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Krippendorf's Tribe centers around widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and how, after spending grant money on rearing his dysfunctional children, he is forced to present his findings on the "undiscovered" New Guinea tribe that he was supposed to have used the money to study. The resulting mess that follows is a formulaic farce filled with poor acting, an even poorer script and obnoxious, one-dimensional characters with barely anything sympathetic about them. Occasionally, the film tries to get warm and sweet, but concludes with a contrived and impossible ending. Leaving the theatre, one cannot help feeling that Touchstone...
...Anthropology, convinced that I was going to elucidate the meaning of life. I wanted to be a renowned biologist who carefully balanced his knowledge of the natural world with an eye toward the apparent diversity of human experience. Happily, I told my friend Matt, "I want to be an anthropologist!" as visions of voyages to the Serengeti Plain danced in my head...
...skull in with a claw hammer after she allegedly admitted to having an affair. Chen's teenage son discovered her body in the family's Brooklyn apartment. The trial judge sentenced Dong to five years probation on a reduced manslaughter charge after concluding, based on the testimony of an anthropologist, that Dong was driven to violence by traditional Chinese values...
...anthropologist Laura Betzig, surveying these early civilizations, has rendered the Darwinian opinion that politics has often been "little more than reproductive competition"--men using power to better spread their genes. The Aztec King Nezahualpilli had more than 100 children, as did Ramses II of Egypt...
Rubie S. Watson, who had been the museum's acting director, was chosen by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles this month as the first Howells director, shares the donors' passion for anthropological history and research. Watson is the first social anthropologist and the first woman to be Director of the Peabody...