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There has been plenty of political and picturesque U. S. journalism about Japan, but not many solid accounts of Japanese daily living. Suye Mura is such an account: some 300 pages of factual statement. With his wife, who speaks Japanese fluently, John Embree, a University of Hawaii anthropologist, lived a year in Suye Mura, a Japanese rice-farming village, population 1,663. His book tells more about modern Japanese farmers than any volume...
...Mead's three books, Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, are here reprinted in one volume, with a new preface. These gently acute, strongly persuasive studies of the power of custom are well known to every anthropologist and to many thoughtful laymen. Their usefulness, particularly to those who are most directly responsible in the training of children, is by no means yet exhausted...
Ronald L. Olson (methodical, oldtime anthropologist) : "Interesting material, old jokes, detailed memory examinations...
...Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer. Not to be outdone, Yale announced that it had bagged University of London's famed Polish Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. Busy Yalelings began to heel the News, lazy ones to loaf along the Fence...
...last fortnight, the conductor and passengers of the westbound train from Irkutsk to Moscow gaped in astonishment at the queer old gentleman who sat with a mouldy, grinning skull in his lap. But Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka smiled benignly back. For he had just been presented with the most precious skull of his career, and he was literally not going to let it out of his clutches...