Word: anthropologist
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...inferiority, meaning that they should be trained solely in manual labor. In an influential psychology textbook published in 1908, former Harvard social psychologist William McDougall discusses a “submission instinct” in black people, an innate need to be pushed around and exploited by others. Harvard anthropologist Ernest Hooten called for race-based compulsory sterilization and biological purges in 1937. And as recently as last year in Social Analysis 10: Principles of Economics, the assigned article “Higher Alcohol Prices May Lower Spousal Abuse” by David Francis nonchalantly stated, “Stress...
DIED. MARVIN HARRIS, 74, provocative mainstream anthropologist who promoted "cultural materialism," the idea that human social life forms in response to practical problems; in Gainesville, Fla. Among his theories: Aztec cannibals were protein-deprived; warfare was a way of curbing populations when protein became scarce; and a necktie signaled that a man was above physical labor...
Goodall, the neophyte animal behaviorist whom famed anthropologist Louis Leakey dared to send into the jungle, would become the reigning expert on chimpanzee behavior. Her discoveries about man's close cousins, showing that chimps made and used tools (most famously, adapting sticks to hunt for termites), electrified the academic world. But now, many books and National Geographic specials later, she is more than a famous naturalist. She has become a scientific saint and the recipient of many honors, including the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence, just given to her by the Millennium World Peace Summit...
...Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg (John Murray; 274 pages), British anthropologist Jeremy Keenan returns to that land of lusty mountains, his first visit to Algeria in three decades. In the 1960s, he lived in the camps of the blue-veiled tribesmen, immersed in their language and culture. He studied the people intensely?"as academic subjects," he now says, "not as human beings"?before leaving to tell the world. His academic ambitions and the region's politics prevented his return. It wasn't until 1999 that this man, who still considers himself a Tuareg expert, realized that he couldn...
...times as many as occur in the men's leagues. For women who don't work, tennis is their only outlet. There is no definite reward system in being a mother. With tennis, there is a definite reward system."... One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies, as men have done since the beginnings of society. But she thinks Americans are terrible sports ("We're always saying, 'Kill the umpire...