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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 66, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedFOR many years, Peter Knecht diligently worked in Nagoya, Japan, as a professor of anthropology for Nanzan University, as the editor of Asian Folklore Studies, and as a researcher for the Nanzan Anthropological...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN DESCRIBING LATE-NINETEENTH- and early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires, Argentine historians often invoke the category of "progress." Basing their analysis on the immense economic and urban growth of the period,...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5924)Claude Levi-Strauss was, in 1981, ranked by a poll of French intellectuals as the country's most influential thinker. After his death in 2009, he "has come to rest, rather, as a giant figure in the French cultural...
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From:Oceanic Linguistics (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPer Hage died of leukemia on the 25th of July 2004, just as he was hitting his stride in world kinship studies. His interests in the Pacific had been especially welcome in a region that had seen little linguistic or...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 76, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedI would like to note the following from the outset here. Academics are, by definition, supposed to be experts within some knowledge area. Such expertise typically means a research program and a career's worth of work...
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From: Intertexts[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Boxwell examines the portrayal of New York’s Fire Island in Tristes tropiques, arguing that Lévi-Strauss’s descriptions are “not simply a matter of homophobic revulsion.” He...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 37, Issue 3)In The Art of War, Sun Tzu admonishes military strategists to know the enemy. Twice in the 1940s, the British anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer tried to help the United States apply Sun Tzu's lesson, analyzing the Japanese...
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From:Journal of the SouthwestPeer-ReviewedThis section is the sum total of the surveys and inventories both my father and I have made of the major Apache rancheria in the Sierra las Espuelas mountains in Mexico, some thirty miles south of the New Mexico boot...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 28, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe interactions of two distinct groups, broadly defined as Native American populations and individuals associated with the museum profession, primarily anthropologists, have fueled countless studies, manuscripts,...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed* The English-language master film of Char Wonderful World, a popular Japanese television series inspired by Japanese anthropologists and guided by French anthropologist Jean Rouch, was recently deposited in the Human...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWriting of his encounters with a Sonoran sorcerer, Carlos Castaneda describes his experience of flight under the influence of datura. To the question "Did I really fly, don Juan?" his benefactor explains that, while in...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 70, Issue 1)A Scientist Reconstructs Biography I have always been intrigued by missing links. The factual pillars of knowledge are of less interest to me than the gaps between them, the spaces and the voids, the hidden...
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From:Ethnology (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe involvement of American anthropologists in the post-World War II colonial administration of Micronesia was unusual in several aspects. First, it was initiated at a time when American anthropology had already been...
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From:Journal of the Southwest (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEmil Haury's "first and secret ambition" to be an archaeologist grew from early childhood. His formal introduction into the discipline came much later, at the age of 21, during the summer of 1925 when he helped Byron...
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From:Journal of the SouthwestPeer-ReviewedAlthough Grenville Goodwin was only thirty-three when he died in 1940, he had published several papers and two books about the Western Apache. Soon after his death, his great friend, anthropologist Edward Spicer, wrote...
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From:Ethnology (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCross-cultural research currently has a refugee status in anthropology. I explain why this is so by briefly tracing the history of cross-cultural research from the time of Tylor to the present. The main problem for...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhat were the significance and the impact, for Claude Levi-Strauss, of his experience as a refugee in New York between May 1941 and December 1944? If one follows Levi-Strauss's late reconstructions, his exile appears...
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From:Journal of the SouthwestPeer-ReviewedThe people who built the rancherias in the Sierra las Espuelas and the people of the other scattered bands to the south were the last holdouts, the survivors of the longest war waged against an indigenous people by...
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From:Asian Folklore Studies (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStephen Fuchs SVD (1908-2000) Founder of the Institute of Indian Culture DR. STEPHEN FUCHS SVD, well-known among anthropologists, folklorists, and other social scientists, passed away peacefully on 17 January 2000...
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From:Claremont Review of Books (Vol. 8, Issue 1)Books by Akbar S. Ahmed discussed in this essay: Stanley Kurtz Resistance and Control in Pakistan: Revised Edition. Routledge, 206 pages, $145 (cloth), $39.95 (paper) Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a...