Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mysterious Thomas Pynchon, whose novel Gravity's Rainbow is reviewed in our Books section by R.Z. Sheppard. The other elusive character is our cover subject, Anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, whose three volumes about his experience with Indian Sorcerer Don Juan have become national bestsellers...
...Yaqui. The book was The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968). With its sequels, A Separate Reality (1971) and the current Journey to Ixtlan (1972), it has made U.S. cult figures of its author and subject ? an anthropologist named Carlos Castaneda and a mysterious old Yaqui Indian from Sonora called Juan Matus. In essence, Castaneda's books are the story of how a European rationalist was initiated into the practice of Indian sorcery. They cover a span of ten years, during which, under the weird, taxing and sometimes comic tutelage of Don Juan, a young...
Castaneda's books insist otherwise. He is eloquent and convincing on how useless it is to explain or judge another culture entirely in terms of one's own particular categories. "Suppose there was a Navajo anthropologist," he says. "It would be very interesting to ask him to study us. He would ask extraordinary questions, like 'How many in your kinship group have been bewitched?' That's a terribly important question in Navajo terms. And of course, you'd say -I don't know,' and think 'What an idiotic question.' Meanwhile the Navajo is thinking, 'My God, what a creep! What...
Tuning Out. Academic experts are sharply divided on both the merits and authenticity of the series. Anthropologist Margaret Mead finds that the Louds share both the problems and the rewards of many other American families. Boston Psychiatrist Norman Paul sees something more disturbing. "It is not just the Louds being depicted," he maintains. "The series shows how people tune out the guts of their lives. That's going on today in epidemic form...
...only is the fetus not truly human, but according to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, neither is the newborn, until molded by social and cultural influences. Presumably then we may take the life of the newborn any time before this molding is complete. After how much molding? One hour? One week? One year...