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...woman who became famous by studying the life of adolescents in Samoa is now examining her own youth. At 70, Anthropologist Margaret Mead is publishing her memoirs. The greatest influence on her life, she recalls, was her relationship with her paternal grandmother, who moved in with Margaret's father and his bride after their marriage and was given the best room in whatever house they lived in till her death some 30 years later. A former teacher, she "taught me observation-she started me observing my young sisters." Now a grandmother herself, Mead insists that "children need three generations...
Some behavior experts use "pseudo-mathematical decorations" to make their work look scientific, Andreski says. In analyzing myths, for example, Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss portrays a fight between two animals by writing "jaguar = anteater (-1)." If that sign is interpreted in its mathematical sense, the sentence means that a jaguar equals one divided by an anteater-a conclusion that Andreski describes as "phantasmagoric." Yet such signs work like "hallucinogenic incantations, inducing fantasies that the mind has been expanded to computer-like dimensions...
...check his theory, Bada dated a number of objects, including an ancient hominid bone dug up from East Africa's Olduvai Gorge by Anthropologist Louis S.B. Leakey. Its age, based on amino-acid dating, turned out to be 135,000 years-almost exactly the same as that deduced by Leakey from indirect geological evidence. Bada is still incredulous over the seemingly accurate results obtained by using his new clock. "It was so obvious and simple," he says, "I was just amazed that it hadn't been discovered before...
WITCHCRAFT. In 1921, British Anthropologist Margaret Murray advanced the theory that witchcraft was basically a vestige of the nature worship of Europe's pagan days. Scholars have challenged her theory, but many of today's "white witches" take her suggestion and imitate pagan ways rather than satanic witchcraft. Generally, white witches derive their presumed power from beneficent forces of nature and use it in an effort to heal, resolve disputes and achieve good for others. Such benevolent magic may also include defensive spells against...
These fanciful notions are not putons, Author Morgan says, and she insists: "I am deadly in earnest." But scientists find it easy to demolish her ideas. Physical Anthropologist Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History notes, for example, that Homo sapiens never made any of the physical adaptations for swimming and "breathing" under water that are exhibited by true aquatic mammals. In fact, in refuting Hardy's aquatic theory, scientists have pointed to ample proof that man has been a land-based creature for the past 15 million years or so. Furthermore, Tattersall notes, there...