

Margaret Mead

pioneering anthropologist
1997
Discusses the life and work of the noted anthropologist and her accomplishments in the field.

Lucy's child

the discovery of a human ancestor
1989
An account of a discovery that generates new insights into human origins.

Dead men do tell tales

the strange and fascinating cases of a forensic anthropologist
1995
The memoirs of a noted forensic scientist who has helped to unravel numerous investigative mysteries, including the investigations of the remains of conquistador Francisco Pizarro, President Zachary Taylor, and the family of Czar Nicholas II.

The Leakey family

leaders in the search for human origins
1992
Discusses the family whose discoveries led to breakthroughs in understanding human origins.

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