st lawrence u to hold institute on indian education
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IN BRIEF. . .Hallam L Movius Jr, Harvard Professor of Anthropology andCurator of Paleolithic Archeology at the Peabody Museum,received the Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at aceremony February 12 at his home in Cambridge. Movius, whosince 1958 has concentrated his research on the Paleolithic siteof Abri Pataud in southwestern France, is one of the fewnon-Frenchmen to receive the award which is one of France'shighest honors. . .Margaret Mead was recognized with two moreawards recently: the Gimbel National Award,given annually bythe department store firm to a woman whose service has been ofnational significance, and the Arches of Science Award. .Lcif CW Landberg, University of Rhode Island, International Centerfor Marine Resource Development, chairs the Human MarineAdaptations Study Group which was formed at the AAAAnnual Meeting last November. The group is developing aworldwide roster of maritime social research and bibliog-raphies on this field. .The last state law in the nation pro-hibiting the teaching of evolution was overturned by theMississippi supreme court recently. . Ignacio Eternal Garcia yPimental, director of Mexico's National Museum of Anthro-pology, delivered the 15th annual Riecker Memorial Lecture atthe University of Arizona March 23. Bernal, the first anthro-pologist so honored, spoke on Tenochtitlan. .Joseph HGreenberg, the AAA's 1970 Distinguished Lecturer, has beennamed Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of the Social Sciences inAnthropology at Stanford University. Babhagrahi Misra(Hartford Seminary Foundation) lectured at Lehigh Universityin April as a participant in the AAA Visiting Lecturer Program
.The School of American Research, Santa Fe, has beenawarded a 3-year grant by the National Science Foundation tobegin a long-term archeological project in the northern RioGrande area, directed by Douglas W Schwartz. Initial focuswill be on the 8-acre, 13th century Arroyo Hondo site southBf Santa Fe. . .Mary Haas (UCB) has been Gildersleeve VisitingProfessor at Barnard College this semester. She is the secondanthropologist among the 11 scholars selected to date, LucyMair of the London School of Economics was the first.William A Longacre II (Arizona) will be a visiting associateprofessor at Yale the 1971 fall term.
PITTSBURGH APPOINTMENTSThe University of Pittsburgh's anthropology department
will have three scholars from abroad on the campus next year.Ulf Hannerz of the University of Stockholm, a specialist inurban anthropology and the Caribbean, will be VisitingAnthropologist during the fall and winter terms. In the fallterm Andre J F Kobben, University of Amsterdam, will be inresidence as Visiting Professor. He will teach a seminar inprofessional ethics; he has done fietdwork in Surinam and isinterested in crosscultural analysis. He will be followed in thewinter term by Caro Baroja of Madrid, whose field is Europeanfolk culture, particularly magic and religion.
Terrence Kaufman, now at the University of California,Berkeley, will join the department in the fall as an assoc»ateprofessor. He specializes in anthro-linguistics.
ST LAWRENCE U TO HOLDINSTITUTE ON INDIAN EDUCATION
St Lawrence University, Canton, NY, will conduct a 3-weekprogram, July 12 30, on "The American Indian Student inHigher Education." Participants in the institute, funded fromthe Office of Education, will be 35 administrators selectedfrom junior and community colleges and colleges with Indianenrollment.
The purpose of the session is to make college personnelaware of the special problems and needs of the AmericanIndian in higher education, to develop programs to assistIndian students to achieve a successful college experience andto establish communication lines with the Indian community.The institute is planned to assist Indian leadership to developclose relationship with colleges and help direct Indian youthtoward advanced education
Anthropologists Jack A Frisch, Wayne State, and ArthurEinhorn, Jefferson Community College, will be on the staff.Visiting lecturers and consultants from Indian communitiesand from colleges will participate.
HARVARD-PEABODYDavid Maybury-Lewis will serve as acting chairman of the
department in the fall term, 1971-72, while Evon Vogt is onleave to continue fieldwork in Zinacantan, Chiapas. DuringVogt's absence Cora Du Bois, Zemurray Professor emerita, andAAA President, 1968-69, will be a visiting professor, teachingthe Ist-year seminar for all new graduate students of anthro-pology. Also during the fall term Glyn Daniel from CambridgeUniversity will serve as the MacCurdy Lecturer offeringcourses on western Europe from 4500 BC to the RomanConquest and historical development of archeology in the OldWorld.
The Peabody Museum's archeological program at the pre-historic Peruvian city of Chan Chan is in its 2nd year, op-erating on a year around basis under the direction of MichaelMosley and Carol Mackey. The project, which provides re-search opportunity to both graduate and undergraduate stu-dents, is sponsored by the National Geographic Society andthe National Science Foundation. Its goal is to map andexplore the city and to trace the local antecedents of urbanismthrough a survey of adjacent prehistoric settlements.
NIGERIAN UNIVERSITYEXPANDING ANTHROPOLOGY
Four anthropologists are among the six faculty members inthe sociology department of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria,Nigeria' Charles Frantz, former AAA Executive Secretary, onleave from SUNY Buffalo, chairman, Norma Perchonock, com-pleting her study of Hausa in the city of Jos for NorthwesternUniversity, Ibrahim Tahir, doing doctoral fieldwork on Hausatrade and urban development in Kano, and Alison Redmayne,formerly of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, who has
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