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...equally serious criticism has been made by Linguist Thomas Sebeok and his wife. Anthropologist Donna Jen Umiker-Sebeok, both at Indiana University. In the introduction to a collection of reports and essays on primate language experiments to be published this month under the title Speaking of Apes (Plenum: $37,50), they maintain that much of what passes for language skill in apes can be explained by the "Clever Hans effect"-a phenomenon named for a turn-of-the-century German circus horse that astounded audiences by tapping out with his hoofs the correct answers to complex mathematical and verbal problems...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Harkensson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
...chameleon-like transitions and ineffable gestures made him the most difficult star Burton has encountered in eleven years of interviewing celebrities, a list that includes Richard Burton, Diana Ross and John Travolta. Concludes Burton: "In terms of challenge, he ranks with three of my favorite TIME cover subjects: Anthropologist-Guru Carlos Castaneda, who wouldn't even be photographed; Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who despises any form of media event; and Opera Maestro Sarah Caldwell, who, like Peter Sellers, is a master of elusive cooperation...
Counter, invited to see the film by Tom Harkensson, the Swedish anthropologist who showed it, said yesterday the particular film was "sick," adding that these "explicit photographic materials" should not be presented as serious scholarship. To say the film is a legitimate scholarly subject because the practice is widespread in Africa is "totally insensitive," he added...
...Harberger comes, the HIID can kiss all the anthropologists good-bye. The chairman of the Anthropology Department, David Maybury-Lewis, who is also on the HIID governing board, has been one of the most vocal opponents of the appointment. And members of the department are unanimously opposed to the appointment. The HIID was in the process of searching for a staff anthropologist--that search is now frozen. Maybury-Lewis has been one of the few members of the Harvard faculty sincerely interested in working with the HIID, and Harberger's appointment would end the link...