Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compulsive gambler is by definition an extreme case, but many of his motivations are shared in milder form by all gamblers. Anthropologist Charlotte Olmsted, who made a study of the subject in Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, believes that "many male gamblers use gambling as a substitute for sex. This is why you see so much of it in lumber camps or among soldiers. It helps avoid a certain amount of fighting as well as homosexuality." A lot of people clearly play for fun or excitement, and only secondarily for the just-maybe chance of winning some money...
...began keeping good birth records in the 18th century, the U.S. was slow to follow. Massachusetts began in 1841, followed by other New England states. Significantly, there are no reports of incredibly advanced age from areas that keep good birth records. Dr. Belle Boone Beard, a University of Georgia anthropologist, lists 28 ways of proving age. They vary in reliability from college-entrance or graduation records to marriage, insurance and naturalization records. For former slaves like Charlie Smith, Dr. Beard recognizes ships' manifests, bills of sale, deeds and wills as at least helpful evidence...
...Lecture Series, Man and the Visual Environment: Dr. Donald A. Kennedy, Cultural Anthropologist, Tufts University, on "Man-made Environments Express Cultural Values...
There is a similarly ambiguous quality to the education which the Volunteer picks up abroad. After two years he understands infinitely more than someone who spends six weeks in Bombay with Experiment in International Living, but he achieves something less than--or better, very different from--the visiting anthropologist or political scientist. Indeed, Volunteers often find it fashionable to describe their environment in the kind of sweeping, value-laden generalizations which they learned to beware of in college history of sociology class. "Peruvian Indians are simple and friendly people," they will joke, or "The Ghanaians are so much smarter than...
...will write about their work in developing societies. Alongside startling naivetes we are likely to find startling insights. The Volunteer does not have an economist's understanding of macro-economic growth, but he knows many things about development that the expert has never seen. And while he lacks the anthropologist's scholarship in his approach to foreign culture, the Volunteer brings to it a unique kind of involvement...