Word: anthropologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows, no amount of packaging, commercialization, overscheduling or professional planning can squeeze the raw, sweaty, boozy, friendly humanity out of a convention. Such a celebration is well suited to an age when life has too often been stripped of drama, romance and the sense of limitless possibility. Says Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger (Men in Groups): "The convention is an effort, like the fair of old or the harvest feast, to generalize one's experience, to making something more meaningful...
...wrong, since observed systems and institutions can easily be distorted to fit any proposed paradigm. Nor does anthropology deal with predictable data because man is an essentially is an unpredictable organism. Finally, anthropology isn't objective. It involves an observer interacting directly with other humans. Try as the anthropologist might to analyze and objectify what he sees, some amount of subjectivity is bound to seep into his work...
...anthropologist, though, Mead accomplished more than untangling. She reached beyond interpreting dry facts. In doing so she left us more than a few treatises and bestsellers. We have a legacy that is also a challenge. It involves understanding other cultures and portraying them honestly, without culture-bound value judgments. It also calls for a humanitarian examination, rather than clinical scientific analysis...
Perhaps in the future Anthropologist Alan Dundes could enlighten us on the homosexual rituals of golf, in which a long club is used to hit a ball into a hole. How about tennis, baseball, hockey, etc.? And as for erotic jargon, how about hole in one, love-30, squeeze play and high-sticking? Pretty racy...
...young anthropologist from the University of California at Santa Cruz has added new fire to the debate. Adrienne Zihlman not only supports the molecular chronology for the crucial split, but also nominates the probable common ancestor: an animal that looked, and perhaps behaved, very much like the contemporary pygmy chimp Pan paniscus...