Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyway, commercialized or not. In fact, an anti-anti reaction may be developing. For many people, Mother's Day is so far out that it's in-like eating at the Automat or listening to Tchaikovsky. Although not necessarily an authority on anything this side of Samoa, Anthropologist Margaret Mead summarizes this feeling: "Mother's Day is synthetic. In our culture we just make up things as we go along. But I don't just laugh at it. Some kind of ritual is important in family life. I say that anything that sets...
...hospitality. It assumes that the villager would demand complete conformity to his own mores before he would accept the Peace Corps member as an individual. Both these assumptions are sheer nonsense. The peasant may be illerate, but he is not stupid, and he is as keenly aware as any anthropologist of the social divisions in his own world. He will expect the American teacher to live as a teacher, not as a peasant. The proper and desirable course of action for the Peace Corps mem- bers is for him to live on approximately the same level as citizens...
Chasing a fancy butterfly in the green wilds of Tanganyika 50 years ago. a German entomologist named Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself. When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...
...Swahili course was proposed in conjunction with Project Tanganyika. Since the project will require that the 26 students going to Tanganyika all speak Swahili, the nation's native language, Phillip C. Gulliver, an associate professor of Anthropology at Boston University and former Government anthropologist for Tanganyika, was selected to teach the course...
Arthritis & Wounds. Writing for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the surgeon-anthropologist describes how he got Joseph Farland, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, to talk the Dominicans into opening the tomb in 1959. "With exacting protocol, three keys, a special committee including the Archbishop, scholars, Dominican scientists, state officials and, of course, a crowd of curious tourists, the bronze gates and sepulcher doors were unlocked. The crystal-covered ancient lead coffin with its bony contents was placed before me. In the high, arched cathedral nave, through open doors. I had my chance to settle once...