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...clear from the moment Jim Chatters first saw the partial skeleton that no crime had been committed - none recent enough to be prosecutable, anyway. Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, had been called in by the coroner of Benton County, Wash., to consult on some bones found by two college students on the banks of the Columbia River, near the town of Kennewick. The bones were obviously old, and when the coroner asked for an opinion, Chatters' off-the-cuff guess, based on the skull's superficially Caucasoid features, was that they probably belonged to a settler from the late 1800s...
...board, told Summers in a “Dear Larry” letter that “Harvard’s best interests require your resignation.”The president’s spokesman, John Longbrake, declined to comment on Ellison’s remarks.PLAYING FAVORITESEllison, a biological anthropologist, also took aim at what he called Summers’ “presidential favoritism” of certain academic disciplines.In a phone interview, Ellison recalled that Summers had asked him and his colleagues to prepare a proposal for ways in which the University could concentrate more on biological anthropology...
...course, taught by Palmer in Spring 2004, was attended by more than 600 students. During each lecture, students grilled prominent activists and world leaders—including physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, well-known sociologist Juliet Schor, and left-leaning historian Howard Zinn—about their work and their visions for social change...
...person, Vincent is affable and articulate. She is neither an avenging feminist valkyrie nor a Coulteresque apologist for the patriarchy. She's more like a neutral anthropologist, genuinely curious about what on earth could possibly make men act the way they do. Vincent doesn't look especially masculine, although she is on the tall side--5 ft. 10 in. and lanky--and her voice is somewhat south of the alto range. (And there's the feet.) So she created an alter ego whom she named...
...Such moments of collapse, when the writer realizes what he cannot do-and what he has to do, as a citizen-are the center of the roaming anthropologist's new collection of essays, Incendiary Circumstances. The title comes from a piece in which Ghosh, sitting at his desk in Delhi, working on his first novel, in 1984, suddenly sees the tranquil world around him go up in flames in the wake of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Hours before, he was just another student and aspiring author, hovering over his notebook in a part of Delhi called Defence Colony; overnight...