Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists have begun to realize that the homosexual hang-up is not exclusively homemade. For one thing, social pressures can unbalance parents' child-raising practices. Marvin Opler, an anthropologist trained in psychoanalysis who teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo, says that Western culture generally, and the U.S. in particular, puts such a high premium on male competition and dominance that men easily become afraid that they are not measuring up, and take out their frustrations by being hostile to their sons...
...COOKED: INTRODUCTION TO A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY, VOL. I by Claude Levi-Strauss. 387 pages. Harper & Row. $10. In a book much talked about since its 1964 publication in France, the world's most fascinating social anthropologist studies scores of primitive mythologies, searching for a common code that he hopes will reveal the laws that govern the creative workings of the human mind...
...HEAVEN, NEW EARTH by Kenelm Burridge. 191 pages. Schocken Books. $5.50. The vision of the millennium as a golden age of freedom and affluence is a quasi-religious phenomenon that occurs in decaying cultures. In examining a number of millenary movements among primitive peoples, Anthropologist Burridge observes a quaint custom of the behavioral sciences by elaborating the obvious, painfully...
...find it difficult to believe that any TIME staffer could know this little about what is going on in the natural sciences. Whom did you bring in, a cultural anthropologist...
...also close kin to a pygmy-sized creature called Homo Habilis. Last week Leakey's anthropologist wife, Mary, unveiled the most intact habilis skull ever found. It was dug up in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, and is about 1,750,000 years...