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STANFORD has as its most prominent China scholar Mark Mancall, a widely traveled historian of Sino-Soviet relations and a dazzling teacher. Stanford's cadre also includes Political Scientist John Lewis and John Gurley, a well-thought-of older economist with Maoist sympathies. Anthropologist G. William Skinner, by poring over maps, gazetteers and economic records, correctly predicted that Mao would subdivide China's large communes into agricultural units of a more traditional size...
...without working, acquire all the wealth and possessions that seem concentrated in the white world. Officials are forever trying to explain how the world uses labor, capital and raw materials to acquire its "cargo," but that is all so much hocus-pocus to the tribesmen. As Sydney University Anthropologist Peter Lawrence notes, "They can't conceive of a factory where goods are manufactured. They believe that everything has a deity who has to be contacted through ritual," and who only then will deliver the cargo...
...miscellaneous category there is some speculation that anthropologist Margaret Mead might also receive in honorary degree...
Claude Levi-Strauss, L.H.D., social anthropologist and author. You have codified the operational laws of an unconscious that is more social than that of Freud, more imaginative than that of Marx, and that is innate in all men and makes all cultures...
...stunted, beetle-browed creature who walked with bent knees and arms dangling in front of him served as the model for several generations of artists and cartoonists. While certain coarse features in Neanderthal man are undeniable, on physical considerations alone he deserves far better treatment. As the late Harvard anthropologist Earnest Hooton once commented: "You can, with equal facility, model on a Neanderthaloid skull the features of a chimpanzee or the lineaments of a philosopher...