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Racial oppression, an anthropologist reading this collection would conclude, has played a major role in shaping the ideas, and, of course, the day-to-day lives of Black Americans. Almost everyone who talks about Black American to Gwaltney defines it in contrast to white America. "I get tired of that one-nation-under-God boogie-joogie. We are ourselves. We are our own nation or country or whatever you want to call it. . . That man has got his country, and we are our country," one man insists. If their days are dominated by a single theme--the fraud of white...
People indulge in nonverbal communication not basically to be clever or devious but because these ways of communicating are deeply embedded in the habits of the species and automatically transmitted by all cultures. So says Anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell, a pioneer in the study of kinesics, as body language is called. Other experts point out that signaling by movement occurred among lizards and birds, as well as other creatures, even before mammals emerged...
Unfortunately, no useful dictionary of gestures is really possible, since every gesture and nonverbal expression depends for meaning on the variants of both the individual using it and the culture in which it takes place. Says Anthropologist Edward T. Hall, author of The Silent Language and Beyond Culture: "Because of its complexity, efforts to isolate out 'bits' of nonverbal communication and generalize from them in isolation are doomed to failure. Book titles such as How to Read a Person Like a Book are thoroughly misleading, doubly so because they are designed to satisfy the public's need...
DIED. Carleton Coon, 76, wide-ranging anthropologist who traced the development of humanity from its earliest stages to the first agricultural communities and whose many books include The Story of Man (1954) and The Seven Caves (1957); of cancer; in Gloucester, Mass...
...happens to be a woman, not a woman chosen in lieu of a scholar. It is blatantly insulting to an outstanding human being to imply even remotely that she was appointed because she is a woman rather than as the result of a national search for the most qualified anthropologist in the field of comparative...