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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...
Despite the diversity of her interests, Mead remained a working anthropologist to the end. One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted. But in recent years Mead, who had survived malaria, three marriages, several miscarriages and years of native foods, found her health failing. "I know I can't live forever," she often said. "I'm just not ready...
...much aggressiveness is exhausting. Today there seems a lot of evidence that Americans are tired of it. Stragglers are descending from the culture of the Ik (that east African hill tribe that, as Anthropologist Colin Turnbull found, amused itself by snatching food from the mouths of children and kicking the elderly into campfires). Remarks Judith Martin, who writes a satiric "Miss Manners" column for the Washington Post: "We're coming out of a psychologically self-oriented era. I think there's a craving for tradition, form, orderliness?and there's also a desire to be protected from everybody else...
DIED. Margaret Mead, 76, renowned anthropologist, author, and critic of cultures both primitive and modern; in New York City (see BEHAVIOR...