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Kinsey is just a stuffy Puritan, and a dangerous one at that, according to the American Museum of Natural History's tart-tongued Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead. By using the word "outlet" for sex activity, Kinsey upheld the Puritan tradition that the body should not be used for pleasure. Said Dr. Mead: he "confused sex with excretion." He missed completely the emotional, spiritual and ethical sides of sex, and seemed to overlook society's need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home...
Historian Gibbon, says Toynbee, was not the only eminent scholar to view Christianity as a menace to civilization. Anthropologist Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) regretted that the "unselfish ideal" of Greek and Roman society, which subordinated the individual to the welfare of the state, was superseded by the "selfish and immoral doctrine" of "Oriental religions which inculcated the communion of the soul with God and its eternal salvation as the only objects worth living for. . . ." The result, said Frazer, was "a general disintegration of the body politic...
Geoffrey Gorer is a British anthropologist who writes of the American people with the poker-faced detachment of an anthropologist studying the tribal dances and customs of an Indian tribe. Most Americans, reading his book, will probably feel that they have been made fun of, mocked and double-crossed, for having let an outlander into the midst of their tribal rites...
Courteous & Clinical. Anthropologist Gorer has spent seven years in the U.S. with British wartime missions and on the staffs of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Yale Institute of Human Relations. In comparison with the old tobacco-spitting attacks of the great English travelers -Dickens, Trollope, Captain Basil Hall -The American People is refined and respectful. Yet its cool and clinical air reveals at times an underlying dislike which may be more destructive than the old quarrel between eagle-screaming Americans, whooping that they could lick the world, and haughty British remittance men sneering at them for spitting on the floors...
...Speaking as an anthropologist," Professor Kluckhohn declared that "our values can not be completely right, nor the Russians' completely wrong...