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  • Melinda Sordino-Anthropologist.†   (source)
  • Langdon's colleagues often joked that his place looked more like an anthropology museum than a home.†   (source)
  • Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.†   (source)
  • Chair: Professor Maryann Crescent Moon, Department of Caucasian Anthropology, University of Denay, Nunavit.†   (source)
  • Her mother, an anthropologist, is doing fieldwork on midwives in Thailand.†   (source)
  • "Rice is life," says the anthropologist Goncalo Santos, who has studied a traditional South Chinese village.†   (source)
  • Anthropologists think early primates (pre-humans) learned to use fire and cook about 1.†   (source)
  • The rapes are part of the general denigration and humiliation of Central Americans in Mexico, where the migrants are seen as inferior because they come from less developed countries, says Olivia Ruiz, a cultural anthropologist at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana.†   (source)
  • Only my medscanner and a few packets of anthropological software made useless by the destruction of my other equipment remained.†   (source)
  • "It was its own little community," said Cynthia Sadler, an anthropologist who worked on the project.†   (source)
  • According to the learned Charles Lindhorn, a professor of anthropology at Boston University, homicide rates among the Pashtun tribes are way lower than homicide rates in urban areas of the United States.†   (source)
  • He was a distinguished anthropologist, but putting him in charge of the Midway, Bloom said years later, "was about as intelligent a decision as it would be today to make Albert Einstein manager of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus."†   (source)
  • The same thing happens with a lot of those left-wing plays of the 1930s; they may have been fine as rallying cries in their day, but as works of lasting interest, they work for lots of us only as cultural anthropology.†   (source)
  • A homeless man was watching them, as an anthropologist would, from the sidewalk, miming the taking of notes.†   (source)
  • The potentials of all ethnic races and anthropologies to merge under a banner of the Three Principles to follow 1.†   (source)
  • They send cultural anthropologists into homes, stores, fast food restaurants, and other places where kids like to gather, quietly and surreptitiously observing the behavior of prospective customers.†   (source)
  • Anthropology.†   (source)
  • Mom was an anthropologist looking for ancient DNA.†   (source)
  • "Sort of like an anthropological case study," Jenny said.†   (source)
  • He still wasn't sure why he was there-it was like an anthropology experiment, in his mind.†   (source)
  • He taught social anthropology and law and bluntly spoke out against the government's social policies.†   (source)
  • But some, like Karen Feltz, the anthropologist councilwoman, began to do some research.†   (source)
  • But I'll point out to him that in strict anthropological terms, the culture of a primitive black society includes its dancing and singing.†   (source)
  • Lila found Pat via the anthropology department.†   (source)
  • AMELIA BAXTER-STOLTZFUS, an anthropology student at the University of Chicago, wrote her essay when she was still in high school in Princeton, New Jersey.†   (source)
  • And then Kirke, the anthropologist from Yale, who apparently was not going to be able to come.†   (source)
  • Mimmi was studying sociology in Stockholm, and she had an older sister studying anthropology in the States.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to end up being dependent on people I didn't respect much, so here I am majoring in anthropology instead.†   (source)
  • I was a student in the Department of Anthropology.†   (source)
  • PILKINGS Look, just when did you become a social anthropologist, that's what I'd like to know.†   (source)
  • Not that I'm an expert anthropologist or anything, but this first brief look at the village made me think of books and movies I'd seen about Europe back in medieval days.†   (source)
  • He might have been an anthropologist, as his remarks betrayed a belief that humans were animals defined by their inability to suppress their basest wants or to learn from history.†   (source)
  • I read in an anthropology book that Chinese say, "Girls are necessary too"; I have never heard the Chinese I know make this concession.†   (source)
  • I have studied objectively the anthropological arguments, the accepted cliches about cultural and ethnic differences.†   (source)
  • Were his reactions those of an anthropologist watching some primitive religious rite?†   (source)
  • I remember one of the professors was the famous anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski.†   (source)
  • It was possible; they did go in for certain subjects—international relations, political science, anthropology.†   (source)
  • Pathology, social medicine, politics, anthropology.†   (source)
  • He studied mostly science in his first two years of college, then focused on medical anthropology.†   (source)
  • Farmer was thirty-five now, on the rise in both medicine and anthropology.†   (source)
  • He was reading very widely, in anthropology and history and sociology and political science.†   (source)
  • He had graduated from Harvard Medical School and also had a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard.†   (source)
  • When he recovered, he went on sampling Haiti, and anthropology and medicine in the context of Haiti.†   (source)
  • He had told her that he was in Haiti mainly to do anthropology.†   (source)
  • For his graduate work in anthropology, Haiti had been a better site than Boston, obviously.†   (source)
  • Professor Jabavu taught Xhosa, as well as Latin, history, and anthropology.†   (source)
  • The most interesting ones I met were anthropology majors.†   (source)
  • I was just happy that he didn't look the part of the regular bug eaters in anthropology.†   (source)
  • I graduated from the University of Colorado in 2002 with a degree in anthropology.†   (source)
  • The guest waiting here looked nothing like the usual bookish, flannel-clad doctors who entered this building—those of anthropology, oceanography, geology, and other scientific fields.†   (source)
  • At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree.†   (source)
  • This first survey was just a small beginning, a piece of an apprenticeship in public health and medicine and also anthropology.†   (source)
  • But he was making an exception on this day, and he climbed the hill to do some work on his Ph.D. thesis in anthropology.†   (source)
  • These days, Didi and their two-year-old spent the academic year in Paris, where Didi was finishing her own studies in anthropology.†   (source)
  • The thesis was to be an "interpretive anthropology of affliction," combining evidence from ethnography, history, epidemiology, and economics.†   (source)
  • He had settled not for a synthesis between observing and acting, but for doctoring and public health work that would be partly guided by anthropology.†   (source)
  • He was near the head of the line for the big prizes in medical anthropology; some of his peers were now saying that he'd "redefined" the field.†   (source)
  • In an essay which he titled "The Anthropologist Within," Farmer wrote that, in the aftermath of that case, he'd wondered obsessively about the role anthropology should assume in his life.†   (source)
  • It's clear by the end of the essay that anthropology now interested him less as a discipline unto itself than as a tool for what he called "intervention."†   (source)
  • He got a fellowship to travel to Seoul and happened on an interesting story for his Ph.D. thesis in anthropology—it had to do with the Korean pharmaceutical industry.†   (source)
  • But practiced in that way, anthropology seemed "impotent" in the face of "everyday problems of adequate nutrition, clean water, and illness prevention."†   (source)
  • Some months after the official founding of pih, Farmer expanded the group, adding a fellow Harvard anthropology and medical student, a Korean American named Jim Yong Kim.†   (source)
  • Farmer was probably fortunate—certainly he thought so—to have done some work in anthropology and medicine and public health in Haiti before he studied those disciplines at Harvard.†   (source)
  • He'd come here to do ethnography, the kind of anthropology he most admired—learning about a culture, not through books and artifacts but from the people who had inherited and were making culture.†   (source)
  • He told her, in effect—I am using words he would put in print in an article about a year and a half later—that anthropology concerned itself less with measurement than with meaning.†   (source)
  • Often, if he could get away from medical school or his anthropology seminars early on Friday, he'd catch a flight to Haiti for a few days, sometimes just for the weekend.†   (source)
  • What is anthropology exactly?†   (source)
  • He was an infectious disease fellow in training at one of the world's best teaching hospitals, an assistant professor in medical anthropology at Harvard, and the author of two books and about two dozen articles.†   (source)
  • He was still spending most of his time in Haiti, but he was also a big-shot Boston doctor now, a professor of both medicine and medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School, and an attending specialist on the Brigham's senior staff.†   (source)
  • In addition to being an avid camper, she studied cultural anthropology and natural science in college.†   (source)
  • In my first year, I studied English, anthropology, politics, native administration, and Roman Dutch law.†   (source)
  • After that, I realized that anthropology is a great blend of history and supposition and mystery, all of which appealed to me.†   (source)
  • But I don't like a lot of the heavy postmodernist anthropology books that seem to dominate the field these days, and in any case those kinds of books aren't easy to come by in Hampton.†   (source)
  • Traditional anthropology is primarily interested in five areas: when man first began to evolve, when he started to walk upright, why there were so many hominid species, why and how those species evolved, and what all of that means for the evolutionary history of modem man.†   (source)
  • No anthropology texts?†   (source)
  • The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.†   (source)
  • Your anthropologist wasn't much of an expert, either.†   (source)
  • Following anthropological tradition, he'd give the village a pseudonym, Do Kay.†   (source)
  • Vertovec and other social anthropologists call this process decategorization.†   (source)
  • If anything, she acted more like an observant anthropologist, intent on studying newfound cultures.†   (source)
  • The anthropologist said she would do her part.†   (source)
  • As an anthropologist he was interested in every aspect of our culture.†   (source)
  • After this encounter Mark left the lady anthropologist alone.†   (source)
  • Anthropologists.†   (source)
  • Not only were we supplying raw anthropological data to the filmmakers, we were essentially being given our own personal casting call.†   (source)
  • The AIDS warning that girls write on their chests is from Olivia Ruiz, a cultural anthropologist at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, who researches the dangers migrants face riding trains through Chiapas.†   (source)
  • As the anthropologist Francesca Bray puts it, rice agriculture is "skill oriented": if you're willing to weed a bit more diligently, and become more adept at fertilizing, and spend a bit more time monitoring water levels, and do a better job keeping the claypan absolutely level, and make use of every square inch of your rice paddy, you'll harvest a bigger crop.†   (source)
  • The anthropologist Yunxiang Yan has noted that in the eyes of Beijing consumers, McDonald's represents "Americana and the promise of modernization."†   (source)
  • The Dahomans also competed, as did the Turks, "some of them as hairy as gorillas," the Tribune said, with the anthropological abandon common to the age.†   (source)
  • King Billy is said to remind anthropologists of the worry dolls of the Outback Kinshasa, to make Zen Gnostics recall the Pitiful Buddha after the temple fire on Tai Zhin, and to send media historians rushing to their archives to check photos of an ancient flat-film movie actor named Charles Laughton.†   (source)
  • There, in the forest at the edge of town, he decided to devote his life to an ambitious anthropological experiment.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of June, Chris, still in Atlanta, mailed his parents a copy of his final grade report: A in Apartheid and South African Society and History of Anthropological Thought; A minus in Contemporary African Politics and the Food Crisis in Africa.†   (source)
  • But he was also an anthropologist in training, schooled in the importance of the kinds of cultural beliefs that the professionals cited.†   (source)
  • Early the following year, a Harvard Medical School publication printed Farmer's essay "The Anthropologist Within."†   (source)
  • "A great many beliefs and practices in Haitian magic originate from Normandy, Berry, Picardy or ancient Limousin," writes the anthropologist Alfred Métraux.†   (source)
  • He took four courses in Paris, among them the last ever taught by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, so infirm by then he had to be carried up onto the stage.†   (source)
  • Paul and I are anthropologists.†   (source)
  • In an essay which he titled "The Anthropologist Within," Farmer wrote that, in the aftermath of that case, he'd wondered obsessively about the role anthropology should assume in his life.†   (source)
  • Jim said, "And let me just conclude this, my brief remarks here at this tb All-Star Weekend, by paraphrasing someone of our tribe, of Paul's tribe and my tribe of anthropologists.†   (source)
  • He wrote his senior honors thesis on "gender inequality and depression," no doubt in part because the medical anthropologists he knew were all psychiatrists.†   (source)
  • A doctor who knew nothing about local beliefs might end up at war with Voodoo priests, but a doctor-anthropologist who understood those beliefs could find ways to make Voodoo houngans his allies.†   (source)
  • Early on certain professors at the medical school—especially the eminent anthropologist Arthur Kleinman and the equally eminent child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg—had taken a shine to Farmer and licensed his unorthodox habits of attendance.†   (source)
  • Here's an influential anthropologist, medical diplomat, public health administrator, epidemiologist, who has helped to bring new resolve and hope to some of the world's most dreadful problems, and he's just spent seven hours making house calls.†   (source)
  • He had worked as a volunteer in the emergency room at Duke's university hospital and had begun applying to the two schools, Harvard and Case Western Reserve, where one could get a joint degree as a doctor-anthropologist.†   (source)
  • …on mdr patients in Peru, which he had to read and respond to carefully; worried and worrisome messages about projects in which pih was involved, in Russia and Chiapas and Guatemala and Roxbury; affectionate greetings and requests for advice from priests and nuns and anthropologists and health bureaucrats and fellow doctors, in Cuba, London, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Paris, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa; and always a few queries like this: "Just a wrench to throw in your head.†   (source)
  • The dust jacket identified him as "a physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field."†   (source)
  • Dunbar has combed through the anthropological literature and found that the number 150 pops up again and again.†   (source)
  • So I started calling up experts in all kinds of fields: trial lawyers, neurosurgeons, CIA agents, embryologists, fire-walkers, police chiefs, hypnotists, forensic anthropologists, and even presidents.†   (source)
  • While I was studying to be an anthropologist, I was also working as a police reporter for the famous Chicago City News Bureau for twenty-eight dollars a week.†   (source)
  • In Micronesia, the anthropologist Donald Rubinstein writes, these rituals have become embedded in the local culture.†   (source)
  • What would an anthropologist say about the student body of Sterling High, based on the Wonder-bread sandwiches scarred by only one bite; the tub of Cherry Bomb lip gloss with a fingerprint still skimming the surface; the salt-and-pepper composition notebooks filled with study sheets on Aztec civilization and margin notes about the current one: I luv Zach S!†   (source)
  • The case for a social capacity has been made, most persuasively, by the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar.†   (source)
  • If it all seems a bit theoretical, Vertovec and other social anthropologists point out that there are already many well-functioning examples of large communities that have successfully gone through this process: practically every cosmopolitan metropolis in the world.†   (source)
  • For Karen Feltz, a chain-smoking anthropologist and city council member, it was when she noticed a Liberian woman in her neighborhood walking up and down the street with a jug on her head, cursing at the devil.†   (source)
  • The story of Sima is beautifully told by the anthropologist Donald H. Rubinstein in several papers, among them: "Love and Suffering: Adolescent Socialization and Suicide in Micronesia," Contemporary Pacific (Spring 1 995), vol. no. I, pp. 21-53.†   (source)
  • Social scientists refer to the state of being between worlds as liminality, which the anthropologist Victor Turner described as the state in which a person "becomes ambiguous, neither here nor there, betwixt and between all fixed points of classification; he passes through a symbolic domain that has few or none of the attributes of his past or coming state."†   (source)
  • For instance, anthropologists who study vervets find that these kinds of monkeys are really bad at picking up the significance of things like an antelope carcass hanging in a tree (which is a sure sign that a leopard is in the vicinity) or the presence of python tracks.†   (source)
  • "Several suicide victims and several who have recently attempted suicide reported having a vision in which a boat containing all the past victims circles the island with the deceased inviting the potential victims to join them," a visiting anthropologist wrote in 1975.†   (source)
  • White professors who had virtually dedicated their lives and their academic careers as historians, anthropologists, sociologists, to the problems of racism and its cures, thinking they did this for the good of the oppressed victims of racism (and often suffering social and academic insults as a result), were asked to leave schools in favor of black teachers.†   (source)
  • …in some haste, so it was not until she got down to the job of typing it out for the printer that she began to glimpse seething in that cauldron of historical allusions and dialectical hypotheses and religious imperatives and legal precedents and anthropological propositions the smoky, ominous presence of a single word—repeated several times—which quite baffled and confounded and frightened her, appearing as it did in this otherwise persuasively practical text, this clever polemic which…†   (source)
  • He might himself be putting on a superb act, following the performance by logic alone and with his own strange emotions completely untouched, as an anthropologist might take part in some primitive rite.†   (source)
  • "Now?" asked the anthropologist, rolling up her slacks, and out she stepped—into a hole and up to her armpits.†   (source)
  • He is going on a five-hour trip tomorrow on his son's seiner, and if the lady anthropologist cares to go along, the time should be ample.†   (source)
  • On the afternoon the lady anthropologist left, the tide was out and the seaplane could not put down on the river, so Mark and Jim took her to the float in one of the canoes.†   (source)
  • In the latter third of the month, an English woman anthropologist came to visit the village, housed, by arrangements of the Indian Agent with a couple who were among the very few of the tribe who were not Christians and did not attend church.†   (source)
  • The descent of the Occidental sciences from the heavens to the earth (from seventeenth-century astronomy to nineteenth-century biology), and their concentration today, at last, on man himself (in twentieth-century anthropology and psychology),mark the path of a prodigious transfer of the focal point of human wonder.†   (source)
  • Now if she had gone into business; had become a manufacturer of artificial silk or a magnate on the Stock Exchange; if she had left two or three hundred thousand pounds to Fernham, we could have been sitting at our ease to-night and the subject of our talk might have been archaeology, botany, anthropology, physics, the nature of the atom, mathematics, astronomy, relativity, geography.†   (source)
  • Had we a science with the courage and authority to concern itself with mankind, instead of with the mechanism merely of vital phenomena, had we something of the nature of an anthropology, or a psychology, these matters of fact would be familiar to every one.†   (source)
  • He supposed that his readings in anthropology caused him to take such a coarse view of what was after all a simple and natural demonstration of family feeling; but when he remembered that the Wellands did not expect the wedding to take place till the following autumn, and pictured what his life would be till then, a dampness fell upon his spirit.†   (source)
  • Articulate among them would be the great Jung, bland, super-vigorous, on his rounds between the forests of anthropology and the neuroses of school-boys.†   (source)
  • "But I wish, instead of limiting ourselves either to the Bible, or to anecdotes about the Brothers Adam's wigs, which Culture Hints seems to regard as the significant point about furniture, we could study some of the really stirring ideas that are springing up today—whether it's chemistry or anthropology or labor problems—the things that are going to mean so terribly much."†   (source)
  • After reading several books on anthropology, education, and didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of education, and engaging the best tutor in Petersburg to superintend it, he set to work, and the subject continually absorbed him.†   (source)
  • Oh, anthropological data— Stage Manager.†   (source)
  • Yes, something — ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in — anthropological studies!†   (source)
  • 65 It is still uncertain by what means and in what eras the mythological and cultural patterns of the various archaic civiliLations may have been disseminated to the farthest corners of the earth; yet it can be stated categorically that few (if any) of the so-called "primitive cultures" studied by our anthropologists represent autochthonous growths.†   (source)
  • It's some kind of an anthropological report about—about Customs, in the South Seas, and what it doesn't SAY!†   (source)
  • He hates the preachers who talk their fables, but he iss not too kindly to the anthropologists and historians who can only make guesses, yet they have the nerf to call themselves scientists!†   (source)
  • He listened to it all with anthropological interest, even asked to hear some Russian spoken as well; and the muddy, barbaric, boneless tongue from the East flowed swiftly out of Herr Ferge's good-natured protruding Adam's apple and from under his good-natured moustache.†   (source)
  • We also visited the anthropological department, and I was much interested in the relics of ancient Mexico, in the rude stone implements that are so often the only record of an age—the simple monuments of nature's unlettered children (so I thought as I fingered them) that seem bound to last while the memorials of kings and sages crumble in dust away—and in the Egyptian mummies, which I shrank from touching.†   (source)
  • A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum.†   (source)
  • If enough of us do this impolitely enough, then we'll become civilized in merely twenty thousand years or so, instead of having to wait the two hundred thousand years that my cynical anthropologist friends allow….†   (source)
  • It is not a mere skeleton; it is an entire body, preserved for a purely anthropological end and purpose.†   (source)
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