In Memoriam: Davey Jones

Bummer. Davey Jones, lead singer of the Monkees, has passed away. The cause of death was a heart attack.

Christopher Hitchens: In Memoriam

The world has become a little poorer today.

In Memoriam: Lewis Binford

SMU’s website is reporting that Lewis Binford has passed away. Binford passed away on 04/11 in Kirksville, Missouri. From SMU: Binford first gained attention in 1962 as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago when he wrote a path-breaking article in American Antiquity proposing that archaeologists abandon their emphasis on cataloguing artifacts and instead [...]

In Memoriam: George Williams

I am sure that most of my readers have heard that George Williams has passed away. Williams, for those of you who are unfamiliar with him, was one of the giants of evolutionary biology. His book Adaptation and Natural Selection is one of the must read classics in the field – and certainly one anthropologists [...]

In Memoriam: Lena Horne

Rest in Peace

In Memoriam: Frank Frazetta

Rest in Peace

In Memorium: Dell Hymes

The New York Times is reporting that Dell Hymes has passed away – apparently of complications due to Alzheimer’s. Although Hymes was primarily interested in linguistics, I am most familiar with him through Reinventing Anthropology a book he edited that was quite radical and groundbreaking for it’s time. It still holds up well.

In Memorium: Claude Levi-Strauss

Via Hawks comes the news that Claude Levi-Strauss has died. MSNBC has more: The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism — concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought [...]

In Memoriam: Mike Majerus

I just got home from running a lot of errands and discovered the sad news that Mike Majerus has passed away. Majerus, for those were unacquainted with his work, was an evolutionary biologist who studied insects ladybird beetles, parasitoid wasps, and peppered moths being among the species he was interested in. I knew of him [...]

In Memoriam: Tony Hillerman

Mystery writer Tony Hillerman passed away yesterday. Ordinarily, I’m not really a reader of mysteries (Poe, Doyle, and Cornwell being about it), but Tony Hillerman’s novel’s were different. They were smart, well written books that revolved around the Hopi and the Navajo. What set them apart, in my opinion, is the fact that the solution [...]

In Memoriam: Charles Lockwood

I would like to echo what John Lynch has said. The death of Charles Lockwood is a blow to the anthropological community. Unlike John, I never meet Lockwood, and was only familiar with him through his writings (see here for a complete list). I would like to extend my condolences to his family and friends, [...]

In Memoriam: Harvey Korman

I meant to blog about this earlier in the week, but did not get to it. Harvey Korman passed away Thursday. He was 81.

In Memorium: Anthopologist Germaine Tillion

Germaine Tillion was an extraordinary woman. Here is a rather lengthy quote from Yahoo News:

In Memoriam: Hazel Court

Hazel Court passed away Tuesday at the age of 82. She starred in Hammer Studios’ groundbreaking The Curse of Frankenstein as well as several of Roger Corman’s Poe flicks – Premature Burial, The Raven, and The Masque of the Red Death. She also starred in Dr. Blood’s Coffin. Additionally, she did a lot of TV [...]

In Memoriam: Charlton Heston

I must admit I loved a lot of his movies – even the cheesy ones like Airport 1975 and The Omega Man. Perhaps my favorite is his portrayal of Andrew Jackson in The Buccaneer. Although he was mainly known for his conservative views, early on he did the right thing: The actor assumed the role [...]