: Ethnology of Futuna. No. 138 . Edwin G. Burrows. ; Ethnology of Uvea (Wallis Island). No. 145 . Edwin G. Burrows.

Retrospective. Edwin G. Krebs (1918-2009).

537 PERSPECTIVES E dwin G. Krebs, a giant of biomedical science in the 20th century, died on 21 December from congestive heart failure in Seattle at the age of 91. His discovery (with Edmond H. Fischer) of protein phosphorylation as a regulatory mechanism touched all aspects of biomedical science and profoundly infl uenced therapeutic approaches now used in clinical care. Ed's life epitomizes c...

Fish Names of Wallis Island (uvea)

Fish names are not only of interest to the ichthyologist. Linguists too have been studying fish name as they are generally regarded as a more stable subsection of the lexicon, which is less subject to change and more reliable as a source for historical reconstruction. However in the Pacific, especially in Polynesia with its history of migration, linguists have to be careful when using fish name...

Indian Ethnology

A history of ethnology

collected his data from three sources: conversation with natives, their accounts being reproduced in translation, and in particular the services of a remarkable Indian who was able to analyse acutely his own people; the author's personal experience when participating in drug-taking ceremonies; from a secondary source, the Spanish chronicles. The uniqueness of the book lies in Reichel-Dolmatoff'...

Edwin G. Boring: The Historian's Path in the Pages of The American Journal of Psychology.

Although he is best known for his classic textbook, A History of Experimental Psychology, Edwin Garrigues Boring published dozens of articles in The American Journal of Psychology and used its various formats to guide the discipline in the early 20th century. This report reviews a small sample of his publications, including obituaries, notes, and experimental articles, and presents them in hist...