Word: anthropologist
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DIED. George O'Neill, 59, anthropologist who extolled the virtues of sharing and free communication by spouses in Open Marriage, the 1972 bestseller written with his wife Nena, also an anthropologist, and was miffed that its title later became widely used as a catchphrase synonymous with extramarital sex; of complications following abdominal surgery; in New York City...
Today's sheer quantity of disinformation suggests that the people best equipped to cope with contemporary life might be the Dobu Islanders of Melanesia: they habitually practice deceit on everybody and exult in the craft of treachery. Anthropologist Ruth Benedict, who chronicled the ways of the Dobu tribe in Patterns of Culture, noted that, in their eyes, a "good" and "successful" man was one "who has cheated another of his place." The U.S. is far from living by any such absurd, upside-down ethic. Yet, in the light of today's trends, it can do no harm...
...Anthropologist Robin Fox's conclusions about the struggle for control of the society [Sept. 22] are basically sound, but he is wrong when he says that the aspiration among modern women to jobs in the marketplace is a foolish deviation from the norm. Evolution itself is a deviation from the norm. If men and women are not allowed to evolve and change, our society will stagnate...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Hakansson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Hakansson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
...rare small town that is not afflicted by poverty; 38% of the black inhabitants of small towns live below the poverty line. Then, too, it is only an unusual small town that does not have a dilapidated neighborhood to which the citified word slum might be applied. Says Anthropologist Clayton Denman of Central Washington University, founder and head of the Small Towns Institute at Ellensburg, Wash.: "Small towns are facing problems that are much the same as the cities' problems, except for scale...