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...telling an obscene limerick is not just a man trying to amuse his friends. Such is the conclusion of Dr. Raoul Weston LaBarre of Uniontown, Pa., social anthropologist who has studied the customs of Bolivian Indians, done psychiatric research at the Topeka clinic of Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (The Human Mind, Man Against Himself). Young Dr. LaBarre, observing gatherings of limerick-telling U. S. males, and analyzing the content of the limericks, decided that he was in the presence of otherwise normal people unconsciously betraying their repressions and inhibitions. These categories of limericks indicated to him these inhibitions and repressions...
...nostril, how a native village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before hitting the ground. His accounts of jungle sex are more colorful if less accurate than an anthropologist's. For squeamish readers there is always the dedication: "To Mother...
...Famed anthropologist Hooton found many common physiological variations from the general public among...
...problems of old age. First bang-up work on geriatrics ever published, the book contains an introduction by 79-year-old John Dewey, lengthy articles by such famous scientists as Physiologists Anton Julius Carlson of University of Chicago, Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard, Nutritionist Clive Maine McCay of Cornell, Anthropologist Clark Wissler of Yale...
...Anthropologist Hooton's remedy for "this festering sore" of anti-Semitism is as bold as his thesis. "There is but one remedy," says he. "That is the assimilation of the Jewish minorities by intermarriage...