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...leftist might blame "imperialism"; a right-winger would call our problem "internationalism." But an anthropologist, taking the long view, might | say this is just what warriors do. Intoxicated by their own drumbeats and war songs, fascinated by the glint of steel and the prospect of blood, they will go forth, time and again...
Pettigrew once started a short story with the title "Under the Big Sky." It was to be "an end of the world sort of thing." An anthropologist was going to be out in the desert somewhere, studying an obscure nomad tribe, when the rest of the world was destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. Suddenly these people living on the margins of the world, ignored by humanity, were propelled onto center stage--they were the only humans left, and the anthropologist's view of them changed completely...
...idea--besides obvious messages about how they have respect for the land and that chemical and nuclear weapons do not--was that though the anthropologist sees them as so much more important, the nomads don't feel any different. Only we saw them as marginal; their world has always been important and real to them...
Such links also fulfill an important social function. Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson invented the term "generativity" to describe the necessary transmission of life experiences from elder to younger generations. In the 1970s, anthropologist Margaret Mead prophetically wrote that an increasing lack of contact between old and young relatives would create a need for surrogate grandparents...
Among those mentioned as possible permanentreplacements for Spence have been internationalsecurity expert Joseph S. Nye, associate dean forinternational affairs; chemist George M.Whitesides '60, associate dean of the faculty; andPilbeam, an anthropologist...