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Died. John Collier, 84, anthropologist and writer, who as Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1933-45) fought to secure civil rights for the American Indian; in Taos, N. Mex. In 1934, Collier scored his greatest coup, the Indian Reorganization Act, a "constitution" that he helped push through Congress, gave the earliest Americans home rule and protection from unscrupulous white traders and land grabbers...
...Epoch. To Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who has studied and taught at Columbia for 48 years, the crisis marked "the end of an epoch" in the way universities are governed. She blamed the demonstration in part on student activists who took advantage of the university's traditional leniency toward on-campus pranks. But she also accused the administration of failing to recognize the right of students to share in campus authority, and of being unresponsive to community needs. Dr. Mead also reflected a campus consensus that the trustees were also at fault. Said she: "We can no longer have privately...
...relations teacher at San Francisco State College, charges that "specialists in international affairs are not only failing to distinguish between the aims of the Government and the aims of the academy, but are allowing themselves to be made over into instruments of the state." Former Uni versity of Oregon Anthropologist Kathleen Gough argues that U.S. anthropology has become "a child of Western capitalist imperialism" and that the U.S. "power elite" uses anthropologists to help delay "social change throughout two-thirds of the world...
Although the AFI represents a rare example of America rising to meet a crisis before it reaches insane proportions, much of an archivist's dream can no longer be made into reality: many films are permanently lost, and Hollywood's history includes stories that fill a modern-day film anthropologist with disgust. Directors rarely had the right to edit their own films, and it became common practice for studios to re-cut and mangle films they thought potentially commercial...
They talk a kind of pseudo-legalese, parliamentary jargon which must have been perfected through several generations of responsible legislators. I felt like an anthropologist stranded in a strange alien ceremony without an interpreter...