Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced. Though the book seems a bit like a sprawling rewrite of the four New York pieces, Dutton feels it has a bestseller on its hands. Sheehy believes she has "made a bridge between journalistic and academic methods." As the author tells it, she learned her anthropological methods from Anthropologist Margaret Mead in a post graduate year of study at Columbia. Sheehy contends that Passages could easily have been published as a doctoral dissertation to establish her credentials in psychology...
...Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon's first view of the Yãnomamõ Indians was partially obscured by a number of drawn arrows aimed at his face. The archers had huge wads of green tobacco jammed between their teeth and lower lips. Long streams of green mucus hung from their noses-the normal flow from a hallucinogenic drug that makes the normally aggressive Yãnomamõ even more touchy and menacing...
Attempts by sociobiologists to trace human behavior to a genetic basis is due to a fundamental misdirection of their research, Marvin Harris, a cultural anthropologist at Columbia University, said in a lecture at MIT yesterday...
Marshall Sahlins, an anthropologist from the University of Chicago, entered the sociobiology debate by terming the biological approach of sociobiology an "absolutely insufficient" approach to understanding human culture in two lectures Monday and Tuesday...
...11th century. Other curious paradoxes mark his career. He is both a dedicated socialist and a millionaire. Despite his fidelity to Druze beliefs, he was educated at Roman Catholic schools, and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He knew and was deeply influenced by Jesuit Theologian-Anthropologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, quotes Thomas Aquinas frequently, and is respected as an authority on the mysticism of St. John of the Cross. He is also a practitioner of yoga and a published poet to boot...