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...Civil War and Reconstruction figured to center on that week's reading, Eric Foner's analysis of the Republican Party, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. But the discussion quickly turned from Foner to Clifford Geertz, a cultural anthropologist that none of the dozen or so history concentrators assembled in a Mather classroom had ever heard...
Garrison Keillor' s Leaving Home yields humble epiphanies from Lake Wobegon. -- Why an anthropologist died in Africa...
...Swahili cry went up in the mountains of Central Africa: "Dian kufa!": Dian is dead. The victim of the slaying was American Anthropologist Dian Fossey, 53, author of the 1983 best seller about her work, Gorillas in the Mist. No one has ever been punished for the machete murder -- a ghastly end for a gentle soul...
Little was said at the meeting about the Salesians, but Robin Wright, an American anthropologist at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, notes that inevitably "the mission structure is being replaced by a new economic structure based on mining." Mission income is declining, and though 130 village elementary schools survive, two of the six boarding schools for advanced students lie abandoned...
...undisputed lord of this domain was the bishop. Until very recently, "Dom Miguel was a strongman," observes Anthropologist Luciene Guimaraes de Souza of the government's Indian agency. But now the frail prelate has reached the Vatican's mandatory retirement age and will soon return home to Sicily...