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...talk to opponents--including newly aroused parents--and you'll hear horror stories of reformers dumping the most basic algorithms, or first-graders turning to a calculator to subtract 4 from 6, or "math" textbooks featuring lessons on endangered species and the Dogon people of West Africa. "Whole math," says molecular biologist Michael McKeown, "means less material covered in less depth with less rigor." Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from...
...took Beckwith and Fisher 19 years to win permission to photograph the six-week-long Dogon Dama funeral ceremony in Mali, in which bodies are wrapped in cloths and hauled 300 ft. up a sheer cliff face to burial caves that have been in use since the 15th century. To get a shot of the interior of one of those caves, the duo had to be lowered from the top of the cliff by means of ropes and handmade ladders...
Even when permission is granted, the rituals don't always take place on schedule. Indeed, when the women showed up to film the Dogon funeral ceremony--which occurs only once every 12 years--they discovered that it wouldn't begin for six more weeks. "We often end up sitting and waiting for events to happen," says Fisher. Despite these obstacles, the pair have photographed scores of ceremonies, including initiation rites, male and female circumcisions, bridal fairs and weddings, funerals and even exorcisms...
...objects that were the nucleus of his Museum of Primitive Art, along with his smaller private collection-went to the Metropolitan in his son's memory. To this bequest have been added several very choice groups of objects from other sources: the Wunderman collection of Dogon sculpture, ancient Peruvian ceramics from the Nathan Cummings collection, and a number of pre-Columbian objects from the Alice Bache bequest...
...collection, as it now stands, is strong in New Guinea and Melanesian art. And its African material, particularly in the areas of Senufo, Dan and Dogon tribal art, is superb. But the coverage of Australian and (more surprisingly) Northwest American Indian art is sketchy. This may be because the roots of Rockefeller's own taste were set in the culture of European modernism-in the admiration for the primitive that formed the experimental work of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Brancusi...