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...leaves little doubt that adultery would be even more popular than it is but for the fact that it involves a more exacting set of rules than marriage itself. Oxford Philosophy Don Iris Murdoch has written a novel about adultery so complex and involuted as to suggest an anthropologist's chart of the mating patterns of a tribe at once polygamous and polyandrous. Among the wholly amoral cast of characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint...
Selected from over 100 applicants, the students began preparing for the trip early this term. Since Swahili is an official language of Tanganyika, the group has studied it intensively under the direction of a British anthropologist teaching at Boston University...
...anyway, commercialized or not. In fact, an anti-anti reaction may be developing. For many people, Mother's Day is so far out that it's in-like eating at the Automat or listening to Tchaikovsky. Although not necessarily an authority on anything this side of Samoa, Anthropologist Margaret Mead summarizes this feeling: "Mother's Day is synthetic. In our culture we just make up things as we go along. But I don't just laugh at it. Some kind of ritual is important in family life. I say that anything that sets...
...foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, English-born Author Tom Stacey, 31, knows the depths and shallows of African politics. As a trained anthropologist (The Hostile Sun), he has a strong sense of what it must be like to live in a primitive society, and also the dangers facing the educated African who defies both Europe and his tribal past. It is this last theme-rather than a sampling of the yeasty brew of independence-that Novelist Stacey has drawn on for this deeply felt and disturbing first novel...
...hospitality. It assumes that the villager would demand complete conformity to his own mores before he would accept the Peace Corps member as an individual. Both these assumptions are sheer nonsense. The peasant may be illerate, but he is not stupid, and he is as keenly aware as any anthropologist of the social divisions in his own world. He will expect the American teacher to live as a teacher, not as a peasant. The proper and desirable course of action for the Peace Corps mem- bers is for him to live on approximately the same level as citizens...