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...evolution from the proscenium arch of the playwright to the zygomatic arch of the popular anthropologist, Robert Ardrey, 63, has never lost his instinct for drama. African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative and The Social Contract swept through millions of years, the disappearance of continents and the draining of oceans. Entrances and exits involved crushes of phyla and species. The first ape man dropped from the trees to begin his long journey toward sapience...
...than a bumper sticker." Georgia State University Sophomore Jay Jay Brooks has an easy rationale for her T shirt, which as seen from the front is purple on one side and brown on the other. Says she: "I wear it when I'm feeling ambiguous." Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at Berkeley, may have the best explanation of all: "People want to be different, unique, departing from the norm-so they buy an anti-Establishment shirt. But then everybody ends up wearing the same thing...
...Author Weideger suggests that many of the troubles attributed to menstruation can actually be traced to the taboo. The idea is not new. Some 50 years ago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead observed that in Samoa, where the menstrual taboo is mild, discomfort during periods is slight. The idea of severe cramps and pain, she wrote, "struck all Samoan women as bizarre when it was described to them...
After nearly 20 years of court-ordered integrated education, most Americans are aware of the problems of black students brought into a predominantly white school. But what happens when it is the other way around-when a few whites attend a black school? To find out, Gretchen Schafft, an anthropologist at Catholic University of America, conducted a year-long study of "Green-trees," the fictional name of a Washington, D.C., elementary school that has an enrollment of about 400 blacks and 50 whites. Recently, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, she presented her conclusion...
Bernard Reis, 80, Painter Theodores Stamos, 54, and Anthropologist Morton Levine, 53-and his dealers, Marlborough Gallery, Inc. of New York. Alleged purpose of the conspiracy: to "waste the assets" of the estate, which consists of 798 paintings, valued by one expert witness at $32 million...