Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty resented not being consulted on his plans, but at first Kaysen calmed them by moving slowly. Not until 1970 did he make his first appointment to the School of Social Science-naming Anthropologist Clifford Geertz as head-and it received no opposition. Last October, however, when he decided to nominate Bellah, he aroused that special combination of incandescent anger and pettiness of which large intellects are sometimes capable...
Pathways to Madness, published last year and now issued in paperback, is Anthropologist Jules Henry's application of that approach to five American families touched by madness. Henry, who died in 1969 at age 65, reached beyond the family portraits to apply the new psychiatry to American culture...
...noted, they made the unsettling discovery that a person may go crazy not simply as an individual and from inside out, but as part of a group, usually the family, whose other members subtly-indeed, unconsciously-coerce him into a role and then stigmatize him. Henry, trained as an anthropologist observing primitive South American tribes, as early as 1948 urged that psychiatrists look at the families of their patients. But he came to such work himself only late in his professional life, as an associate of Bruno Bettelheim's in the study of autistic and schizophrenic children...
...dead lava hills. After smoking humito and talking to a bilingual coyote, he saw the "guardian of the other world" rise before him as a hundred-foot-high gnat with spiky tufted hair and drooling jaws. After rubbing his body with an unguent made from datura, the terrified anthropologist experienced all the sensations of flying...
Castaneda's presentation of himself as Mr. Straight, it should be noted, could not be better designed to foil those who seek to know his own personal history. What, in fact, is his background? The "historical" Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist and apprentice shaman, begins when he met Don Juan in 1960; the books and his well-documented career at U.C.L.A. account for his life since. Before that...