Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself as a civilized and cultured being. Yet within the past decade, this rough vision of man as a relative of the primates one step removed from the jungle has been put forward by a number of behavioral scientists working in such fields as genetics, neurophysiology and primatology. Says Anthropologist Robin Fox of Rutgers, whose specialty is the sexual conduct of man the animal: "We are only beginning to understand the implications of extending to behavior the same kind of analysis that has proved successful with flesh and bone...
...FESTIVAL. "Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal." Ninety-minute account of the distinguished anthropologist's work among tribesmen of the South Seas...
Miss du Bois is a social anthropologist. Perhaps her most famous book is The People of Alor, a social-psychological study of an East Indian island. She has done field work in India and gives a graduate seminar in "Problems of Socio-Cultural Change...
...Higher still are the remains of a fortified Persian city built in approximately 400 B.C. Lemberg-Karlovsky suspects that it is the ancient city of Carmania, which Alexander the Great conquered without shedding a drop of blood in 325 B.C. Although his theory is as yet unproven, the Harvard anthropologist points out that the teeth of elephants, animals uncommon to the area but regularly used for military transportation by Alexander, have been unearthed in the top of the mound. And in a nearby village, young boys are often called "Iskanda," a name almost never heard elsewhere in Iran. Iskanda, explains...
...statue of a fertility goddess lying face down near some primitive sculptor's tools. Carved from soft stone and rich in detail, the statuette is long and slender, in contrast to the crude neolithic sculpture thought to be typical of this early period. "In five years," says Peabody Anthropologist C. C. Lemberg-Karlovsky, "this piece will be lectured in all coffee-table art books as a prize example of primitive sculpture...