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June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist. A Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania,

lecturer and professor at Harvard University, he was

president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Coon's

theories on race were widely disputed in his lifetime and are anthropology. Carleton Stevens Coon was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts on

June 23, 1904. His parents were John Lewis Coon, a cotton factor, and Bessie Carleton. His family had Cornish American roots and two of his ancestors fought in

the American Civil War. As a

child, he listened to his grandfather's stories of the war and of traveling in

the Middle East, and accompanied his father on business trips to

Egypt, inspiring an early interest in Egyptology. He initially attended Wakefield High School,

but was expelled after breaking a water pipe and flooding the school's

basement, after which he went to Phillips Academy. Coon was a precocious student, learning to

read Egyptian hieroglyphs at

an early age and excelling at Ancient Greek. Wakefield was an affluent and almost

exclusively white town. Coon's

biographer, William W. Howells, noted

that his "only apparent awareness of ethnicity" was in childhood

fights with his Irish American neighbours. Coon himself claimed that "both

anti-Semitism and racism were unknown to me before I left home at the age of

fifteen, and zero to fifteen are formative years." Intending to study

Egyptology, Coon enrolled at Harvard University and

was able to obtain a place on a graduate course with George Andrew Reisner based

on his knowledge of hieroglyphic. He also studied Arabic and English composition under Charles Townsend Copeland. However he changed his focus to anthropology after taking a course with Earnest Hooton, inspired by his lectures on the Berbers of the Moroccan Rif.

Coon obtained his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1925 and immediately

embarked on graduate studies in anthropology. He conducted his dissertation

fieldwork in the Rif in 1925, which was politically unsettled after a rebellion

of the local populace against the Spanish, and was awarded his PhD in 1928. Coon

was motivated to study the Rif by the puzzle of the presence in Africa. Throughout much of his fieldwork, he relied on

his local informant Mohammed Limnibhy, and even arranged for Limnibhy to live

with him in Cambridge from 1928 to 1929. After obtaining his PhD, Coon returned

to Harvard as a lecturer and later a professor. In 1931 he published his

dissertation as the "definitive monograph" of the Rif Berber; studied Albanians from 1920 to 1930; traveled to Ethiopia in 1933; and in worked in Arabia, North Africa

and the Balkans from 1925 to 1939. Coon left Harvard to take up a

position at the University of Pennsylvania in

1948. Throughout the 1950s he produced academic papers, as

well as many popular books for the general reader, the most notable being The

Story of Man (1954). During his years at Penn in the

1950s, he sometimes appeared on the television program called What in

the World?, a game-show produced by the Penn Museum, and hosted by its director, Froelich Rainey, in which a panel of experts tried to identify

an object in the museum's collection.[ He was awarded the Legion of

Merit for his wartime services and the Viking Medal in Physical Anthropology in

1952. He was also named a Membre D'Honneur of the Association de la Libération

française du 8 novembre 1942. From 1948 to the early 1960s, he was the Curator

of Ethnology at the University Museum of Philadelphia.