Word: shostak
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DIED. MARJORIE SHOSTAK, 51, anthropologist who wrote about the !Kung San tribe in Africa's Kalahari Desert; of breast cancer; in Atlanta. Shostak lived with the tribe and mastered its difficult clicking language...
...life fairly gracefully, and in a richly social context. When they gather food, their children stay either with them or with aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins or lifelong friends. When they're back at the village, child care is a mostly public task--extensively social, even communal. The anthropologist Marjorie Shostak wrote of life in an African hunter-gatherer village, "The isolated mother burdened with bored small children is not a scene that has parallels in !Kung daily life...
...Board considered the various travel needs of the Harvard community as well, Shostak added...
...Norman Shostak, a member of the Travel Board and director of management and fiscal affairs of the Department of Continuing Education at the Medical School, said the University would benefit from this "pooling [of] resources...