Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anthropology, convinced that I was going to elucidate the meaning of life. I wanted to be a renowned biologist who carefully balanced his knowledge of the natural world with an eye toward the apparent diversity of human experience. Happily, I told my friend Matt, "I want to be an anthropologist!" as visions of voyages to the Serengeti Plain danced in my head...
...skull in with a claw hammer after she allegedly admitted to having an affair. Chen's teenage son discovered her body in the family's Brooklyn apartment. The trial judge sentenced Dong to five years probation on a reduced manslaughter charge after concluding, based on the testimony of an anthropologist, that Dong was driven to violence by traditional Chinese values...
...anthropologist Laura Betzig, surveying these early civilizations, has rendered the Darwinian opinion that politics has often been "little more than reproductive competition"--men using power to better spread their genes. The Aztec King Nezahualpilli had more than 100 children, as did Ramses II of Egypt...
Rubie S. Watson, who had been the museum's acting director, was chosen by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles this month as the first Howells director, shares the donors' passion for anthropological history and research. Watson is the first social anthropologist and the first woman to be Director of the Peabody...
Harvard prides itself on attracting students from every state, becoming a cultural and geographical microcosm of the U.S., a melting pot. (Or is it now a salad bowl to the savvy anthropologist?) But when 18-year-olds from across the country gather in Cambridge, how do their backgrounds affect their Harvard experiences...