Is this progress? An item in _Science (v. 318, Nov. 30/07, p. 1357) notes the heroic effort of anthropologists Janet and Thomas Headland in studying the Agta, a hunter-gatherer tribe in the Phillipines, for 45 years. Thomas Headland observes:
"When I first started working with the Agta, they didn't wear clothes; they didn't eat farmed food. Now some of them use cell phones". I can't wait for the Apple commercial. And that word "heroic" reminds me of one of my favourite lines from _The Nurture Assumption_ (Harris, 1998, p. 186), commenting on Napoleon Chagnon's apparently personal investigation of the uncomfortable practice of penis-tying among the Yamamoto: "Whatever they pay anthropologists, it isn't enough". Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---
