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Superhumans? Subhumans? Figments of a science-fiction writer's imagination? In fact, the Dani are living quite nicely, thank you, in the Grand Valley of West Irian (formerly West New Guinea), where they were studied for 2½ years by Karl Heider, an anthropologist from the University of South Carolina. Heider, who has taught at Harvard, Brown and Stanford, describes the abstemious sexual behavior of the 5,000-member tribe in the current issue of Man, the journal of Britain's Royal Anthropological Institute. He reports finding no strong sanctions against sexual activity or any other ready explanation...
Raising Pigs. The Dani simply do not seem to have much drive, sexual or otherwise. There are few intense emotions, little artistic achievement and few fights. Instead of expressing anger, a Dani tribesman usually moves away from an offending situation. Wars, according to Heider, have the emotional content of deer hunts in America. The warriors chat for a long while, fight for an hour, then fall back for more conversation. Revenge and anger rarely play a role-the Dani simply want to placate their ghosts and end the fighting as quickly as possible. Their only real interest seems...
...Heider has no idea why the Dani energy level is so low. The tribe seems to have a low infant-mortality rate, an adequate diet and no serious diseases. While a hidden genetic or biological factor may be responsible, Heider prefers to believe the Dani "low-energy system" is simply cultural. If so, Western theories about the innate power of the sexual drive-mostly derived from Freud-may need some adjustment...
Then came the sensational and daring escape of Elizabeth's friend and Jack Strickland's fiancee Brigitte Heider, who escaped through the Berlin Wall in May, 1969, in the bottom of a VW bus with her pet turtle and another East Citizen. Brigitte had escaped under the very nose of her step-father, a top East German Secret Police official, credited as being the man responsible for the security measures involved in the building of the Wall in 1961, and who was quoted as having said of the intervention of the Russians in Prague in 1968, "each and every...
...adjournment, the judge upheld the sentences--there would be no paroles, and all time was to be served in a work camp. Two and one-half years for me, two years and nine months for Elizabeth, and four years for Jack Strickland for his alleged role in Brigitte Heider's escape...