Word: fisherfolk
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...anthropology. Under Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology as an academic discipline, she caught the conviction that study of primitive societies could teach sophisticated Western man a good deal about his own institutions-and about changing them. At 23, she set off for six months alone among remote fisherfolk in American Samoa. The result of her research, published in 1928 when she was 26, was Coming of Age in Samoa...
...than 335,000 Cubans have gone into exile-one out of every 21 people on the island. The first to go was the upper class-the landowners and big businessmen. Then went the middle class Castro needed to run his government. Now it is the working class-the humble fisherfolk, farm people, laborers, the very Cubans Castro swore to "save" from all sorts of devils, including...