Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black Students Association (BSA), in its most repugnant display of hatred and anti-Semitism since its last speaking invitation to Dorothy Blake Farden (an anthropologist who says that white Europeans are "mutants" created by a being called Yakub), has decided to sponsor City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Leonard Jeffries to speak tonight at Harvard...
Birds do it. Bees do it. But dandelions don't. The prodigious spread of these winsome weeds underscores a little-appreciated biological fact. Contrary to human experience, sex is not essential to reproduction. "Quite the opposite," exclaims anthropologist John Tooby of the University of California at Santa Barbara. "From an engineer's standpoint, sexual reproduction is insane. It's like trying to build an automobile by randomly taking parts out of two older models and piecing them together to make a brand-new car." In the time that process takes, asexual organisms can often churn out multiple generations of clones...
...down-on-her-luck American anthropologist in Botswana decides it is high time to find a spouse. Into her frame of reference comes Nelson Denoon, who is handsome, charismatic and doing worthy work for indigenous women in the Kalahari Desert. Her narrative of what happens next -- and next -- is both uproariously funny and deeply serious, a long courtship of highs and lows played against an exotic, meticulously described African landscape...
...down-on-her-luck American anthropologist in Botswana decides it is high time to find a spouse. Into her frame of reference comes Nelson Denoon, who is handsome, charismatic and doing worthy work for indigenous women in the Kalahari Desert. Her narrative of what happens next -- and next -- is both uproariously funny and deeply serious, a long courtship of highs and lows played against an exotic, meticulously described African landscape...
...improvement wrought by "enslaved person" over "slave" may not strike everyone as immediately apparent; to Americans who know their own history, "slave" is a word heavily charged with the connotations of brutal, involuntary degradation. As to the matter of Thanksgiving, Edmund Ladd, 65, a Zuni Pueblo Indian and an anthropologist in New Mexico, says, "We celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas and all the holidays that are Anglo-induced because that's the day we don't have to go to work. Thanksgiving is an excuse for us to get together." The adoption of "East Asia" raises the question "East of where...