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Miss du Bois is a social anthropologist. Perhaps her most famous book is The People of Alor, a social-psychological study of an East Indian island. She has done field work in India and gives a graduate seminar in "Problems of Socio-Cultural Change...
...Higher still are the remains of a fortified Persian city built in approximately 400 B.C. Lemberg-Karlovsky suspects that it is the ancient city of Carmania, which Alexander the Great conquered without shedding a drop of blood in 325 B.C. Although his theory is as yet unproven, the Harvard anthropologist points out that the teeth of elephants, animals uncommon to the area but regularly used for military transportation by Alexander, have been unearthed in the top of the mound. And in a nearby village, young boys are often called "Iskanda," a name almost never heard elsewhere in Iran. Iskanda, explains...
...statue of a fertility goddess lying face down near some primitive sculptor's tools. Carved from soft stone and rich in detail, the statuette is long and slender, in contrast to the crude neolithic sculpture thought to be typical of this early period. "In five years," says Peabody Anthropologist C. C. Lemberg-Karlovsky, "this piece will be lectured in all coffee-table art books as a prize example of primitive sculpture...
Genetic Tests. Some researchers have found that the XYY syndrome is 50 to 60 times more prevalent among convicts than in the general population. Others, among them Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, suggest that environmental factors are at least as important as chromosomal abnormality in causing criminal behavior. French Geneticist Jerome Lejeune, who in 1961 discovered the chromosomal abnormality that leads to Mongolism, agreed with Montagu during testimony at the Hugon trial-with an important qualification. "There are no born criminals," said Lejeune, "but persons with the XYY defect have considerably higher chances...
...like knocking on wood or chanting "God bless you!" (to prevent the sneezer's soul from flying away). Even so, modern behavioral scientists respect superstition as an enduring expression of the human need to master the inexplicable. "One man's superstition is another's religion," contends Anthropologist...