Word: bushmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elephant seals secondhand. Second, Emmerich criticized DeVore for having theorized about humans without being among "those scientists who actually studied human beings and societies." In fact, DeVore is an anthropologist, and his two career-long research interests have been observing baboons and observing the culture of the Kung bushmen. DeVore did refer to these cross-cultural observations of his in his talk...
History question: Who were the first black slaves in the Americas to gain independence from their white overlords? If your answer is the Haitians, you are wrong by more than 100 years. Correct answer: the bushmen of Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana, who escaped from their Dutch slave masters in the early 1600s, established a nation of small villages in the jungle and won a century-long guerrilla war against the European colonists and their mercenaries...
Antony Jay, a British management consultant and former BBC producer, thinks that the distance between the tribal councils of Kalahari bushmen and the inner circles of IBM is not all that great. In a book to be published next month, Corporation Man (Random House; $7.95), Jay argues that modern business firms are organized on the same basis as aboriginal tribes. Furthermore, the behavior of corporate executives springs not so much from reason as from animallike, prehistoric instincts. As in Management and Machiavelli, a 1968 book in which Jay compared the corporation to a nation-state, he has done little scientific...
...quivers at the mention of Bechuanaland and turns white at the sight of a truffle. When Hesseltine is murdered by a poisoned arrow, Perelman becomes involved in his mysterious past at the behest of Hesseltine's beauteous neice, Cosima. Needless to say, Perelman solves the mystery, which involves vengeful Bushmen and blackmail of the French truffle industry, and gets the beautiful Cosima...
DeVore's many jobs here do not seem to leave much time for anthropology, but he will return to study the Bushmen sometime in the next year or two. His involvement in social issues in this country has not changed his belief that field work should be research, not social action...