My vacation getaway bookstore has a glorious anthropology section. This is my favorite so far:
Kardiner was a sort of well-known psychoanalyst who wrote about anthropology and psychoanalysis. Preble was at the time “studying first law, and then philosophy and anthropology. During this same period he was also a high school science teacher and worked as a professional tennis player during the summers.” Who does that any more? Along with the passing of the golden age of anthropology (and I note the book refers to anthropology as a science throughout without batting an eye, thank you very much), I guess the golden age of part-time professional sports is over too. Sigh.
Kardiner always reminds me of Rivers, who was played by Jonathan Pryce in Regeneration http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120001/, a fine film that surprisingly few of the anthropologists I know have seen. I’ve felt a special attachment to Rivers since an instructor awarded the (ad hoc and unofficial and all the more special for it) Gold Star for Citation Award for referencing Rivers’ “Genealogical method” article http://www.jstor.org/stable/2842619
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