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...their own experience. The poetry is generally original, in the spirit of experiment. Arthur Freeman metaphorizes Samuel Johnson's sensitive mind into a trailer-truck, a diesel, and a Pershing tank, in what is probably the volume's best poem. And Nathaniel Lamar's short verse on "A Dry Anthropologist at Sea" sent Lowell House contemporary culturists to chuckling in their...
...high Andes. "The Indians," he wrote, "are red-blooded to an extreme degree, from whence they derive their excessive heat, as borne out by the fact that if in the time of greatest cold one touches their hand, one will always find heat in it, amazingly." In Natural History, Anthropologist Marschall T. Newman explains the physiological reasons for the Indians' "excessive heat...
...investigate kuru. Appalled to find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease. They found none. Next a pathologist, anthropologist, dietitian, psychiatrist and psychologist hit the mountain trails. They eliminated emotional factors as causes of kuru, found no clue to a physical cause...
Catholic University of America's Breslau-born Anthropologist Martin Gusinde, 70, longtime friend of and leading authority on the world's pygmies. In 1934 Father Gusinde took up residence in the jungles of Central Africa in a community of Bambute pygmies about whom almost nothing was known. "From that time," says he, "I was in love with my pygmies." He decided that the Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa are not true pygmies (they are too tall). He lived with the Aetas, pygmies of the Philippines, and the beetle-munching pygmies of North-East New Guinea...
...Birdwhistell, 38, ornithologically named, is actually an anthropologist, and he has the scientific conviction that there is more in TV than meets the eye. Each move, grimace or gesture, however slight or unconscious, spells a meaning to Birdwhistell (pronounced bird whistle)-a meaning that does not always fit what the performer may be saying out loud. The University of Buffalo's Birdwhistell calls his specialty "kinesics," the study of body motions as a form of communication...