Harry L. Shapiro
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Harry Lionel Shapiro (March 19, 1902—January 7, 1990) was an American author and also a Professor of Anthropology.
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[edit] Biography
Shapiro was born and educated in Boston (USA). He was a senior at Harvard and as such was awarded a graduate fellowship from Yale in 1923 to pursue a genetic study of the descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty.
After completing his graduate work in 1926 he went to work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and while there conducted a few field trips. Doctor Shapiro also taught at Columbia University from 1938 to 1973. He married in 1938.
[edit] Bibliography
- Peking Man
- The Heritage of the Bounty (now retitled The Pitcairn Islanders
- Aspects of Culture
- The Jewish People
- Man,Culture and Society (Editor)
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Biography and Bibliography detail taken from a copy of Peking Man which was first published by George Allen & Unwin (UK) in 1974, and published by the Book Club Associates in 1976
