Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, one can learn a great deal through translations and use of extensively available secondary literature. But how can a serious anthropologist get a truly scholarly perspective from her/his so-called informants through interpreters and interpretations? Can a serious historian really claim to have access to the best possible sources of a people's systematic account of their social, political, economic, cultural or religious history without first having the tools, especially such basic tools as languages, for his/her investigations? Can one really grasp the profound thoughts and philosophies of a people via translations and secondary works alone? Journalists, politicians...
When she was only 25, Margaret Mead studied sexual mores in Samoa and earned an assistant curatorship at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Half a century and many field trips later, the anthropologist is still working for the museum. To commemorate her 50th anniversary on staff, which happened to coincide with her 75th birthday, the museum established a fund to endow a chair in her name and to reorganize its anthropology collection. Mead plans to help raise the target of $5 million, at least when she can spare the time. She is working on a new book.Letters...
...bishop's dithering wife is alive, well, residing in modern America and very dangerous, says Harvard Anthropologist Melvin J. Konner. In fact, he fears, she was very much in evidence at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington, where the subject of angry debate was the divisive new discipline of sociobiology and its chief spokesman Edward O. Wilson. The bishop's wife, says Konner, "did not like what Darwin said, what Marx and Engels said, what Freud said, and now she does not like what Wilson says: they all make her feel 'lower...
...after an hour's debate, the 300 assembled anthropologists overwhelmingly defeated the resolution-partly because to many it was reminiscent of the church's denunciation of Galileo or William Jennings Bryan's attack on the theory of evolution at the Scopes "monkey" trial. Margaret Mead shuddered at the thought of anthropologists joining the far right in "book-burning" efforts in the schools. Said she: "We are supporting the people who attack everything we believe in! We are getting ourselves into an insane position." Concluded University of Chicago Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, a strong opponent of sociobiology who also...
...Tinkering. Gutman took his study only to 1925 and many experts insist that black family structure is still reasonably strong in 1976. For example, Sociologist Joyce Ladner and Anthropologist Carol Stack report that single-parent households among the urban black poor are often part of flexible extended families that protect the young and preserve family continuity...