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Cynthia McNamara is not your typical tourist. For more than 15 years, the 39- year-old Philadelphia-born anthropologist has prowled the back roads of Africa and Asia and lived for stretches in Spain and Iran. Last December, however, as McNamara was finishing up a two-year trek through South America, she stumbled into a nightmare involving Peruvian officials and Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the shadowy, Maoist-oriented guerrilla group committed to overthrowing the Lima government. Her terrifying sojourn ended two weeks ago, as abruptly as it had begun, but not before she had spent four months in a prison...
...Anthropologist Stan Binstead is en route from New England to the African bush to search for a lion-worshiping cult. In London a friend dismisses the sect as "just an old-fashioned protection racket." Stan insists it could be the start of a new religion. Ordinarily, the safari would also enable Stan to indulge his favorite pastime, philandering, but his drab wife Millie insists on coming along. In Rachel Ingalls' tale of transformations, the ill-used wife falls in love with a dashing game warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed...
Many people are unaware of the fact that among a once-nomadic group of endangered East Africans called the lk (described in The Mountain People by anthropologist Colin Turnbull). dark black skin and deep-blue eyes are commonplace, as reference to color photographs in an early 1970's Smithsonian magazine will readily confirm...
Cohen: It was an emotional thing. I had read the book and I had also studied anthropology at Harvard. I read it and said to myself, "God, this is the road not taken. If I had been an anthropologist maybe I'd have had some of these great experiences like this guy, Davis." So we optioned the book and talked with Wade...
...Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, once dean of the faculty at Amherst College, where she fought what she saw as entrenched male chauvinism, jumped to freewheeling George Mason, where she would have more time to write. "I thought it would be fun to try a school with chutzpah," she says. Last week Princeton announced that Toni Morrison, the much honored black female novelist (Song of Solomon, Beloved), was leaving the State University of New York at Albany for Princeton, where all hands insist that she will be no ornament but fully active in writing classes, Afro-American studies and the rest...