Word: anthropologist
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...Crimson editorial editor. Catering to its younger audience, the center is featuring a podcast interview series entitled “VOIX—Voices from Europe.” The student-driven project allows undergraduates to ask questions to the center’s guests, such as French anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Stéphane Breton, and the former French ambassador to the U.S., Jacques Andréani. The first of a series of dinners with faculty and dignitaries is scheduled for Nov. 15, and will include the former Swedish minister of finance, Par Nuder. The center has also scheduled...
...Like an anthropologist dropped into an exotic village, Rudolph seems fascinated by the Arab inmates. "They're an extremely fatalistic people," he wrote. "This time must be very rough on them for they have little interest in anything other than the Middle East, President Bush and Islam. But at least they have each other and rattle on endlessly in Arabic...
World-renowned anthropologist Paul Farmer stressed the role of government in securing the right to health care, in a speech to a packed Sanders Theatre Friday night...
...mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist that she would become; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well. Moreover, as a child I rarely came in contact with those who might offer a substantially different view of faith. My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion...
...primates, including chimps--the researchers suggest that lack of MYH16 made it possible for our ancestors to evolve smaller jaw muscles some 2 million years ago. That loss in muscle strength, they say, allowed the braincase and brain to grow larger. It's a controversial claim, one disputed by anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University. "Brains don't expand because they were permitted to do so," he says. "They expand because they were selected"--because they conferred extra reproductive success on their owners, perhaps by allowing them to hunt more effectively than the competition...