Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Yale Anthropologist David Pilbeam, who recently visited the site: "They are much more evocative than old bones. I felt here I am in the presence of our ancestors. These footprints looked like the footprints we would make...
...Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (Free Press, 1973). Anxiety over death, not over sex, Anthropologist Becker decided, is the prime trouble of mankind. An unconventionally religious book that won a Pulitzer Prize shortly after the author died of cancer...
...memorable gymnastics of Sammy Davis Jr. flinging his little arms about Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, enlisted Playwright Robert Sherwood as a ghost, and subsequent Presidents increasingly turned to theatrical artisans for help, especially after TV got big. By the 1970s the political scene seemed so stagey that Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter was moved to say that "the White House is now essentially a TV performance." He exaggerated, but not by much...
...find Livingstone. Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea. There is only one thing wrong with all these reports: they come second or third hand, and are probably false. That is the surprising thesis of a new book called The Man-Eating Myth by Anthropologist William Arens, who believes cannibalism may never have existed anywhere as a regular custom...
Arens' theory arrives at a time when cannibalism is a hot topic in the academic world. Some sociobiologists believe it is evidence of man's inherent aggressiveness. Anthropologists are busy classifying different kinds of cannibalism, or depicting it as a ritualistic denial of death-the victim lives on by being incorporated as food. Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris (Cannibals and Kings) is a strict materialist who argues that cannibalism was a near universal practice made necessary by a scarcity of protein...