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Marion Levy Jr., Authority on the Modernization of Societies, Dies at 83

June 17, 2002
By ERIC PACE






Marion J. Levy Jr., a scholar of sociology and
international affairs who wrote about modernization theory,
which seeks to explain why some societies undergo rapid
economic development and corresponding social change, died
on May 26 in Princeton, N.J., where he lived. He was 83.

The cause was complications from Parkinson's disease,
according to Princeton University.

Dr. Levy retired in 1989 as Musgrave Professor of Sociology
and International Affairs at Princeton. He had taught there
since 1947 and was chairman of its department of East Asian
studies for a time.

He once said that "the fundamental problem posed by
modernization is whether human animals can adjust as
readily to longevity, affluence, and peace as they have in
the past to shortgevity, poverty, and war." He predicted
that life in a modernized world "is likely to become
crowded, affluent, nasty, brutish and long."

His writings include the book "Modernization: Latecomers
and Survivors" (1972), and the two-volume work
"Modernization and the Structure of Societies" (1966),
which examined the differences between societies that were
relatively nonmodernized and those that were relatively
modernized. He carried out innovative scholarship about why
Japan, not China, was in the vanguard of modernization in
Asia, concluding that while many assumed the two countries
were similar when they were first opened to Western
influence, in reality the similarities were only
superficial.

Marion Joseph Levy was born and raised in Galveston, Tex.,
was a Navy lieutenant in Asia in World War II and received
a doctorate in sociology from Harvard.

He is survived by his wife, Joy; a daughter, Dore J. Levy
of Providence, R.I., who is a professor of comparative
literature and East Asian studies at Brown; two sons, Noah,
of Atlanta, and Amos, of Manhattan; five grandchildren; and
a sister, Ruth Levy Kempner of Galveston.

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   A Two-Way Bridge Across the Digital Divide

   By RON EGLASH

    When most of us talk about the digital divide, we
   characterize the people on one side as those with plenty of
   technology, and the people on the other side as those who lack
   it. Concerned that the have-nots may lose economic ground
   because of that difference, we often propose a sort of one-way
   bridge, across which the haves can send computers and
   camcorders and other gadgets to the have-nots. We seem to have
   no problem celebrating the culture of the have-nots --
   numerous IBM and Microsoft commercials feature colorful Third
   World "content providers" -- but we usually assume that we
   have nothing to learn from them technologically. Further, we
   assume that culture is irrelevant on the have side -- that
   artifacts of modern technology are neutral, universally
   applicable tools.

   What if we stopped assuming such a simplistic division and
   tried to get the two sides to exchange material? What would it
   mean to create a two-way bridge?

   I have found some hints of what a two-way bridge might look
   like in a software-design project that my students and I are
   developing with students, teachers, and cultural
   representatives at the Shoshone-Bannock reservation in
   southern Idaho.

   The project began in the spring of 2000 when James J. Barta,
   an associate professor of elementary education at Utah State
   University, invited me to meet with teachers at the
   Shoshone-Bannock secondary school to discuss ethnomathematics
   -- the study of mathematical ideas in different cultures --
   which is my field.

   Barta had been working with teachers at the primary school on
   the reservation on the use of Shoshone words and images to
   teach counting. He had read my book, African Fractals: Modern
   Computing and Indigenous Design (Rutgers University Press,
   1999), and he was interested in how I used computer models of
   indigenous designs -- like textiles and cornrow braiding -- to
   make ethnomathematics relevant to secondary-school math
   curriculums. Could we use Shoshone-Bannock designs in similar
   ways?

   After Barta and I met with several Shoshone-Bannock educators,
   including Drusilla Gould, a member of the Shoshone tribe and
   an adjunct instructor of American Indian studies at Idaho
   State University, and teachers at the reservation's secondary
   school, we concluded that the geometric patterns in
   Shoshone-Bannock beadwork -- a vibrant art form on the
   reservation -- would be a good subject for computer-based
   ethnomathematics.

   Marcos E. Galindo, a science teacher at the secondary school,
   was particularly enthusiastic about the possibility of using
   computer models of traditional Shoshone-Bannock knowledge of
   nature to teach ecology, botany, and other natural sciences.
   He and I came up with a vague plan for a simulation game, and
   he offered to provide local leadership. Because he was already
   mixing science teaching with traditional culture, he was used
   to mediating between the school and cultural representatives
   of the tribe.

   Back at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, I assembled a team
   to help me, including Bruce R. Piper, an associate professor
   of mathematical sciences, and several undergraduate and
   graduate students. For the natural-science project, we decided
   to create a computer game along the lines of SimCity, in which
   players have to make sure that an imaginary population has
   enough resources to survive. We prepared a storyboard to show
   how the game might work. For the ethnomathematics of beadwork,
   I created a virtual bead loom, or VBL, that allowed users to
   produce bead patterns on the computer screen.

   In November 2000, one of the students and I took the
   storyboard and the VBL to the secondary school on the
   reservation, to get feedback.

   The VBL was a clear success with the Shoshone-Bannock teachers
   and students. The Web page
   (http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/csdt/na/loom/overvw.htm) begins by
   showing the prevalence of fourfold symmetry in Native American
   design, where the four winds or four directions provide an
   indigenous analog to the Cartesian coordinate system with its
   x and y axes. On the virtual loom, visitors to the Web site
   can enter x and y coordinates for bead positions and choose
   colors to create patterns similar to those on a real loom.
   Teachers and students at the reservation school were
   enthusiastic about using the software to make art, as well as
   to study the mathematics embedded in traditional bead
   patterns.

   The storyboard, however, was a near disaster. The RPI students
   had based their simulation concepts on games they knew well --
   in particular, Dark Ages, in which players become medieval
   characters attempting to develop and defend a village. The
   students and teachers at the Shoshone-Bannock school pointed
   out that a simulation in which everyone stayed in one spot
   replicated the reservation system, with all its flaws -- not
   their tribe's traditional life. They recommended a
   more-accurate simulation that would show people migrating from
   one area to another with the seasons, and that would teach
   players about the traditional technologies and activities
   associated with each area. For example, players could catch
   salmon with a fish weir in the spring, and winnow pine nuts
   with a special basket in the winter.

   Prototypes of technologies for the revised game are available
   online (see
   http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.dir/nacyb.dir/shoban.dir
   /overview.html), along with some beautiful three-dimensional
   simulations and creative mutations of traditional technologies
   created by Shoshone-Bannock students in Ed Galindo's science
   camp last summer.

   The shift to a dynamic combination of movements through space
   and time was particularly telling. It showed us that the
   have-not side of the digital divide had important
   technological resources, and that the programmers' culture had
   as much of an impact on their designs as their technology did.

   Shoshone-Bannock beadworkers had more technology for us.
   Because creating an online pattern one bead at a time was too
   tedious, we introduced shape tools (e.g., the user can enter
   just three pairs of coordinates, one for each point, to get a
   triangle). But our virtual triangles often had uneven edges,
   whereas real Shoshone-Bannock beadwork always had perfectly
   regular edges. It turned out that we had used a standard
   scanning algorithm to make triangles. Somehow, the beadworkers
   had algorithms in their heads that were better. After a few
   conversations with them, we realized that they were using
   iterative rules -- e.g., start each new row three beads to the
   left of the row before. We are incorporating their algorithms
   into the next version of the VBL.

   That was another opportunity to see a two-way bridge. The
   standard scanning algorithm was not universal, but an artifact
   of computer culture. And the Shoshone-Bannock beadwork was not
   just cultural content, but effective technology.

   There are larger lessons to be learned here. The digital
   divide is just the latest version of a long conversation about
   haves and have-nots. Whether we are talking about technology,
   health, education, or jobs, we can create problems if we talk
   only about absence -- that is, if we reduce one side to
   have-nots. At the same time, we must not ignore the social
   causes of such absence. Thinking in terms of two-way bridges
   allows us to combine social critique with an appreciation of
   cultural resources.

   Creating two-way bridges often involves translating ideas from
   one domain to another -- say, from art to math, or from
   computer science to cultural studies. Academics can serve as
   translators, but only if we overcome our own divisions. I
   sometimes hear scientists disparage qualitative interpretation
   as mere personal opinion, and humanists dismiss objectivity as
   inherently oppressive. As a first step, we need a two-way
   bridge across the disciplinary divide.

   Ron Eglash is an assistant professor of science and technology
   studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


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Where anthropology and poetry meet

It is no coincidence that many anthropologists write poetry,
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The developments in contemporary anthropology and in poetry, he
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Clifford Possum, a Painter of Aboriginal Masterworks, Dies

June 30, 2002
By JOHN SHAW






SYDNEY, Australia, June 29 - Clifford Possum, who painted
some of the masterpieces of Australian aboriginal art, died
on June 21 in Alice Springs in the Australian desert, an
ancient landscape he depicted in the mythical terms central
to his heritage. He was about 70, art historians said.

In accordance with tribal tradition, details of his death,
the long illness that preceded it and his exact age were
not disclosed by his family.

Mr. Possum, known among the Ammatyerre people as Kumuntjayi
Tjapaltjarri, was the first Australian aboriginal artist to
gain international recognition. He cleared the paths to
artistic and economic success that many indigenous painters
have followed since the 1970's by invoking sources and
spiritual beliefs thought to be many thousands of years
old.

Since 1974, Mr. Possum's paintings, mixing symbolism and
abstraction, have been shown in solo and group exhibitions
and sold to major galleries and collections in Australia,
the United States, Europe and Asia.

His work had its first public exhibition in the United
States in 1980, in Los Angeles. His first major New York
exhibition was in a group show at the Asia Society in 1988.


In the United States, his work is in the collections of the
Kelton Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif., the Lowe Art
Museum at the University of Miami, and the Pacific Asia
Museum in Los Angeles.

On June 24, five of his works were sold in Melbourne at
Sotheby's Australia for more than $20,000 each; one,
"Love-Sun Dreaming," was bought by private collectors for
$60,000.

The record auction price for a Possum painting is $68,000,
paid by an Australian public gallery last year for one of
his earliest works, a 1972 landscape. At the time he
painted it, some of his depictions of what is known as the
Dreaming, a legendary time akin to creation or Genesis in
other cultures, were selling for less than $50.

Although works by other aboriginal artists have sold for
much higher prices, Mr. Possum essentially made them
possible.

Art historians here trace his birth to about 1932 in a
desert tribal community that was making a difficult
transition from nomadism.

Mr. Possum, who adopted that name for nontribal use after a
stay in the 1940's at a Christian mission where he was
nursed for malnutrition, began painting after 15 years of
work on a cattle ranch. Earlier, he had shown skill at
carving snakes and lizards in wood.

At Papunya, a remote government settlement for the desert
people, a teacher, Geoffrey Bordon, encouraged aborigines
to counter feelings of alienation by recording traditional
images and themes in modern media, like acrylic paint on
hardboard and later on canvas. This was the cradle of the
Desert Painters movement in aboriginal art. In 1971 the
artists formed a cooperative; Mr. Possum was chairman for
10 years.

Dr. Vivien Johnson, a historian of indigenous art at
Macquarie University in Sydney, wrote that Mr. Possum
quickly showed himself to be "an accomplished and inventive
artist, an exponent of striking multilayered visual
effects, meticulously rendered."

Tim Klingender, director of the indigenous art department
of Sotheby's Australia, said that many collectors and
galleries rated Mr. Possum "high in the pantheon of
aboriginal painters" for his "innovative visual language
and complex narratives of myths."

In June, the Australian government awarded Mr. Possum the
Order of Australia medal for his service to the art
movement and to the indigenous people.

Manipulative art dealers and forgers, one of whom was
convicted, marred his later years. He also experienced
personal problems after moving from his desert community in
1985 to the bustling township of Alice Springs.

Critics and collectors rate his numerous works since the
1980's below his achievements in the 70's, and his scarcer
earlier canvases draw higher prices.

Mr. Klingender estimated that several such works in private
American collections would bring about $500,000 each if
sold at auction now.

Mr. Possum's survivors include two daughters, Gabriella and
Michelle; a son, Lionel; and 11 grandchildren.

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Preface for El Dorado Task Force Papers

At its February meeting, 2001, the Executive Board of the AAA established a
five-member Task Force, with AAA Past President Jane Hill serving as chair, to
conduct an inquiry into the allegations contained in Darkness in El Dorado by
Patrick Tierney. The Task Force considered allegations concerning (1) the
fieldwork practices of anthropologists, (2) representations and portrayals of
the Yanomami that may have had a negative impact, (3) efforts to create
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Dorado Task Force.

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Blindness, and malaria. Their land, livelihood, and lives are imperiled.
Central to the Task Force's concerns is the future of the Yanomami and the ways
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provide opportunities for all anthropologists to consider the ethics of several
dimensions of the anthropological enterprise.

Third, Darkness in El Dorado calls attention to the dire plight of the Yanomami
and other indigenous people of the Amazon and has caused anthropologists to
reflect deeply upon the ways in which they conduct research. However, the book
contains numerous unfounded, misrepresented, and sensationalistic accusations
about the conduct of anthropology among the Yanomami. These misrepresentations
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Report. The AAA will also make these materials available to Yanomami groups.

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consider those issues raised in the El Dorado Task Force Report relating to the
current and future conditions of the Yanomami and other indigenous communities
in South America, and to devise appropriate responses in collaboration with
appropriate indigenous communities and South American colleagues. We look to
the newly named AAA Commission on the Status of Indigenous Peoples in South
America to lead these efforts.

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the El Dorado Task Force Report for anthropological research, practice, and
training in the 21st century. We look to the Committee on Ethics to be central
in these efforts.

6) The Board encourages the development of programs at the Annual Meetings of
the AAA, Section meetings, and other fora to continue discussion of the major
issues for anthropological theory, methods, and practice raised by the Report:
collaborative research; representation of research findings; the complex
relation between anthropological representations and the uses of anthropology
outside the profession; the moral responsibilities inherent in accusation;
health issues of vulnerable populations; the complex questions of who speaks
for whom on indigenous issues; informed consent and human subject review
procedures; anthropology's role and responsibilities in the field of global
structures of inequality.

7) AAA will take the initiative in facilitating discussion between the Yanomami
and the scientists who hold their blood or other bodily samples as to the
disposition of those materials.

The Board expresses its deep appreciation to Janet Chernela, Fernando Coronil,
Ray Hames, Trudy Turner, and Joe Watkins for their participation on the Task
Force, to Kim Guthrie for providing staff support for the Task Force, to all
those who participated in the inquiry and subsequent conversations, and,
particularly, to Jane H. Hill for her extraordinary service as Task Force
Chair.
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Prehistoric Art"


CALL IN ORDER TO FOUND TOGETHER THE  "SCIENCE OF THE PREHISTORIC ART ",
THAT WE HAVE CALLED  PALEOARTEOLOGY.

                         Licia Filingeri and Pietro Gaietto
                              Genova, Italy, Europe
                   in synergy with Liguria Paleolithic Art Magazine

                         THE REASONS OF THE NEW SCIENCE
Currently the prehistoric art is studied with the methods of the "history
of the art", that are not apt to the study of the prehistoric art.
In order to become aware of the difficulty in which are the studies of the
prehistoric art, it is sufficient to analyze how much have made the other
sciences that study the Man.
The Paleoanthropology, through the study of the fossil remains, gives to us
a complete picture of the evolutive process of the man and all over in the
world, with continuous updatings, result of always new discoveries.
The Palethnology (material culture) gives to us a complete picture from the
origins of the fabrication of the artefacts and all over the world, always
with continuous updatings for the discovery of new sites.
For the prehistoric art, instead, there are no studies of whole. In order
to having a general vision of the prehistoric art, a book does not exist,
because a science of the prehistoric art does not exist, and therefore, who
wants to be documented, must consult some hundred of books.
For it, who loves the prehistoric art (scientist, amateur and owner of
website of prehistoric art), is invited to contribute to the foundation of
the Paleoarteology.

              SUGGESTIONS IN ORDER TO CONSTRUCT THE PALEOARTEOLOGY
To him who wants to participate to the foundation of  the "science of the
prehistoric art", we give some suggestions about these that could be the
methods and the criteria of definition, which, however, can be accepted all
or in part; indeed, we hope that the participants add many suggestions on
the base of their experience.
1)  The Paleoarteology would have to comprise the Paleolithic, the
Mesolithic, the Neolithic, the Age of the Metals, and the Ethnography until
our days. They would remain excluded the peoples with writing, appanage of
the "history of the art".

2)  Object of study of the Paleoarteology would be the sculpture, the
paintings in cave and outside cave, the rock graffiti, the menhir, the
dolmen, the first architecture, the decorated tools, the ceramics, etc.

3)  The art was produced for cult rituals, that is for the religion.
Therefore, in the study, to classify it like such; as an example: if it is
matter of zoomorphic paintings in cave,  one different from the other, put
it under the entry "magical rituals" or other denomination; if instead it
is matter of post-paleolithic sculptures with representation of always
equal divinities, then use the "idolatry" word.
However, the religions are so many, as the several types of art, and are
all to interpret, and will have to be invented some names in order to
classify them.

4)   Important is the study of the styles. The style is the language of the
art, that is of the representation. As an example, the man near every
prehistoric civilization is represented in a different style (lengthened,
geometric, with abolition of particulars like the features of the face, or
of the feet, much realistic, etc). Therefore will have to be found new
denominations for the styles, in how much these now in use are
insufficient; as an example: style I, II, III, etc,  or schematic style, or
stylized, etc.

5)   A lot important is the Linguistic (the writing), the most ancient of
the sciences. This science does not regard the Prehistory, but traces its
limits. An example: recently, in a conference near the International
Institute of Studi Liguri of Genova, we have learned about the inscription
of celtic names in Etruscan writing on works of prehistoric art of people
without writing of northern Italy. Therefore, co-existence of different art
and religions, between three people in contact, probably for commercial
causes .

6)   Have to be promoted regional, continental and intercontinental
parallelisms, both for affinity, and for diversity. As an example:
Valcamonica, Northern Italy (130,000 petroglyphs ), with a people without
writing but specialized in the working of the wrought iron (weapons, tools,
etc). They have been found trades relations with Mycene (Peloponneso,
Greece). The Camuni and the Myceneans  had different religions and
different artistic applications. The Myceneans had sculptures of divinities
all equal, therefore "idolatry". Therefore, co-existence of different art
and religions, between two peoples (civilizations) in contact.

7)   The Paleoarteology must program the study of the evolution of the art.
This evolution, however, does not concern all the components of the art
work, which are many. We cite alone three: the represented subject depends
from the religion, therefore, if changes the religion, changes the subject;
the style, that is the stylistic deformation, does not have evolution, but
only transformation, and does not have quality, at least in our opinion;
the working technique, instead, has evolution, in how much in the time we
can see improvements of the quality of the art work. The connections
between the works of art of a civilization with those of an other, from
which it is believed that this can derivate, are not made from the whole of
the art works, but from the several components of every work of art.

8)   In order to construct the Paleoarteology it is necessary, also, see
again all the studies on the prehistoric art made in the past, nothing must
be considered obsolete, at most there are to see again the datings, and
rediscussing the interpretations.

9)   In the publication of photographies of prehistoric art it is necessary
to put complete figure captions comprising:
- explanation of the represented subject (e.g.: man with arc, taurus in
race, etc.)
- shape of artistic expression (e.g.: sculpture, graffito, etc.)
- material used (e.g.: granito, ivory, etc.)
- dating (if it is known)
- attribution of the material culture (e.g.: Mesolithic, Neolithic, etc.)
- the size: height, width, long.
- the people who have produced it (e.g.: Celts, Ligurians, etc.)
- the origin zone (e.g.: cave of..., Diggings of..., etc.)
- the actual collocation (es: Museum of...,etc)

10) In the publication of photographies of prehistoric art it is necessary
to previlegiate the more meaningful works of a period, instead talk, then
the aesthetic appreciation. Moreover, to avoid the photographies of single
particulars of the art work. Every work must be photographed complete, and,
in the case of sculptures, if they have images on more sides, all must be
photographed.


                             RULES FOR THE PARTICIPATION
1)  Who wants to patecipare to the foundation of a Paleoarteology must send
his proposals to us, or to communicate if he approves the 10 expressed
suggestions or some of these, bringing eventual modifications or addings.
We have been synthetic, but in order to determine exactly  some methods,
criteria of classification and constructing a general picture of the
evolution of the art, it  is necessary to widen a lot what we have written,
and is necessary the experience of all.
Writing to us, please say the BELONGING NATION (e.g.: France, Japan, etc),
and, if you are available TO SUMMARIZE the MAILS that will arrive to us
from your Nation. It is important that at least one person for Nation
produces a synthesis of mails of his Nation.
2)  Owners of websites that have for partial or total object the
prehistoric art, if they wish to participate to the foundation of the
Paleoarteology, are authorized to publish this our call, and to receive
letters from their readers. These mails will be sended from the several
websites to one or more scientists or amateurs of the belonging Nation,
which will make a summary of all the mails of their Nation.
The several websites must obviously take contact between them and with us
for the sorting of the mails.
3)  The mails of the participants must be sended to the websites WITHIN
SEPTEMBER, 30, 2002.
4)  The people in charge to summarize the mails of every Nation, will
receive mails every time arrived to the website. These summaries will have
to be ready WITHIN NOVEMBER, 15, 2002, better if before, and will have to
be sent to all the websites attending to it, that, if they want, can begin
to publish them.
5) This program is set up for being AUTOMANAGED  BY SCIENTISTS, AMATEURS
and OWNERS OF WEBSITES  OF PREHISTORIC ART, then these summaries will have
to be transmitted, through the several websites, to persons who make the
summary of the mails  of every Nation of the own Continent, in order to
obtain the proposals from AFRICA, AMERICA, ASIA, EUROPE, OCEANIA.
6)  It will follow a summary of the proposals of the five Continents.
7)  The participants to the foundation of the Palearteologia, both the
persons and  the websites, will be enrolled in a Album in memory of this
event.
8)  All the results will be published on the Liguria Paleolithic Art
Magazine (http://web.tiscalinet.it/liguriapaleoart/)
9) For further information, and in order to send the mail with your
opinions: e-mail
Prof. Licia Filingeri
filingeri@...
Genova, Italy, July 8, 2002


Pietro Gaietto
Editor

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Human Nature Review  2002 Volume 2: 277-278 ( 9 July )
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Book Review

Language and Thought: Interdisciplinary Themes
edited by Peter Carruthers and Jill Boucher. Cambridge: Cambridge University
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Reviewed by Ann Dowker, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of
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Volunteer Position Announcement: Assistant Underwriting
Coordinator, Archaeological Legacy Institute

Background: Underwriting, the nonprofit form of sponsorship, is
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UNDERCUTTING A KEY MISSION: Grim state-budget forecasts are
forcing some community colleges to consider turning away
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EMBATTLED IN BRITAIN: The closing of a university's
cultural-studies department is a sign not of weakness in the
discipline but of the sorry state of British higher education,
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African-American studies at Yale University.
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MAGAZINES & JOURNALS

A glance at the July/August issue of "Clamor":
Beauty as beheld by the Masai

In a theme issue on fashion, beauty, and culture, Robert
Biswas-Diener writes on how beauty is viewed by the Masai people
of eastern Africa. They "appear to have a uniquely healthy
outlook on physical attractiveness," and one that is very
different from that of most Americans, writes Mr. Biswas-Diener,
a researcher who studies the quality of life among groups with
materially simple lifestyles.

The Masai people's definition of beauty encompasses not only
physical traits, the author notes, but also character traits. In
the Masai language, "the word for physical appearance (which
roughly translates as a person's 'goodness') can also be used to
describe their morality," he writes. "In short, the Masai give
more than lip service to the qualities that almost all of us
agree 'really matter.'"

The result of this healthy approach, according to Mr.
Biswas-Diener, is a complete satisfaction with one's own
appearance among all members of Masai society. Americans, in
contrast, obsess over appearances, embracing "marvels of
medicine, technology, and cosmetics" that promise to make us
more attractive. Have these "marvels" offered us our own path to
happiness? asks the author. "Indeed, they have not."

The issue also includes articles on the commercialization of
youth identity and American garment-producing sweatshops. Mr.
Biswas-Diener's article is available online at
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THE REAL SHAME: Responding to the Yanomami Indian controversy,
the American Anthropological Association launched an absurd
search for an enemy within. In the process, it became its own
worst enemy, write Thomas A. Gregor, a professor of anthropology
at Vanderbilt University, and Daniel R. Gross, the top
anthropologist at the World Bank.
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Lorna Marshall, Early Scholar on African Bushmen, Dies at 103

July 30, 2002
By DOUGLAS MARTIN






Lorna J. Marshall, a college English instructor turned
homemaker who in her 50's began a new life as an
anthropologist studying the Bushmen of Africa, died on July
8 at her home in Peterborough, N.H. She was 103.

She had lived with her daughter, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,
since 1996, Ms. Thomas said. She previously lived in the
same house in Cambridge, Mass., since the late 1920's.

Mrs. Marshall's anthropological career began when her
husband, Laurence K. Marshall, a founder and president of
the Raytheon Corporation, retired in 1950 with the thought
that it was time to get reacquainted with his family.

"Where is the remotest place we can go and be a family
again?" Mr. Marshall asked, said Irven DeVore, the More
research professor of anthropology at Harvard.

The Kalahari Desert was the answer he found. He decided he
would take his family to live among the legendary Bushmen.

"They became a sort of Swiss Family Robinson of the
Kalahari," Dr. DeVore said.

The family's accomplishments made it more than that. Mr.
Marshall helped the Bushmen start a fine-wool industry. The
Marshalls' son, John, began his career as a leading maker
of ethnographic documentary films. Ms. Thomas, who would go
on to write best sellers like "The Hidden Life of Dogs,"
wrote a well-received book on the Bushmen, "The Harmless
People" (Knopf, 1958).

Meanwhile, Mrs. Marshall began the painstaking process of
documenting the culture and behavior of the Bushmen,
sometimes called !Kung. (The "!" represents a clicking
sound in their language). She was the first of dozens of
scholars who have made the Bushmen one of the world's most
studied populations of traditional hunter-gatherers.

"To say she started it is not a mistake," Dr. DeVore said.
"By standards of ethnography, she did as well or better
than any monograph I know, and she was there early."

Over the next two decades, the Marshall family made eight
trips to the Kalahari, a desert the size of Spain in what
is now Namibia, Botswana and the Republic of South Africa,
staying for as long as a year and a half at a time. Then
the family would return to Cambridge, where Mrs. Marshall
would employ the best graduate students to organize her
voluminous notes, which resulted in two books and many
articles.

An honor she particularly valued was having a !Kung baby
girl named after her. The child was called Norna, because
the Bushmen, for all their ability to make unusual vocal
sounds, cannot pronounce the letter L.

Lorna Jean McLean was born in Morenci, a mining town in the
Arizona Territory, on Sept. 14, 1898. Her father, Gordon
McLean, a mining engineer, died when she was 7. Her mother,
the former Bessie Holmes, remarried and moved with her
daughter to Riverside, Calif., and then Los Angeles.

Miss McLean graduated from the University of California at
Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English. She then gave
up the beginning of a career in ballet to travel around the
world with her mother, who had been widowed again. They
traveled throughout the Middle East and Asia. In China,
they met an instructor at Mount Holyoke College who offered
Miss McLean a job teaching English.

She accepted, but soon met Mr. Marshall in Nova Scotia,
where both had relatives. They married and moved to
Cambridge.

At the Cambridge Community Center, she organized women to
salvage tungsten wire from radio tubes that Raytheon could
re-use in making electronic devices. The salvage operation
employed black and white women, unusual at the time, and
permitted women to work flexible hours, which was also
unusual.

Mr. Marshall said he wanted to do something with his family
when he retired, and its members were interested in
anthropology. So he asked his wife to take some courses at
Harvard, which she did from time to time among trips to
Africa.

The family was at first apprehensive about tales of poison
darts and trance dances, but found the Bushmen polite and
kind. The Marshall family lived in tents, even as
temperatures ranged from freezing to 125 degrees.

Mrs. Marshall published her first book, "!Kung of Nyae
Nyae," in 1975 (Harvard University Press), and her second,
"Nyae Nyae !Kung Belief and Rites," three years ago
(Peabody Museum Press).

She is survived by her daughter, her son, who lives in
Belmont, Mass., three grandchildren and three
great-granddaughters.

She is remembered by others. A year or so after her 100th
birthday party, the child of a Bushman she had known as a
child came to visit her.

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*  CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS are putting the finishing touches on a
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MAGAZINES & JOURNALS

A glance at the summer issue of "Social Text":
"Afrofuturism" and challenging nerd identity

In her introduction to this issue on "Afrofuturism," Alondra
Nelson, a doctoral candidate in American studies at New York
University and founder of an e-mail list dedicated to the
movement, says that it "can be broadly defined as 'African
American voices' with 'other stories to tell about culture,
technology, and things to come.'"

In one of the articles, Ron Eglash, an assistant professor of
science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, writes that understanding the roles of gender and
race within  science and technology is vital to challenging the
nerd identity as a "threatening gatekeeper" to those fields.

African-American nerd characters in television and film offer a
means for "dislocating (or at least broadening) these narrow
normative roles in the ecology of race and technoculture,"
according to Mr. Eglash. Similarly, Web sites such as
"GeekGirls" and "NerdGrrrls" have attempted to create "hybrid
technogender identities." However, both of these means represent
only a limited resistance to traditional nerd identity, he says,
because they are merely reversing the very stereotypes they
attempt to overcome.

Instead, the author believes that Afrofuturism offers the best
means for challenging the nerd identity's supposed monopoly on
science and technology. Afrofuturists, do not "assume that nerd
identity is only racially aligned by a kind of shallow,
arbitrary association and is otherwise universally available,"
observes Mr. Eglash. Instead, they challenge "both the implicit
whiteness of nerds and the explicit technological absence of
both realist and romantic black essentialisms."

The issue is available online at
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