May 13, 2005

2 Books Explore the Sins of Anthropologists Past and Present

By DAVID GLENN

INHUMAN ANTHROPOLOGY: One day in 1997, Gretchen E. Schafft, an applied anthropologist in residence at George Washington University, paid a visit to the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. Her goal that day was relatively prosaic. She wanted to read some World War II-era correspondence among American anthropologists. She wondered how much they had known at that time about the crimes committed by some of their German counterparts who had lent their services to the Nazi

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