Fay-Cooper Cole

Fay-Cooper Cole (1881-1961).

Fay-Cooper Cole (8 August 1881 – 3 September 1961) was a professor of anthropology and founder of the anthropology department[1] at the University of Chicago and was a student of Franz Boas. Most famously, he was a witness for the defense for John Scopes at the Scopes Trial.[2][3] Cole also played a central role in planning the anthropology exhibits for the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1941.

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References

  1. "Fay-Cooper Cole 1881-1961" (pdf). American Anthropologist. 65: 641–648. 1963. doi:10.1525/aa.1963.65.3.02a00090. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  2. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=50-years-ago-scope-trial-witness
  3. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/125158/Fay-Cooper-Cole

References

Redman, Samuel J. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). 2016.

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