Example sentences for: anthropologist

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  • That delirious transcript is part of the story of the triumph of refined sugar over old-fashioned honey that takes up almost half of Sidney Mintz's new book, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Culture, and the Past . Mintz, an anthropologist at Johns Hopkins University and author of Sweetness and Power (a more detailed look at sugar and its meaning), also explores other topics, ranging from the broader relationship between political power and food to more idiosyncratic excursions such as the chapter entitled "Color, Taste, and Purity: Some Speculations on the Meanings of Marzipan."

  • He gained fame as an Indian fighter, but was also known as an anthropologist and writer.

  • The stories include: George Saunders' mock reply to a customer-service complaint, Sherman Alexie's tale of a hitchhiker, Jeffrey Eugenides' narrative of a sex anthropologist, and William Vollman's imagined account of Lenin's wife.

  • Others (including anthropologist Clifford Geertz and historian Joan Scott) accuse their colleagues in chemistry and physics of harboring a bias against anyone who questions science's claims to truth.

  • This volatile discontent may be the reason that, as anthropologist Laura Betzig has shown, polygamy and authoritarianism have gone hand in hand.


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