Word: anthropologist
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...undergraduate, Ceridwen Dovey ’03 never took a creative writing course and eschewed the Harvard literary scene. Instead, she ca me to fiction with the unique perspective of the anthropologist. Now a second-year Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at NYU, she’s having her debut novel “Blood Kin” published in 14 countries and has received sky-high accolades from the likes of J.M. Coetzee.“I wasn’t involved in The Advocate, The Signet, or any of those,” Dovey says...
...Indonesia is an anthropologist's fantasyland. It is made up of 17,500 islands, on which 230 million people speak more than 300 languages. The archipelago's culture is colored by Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Dutch traditions. Indonesia "sucks a lot of us in," says fellow anthropologist and friend Alice Dewey. "It's delightful...
...front of me, a couple holding-hands happily discussed what type of burrito they would soon be eating. A white-haired, professorial man farther up the line surveyed us all with a sort of bemused fascination, like an anthropologist marooned amidst a tribe of savages. Three Asian students behind me pored over copies of The Economist and handed me a copy when I remarked how much I missed reading my parents’ subscription at home. Curious tourists asked us what all the fuss was about, and all we said in response was: “Free food...
...Hammonds, a professor of African-American studies and historian of science, has been selected as the next Dean of Harvard College, a FAS spokesman said this afternoon. A graduate of Spelman College and a Harvard Ph.D., Hammonds came to the University as a professor in 2002. She replaces anthropologist David R. Pilbeam who has held the College's highest post since this summer...
...interviewed for the Kinsey report on women. The friend, who led a robust and varied sex life, gave chaste and virginal answers because she was not willing to let anyone know how she really behaved. Nowadays many people may offer up attitudes designed to depict themselves as properly liberated. Anthropologist Lionel Tiger, while studying a kibbutz in Israel, noticed that kibbutzniks whose daily conduct was clearly liberal almost always checked off conservative attitudes, and many conservative men and women reported liberal attitudes. This led to Tiger's First Law of Polling: "Attitudes are antidotal to actual behavior...