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...visionary and revolutionary leader--unified the various historical, anthropological and folk sources which the novelist consulted and which he includes as notes at the back of the book. Two of the most haunting scenes in the novel have analogues in this source material. One, recorded by Harvard anthropologist Evon Vogt, is a myth from a town near Chamula, which explains how a bull was present when the Christ Child was born and with its breath and body heat kept the child from dying from the cold. Wilson adapts this myth for the tale of his own hero's nativity...
That problem was somewhat alleviated when Evon Z. Vogt, the chairman of the Anthropology Department, announced that the appointment of Phyllis Kazen was solely as an assistant professor in Social Anthropology...
...Evon Z. Vogt, chairman of the Anthropology Department, said he expected the junior tutorial program to change from its present one-on-one form to groups of two or three students. He added that most members of the Department had opposed limiting the number of concentrators...
Several of the recommendations were conflicting. Giles Constable, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History, urged the elimination of most tutorials, while Evon Z. Vogt, professor of Social Anthropology, urged that they be reemphasized. The Kirkland House study group attacked concentration requirements; the Eliot House one attacked distribution requirements...
...Evon Z, Vogt, professor of Anthropology and chairman of the Anthropology Department, proposed the change in response to May's November 24 call for revamping of the curriculum...