Word: anthropologist
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...Wayne's astonished teachers, many of them refugees from big-name colleges, the atmosphere is reminiscent of the days when World War II veterans hit the campuses. What delights Anthropologist Richard Waterman, for example, is his students' experience-bred theses, on subjects that range from the effects of automation to a study of Detroit's homeless men. "The kids keep asking questions," says Waterman. "And where else could you get 200 state university students to turn out for a little-advertised talk by some New School cat from New York...
Everybody loves a chubby baby-but is a chubby baby necessarily the healthiest and destined to live longest? Probably not, and especially if the chubbiness persists through adolescence, suggests Antioch College's Anthropologist Stanley M. Garn in a study for the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. In fact, the increase of overeating and obesity in childhood leads Garn to ask: "Are we eating our way to the cemetery beginning in the perambulator...
Maori soldiers distinguished themselves in two world wars, and the long list of able Maoris in the professions and public life ranges from sometime Yale Anthropologist Sir Peter Buck to Oxford-educated Charles Bennett, New Zealand's current envoy to Malaya. By nature a friendly, winning and athletic people, the Maoris, in the process of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, so won the affection and respect of New Zealand whites that equality is not only explicit in law but exists in fact...
...Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Houghton Mifflin; 1946) by Ruth Benedict. A brilliant tour de force written by a U.S. anthropologist who had never set foot in Japan, but who, through interviews, the study of antiquarian papers and Japan's own vast literature about itself, reached penetrating conclusions about Japanese society, its disciplines and its notions of good and evil...
...Buddhism to transistorized radios, by a top U.S. scholar, Donald Keene, associate professor of Japanese at Columbia. Author Keene's book has the edge in the number and beauty of its photographs. But Meeting with Japan is steeped in deeper experience. From 1938 to 1943, Italian-born Anthropologist Fosco Maraini studied and taught in Japan. Two of his three daughters were born in Japan, and when Italy surrendered in World War II, he and his family, interned, nearly starved to death in a prison camp near Nagoya. Meeting is the elaborate, graceful story of Maraini's 1955 return...