Dale DeBakcsy
Queen of the Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod and the Professionalization of Archaeology.
There is a deep seam that lies astride the history of European archaeology - on one side you have the hero-explorers, men and women who...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 21
The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer.
When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 24, 2023
Hortense Powdermaker and the Anthropology of Modern Life
When you picture an anthropologist, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a person in khakis sitting at the edge of a tribal...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 27, 2023
Cultures in Contact: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Mechanics of Acculturation.
Culture is not a thing. It is a negotiation, an ongoing tumult of borrowings and innovations hung upon a skeleton of previously...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 15, 2023
Chronicler of the Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys of Isabella Bird.
As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from the Sultan at Marrakesh, telling...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 11, 2023
Woman of Action: Harriet Boyd Hawes, From Archaeologist to War Nurse to Economic Activist.
Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 14, 2023
Gertrude Bell, Byzantine Archaeology, and the Founding of Iraq.
The art of Strenuous Living is one we usually associate with the generation of nervous over-achievers who grew up after the US Civil War,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 12, 2023
Our Neighbor, Australopithecus: The Anthropology of Mary Leakey
The 1960s and early 1970s were the Rock Star era of palaeoanthropology, when each year seemed to bring a stunning new glimpse into the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 5, 2023
How a Culture is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology of Ruth Benedict.
Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 22, 2023
Unearthing the World Jurassic: Mary Anning
As the tide rolls out, a woman in a hardened bonnet and loose fitting clothes scrambles across the crumbling cliffs of Lyme Regis, a...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 4, 2023
Margaret Mead and the Anthropology of Cultural Relativism.
There is hardly a name in science more encrusted with bad faith generalizations and well-meaning but ahistorical hagiography than that of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
Ivory and Bone: Agatha Christie’s Three Decades of Archaeology.
In a tent in Iraq, an Englishwoman attempts to sleep as mice crawl over her body and cockroaches look on from the walls. She is...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
How Fossils Get That Way: Paleontologist Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer’s Years Amidst Rock and Bone.
When it comes to bones, immortality is far from a sure thing. We generally think that the road from bone to fossil is a straight-forward...
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