Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anthropologist Richard E. Leakey stressed that much remains to be discovered about man's evolution at a conference on the origins of man last weekend...
Ashley Montagu, 76, author and anthropologist, commenting on the ongoing debate between evolutionists and creationists: "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof...
...aquarium's orchestrated splendors include plenty to justify the quote from the late anthropologist Loren Eisely that is lettered on a plaque at the start of the exhibits: "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Suspended majestically over the central space is a 63-ft. skeleton of a finback whale donated by the New York State Museum in Albany, where it had been on display from the 1890s to 1978. The dolphin pool, or "tray," is visible from almost every vantage point in the building, its rippling surface broken by the frothy play...
Racial oppression, an anthropologist reading this collection would conclude, has played a major role in shaping the ideas, and, of course, the day-to-day lives of Black Americans. Almost everyone who talks about Black American to Gwaltney defines it in contrast to white America. "I get tired of that one-nation-under-God boogie-joogie. We are ourselves. We are our own nation or country or whatever you want to call it. . . That man has got his country, and we are our country," one man insists. If their days are dominated by a single theme--the fraud of white...
Unfortunately, no useful dictionary of gestures is really possible, since every gesture and nonverbal expression depends for meaning on the variants of both the individual using it and the culture in which it takes place. Says Anthropologist Edward T. Hall, author of The Silent Language and Beyond Culture: "Because of its complexity, efforts to isolate out 'bits' of nonverbal communication and generalize from them in isolation are doomed to failure. Book titles such as How to Read a Person Like a Book are thoroughly misleading, doubly so because they are designed to satisfy the public's need...