Word: anthropologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's no doubt that all the experimentation and kinkiness are declining," says Ellen Frankfort, feminist author of Vaginal Politics. "Now there's a strong desire for connectedness." Many social scientists, counselors and sex researchers agree. Says Anthropologist Gilbert Bartell, co-author of Group Sex: "These are depressed and unsettled times. There's a more somber feeling among people, a retreat from sexual frivolity." The porn industry is retrenching. In many cities, dirty-book shops report a sales drop of over 50% in the past year...
...first I wouldn't have dreamed of honoring with my virility that woman with false eyelashes who smoked long cigarettes." In fact, not until he was promised a dowry of rifles, hatchets, knives and clothes did Obakharok, chief of a New Guinea headhunting tribe, agree to marry American Anthropologist Wyn Sargent last year. Sargent described her jungle adventures in the book My Life With the Headhunters, but this month Obakharok gave his own version of the tale in an interview with Paris-Match. Though his bride eschewed Max Factor for a coating of pig fat and soot, reports Obakharok...
Davenport brings a curious new genre to literature: short historical fiction. In dispensing with the burdens of longer historical novels, Tatlin! presents an exciting array of portraits including Franz Kafka, Herakleitos, an ancient Greek philosopher, Vladimir Tatlin, a Russian artist, Henry Breuil, a French anthropologist, and minor sketches of Picasso, Chagall, Lenin and Stalin...
...Robot" (pronounced ru-bow) Davenport tells the story of the discovery of the Lascaux cave in southern France, the site of some of the earliest prehistoric paintings. According to this version a dog named Robot chasing a rabbit actually discovered the cave. Henri Breuil, a French Jesuit anthropologist provides Davenport with a voice to describe the caves as brains for the earth. Breuil talks about his discoveries in China, Africa, the Altamira caves in Spain where Picasso studied the ancient bull drawings for the bull he painted in "Geurnica." Everything becomes interconnected in Davenport's stories; history isn't simply...
Clifford Geertz, social anthropologist, a Doctor of Laws...