• Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
• Hasan Saltık, called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music" by Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan?
• Ralph Regenvanu has been described as Vanuatu's first anthropologist?
• British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings?
• anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
• anthropologist David Zolotarev’s 1930 study of the ethnic tribes of the northern Russian Lake Imandra region determined they did not understand Soviet-style "socialist construction"?
• anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat?
• anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland?

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• anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons, previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness?
• anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower fought for the British Army as a guerrilla with the Naga people during World War II?
• Zen Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky was the grandson of Franz Boas, the founder of Columbia University's anthropology department?
• Jacques Legrand, a former translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China, has studied the anthropology of Mongolian pastoralism?
• Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
• according to anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn, Neanderthal in China and Java were killed off by the more intelligent hominid Sinanthropus pithencanthropus, contributing to the Neanderthal extinction?
• the four-part A&E documentary series The Greatest Pharaohs is being used in many college and university courses on anthropology and archaeology?