Word: anthropologist
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...planning to be the best anthropologist, but she is planning to be the most famous," the elegant anthropologist Ruth Benedict once observed of her prize student at Barnard...
...teacher have proved to be more accurate. A half-century later, just before her death in 1978, Margaret Mead had become so famous that a lot of people who read her column in Redbook or saw her on the Tonight show did not even know that she was an anthropologist. She was simply Margaret Mead, a celebrity, as bursting with opinions as Norman Mailer, as free with advice as Ann Landers...
Biographer Jane Howard (A Different Woman, Families) spent five years studying the making of Margaret Mead. Mead's only child, Mary Catherine Bateson, has, like most children, gone through a lifetime trying to understand her mother and her father, British Anthropologist Gregory Bateson. Both women have produced fascinating portraits of a stubbornly enigmatic subject...
...says, "Ability and intelligence have nothing to do with gender. For an old blue-collar Polack [on his mother's side] like me, that's a hell of an admission." Workers in Chicago bars accepted Jane Byrne as mayor without any sense of trauma or endangered masculinity. Studs Terkel, anthropologist of the working class, explains: "The issue is dead. The guys in the bar have been conditioned by idols like Barbara Stanwyck. Now they're ready for a Gerri Ferraro or a Pat Schroeder...
...three men approached a police checkpoint at the village of Lotsum, along the tense cease-fire line between India and Pakistan in the Himalayas. The travelers looked like ordinary Kashmiri peasants, and the guards let them pass. But one of them was not what he seemed. French Anthropologist Michel Peissel had disguised himself in garb like that of his two local guides, staining his face with walnut dye in order to enter a region long forbidden to foreigners: the Dansar Plain of "Little Tibet," the no man's land of a legendary tribe known as the Minaro...