David Prescott Barrows

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David Prescott Barrows


Born
June 27, 1873

Died
September 05, 1954


David Prescott Barrows (June 27, 1873 – September 5, 1954) was an American anthropologist, explorer, and educator. Born in Chicago in 1874, his family moved to California. He showed a keen interest in the life and customs of the American Indians, and was said to have "spent almost every summer during the period 1890–1899 in research work among the tribes of southern California and in the Colorado Desert." He later became President of the University of California. He went on many travels, publishing works of his findings in countries such as Morocco and the Philippines. He described Marrakesh as Morocco's "strangest city", and wrote of it "The city lies some fifteen or twenty miles from the foot of the Atlas mountains, which here rise to the ...more

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A History of the Philippines

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Ethnobotany of the Coahuill...

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The Negrito and Allied Type...

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Berbers and Blacks: Impress...

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A Decade of American Govern...

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Anthropology, the Nature an...

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“They have learned our language and pronunciation, and write as well as we do, and even better; for they are so bright that they learn everything with the greatest ease.”
David Barrows, A History of the Philippines

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