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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...
...Laura Knight took over her mother's art classes in Nottingham, blackening her toes so that the holes in her shoes would go unnoticed. At 25, she was living in Staithes, a fishing village on the Yorkshire coast, painting the grinding poverty and bold courage of North Sea fisherfolk. In her thirties and forties she was off traveling with the circus, camping with gypsies, setting up easels in the ring at Blackfriars, hanging over the stalls in Covent Garden, sleeping under tent flaps, recording on canvas her impressions of the entertainment world. At 51 she was named Dame Commander...
...Japanese seaside village of Kawana, hell-for-celluloid Director John Huston was about to shoot a panoramic movie scene encompassing some 350 fisherfolk extras, all decked out in elaborate 19th century samurai costumes, tunics, kimonos and big wigs. Suddenly a voice bellowed in Japanese over the village's loudspeaker: "Dolphins!" Departing radically from the script, the male extras quickly put to sea in Huston's rented sampans while the women took off their film kimonos and excitedly awaited the return of their men. Net catch for the inscrutable villagers: 270 dolphins worth $3,500 in the seafood market...
...interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which ranged from starkly etched studies of Italian peasants and fisherfolk to whimsical mockery of intellectuals and contemporary ideologies, rank him high among Italy's contemporary authors...