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...years Crichton responded by traveling like a tramp, the anthropologist in him exploring exotic cultures hard to reach. From Malaysia to Pakistan to an ascent of Kilimanjaro to a descent with South Pacific sharks, literally, he roamed. Along the way he was a spiritual pilgrim as well, exploring psychic phenomena the scientist within him assessed carefully but many times failed to discredit. He says he bent spoons, visited a past gladiatorial life in Rome, had his aura fluffed as you would a poodle. Once, he found himself in the desert conversing with a cactus, which he insulted, only to feel...
...extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern and European. I shall quote only one letter, that of Robert McCormick Adams, the distinguished anthropologist and Mesopotamian archaeologist, sometime director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Presently head of the Smithsonian Institution. I quote him with his permission...
...huddled masses have already given way to the muddled masses. "Marriage is the main assimilator," says Karen Stephenson, an anthropologist at UCLA. "If you really want to affect change, it's through marriage and child rearing." This is not assimilation in the Eurocentric sense of the word: one nation, under white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant rule, divided, with liberty and justice for some. Rather it is an extended hyphenation. If, say, the daughter of Japanese and Filipino parents marries the son of German and Irish immigrants, together they may beget a Japanese-Filipino-German-Irish-Budd hist-Catholic-American child. "Assimilation...
...world still has much to learn about living with diversity. "What people say, what people do and what they say they do are three entirely different & things," says anthropologist Stephenson. "We are walking contradictions." Kyoung-Hi Song, 27, was born in Korea but lived much of her youth abroad as her father was posted from one United Nations assignment to the next. Despite that cosmopolitan upbringing, her parents balked when Kyoung-Hi married Robert Dickson, a WASP from Connecticut. They boycotted the 1990 wedding, and have not contacted their daughter since. The Dicksons hope that the birth of their first...
...year-old niece. In 1989 Dong Lu Chen, a Chinese immigrant in New York City, hammered his wife to death because he suspected her of cheating on him. Feminists were outraged when Chen was sentenced to just five years' probation. But the judge had relied on an anthropologist's testimony about the seriousness of infidelity in Chinese culture and on the defense's contention that shame pushed Chen to an extreme...