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...smell of incense that clings to her and anyone who enters her attic apartment set her apart from the t-shirt-and-jeans students who practice Buddhist meditation. Her basic conception of Buddhism is, however, surprisingly close to that of many who have not practiced with this anthropologist. As her large eyes focus on her listener, McHardy speaks slowly and precisely of what Shambhala Buddhism, her lineage, has taught her about itself. “It is about building a secular society, a non-sectarian one,” McHardy says in her British accent...
While researching an African tribe in his travels as an anthropologist, Dr. Hess Green (Jones) is ritually stabbed by one of the members. The attack gives Green an insatiable appetite for macaroni and cheese—no, not really, but it would make about as much sense as anything else in this inventive yet terrible vampire drama. The Doctor, however, is a vampire sans typical vampire character quirks: he goes to church, sleeps during the night and goes out during the day. Ganja, the wife of one of his previous victims, soon falls in love with Green, even after...
...Namu's co-author, anthropologist Christine Mathieu, wrote the book based on months of interviews with Namu. And Mathieu's presence helps keep some of Namu's outrageousness in check. Mathieu says, for example, that Namu first described her father as riding into her village on a white stallion and wooing her mother with the line "Hey baby, nice bum." It was a good story?but total fiction. And Namu has shocked audiences at book readings in the U.S. by stating that she would never take a Mosuo man because she can't stand "their stink." Such comments are familiar...
What makes a middle schooler tick? Linda Perlstein, education writer for the Washington Post, decided to find out. With the dedication of an anthropologist, she moved to Columbia, Md., an economically mixed, multiethnic community. For almost a year she lived half a mile from Wilde Lake Middle School and embedded herself in the lives of its students. The result is Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). TIME talked with Perlstein...
Lipsky approaches the cadets like an anthropologist stalking the elusive Yanomamo tribe, and with good reason: he's in a weird, weird place. "Cadets entering West Point step into an irony-free zone," Lipsky writes, "a place where sarcasm has been fought to a standstill." When people say "Huah!" at West Point, they're not doing an Al Pacino impression. "Huah!" is the universal adjective for all things gung-ho and military: a huah cadet would never be caught missing a shave or parking sloppily. A huah cadet would never flunk the regular fitness tests, which include 42 push...