Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most favored parts of it must have been the Tassili-N-Ajjer, a plateau about 900 miles southeast of Algiers. Today the region is one of the driest deserts on earth and almost uninhabited, but in prehistoric and early historic times it boiled with vigorous life. Last week French Anthropologist Henri Lhote was back in Algiers with proof of what Tassili-N-Ajjer (which means river plateau) was like while the rains still came...
...Soviet System Works," is published as a book by the Harvard University Press and summarizes the results of studies made by the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, with the support of the United States Air Force. Its authors are Psychologist Raymond A. Bauer, Sociologist Alex Inkeles and Anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn...
...least, these are all his worries until Dr. Andrew Butler, an English anthropologist "with a class of hair like an old nest," puts up at Mangan's Hotel for some rest after a breakdown from overwork on the tribal customs of the Congo. All might have been well had Dr. Butler not written a feature article for the London press. Butler included a description of nuns from the Patrickstown convent jumping over fires on Midsummer Eve and made some unfortunate references to some of the rites of The Golden Bough in connection with these innocent goings...
Pacification & Punishment. French official policy is to exorcise the hate and, at the same time, crush the revolt by "neither repression nor abandonment, but pacification." In practice, this means that French Governor General Jacques Soustelle, a Gaullist and professional anthropologist, is trying to do two things at once: fight a punitive war against the elusive terrorists and at the same time regain the villagers' confidence by demonstrating "the presence, power and benevolence of France." The benevolence is the job of some 260 specially trained French officers, sent out with a corporals' guard to the disaffected areas with orders...
...Death has become a dirty word, writes British Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer in the October issue of Encounter, and is taking the place of sex as an off-color theme. "Whereas copulation has become more and more 'mentionable,' particularly in the Anglo-Saxon societies, death has become more and more 'unmentionable' as a natural process . . . Our great-grandparents were told that babies were found under gooseberry bushes or cabbages; our children are likely to be told that those who have passed on (fie! on the gross Anglo-Saxon monosyllable) are changed into flowers, or lie at rest...