Word: anthropologist
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...somewhat less facetious vein-but then who knows?-University of Michigan Anthropologists Stanley M. Garn and Walter D. Block examine another area of human eating habits in the current issue of the American Anthropologist journal. Excerpts...
Life-styles change more rapidly than character ? and the Japanese character bewilders many Westerners. It is shot through with contradictions, as Cultural Anthropologist Ruth Benedict noted in a pioneering study of the Japanese mind that was written in 1946 but is still pertinent. "Both the sword and the chry santhemum are a part of the picture...
...experiences of former priests interviewed by TIME bear Schallert out. PAUL HILSDALE, 47, is a sociologist and former Jesuit who now conducts "awareness workshops" with his anthropologist wife in Los Angeles. "I left the priest hood," he recalls, "because I wanted to grow into a person who was ever more responsible and ever more loving. The church and the Jesuit structures were narrowing areas in which I could express my love." He resented the fact that when he said Mass, "people thought I was doing some kind of magic." After taking a leave from Loyola University of Los Angeles...
...scientists have estimated the seeds to be as much as 11,700 years old; the same tests on ancient grain samples found in the Middle East or Latin America show that none are more than 9,500 years old. Thus, says the director of the University of Hawaii expedition. Anthropologist Wilhelm G. Solheim II. Thailand's ancient inhabitants may well have been the world's first farmers...
...modern medicine has started a surge of human overpopulation that threatens to overwhelm the earth's resources. At the same time, technological man is bewitched by the dangerous illusion that he can build bigger and bigger industrial societies with scant regard for the iron laws of nature. French Social Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss compares today's human condition to that of maggots in a sack of flour: "When the population of these worms increases, even before they meet, before they become conscious of one another, they secrete certain toxins that kill at a distance?that is, they poison the flour...