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Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.
The Ainu, an ethnically distinct community regarded by anthropologists as the islands’ original settlers and now grouped almost exclusively in Hokkaido, campaign for civil rights in a movement similar to that of Native Americans in the US.
They echo the old question, posed regularly by missionaries, anthropologists, and linguists, as to whether women speak (or “chatter,” a word used only for females and nonhumans) a different language, a dialect, a “genderlect” with each other and with men, whether they can, do, or should speak what the title of Dale Spender's book calls Man Made Language . The answers often appear in measured, academic prose.
Although the bulk of studies and commentaries on the subject began to appear in the 1990s, the literature dates back much further, to articles written in the 1960s and 1970s by medical anthropologists, sociologists, nurses, mental health professionals, and others.
Having slipped too far into the sheltered and irrelevant world of academia, anthropologists now strive to make a difference: One anthropologist hired by a slaughterhouse helped explain meatpacker society to factory supervisors.
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