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Departments & People

IN BRIEF

Robert McC Adams (Chicago) was elected to the NationalAcademy of Sciences last month "in recognition of distin-guished and continuing achievement in original research"Roxanne C Carlisle (Trent U) is the new editor of the

Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter, succeeding RobertA Black (California State, Hayward), its first editor SEMNewsletter is in its 4th year of publication. It carries news,correspondence and short research reports Andrew PVayda (Columbia) was selected by the AAA, one of theseven national organizations associated with the Social Sci-ence Research Council, to serve as a director of the Councilfor a 3-year term, 1970-72 Fred Wendorf (SMU) has beennamed to the Texas State Antiquities Committee ArthurJ Rubel (Notre Dame) succeeds Robert C Hunt (Brandeis) assecretary of the Ad Hoc Group on Middle American Studiesof the AAA. Correspondents of the group have been in favorof instituting dues of $1/year for dollar salaried membersallowing students and Latin American colleagues to partici-pate without currency drain Robert J Smith (Cornell) hasreceived a postdoctoral grant to study ancestor worship incontemporary Japan under a program sponsored by ACLSand SSRC and funded by the Ford Foundation . The Uni-versity of Utah has designated Charles E Dibble and Jesse DJennings Distinguished Research Professors for the academicyear 1970-71. The distinction carries a monetary award andfree time during the year The two anthropologists and oneother individual were selected from a faculty of1400 The National Endowment for the Humanities hasawarded Noel J Chrisman (Pomona) a Younger HumanistFellowship. Chrisman will spend the spring and summer of1971 in Berkeley doing library research on processes of

DEATHS

William Willard Wasley, April 1, 1970, in Magdalena,Sonora, while returning from an expedition on which heacted as consultant to a Kitt Peak National Observatoryteam photographing the solar eclipse in Oaxaca. Wasleywas Archeologist on the Arizona State Museum staffwhich he joined in 1955. He received his PhD fromArizona in 1959.

Richard P Roark, presumed drowned April 2, 1970when he disappeared while swimming off the coast ofGuadeloupe, FWI. He was a professor at the State Uni-versity of New York College at Geneseo.

The Newsletter requests information of the deaths ofprofessionals whether or not members of the Associa-tion. Notice can appear here half a year or more beforepublication of an obituary in the Anthropologist Theeditor-designate of the Anthropologist, Laura Bohannan.whose first issue will be February 1971. will appreciatetuggestions for authors of obituary articles.

urban growth. He plans to use historical and literary sourcesto gain an understanding of the dynamics of adaptation toemerging town life in Medieval Europe.

ANTHROPOLOGISTS ATTAINUNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP

Three anthropologists have recently been recognized withappointments to boards of trustees and a university presi-dency. Frederick P Thieme was inaugorated May 27 as presi-dent of the University of Colorado. He goes to Coloradofrom the University of Washington where he was vice-presi-dent. Sherwood L Washburn, professor at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley and former president of the AmericanAnthropological Association, became a trustee of StanfordUniversity last fall. James L Gibbs Jr of Stanford Universitywas appointed a trustee of Mills College in 1970. Gibbs is anAssociation Executive Board member.

CUNY SEMINARS ON STRUCTURALISMThe Doctoral Program in Anthropology of The City Uni-

versity of New York held a series of monthly seminars underthe title of "Aspects of Structuralism" during the past aca-demic year. The meetings were interdisciplinary andattracted an audience of anthropologists, linguists, philoso-phers and students of literature. The series began with adiscussion of Levi-Strauss' The Raw and the Cooked, byvarious hands. This was followed by a session on linguisticswith guest speakers P Garvin, and M Mathiot. Next AnthonyForge, from the London School of Economics, delivered alecture on Primitive Art as a communication process. Thiswas followed by Marion Slater's paper "The AbominableStrawman": Levy-Bruhl as a pioneer structuralist. A meetingon structural analysis literature followed with contributionsfrom S Levin (CUNY) and E Said (Columbia). The finalsession was a dialogue with Michel Foucault, the distin-guished French philosopher. The meetings were arranged byRobert Glasse of The City University of New York, Anthro-pology Program.

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMAT NEW SCHOOL

A course of study in cultural anthropology, representingan important departure from the organization of the conven-tional "hardened" departments of anthropology in most uni-versities, is set for next fall at the New School. The purposeis to recover the integrative vision which is traditionall.inherent in monographic work undertaken by single scholarsin small societies. The curriculum makes no effort to encompass the encyclopedic range of data now identified as"anthropological." It is, however, designed to reflect theessential synthesizing spirit of anthropology within an histor-ical and comparative framework, focusing on the significantquestions.

The core program, comprising 36 credits, leads to amaster's degree, all incoming students (excepting selectedtransferees) must complete the program. The purpose is to