Charles E. Snow

Charles Ernest Snow (born April 11, 1910 in Boulder (Colorado) , † October 5, 1967 in Madison (Wisconsin) ) was an American anthropologist whose main work on the Adena culture , which he wrote with William S. Webb , was considered a standard work for more than half a century.

Life

Charles Ernest Snow was born the son of a photographer from whom he learned the craft. In 1932 he completed his bachelor's degree in geology . In the same year he married for the first time and the couple moved in view of the global economic crisis in a cabin in the Rocky Mountains , where he served as auxiliary rangers worked. Snow studied at the University of Colorado Boulder and Harvard University . In the summer of 1932, Snow was accepted as a student at Harvard and the two moved from camp to camp to reach the university there. First, Snow learned at Earnest Hooton . In 1935 he obtained his master's degree with the thesis Comparative Growth of Jewish and Non-Jewish Pupils in a Greater Boston Public School . In 1935 and 1937 the first two of a total of four daughters were born. From 1937 to 1938 he worked as an anthropometrist in the Department of Agriculture's Child Measurement Project . In 1938 he received his doctorate .

In 1938 Snow went to Alabama, where he was appointed to a position as an anthropologist in Birmingham . There he met Professor William Snyder Webb , who was director of the archaeological project. He worked on this project for the Tennessee Valley Authority under William S. Webb. After the start of the Second World War , the project ended in 1941.

Webb hired Snow at the University of Kentucky Museum , later in the anthropological and anatomical department. Webb and Snow wrote The Adena People , one of the most outstanding works after James B. Griffin. In 1993 it was still considered the best overview work, with eighteen editions between 1945 and 2001. Eventually, Snow became Professor of Anatomy and Physical Anthropology in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Kentucky . While in Verona, Wisconsin , he suffered a heart attack and died another in Madison Hospital after suffering a heart attack two days earlier.

Regardless of Snow's scientific merits , many of his assumptions are now considered racist.

Publications (selection)

with William S Webb, David L DeJarnette, Walter B. Jones, Joseph Paul Eldred Morrison, Marshall T. Newman and William George Haag: Archeological survey of Pickwick basin in the adjacent portions of the states of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee , Washington 1942 ( 536 pp.).
with William S. Webb: The Adena People , 18 editions between 1945 and 2001.
Two prehistoric Indian dwarf skeletons from Moundville , University of Alabama, 1943.
Indian burials from St. Petersburg, Florida , University of Florida, 1962.

literature

William M. Bass: Obituary. Charles Ernest Snow , in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology 26 (1968) 369-372.

Remarks

↑ James B. Griffin: The Adena People , University of Tennessee Press, 1974.
↑ David E. Stannard: The Mismeasure of Desire. The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation , Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 289.
↑ Keith P. Jacobi: A Time Capsule of Physical Anthropology: Charles E Snow's WPA Letters, 1940-1941 , in: Southeastern Archeology 21.1 (2002) 55-63.

personal data
SURNAME	Snow, Charles E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Snow, Charles Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boulder (Colorado)
DATE OF DEATH	5th October 1967
Place of death	Madison (Wisconsin)

[1] James B. Griffin: The Adena People , University of Tennessee Press, 1974.

[2] David E. Stannard: The Mismeasure of Desire. The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation , Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 289.

[3] Keith P. Jacobi: A Time Capsule of Physical Anthropology: Charles E Snow's WPA Letters, 1940-1941 , in: Southeastern Archeology 21.1 (2002) 55-63.