Word: anthropologyã
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...affable doctor will be teaching a class at HMS—where he is a professor of medical anthropology??or in attendance at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). The next, he is treating patients and running a large clinic in the poor rural town of Cange, Haiti. In between, he may check on the medical programs he helped found in Peru, Siberia, Mexico and Guatemala...
...pass around a chemistry data table written in English, French and German. “Do you pronounce this organic compound as Le Ketone or La Ketone?” jokes Pilkiewicz. The others—four concentrating in chemistry and one each in engineering, computer science and biological anthropology??laugh at the patent hilarity of the fact that the French name is exactly the same as the English version...
...unprecedented blend of cultural anthropology??the field in which she received a University of Chicago doctorate—with early ’30s dance broke new ground in Caribbean and African-American dance...
...influential scientist and expert wordsmith, as storyteller, opinionist, and master of the anecdote, Stephen Jay Gould has contributed an immense amount to the fields of paleontology, biology, geology, and anthropology??not to mention many others that he addresses with equal facility. “One of my theories is that everybody is very good at some thing,” he says. “Once in a while you’ll luck out and what you happen to be at is also professionally very useful, and I turned out to be in that category...
...black tuxedo, accepting an award.” I assumed this award would be related to my work as a government operative, war correspondent or lover of elephants, but this was not the case: apparently unsatisfied, I will be going into yet another field. “Sociology or anthropology??getting up close and studying a certain tribe of people.” My personality explains the continuous career-switching. “You would leave your family over and over again...You’re a risk taker.” This is not how I would...