Word: anthropologist
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This summer my good friend and fellow biological anthropologist jetted off to Uganda to study the foraging patterns and social structure of an obscure species of monkey. Her research, conducted in the marshy, bug-infested, tropical jungles of East Africa, is designed to generate data for her senior thesis. When I left Harvard at the end of the school year, she was excitedly packing and talked animatedly about the chance to observe--up close and in person--how these primates fed, traveled and organized themselves. Many people asked if I was going to some place as exotic. Not exactly...
DEATH REVEALED. CARLOS CASTANEDA, believed to be 72, enigmatic personality who was either an unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment...
...hand, writes Francis X. Clines, the Times's designated anthropologist to the Bible Belt, "some critics find it revealing that his 1980 law-review article 'Combatting Official Corruption by All Available Means' began with an Old Testament quotation." The horror! By that standard Martin Luther King was not just a fanatic but a raving zealot. (And what shall we do with the first line of Moby Dick...
Galbraith and his wife, Tone R. Bringa, met on a blind business date a few years ago. Bringa, a Norwegian anthropologist who was working as a political analyst for the United Nations in Croatia, says one of her British journalist friends set up an interview for her with Galbraith...
...physical anthropologist working in Israel for the past 25 years, I have devoted much of my research to clearing ancient Jewish graves in Jerusalem. In this century alone, we have uncovered more than 1,000 ancient burial sites from the time of Jesus. As a result, there is a tremendous amount of information about these funerary practices. Jesus lived, died and was buried according to the Jewish practices of the time. The Shroud of Turin is in total nonconformity with all that is known about Jewish burial practices, making it a clear case of medieval forgery. It is simply...