Word: anthropologist
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...only do we struggle to understand why some people seem to have more ambition than others, but we can't even agree on just what ambition is. "Ambition is an evolutionary product," says anthropologist Edward Lowe at Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo, Calif. "No matter how social status is defined, there are certain people in every community who aggressively pursue it and others who aren't so aggressive...
...Harvard campus. Indeed, almost every Harvard male has incorporated some of the aesthetic. Even some math majors have foregone their Zelda t-shirts and flood pants and embraced the niceties of a crisp white oxford and leather satchels.As a fashion columnist (really, the highest form of modern anthropologist), I regard metrosexuality with mixed feelings. Of course, in many ways it’s a sign of societal progress. According to the well-known mathematical principles of Harrington’s Law, any increase in awareness of fashion trends benefits society as a whole. And by society, I mean me. However...
...Kala Dhaka, or Black Mountains, of northern Pakistan aren't really black. The color refers to the gruesome fate that awaits any outsider who strays into the Himalayan abode of the tribes that live up there. "The male population is strongly preoccupied with killing," wrote Adam Nayyar, a Pakistani anthropologist who in the 1980s ventured into these soaring, slate-green Himalayan valleys and made it out alive. "A disproportionate amount of energy and creativity ... is diverted to stalking the enemy and avoiding violent death...
...control the SARS epidemic because SARS is much less contagious than flu and has a longer incubation period.) That doesn't mean we won't have quarantines. "Politicians will be under a lot of pressure to demonstrate that they are doing something," says Monica Schoch-Spana, a medical anthropologist at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh...
...Stevenson's resolution was novel. In May, the artist staged an elaborate ceremony at NAK, where The Gift was dismantled and sawn into portions for the two dozen collectors, called Twodo. The bizarre event, presided over by an anthropologist from Cambridge and mimicking the gifting rituals of islands like Roti, brought Stevenson even closer to his subject. Ultimately he saw Fairweather, who was forced to dig ditches in Devon after being deported from Roti, as "a very exemplary case history" of the struggling artist who must barter to survive...