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When Jessy was found to have autism at the age of about three, little was known about the neurological disorder. Clara became psychologist, teacher and anthropologist, sieving through the evidence of Jessy's odd behavior for clues to her mysterious malady. As a child, Clara writes, Jessy sometimes seemed to neither see nor hear--she gazed through people as through glass--yet her visual perception was so acute that she could assemble puzzles picture-side-down, and her ears detected the faintest buzz, hum or click of a household appliance. Though she did not acquire a usable vocabulary until...
...place, albeit with variations. In the largely Roman Catholic Philippines, men frequently had more than one wife. Few places were as straight-laced as Singapore, but its drag queens thrived. You could be gay in Java - if you liked isolation. "Homosexuality is tolerated in Indonesia," says Dede Oetomo, an anthropologist at Surabaya's Airlangga University, "as long as it's not in one's family." Well, that ruled out everyone but gay test tube babies...
...Trained as an anthropologist, Dumit says the purpose of the course is to investigate how we think about our brains and what sorts of assumptions are built into contemporary brain science. He says no special scientific knowledge is necessary for the course...
Ellison's work as an anthropologist focuses on the evolution of the human reproductive system in response to environmental challenges like workload and disease, as well as the effects of factors like age. His fieldwork began 15 years ago with the pygmies of central South America and now includes work from Poland, Paraguay and Argentina...
...book spanning 15 years of Ellison's work as an anthropologist is due out this spring. Entitled "On Fertile Ground," the book attempts to explain the evolution of the human reproductive system...