Word: anthropologist
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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 Harkensson, 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. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
Counter, invited to see the film by Tom Harkensson, the Swedish anthropologist who showed it, said yesterday the particular film was "sick," adding that these "explicit photographic materials" should not be presented as serious scholarship. To say the film is a legitimate scholarly subject because the practice is widespread in Africa is "totally insensitive," he added...
...Harberger comes, the HIID can kiss all the anthropologists good-bye. The chairman of the Anthropology Department, David Maybury-Lewis, who is also on the HIID governing board, has been one of the most vocal opponents of the appointment. And members of the department are unanimously opposed to the appointment. The HIID was in the process of searching for a staff anthropologist--that search is now frozen. Maybury-Lewis has been one of the few members of the Harvard faculty sincerely interested in working with the HIID, and Harberger's appointment would end the link...
This combination of demonic and domestic is apt, since Le Gum, 50, has spent much of her life successfully balancing the two. The only daughter of Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, Ursula grew up in a lively intellectual home. Her three older brothers all became college professors, and her mother Theodora wrote nonfiction books, chiefly on the American Indian. The little girl turned into an avid reader and writer; her tastes in both ran to the exotic or bizarre. The first story she can remember completing told of a man who was eaten by elves. As her manuscripts began piling...
DIED. Robert Ardrey, 71, dramatist and self-trained anthropologist whose works on man's origins and behavior, among them African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966) promoted popular interest in the once-obscure field that he made his specialty; of lung cancer; in Kalk Bay, South Africa, where he had lived since 1978. Many of the plays (Thunder Rock, Shadow of Heroes) and movie scripts (Madame Bovary, Khartoum) that the Chicago-born Ardrey wrote, beginning in the 1930s, showed the fascination with man's roots that later led him into anthropology. It was his notion that...