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Marshall Sahlins, an anthropologist from the University of Chicago, entered the sociobiology debate by terming the biological approach of sociobiology an "absolutely insufficient" approach to understanding human culture in two lectures Monday and Tuesday...
...11th century. Other curious paradoxes mark his career. He is both a dedicated socialist and a millionaire. Despite his fidelity to Druze beliefs, he was educated at Roman Catholic schools, and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He knew and was deeply influenced by Jesuit Theologian-Anthropologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, quotes Thomas Aquinas frequently, and is respected as an authority on the mysticism of St. John of the Cross. He is also a practitioner of yoga and a published poet to boot...
...American sculpture after the arrival of the white man: until the late 19th century, the white tribes of America could produce nothing that came close to Indian art in vitality, beauty or density of meaning. The point is made very succinctly by a room of Indian carvings assembled by Anthropologist Norman Feder...
Even Al Goldstein claims he is concerned about the S-M trend: "I'm uncomfortable with it, but you can't deny it exists." Sex Researcher John Money of Johns Hopkins University predicts it will soon subside, with little lasting effect. Edgar Gregersen, an anthropologist at New York City's Queens College who has been studying sadomasochists, is more concerned. He sees S-M "increasing everywhere. I think there's a certain experimentation going on?a 'deviant chic...
Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess fears the new acceptability of pornography has convinced many of her young male patients that their perverse compulsions are not really problems at all. Result: they do nothing to deal with their compulsions. Claims Shainess: "That is happening everywhere today." Anthropologist Edgar Gregersen makes a similar point about sadomasochists: "A great many people with S-M tendencies now conceptualize themselves as S-M people. This has a very great consequence. They are not so willing to change...