Biography Category
(käsh wä´zäk ) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 88,309), Niigata prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Japan Sea. A resort town known for its hot sprin...
(k n t´ y ´hän v k´tôr räs´m s n) (KEY) , 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist. Born in Greenland of Eskimo ancestry on his moth...
(zhôrzh p r ´) (KEY) , 1832–1914, French archaeologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1875, director of the École normale supérieure, Pa...
(k sk s´k ) (KEY) , small village, Randolph co., SE Ill., on Kaskaskia island in the Mississippi River where it is joined by the Kaskaskia River. Th...
(h ´ rdäl´´, h ´–) (KEY) , 1914–2002, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist, b. Larvik. He carried out research in the Marquesas Islands in 1...
or Robert Heinrich Lowie (l ´ ) (KEY) , 1883–1957, American anthropologist, b. Vienna, grad. College of the City of New York, 1901, Ph.D. Columbia,...