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...Anthropologist Elliot Liebow [Dec. 18] makes a valid point in saying that housewives should be treated as workers, but he doesn't carry it far enough. Liebow seems to feel that it's fine for the Government to support welfare mothers because they raise children and maintain homes. This is work and they should get paid...
Slums. Because the outcasts look exactly like their countrymen, an American anthropologist once called them Japan's invisible race. The only way to identify them is by their birthplace or current address, both of which are usually in one of the nation's 5,000 buraku -hamlets or ghetto slums inhabited almost entirely by the shunned group. Segregation was first enforced in the 16th century, when many of the pariahs' ancestors lived by slaughtering and skinning animals to produce leather, work that devout Buddhists and Shintoists consider defiling. Other buraku-min followed such despised occupations as burying...
...Anthropologist Elliot Liebow, a National Institute of Mental Health administrator and one of the report's authors, attacks the problem with a sharp semantic foil. Since raising children and maintaining a home is work, he argues, the Government should define it as such. Thus all mothers would meet any statutory requirements for work just by continuing to do what they are presently doing-and of course they would get paid...
...simple folk of the cool highlands, the future has never looked bleaker. "It is possible the Montagnards will survive," says American Anthropologist Gerald Hickey, "but I doubt if they will be any more than a poverty-stricken fringe group...
...there anybody out there? Probably, agreed a symposium of scientists at Boston University. But would they want to have anything to do with us? "With our magnificent record with the Indians, the Chinese, the Filipinos, you can imagine what will happen," declared Anthropologist Ashley Montagu. Added Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning biologist-professor George Wald: "However horrifying and destructive, you can't think of anything so horrible that somebody would not feel elated at carrying it out." As a matter of fact, said Cornell Astronomer Carl Sagan, other civilizations may already know about us because of our high-frequency...