Word: anthropologist
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...Dershowitz said. Matory disagreed, telling The Crimson after the meeting that “there’s a minority on this campus that does feel intimidated and threatened. People say to me, ‘You’re brave.’” Fellow anthropologist Steven C. Caton, director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, said that he felt Matory’s concerns about speech on Israeli issues were justified. “The problem seems most acute around anti-Israel positions,” Caton said. “Free...
...site. “I’m not going to have a comment until Dean Smith releases his formal announcement, which I expect to be soon,” Brandt said, declining to comment further. Brandt enters an office that has a rocky recent history. In February 2005, anthropologist Peter T. Ellison resigned from the post, protesting what he saw as dishonest behavior by former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers. This past spring, outgoing dean Theda R. Skocpol abruptly resigned from the position as well after her candidacy for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences deanship appeared to falter...
...Noted anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis died at home last Sunday. The death of the former Henderson Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus came after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 to join the Harvard faculty. He was 78. Maybury-Lewis was a leader in the field of anthropology specializing in the study of indigenous people in the Americas. His work concentrated in Brazil and was recognized in 1997 with the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil’s highest academic award. He received...
Forester ownership transcends the disciplines, from anthropology to African American studies and from English to history—with at least 15 FAS Forester owners in all. “Half of Cambridge” drives the $22,000-and-up cross between a station wagon and an SUV, anthropologist Theodore C. Bestor muses...
...that in the past eight decades we've gone from measuring by furlongs and pinches to microns and nanoseconds and gigabytes, but we're still sizing bras according to the first few letters of the alphabet? And I'm not discounting the seminal work of the Swiss anthropologist Rudolf Martin, who classified breasts into four types: flat, hemispheric, conical and goat-udder-shaped. It's just that, inexplicably, his nomenclature system failed to catch...