Word: anthropologist
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...experience is not a new one to Moore, who came to Harvard last summer. From 1963 to 1977, she was the only woman in the University of Southern California's Department of Sociology. (Until she established U.S.C.'s Anthropology Department she was also its only anthropologist.) Nor is Moore breaking new ground: Cora DuBois, professor of Anthropology emeritus, taught here from 1954 until her retirement...
...Anthropologist Richard E. Leakey stressed that much remains to be discovered about man's evolution at a conference on the origins of man last weekend...
...solemn specialists who patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become a kind of impossible object: a nonhistorical historian, an anti-humanistic human scientist. He is what any French savant seems to need to be these days: elusive...
Ashley Montagu, 76, author and anthropologist, commenting on the ongoing debate between evolutionists and creationists: "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof...
...aquarium's orchestrated splendors include plenty to justify the quote from the late anthropologist Loren Eisely that is lettered on a plaque at the start of the exhibits: "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Suspended majestically over the central space is a 63-ft. skeleton of a finback whale donated by the New York State Museum in Albany, where it had been on display from the 1890s to 1978. The dolphin pool, or "tray," is visible from almost every vantage point in the building, its rippling surface broken by the frothy play...