Edward Moffat Weyer, Jr.

Edward Moffat Weyer, Jr. (born July 12, 1904 in Washington , Pennsylvania , † July 16, 1998 in Essex , Connecticut ) was an American anthropologist, explorer and author.

Life

Edward Moffat Weyer, Jr. was born in Washington, Pennsylvania to Professor Edward Moffat Weyer and his wife Julia Morris Ross. After graduating from Washington and Jefferson College , Weyer studied at Yale University , where he obtained his Ph.D. attained. In 1935 he married Susann Lenore Moffat, who died in 1997. From this marriage a daughter and two sons were born. Weyer worked closely with the American Museum of Natural History in New York for almost 30 years . In 1928 he visited the Aleutian Islands , the Bering Sea and the Bering Strait with the Stoll-McCracken Expedition . In 1932 he accompanied the Peary Memorial Expedition to North Greenland . From 1935 to 1957 he was the editor of Natural History Magazine . From 1953 to 1954 he was President of the Explorers Club . In 1953 Weyer shot a documentary about the Xavante indigenous people in Mato Grosso for the American Museum of Natural History . In 1958 he became a curator and lecturer in anthropology at the Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley . In 1959 he became an advisor to the Civil Rights Commission. From 1960 to 1964 he was the director of the School of American Research in Santa Fe , New Mexico . From 1965 to 1967 he was chief editor at the New York Academy of Sciences .

Works (selection)

• The Eskimos: Their Environment and Folkways . 1932.
• Strangest Creatures on Earth . 1953.
• Jungle Quest . 1955.
• The Illustrated Library of the Natural Sciences . 1958 (four volumes).
• Primitive Peoples Today . 1959.
  • German: Primitive peoples today . 1959.
• Two Star Position Finding . 1969.

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