Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League of Nations commission once said a population of 900,000,000 could support itself; of Volta Redonda, South America's biggest steel mill, and of the continent's fastest growing industrial city at São Paulo. Drawing on the studies of Brazil's social anthropologist, Gilberto Freyre, he shows that "there is less racial discrimination in Brazil than in any other country in the world." By inheritance, says Tavares, the Brazilians, with a rich land, a million unclaimed opportunities, and a unique cultural, religious & racial unity, are destined to be "the people of tomorrow...
Acrobatic Anthropologist. Like another outstanding Negro dancer, Katherine Dunham, Pearl, now 27, is a serious student of anthropology which, she claims, has a direct bearing on her art. She is now working for a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Says she: "What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have...
...students, educators, friends) to found a special summer seminar at Salzburg, Austria-for Europeans only. From U.S. colleges and universities he picked a dozen top educators to teach. He chose erudite Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance) to teach U.S. literature, Italian-born Historian Gaetano Salvemini to teach U.S. history, Anthropologist Margaret Mead for sociology, and James Johnson Sweeney, onetime director of painting and sculpture at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Sarah Lawrence, Neal A. McDonald of the New Jersey College for Women, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, are in charge of the government field; James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, is lecturing on various phases of American art and architecture; anthropologist Margaret Mead is handling the field of sociology; and Richard Schlatter of Rutgers is giving a course on American historians...
...addition to the Harvard roster, professors Walt W. Rostow of Oxford, an economist; Richard Schlatter, of Rutgers, and Elspeth Davies, of Sarah Lawrence, historians; and Margaret Mead, of Columbia, a cultural anthropologist, are on the Salzburg faculty...