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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Washington Anthropological Society, which was published in their journal. I think that's the one. "The Problems of Asiatic-American Cultural Relationships", 1951. It was published by the Anthropological Society of Washington.

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I also lectured on this subject at many different, to many different groups and in various cities. And it always excited a great deal of interest. The very curious about this subject was that people not in anthropology, those in art history and in,

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those just having a general interest in cultural things, were inclined to think that the evidence was significant, that there were these relationships.

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Anthropologists in general were not impressed. I think that this is an interesting situation, or I have thought that this was an interesting situation.

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The, um-- It developed into a feeling of mine that perhaps most anthropology or most archaeological reconstruction wasn't done in a very scientific manner.

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There's I think a great misconception about the methods of science. The people who have written generally on the philosophy of science are inclined to generally agree that the progress in science is--