Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suffocating & Ugly. Whatever the Ríoses may suffer from-and they are all desperately poor-it is clearly not repression. Anthropologist-Author Oscar Lewis found them "closer to the expression of an unbridled id than any other people I have studied." As in his earlier experiments with total sociology -Five Families, The Children of Sánchez-Lewis lets his subjects tell their story into a tape recorder. In Sanchez, this approach produced something very much like poetry, as a fiercely proud, slum-dwelling Mexican family exposed their seams and their hearts to Lewis' patient, uncritical machine...
Saturday, November 19 ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Monkeying around with "The Primates," Anthropologist Loren Eiseley examines their disquieting similarity...
...NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). More on evolution. "Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man" deals with Anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey and his family of fossil hunters in East Africa. After more than 30 years, the Leakeys have made such finds as Zinjanthropus, a manlike creature believed to have lived 1,750,000 years ago, and the 2,000,000-year-old Homo habilis, who was found among some of the earliest signs of "culture," and is believed to be a direct ancestor of modern...
ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). In another new series designed to give ETV a run for its audience, Anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley hosts a weekly investigation of such natural phenomena as why bees buzz and how fish talk. The first study: how animals learn to survive as the sea and land around them change. Premi...
...taken up anthropology at the top of his voice. Audibility can make for large audiences, and Ardrey has enjoyed them since publication of African Genesis (TIME, Dec. 15, 1961), his first solo expedition into man's past. In that book, on evidence that would arch any cautious anthropologist's eyebrow, Ardrey proved to his own satisfaction that man is a born killer. He toyed with some other revolutionary evolutionary notions too, but he lacked either the time or the background to push them with suitable evangelical zeal. That required another book, and this...