Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indeed, that her work, so dependent for its haunting power on the tonalities of her prose, at once intensely specific and mysteriously reticent, was too fine for the narrative demands of the screen. Out of Africa is a memoir and a collection of tales. But it is also an anthropologist's notebook, a naturalist's diary and a mystic's ruminations. And, yes, a duplicitous fiction in which time is compressed and rearranged, incidents conflated. The narrator granted herself a serene distance and freedom from quotidian concerns. How do you get all that into a movie and fulfill an audience...
...learned it from the natives in Indonesia while I was working there for an anthropologist," says Manuel E. Lerdow...
...HRPA has scheduled a total 16 of activities today and tomorrow, including a lecture by noted Harvard anthropologist Irven DeVore entitled "Do We Need Two Sexes" and a couple of $5.65 banquets at the Union...
...fellow researchers, anthropologist Bonnie K. Holcomb and Swiss journalist Peter Niggli, conducted extensive interviews of nearly 250 randomly selected Ethiopian refugees in several regions of the Sudan...
...father A.L. Kroeber was a renowned anthropologist, and her mother Theodora wrote nonfiction, principally on the American Indian. Those who do not know these facts about Ursula K. Le Guin could probably deduce them from her 23rd book. Always Coming Home can be read as a novel, but it is really something else: a scientific-looking compendium of information about a people who might exist in the distant future. They are called the Kesh, a gentle tribe living in the nine towns of the valley of the river Na, somewhere in Northern California. Le Guin's fieldwork into their rites...