Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Italian Anthropologist Fabrizio Mori has been trekking into the Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When he dug into the sandy floor, he found a peculiar bundle: a goatskin wrapped around the desiccated body of a child. The entrails had been removed and replaced by a bundle of herbs...
Perhaps the stockings will be hung from the chimney with more care this year. For it seems that an anthropologist (it never matters who in these accounts) discovered the origin of St. Nicholas in a primitive fertility god--truly a shock for those of us who have regarded the great man with blind affection all these years...
Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...
...Woman!, San Francisco's women were no more helpful than their husbands. Junior Leaguers worried politely about whether they were supposed to learn the feminine graces at home or in school; a suburban housewife announced grimly that "by golly, my husband is not going to outgrow me." Anthropologist Margaret Mead finally arranged a truce in CBS's planned skirmish between the sexes by explaining that women are becoming less feminine, men less masculine, and that both sexes are "behaving more like people." Whatever that meant, Dr. Mead happily added the observation that there will probably always...
...could make distinctive contributions. This is a discussion of "field theory," of the relationship (or "transaction") between the student and the material he studies. In the course of such a discussion, the physicist could relate the special problems of work in his own field--and likewise the historian, the anthropologist the archaeologist, and so forth...