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Last week Columbia University announced that Anthropologist Weltfish's contract would not be renewed-not, said Columbia, because of her politics, but because there were not enough permanent appointments to go around. But with or without a job, Gene Weltfish was still getting into hot water. Once again, Senator McCarthy asked her whether she is now or ever has been a member of the Communist Party. Her reply: "I refuse to answer on the grounds...
Other Philippine experts, notably famed Anthropologist H. Otley Beyer, doubt the purity of the Abenlens. Beyer believes they probably came from Borneo or the Celebes during Mesolithic times, some 15,000 years later than the Negritos but too long ago to have kept their blood lines pure...
...agreed to let his office-hungry followers participate in a new cabinet to keep more of them from breaking away, as did some 30 last summer to support Conservative Pinay. Aloof and disdainful, the general stayed away from Paris, while one of his most ambitious lieutenants, a young (40) anthropologist named Jacques Soustelle, accepted the President's invitation to try to form a cabinet. He failed. Next came ex-Premier (1946-50) Georges Bidault of the M.R.P., whose chances seemed little better than Soustelle...
...ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET MEAD: "I believe that human life is given meaning through the relationship which the individual's conscious goals have to the civilization, period and country within which one lives...
...trans-Pacific voyage has provided anthropologists with a counter-thesis to the Kon-Tiki theory. By venturing from Peru to the Polynesian Islands by a powerless raft, the Kon-Tiki group attempted to prove that the Polynesians are descendants of the Peruvians. Davis maintains the contrary. He says that there are similarities in culture, but contends that a Polynesian Chief sailed to Peru, perhaps over the same route used by Davis. The chief and his associates traveled along the Peruvian coast, picking up the culture, and transplanted it in Polynesia. This thesis is in almost direct contradiction to the much...