Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentration in women's studies. Keenan argued that women's studies has no methodology, "no way of discovering facts" that differs from the way any other researcher attacks a problem. Instead, researchers in women's studies approach questions about women using the techniques of a historian, a scientist, an anthropologist or an economist, for example...
...knuckle-walking ape called Dryopithecus, a creature that lived some 20 million years ago and is generally believed to have given rise to both apes and man. This ape's own ancestors seem likely to have lived in Africa as well. As Exhibit A, Duke University Anthropologist Elwyn Simons offered fossils, found near Cairo, of a tree-dwelling primate 30 million years old; Simons christened the creature Aegyptopithecus. Last week, however, a team of Burmese and American scientists created a stir in anthropological circles when they announced that they had found primate fossils in Burma that...
...telltale fossils, as described by Paleontologist Donald Savage of the University of California, Berkeley, and Anthropologist Russell Ciochon of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, are four lower-jaw fragments. They were found in an ancient seabed in the Pondaung Hills west of Mandalay, embedded below a layer of marine organisms called foraminifera, dating from about 40 million years ago. Associated with the find were other fossils of animals known to have lived during the same period, lending more weight to the fragments' apparent place in time and indicating that the Pondaung Hills had also supported lizards, several kinds...
...Indian immigrants, Bigburgers resemble "smooth white lips of bread over mangled black tongues of meat." Salim is the novel's narrator who, like the self-seeding hyacinth, drifts through the swirls of political and social change. The result is a sensitive fictional character with the detachment of an anthropologist...
...leader of the delegation is Huan Xiang, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a diplomat and journalist who disappeared from public view during the Cultural Revolution. The group includes leading Chinese anthropologist Fei Xiaotong...