Frank Hamilton Cushing (July 22, 1857 in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania– April 10, 1900 in Washington DC) was an American anthropologist and ethnologist. His pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by entering into their culture helped establish participant observation as a common anthropological research strategy.
Read more about Frank Hamilton Cushing: Early Life, Work At Zuni, Other Work and Death, Significance of Work, Books On Zuni By Frank Cushing, Other Works
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)
“She finally got Harry all to herself.”
—Mark Hanna. Nathan Hertz. Dr. Cushing (Roy Gordon)