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...describes the immense influence of Francis Galton, the late-19th century advocate of eugenics and a staunch believer that heredity is all a man brings with him into the world, that all is already determined at birth. It was against this school of thought, Freeman explains, that the anthropologist Franz Boas and others reacted around the turn of the century when they advanced the doctrine of cultural determinism...
Originating in the South Bronx in the mid-'70s, rap music is a cultural anthropologist's mother lode. It combines musical influences as disparate as disco, George Clinton funk, conventional R & B and Ennio Morricone scores for Italian westerns, cross-pollinates them with the Jamaican disc jockey's art of "toasting" (talking over the instrumental breaks in records) and a street kid's fondness for boasting, synthesizes the results with some distinctly contemporary audio technology and winds up with a sound that invites deejays at local dance palaces to "scratch" the surface. The deejays...
...anthropologist fights Stanford over a code of ethics...
...finding committee that looked into all the accusations against Mosher, including those by his exwife, who independently charged that he had acted unethically. After hearing Mosher's side of the case, twelve mem bers of the anthropology department voted unanimously to expel him for "behavior inappropriate for an anthropologist." Mosher, who plans to appeal the decision to the Stanford administration and may take the case to court, insists: "I was expelled because Stanford chose to believe the charges brought against me by the Chinese and chose to believe that by publishing articles and photographs in Taiwan that I gravely...
...four humanists and social scientists working in the country, in contrast to the 50 or so Mosher recalls from his day. No one is allowed to study villages, where about 75% of all Chinese live. But American scholars do not blame Mosher for the crackdown. Says Norma Diamond, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan: "The kind of extensive social investigation that anthropologists require has never been understood or welcome in China." Many believe that the Chinese were just looking for an excuse to turn away foreigners. Says Harvard Professor Merle Goldman, a member of the committee that gave Mosher...