Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missionary Walter Morse. His only assistant is a young Tibetan leper, who lives with him for treatment and serves coffee to visitors. Morse tries to reassure his guests: "I think I've got him to the arrested stage where he can't spread the disease." Last year anthropologist Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark breezed into Kalimpong with his wife to study a unique form of Tibetan polyandry called za-sum-pa, the sharing of wives between fathers and sons, and (occasionally) between uncles and nephews. Tibet would not admit the prince and princess. She is studying witchcraft...
Most striking was Dr. Tobin's evidence on the disputed question of whether American Indians, long before Columbus launched a transatlantic traffic in diseases, suffered from syphilis and tuberculosis. Two shinbones, found in Arkansas and Illinois, showed changes characteristic of syphilis. Dr. Tobin and Anthropologist T. Dale Stewart, who worked with him, admit the difficulty of dating these bones precisely, but they are sure that no white man had reached the area when these Indians died...
After a year's safari into darkest Hollywood, Anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker has emerged with a published account of her findings, Hollywood, The Dream Factory (Little, Brown; $3.50). On the basis of previous research among backward Melanesian natives, Dr. Powdermaker concluded that the denizens of Hollywood are even more primitive, more superstitious, more beset by anxieties than Stone Age tribesmen...
...Women & Actors. Of all the frustrated groups in Hollywood-executives, producers, directors, writers-the class Anthropologist Powdermaker seems to feel most sympathy for is the actors. Their fellow workers regard them with "pitying condescension . . . contempt, hostility and hatred." Says she: "No one respects them. The cliche that there are three kinds of people-men, women and actors-is heard over and over again...
...continue to fight "with the technology of 1950 but the ideas of 1850," we shall not not only lose the cold war but would be likely to lose any hot war as well, the anthropologist declared...