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In memoriam: Michael Charney (1911–1998)

✍ Scribed by Byers, Steven N.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
25 KB
Volume
107
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-9483

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✦ Synopsis

Michael Charney died after a 2-month illness. His passing marks a loss of one more of the cohort of early scholars of American physical anthropology. This early scholarhood started when Charney, as an undergraduate student at the University of Texas, was doing research at the Smithsonian Institution with several of his friends. While they were there, Ales Ȟrdlic ˇka introduced himself and asked what they were doing. Charney immediately piped-up with a synopsis of their project with (as he described it) considerable bluster. The result of the meeting was that Hrdlic ˇka himself invited them to join the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, making Charney one of its earlier members. Those of us who knew Charney can easily see him not being intimidated by so imposing a figure as Hrdlic ˇka. Charney never seemed to experience a faint-hearted moment in his life, and this lack of timidity served him well throughout his career.

Over the years, Charney was employed in numerous capacities for such organizations as the Texas Rangers, the New York City Health Department, the US Army, and as an owner of a private blood laboratory. In addition, in the 1950s he attended Columbia University, learning under such scholars as L.C. Dunn and Theodosius Dobzansky. Unfortunately, he was unable to give these studies his full attention. Therefore, in 1965 at the age of 54, showing the audacity that was his hallmark, he decided to return full-time to biological anthropology. He enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado, where he studied under both Jack Kelso and Alice Brues. His dissertation was on the relationship between blood groups and asthma; originally it was fewer pages in length than A.L. Kroeber's, until Kelso and Brues made him lengthen it.

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