Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's 3,000,000 surviving hunter-gatherers provide any clue, man's distant past probably was more placid and, in some ways, more rewarding than his present. In their hostile environment, the Kalahari Bushmen find enough to eat with less effort than most civilized peoples. Anthropologist Lee estimates that the Bushman's daily diet averages 2,140 calories and 93.1 grams (3.26 oz.) of protein-well in excess of the estimated daily allowance for people of their vigor and size (1,975 calories, 60 grams of protein). The Bushmen have about the same proportion of people...
...Social Anthropologist John Martin, practice "sequential marriages," taking one wife after another. Matches between first cousins are routine; mental retardation is common. Disease, poor diet and high infant mortality combine to give the Havasupai a life expectancy of only 44 years (U.S. average: 70). They also have a suicide rate 15% above the national average...
...almost as if some anthropologist who had spent a lifetime studying cave drawings suddenly encountered a surviving Neanderthal. These men were playing the music which had developed out of 200 years of enslavement, out of a thousand years of African culture, out of Civil War marches, creole melodies, ragtime, blues. It had all meshed on the back streets of New Orleans around the turn of the century, and blossomed in the grand houses of Storyville, the city's legendary red-light district...
...black-white misunderstanding. In the presence of elders or superiors, American Negroes have long averted their eyes, just as blacks are accustomed to do in West Africa. Nonetheless, whites still interpret such eye aversion as an insult or a token of inattention. Pondering the implications of eye aversion, Linguistic Anthropologist Edward T. Hall says: "How often has a polite black schoolchild cast his eyes downward as a sign of respect, and failed to meet a teacher's eye when questioned? How many teachers have thought students were 'tuned out' because they gave no visible sign they were...
...occur. This last is essentially a European concept, and her interest in European culture has lent substance to her views in other ways. She has helped sponsor on this side of the Atlantic such distinguished but previously little-known European contemporaries as Rumanian Philosopher E. M. Cioran and French Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss...