Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many people are unaware of the fact that among a once-nomadic group of endangered East Africans called the lk (described in The Mountain People by anthropologist Colin Turnbull). dark black skin and deep-blue eyes are commonplace, as reference to color photographs in an early 1970's Smithsonian magazine will readily confirm...
Cohen: It was an emotional thing. I had read the book and I had also studied anthropology at Harvard. I read it and said to myself, "God, this is the road not taken. If I had been an anthropologist maybe I'd have had some of these great experiences like this guy, Davis." So we optioned the book and talked with Wade...
...Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, once dean of the faculty at Amherst College, where she fought what she saw as entrenched male chauvinism, jumped to freewheeling George Mason, where she would have more time to write. "I thought it would be fun to try a school with chutzpah," she says. Last week Princeton announced that Toni Morrison, the much honored black female novelist (Song of Solomon, Beloved), was leaving the State University of New York at Albany for Princeton, where all hands insist that she will be no ornament but fully active in writing classes, Afro-American studies and the rest...
Garrison Keillor' s Leaving Home yields humble epiphanies from Lake Wobegon. -- Why an anthropologist died in Africa...
...Swahili cry went up in the mountains of Central Africa: "Dian kufa!": Dian is dead. The victim of the slaying was American Anthropologist Dian Fossey, 53, author of the 1983 best seller about her work, Gorillas in the Mist. No one has ever been punished for the machete murder -- a ghastly end for a gentle soul...