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...anthropology classes have been cancelled for the last three days of this week because of the 54th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Gordon R. Willey, chairman of the department, said last night...
This morning Willey will conduct a special three-hour session on new study methods of prehistoric culture contact. All anthropology students, he said, are expected to attend this session, at least in part. He plans to present a new method of analyzing the fusion of two different cultures with only local artifacts, not written records...
Gordon R. Willey, Jr., Bowdich Professor of Anthropology, said "most of us in the anthropology department are pretty well set in our offices in the Peabody Museum. A building is certainly not the crucial thing for integration," he explained. The report called the Littauer Center, after which the proposed social relations building would be patterned, "a testament to the values of contiguity...
...report saw a great need for an anthropological linguist. "The highly developed state of linguistics and the importance of the field to the anthropologist make the absence of the person who is primarily a linguist our most conspicuous weakness in the field. "If we ever get another permanent appointment," Willey said, "a linguist is what we would like to have...
...people who lived in Barton Ramie's 350 thatch-roofed, plaster-floored houses apparently owned little besides their cotton loincloths. They tossed their refuse outside the houses, where it built up into thick kitchen middens; then they buried their dead in it. Dr. Willey found no evidence in Barton Ramie of the high intellectual or artistic life of the ancient Mayans. He thinks that the theocratic society of the Mayans was much like that of medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy...