Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week there were sure signs that the center had secured a new lease on life with the appointment of its first chancellor: able Anthropologist Alexander Spoehr, 47, director of Honolulu's Bishop Museum and a scholar armed with a deep knowledge of Asia and a firm plan of action for what he calls a challenge "unique in American history...
...Stage Is Set. Last week the regents completed the center's reorganization with the appointment of Chancellor Spoehr, whom Carnegie President Gardner calls "the best man for the job in Hawaii." Trained at Stanford and Chicago, Anthropologist Spoehr is famed for having enriched a remarkable center of Polynesian artifacts at the Bishop Museum. (One item: a royal cloak left by Kamehameha I that is made of extinct birds' feathers and is now valued at $1,000,000.) Spoehr is also known as a shrewd administrator: he accepted his new $25,000-a-year job only after insisting that...
...leaves little doubt that adultery would be even more popular than it is but for the fact that it involves a more exacting set of rules than marriage itself. Oxford Philosophy Don Iris Murdoch has written a novel about adultery so complex and involuted as to suggest an anthropologist's chart of the mating patterns of a tribe at once polygamous and polyandrous. Among the wholly amoral cast of characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint...
Selected from over 100 applicants, the students began preparing for the trip early this term. Since Swahili is an official language of Tanganyika, the group has studied it intensively under the direction of a British anthropologist teaching at Boston University...
...foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, English-born Author Tom Stacey, 31, knows the depths and shallows of African politics. As a trained anthropologist (The Hostile Sun), he has a strong sense of what it must be like to live in a primitive society, and also the dangers facing the educated African who defies both Europe and his tribal past. It is this last theme-rather than a sampling of the yeasty brew of independence-that Novelist Stacey has drawn on for this deeply felt and disturbing first novel...