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...issue woman of writing Vogue in a began by recent circling her subject - marriage - like an anthropologist studying some tribal fetish stumbled upon in a clearing in New Guinea, seven days' march from civilization. The author, Lyn Davis Genelli, analyzed the oddity with brisk dogmatic scholarship: "[Marriage] can be seen as an irrelevant residue of an outworn patriarchal society...
With prosperity, Nolo has moved to larger quarters in a converted clock factory but retains its raffish, blue-jeans style. The staff, which works amid cantaloupe-crate bookshelves and suspended Chinese kites, has expanded to 17 (including an artist-lawyer, an anthropologist, and the stand-in for Toshiro Mifune in the TV series Shogun). To keep pace with changing laws, they regularly issue updated editions, and recently published a sort of Whole Earth Catalog of the law called The People's Law Review...
DIED. George O'Neill, 59, anthropologist who extolled the virtues of sharing and free communication by spouses in Open Marriage, the 1972 bestseller written with his wife Nena, also an anthropologist, and was miffed that its title later became widely used as a catchphrase synonymous with extramarital sex; of complications following abdominal surgery; in New York City...
Today's sheer quantity of disinformation suggests that the people best equipped to cope with contemporary life might be the Dobu Islanders of Melanesia: they habitually practice deceit on everybody and exult in the craft of treachery. Anthropologist Ruth Benedict, who chronicled the ways of the Dobu tribe in Patterns of Culture, noted that, in their eyes, a "good" and "successful" man was one "who has cheated another of his place." The U.S. is far from living by any such absurd, upside-down ethic. Yet, in the light of today's trends, it can do no harm...
...Anthropologist Robin Fox's conclusions about the struggle for control of the society [Sept. 22] are basically sound, but he is wrong when he says that the aspiration among modern women to jobs in the marketplace is a foolish deviation from the norm. Evolution itself is a deviation from the norm. If men and women are not allowed to evolve and change, our society will stagnate...