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Although most of his anthropology work was done under the tutelage of a medical anthropologist with a Ph. D. and an M.D. and his science grades were high, Mark was rejected at every medical school to which he applied. Finally, at the beginning of this month, he was notified that West Virginia University had reevaluated his application and accepted...
...Truth and Construct: Three Great Perspectives"--the perspectives being the Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic religions. He stresses that, "Although I respect the theoretical basis of the school that allows personal freedom, a solid academic framework will keep the experience of the year from lacking solid academic focus." An anthropologist and a professor of Arabic studies complete the faculty. In past years, Jaeger, as executive director of the school, has appointed himself to the faculty, but this year his five-and two-year-old children and his involvement in the Bath Environment Campaign (to prevent a new motorway through the heart...
...faced. Though the book seems a bit like a sprawling rewrite of the four New York pieces, Dutton feels it has a bestseller on its hands. Sheehy believes she has "made a bridge between journalistic and academic methods." As the author tells it, she learned her anthropological methods from Anthropologist Margaret Mead in a post graduate year of study at Columbia. Sheehy contends that Passages could easily have been published as a doctoral dissertation to establish her credentials in psychology...
...Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon's first view of the Yãnomamõ Indians was partially obscured by a number of drawn arrows aimed at his face. The archers had huge wads of green tobacco jammed between their teeth and lower lips. Long streams of green mucus hung from their noses-the normal flow from a hallucinogenic drug that makes the normally aggressive Yãnomamõ even more touchy and menacing...
Attempts by sociobiologists to trace human behavior to a genetic basis is due to a fundamental misdirection of their research, Marvin Harris, a cultural anthropologist at Columbia University, said in a lecture at MIT yesterday...