Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week everybody on the New Jersey campus, from President Robert C. Clothier to the newest freshman (and including secretaries and janitors), was tackling the first "Book of the Year": Anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. The campus Philosophean Society had picked it on Peterson's say-so: he called it "a noble, beautiful, important book." If they get through the first one, he has some more up his sleeve: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland...
...current American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Anthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart, of Johannesburg, gives the Transvaal pygmies their biggest boost up the evolutionary ladder. At one time, Dart had called them Australopithecus (southern ape). Now he wishes that he had named them Homunculus (little man). They appear to have been brainy beyond their size and times. Their brainpans (650 cc) were almost as big as those of their bigger (5 ft. 8 in.) contemporaries, the Men of Java...
Fletcher was one of three speakers on a panel devoted to the topic of "Sex Standards in America." His colleagues in the discussion were cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead and psychiatrist Gregory Zilboorg. The meeting was moderated by Professor Kirtley Mather...
American sex standards will be scrutinized by an anthropologist, a psychiatrist, and a theology professor in the year's fourth Law School Forum this evening at 8 p.m. in Rindge Tech Auditorium...
Participants in the discussion of a problem which was brought out prominently before the public early this year by the now-famous "Kinsey Report" will include: Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist and author of "keep Your Powder Dry"; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg; and Joseph Fletcher, Professor of Social Ethics and Pastoral Theology at the Episcopal Theological School...