Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening, is horrified at the prospect: "I may even become feudal--and based on benefices," she wails. The domineering father, not to be swayed, commissions Emil Durkheim to find his daughter a husband, with the threat that if the attempt is unsuccessful, Weber will have to become an anthropologist...
What happens when one begins Children of Sanchez thinking, "Ho-hum, another anthropologist," is that after about five pages, one forgets all about concepts, and avidly enters into a gripping world of often unbearably real people. Yet while Lewis--I'm not sure purposely--redefines anthropology as dramatic novel, at the same time he continues in perhaps the most important ideological mainstream of anthropological thought: giving a voice, and dignity, to the backward and poverty-stricken peoples of the non-white world. An incomplete summary of the history of the discipline will serve to place Lewis' work in perspective...
...point Lewis notes that "the most effective tools of the anthropologist are sympathy and compassion for the people he studies." Indeed, it was a mean feat to establish a rapport strong enough to permit the frankness and depth of the interviews. At the same time, he claimed that his method avoids "sentimentalization and brutalization. The latter, yes, but when he later states that the poor are "the true heroes of contemporary Mexico, for they are paying the cost of the industrial progress of the nation," he confuses heroes with victims in an unabashedly sentimental fashion. I doubt that any Sanchez...
...measured by occupations on a scale devised by Anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner of Michigan State University. The categories are: families of professional people and owners of large businesses, semi-professionals and lesser officials, clerks and kindred white-collar people, skilled workers, semiskilled workers, unskilled workers, odd-job workers. For their survey, Drs. Salber and MacMahon lumped the bottom three groups together...
This evolutionary striving, he feels, is the means and end and sanction of life. In this, he has been strongly influenced by the thought of the late French Jesuit philosopher-anthropologist, Father Teilhard de Chardin (TIME, Feb. 10). "But the striving and aspiring must be social to be fruitful." Vercors insists. "The yogi working by himself for himself is a dead end. In my book, the forms and standards of society are represented by Richwick-that's why he may seem something of a prig. But it is these very forms, personified in Richwick, that give Sylva a direction...