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...just cruelty and indifference that cause ageism and underscore the obsolescence of the old. It is also the nature of modern Western culture. In some societies, explains Anthropologist Margaret Mead, "the past of the adults is the future of each new generation," and therefore is taught and respected. Thus, primitive families stay together and cherish their elders. But in the modern U.S., family units are small, the generations live apart, and social changes are so rapid that to learn about the past is considered irrelevant. In this situation, new in history, says Miss Mead, the aged are "a strangely isolated...
That theory is disputed by many investigators, most recently U.C.L.A. Anthropologist Robert McCracken. He believes that the ability to secrete lactase and digest lactose is determined in the genes. Virtually all normal mammals have a gene that turns on the supply before birth, maintains it at a high level until weaning, and then allows it to decline. When man first emerged as Homo sapiens, says McCracken, and for tens of thousands of years thereafter, he was a hunter and gatherer of food. He had no milk cattle. A baby was usually weaned by the age of two. Nature designed milk...
Died. Hortense Powdermaker, 69, a noted anthropologist whose studies ranged from Stone Age Melanesians and Rhodesian copper miners to Mississippi blacks and whites and Hollywood moviemakers; of a heart attack; in Berkeley, Calif. "Hollywood shouts to be satirized-I want to understand it," she said before heading West in 1947; three years of research produced The Dream Factory, that depicted a totalitarian society in which people were property, and power an end in itself...
HOPE COLLEGE Loren Eiseley, L.H.D., anthropologist...
Three nearby offices were badly burned; Rawls said an anthropologist lost several years of his work...