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    Earnest Hooton - Wikipedia

    Biography

    Earnest Albert Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin, the third child and only son of an English-born Methodist … See more

    Race

    Hooton used comparative anatomy to divide humanity up into races — in Hooton's case, this involved describing the morphological characteristics of different "primary races" and the various "subtypes". In 1926, th… See more

    BornNovember 20, 1887 · Clemansville, Wisconsin, US
    DiedMay 3, 1954 (aged 66) · Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
    Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
    Known forRacial classification
    Quotations

    • "The fitness of any man to live in any community depends on his ability to fall in with its ways. If he is very unadaptable, he is a criminal. He is not blond or dark. He is not tall or short. He is not German or Irish. He is a ma… See more

    Criticism

    E.B. Reuter, a sociologist and contemporary of Hooton, criticized Hooton for using circular logic when he ascribed the physical traits of criminals to cause criminality. See more

    Footnotes

    1. ^ Spencer, Frank (1997). History of Physical Anthropology. New York: Garland Pub. p. 500. ISBN 0-8153-0490-0.
    2. ^ "Eugenics and Physical Anthropology". American Anthropological Association. August 7, 2… See more

    Works

    • Africana. I-5 co-editor (1917) 'recording the habits of foul or barbarous savages' pub. Peabody Museum. From Internet Archive. See more

    Further reading

    • Birdsell, Joseph (1987). "Some reflections on fifty years in biological anthropology". Annual Review of Anthropology. 16 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.16.1.1.
    • Krogman, Wilton (1976). "Fifty years of physical an… See more

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