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...beamed woman in a floor-length, toga-like gown marched onto the stage at the American Museum of Natural History last week, clutching her ever-present forked walking stick. Then, peering at the overflow audience of nearly 1,500, Margaret Mead, who at 67 is something more than an anthropologist and something less than a national oracle, undertook one of her favorite tasks. She told her audience what is afoot in the world and some good ways to improve...
...this, as in so many other romantic matters, makes it far less acceptable for an older woman to form an alliance with a younger man. Still, there are rich precedents in that pattern as well. Oedipus and Jocasta, of course, represent a sort of ne plus ultra to cultural anthropologist, tragedian and Freudian alike. The French have a fertile background of such affairs. Henry II took his father's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, when he was 17 and she 36. Balzac met his mistress, Madame de Berny, when he was 22 and she 44, and he remained with...
...himself as a civilized and cultured being. Yet within the past decade, this rough vision of man as a relative of the primates one step removed from the jungle has been put forward by a number of behavioral scientists working in such fields as genetics, neurophysiology and primatology. Says Anthropologist Robin Fox of Rutgers, whose specialty is the sexual conduct of man the animal: "We are only beginning to understand the implications of extending to behavior the same kind of analysis that has proved successful with flesh and bone...
...obvious way to learn about these predispositions is to study the behavior of man's nearest neighbors, the monkeys and great apes-and to study them not just in the zoo or laboratory but in their natural habitat. In studying the baboon, for example, Berkeley Anthropologist Sherwood L. Washburn and his Harvard disciple, Irven DeVore, are concerned mainly with what this primate can reveal about man. The baboon's hierarchical society, commanded by dominant males, suggests the fundamental pattern to which man's ancestors may have subscribed, long before marriage was invented. So far no primate study...
...FESTIVAL. "Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal." Ninety-minute account of the distinguished anthropologist's work among tribesmen of the South Seas...