Word: anthropologist
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Finally, there's the question of what makes people and dogs such inseparable friends. Using a number of behavioral experiments--most of them involving finding food hidden in scent-camouflaged boxes--a team headed by anthropologist Brian Hare of Harvard compared the ability of wolves, adult dogs and puppies to pick up subtle cues in human behavior. Both puppies and dogs showed a talent for finding the food using nonverbal signals from the researchers--even something as subtle as gazing toward the hiding place. That doesn't surprise Nicholas Dodman, director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Tufts University School...
...might say it’s impossible for an anthropologist to get too much hands-on experience in the field. Ramyar Rossoukh, teaching fellow for Anthropology 120, “Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Film,” almost did. While shooting the film Coming of Age on location in Tehran, Iran, he nearly drowned...
Pinker’s book is a fascinating work of intellectual history. But it is more important as a demonstration of the immense power of cognitive science to counter armchair philosophy in debates over human behavior. Was Hobbes right in thinking mankind was fundamentally bad? Any anthropologist can tell you that human violence is universal. Is it a sign of poor taste to prefer Mozart to Schoenberg? Behavioral psychology teaches that dissonance makes babies...
...friend stood and translated while LaTeef scribbled furiously into the notebook she always carried around. “A griot is more than just a performer. She’s the keeper of old words, the library of a village,” says LaTeef. As an anthropologist, LaTeef was fascinated. Griots have particular importance in a society such as the Zarma’s, which has a literacy rate of only 10 percent. LaTeef was fascinated by the beauty of the oral tradition and the sheer sound of the woman’s voice. “She could...
Arreguin-Toft and Nowrojee are accompanied by four other newcomers to the Carr center, including Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, a Sudanese anthropologist and visiting professor of African and gender studies at Brown University; Robert Choo ’90, a former worker at Save the Children Vietnam and Myanmar; Vjosa Dobruna, a Kosovar pediatric neurologist and human rights activist; and Max Glaser, a former senior policy maker at the humanitarian relief organization Doctors Without Borders...