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...this potential leverage does not necessarily translate into real gains in political clout or actual enforcement--a gap that threatens to turn the target communities into experimental guinea pigs, instead of the puzzle pieces that the Coalition wants to eventually fit into an overall plan. Given that the Coalition could persuade communities to restrict or ban handguns, they will be most valuable as test cases, both for the purposes of the activists, and for the understanding of the handgun problems. The results of such piecemeal bans may not support the goals of control advocates, but could shed light...
...cloths, tools, weapons, canoes, ceremonial furniture-into the absorptive West. After 1900, very few major painters or sculptors in Europe or America were untouched by the primitive. Different movements had different agenda: the fauves and cubists, for instance, liked African art, whereas the surrealists annexed the Pacific from New Guinea to Easter Island (myopically ignoring Australia), while the expressionists like Emil Nolde, children of Thanatos, went for mummies and shrunken heads. Such affinities obviously matter, not only to art history but to the broader scope of Western social fantasies. So why and how did they arise...
...Russian Constructivist Sculptor Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine's Symphony No. 1, 1913, a figure done in swoops and slats of painted wood that one would swear-if there were not clear evidence that he had I never seen it - was based on an openwork Baga bird headI dress from Guinea in the Musee de 1'Homme in Paris...
During one such raid, a peasant seems in danger of losing his prized cow to a soldier. Fortunately, the beast leads the invader into confusion: "The German on his way through the woods was making discoveries that left him openmouthed: chickens perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...
...Luther Cressman, a minister with an interest in sociology, when she went to Samoa. On the way back she met a young New Zealand scholar, Reo Fortune, soon to be husband No. 2. In 1932, while Fortune and Mead were doing research in what is now Papua New Guinea, they met Gregory...