Word: meads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the man-eating Caribs on nearby islands. The conquistadors reported that the Aztecs butchered victims, ate the flesh and fed the entrails to zoo animals. Henry Morton Stanley said he was beset on all sides by savage cannibals during his famous trek through Africa to find Livingstone. Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea. There is only one thing wrong with all these reports: they come second or third hand, and are probably false. That is the surprising thesis of a new book called The Man-Eating Myth by Anthropologist William Arens, who believes cannibalism...
...origin of the myth, he thinks, is the tendency of every group to accuse its neighbors of cannibalism. The Arawaks and Caribs are good examples, and Mead was told about the Mundugumor by the Arapesh tribe. But Arens finds no reliable firsthand accounts of cannibalism. "Like the poor," he says, "cannibals are always with us, but happily just beyond the possibility of direct observation...
...than whites, and no one has yet designed a reputable test on which blacks do as well as whites.* He estimated that a quarter of the IQ gap was due to environmental and cultural differences, the rest to genetics. Liberal academics and blacks denounced Jensen as a racist. Margaret Mead and others staged an unsuccessful fight to strip the professor of his status as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the uproar over the Jensenist heresy, one black psychologist angrily called IQ testing "a multimillion-dollar supermarket of oppression," and the National Education Association...
...Dodd, Mead; 216 pages...
...Tribute to Margaret Mead--Emilie De Brigard, anthropological filmmaker, Science Center...