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Women among Women: Anthropological Perspectives on Female Age Hierarchies. Jeanette Dickerson‐Putman and Judith K. Brown. eds. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998.148 pp.

An account, spanning 50 years, of how I became an anthropologist, my graduate education at Columbia University, and my academic positions at Brooklyn and Queens College and at Duke University. I discuss my fieldwork among the Chippewa of Wisconsin and among modern Greeks in Boetia and Athens. I comment on the new ethnography as it applies to modern Greek studies and discuss how and why I turned to gender studies. I comment on teaching, university administration, and trends in contemporary anthropology and make a recommendation for a future thrust of the field. Reconnecting biology and cultural anthropology is, I believe, a necessary step if anthropology is to continue to be useful for ameliorating the human condition.

The human habit of conducting the sex act in private is a near universal that has not received the attention it deserves. This essay discusses the possible evolution of the practice through changes in human brain structures that allowed for increased social intelligence for political maneuvers, and the ability to be conscious of self. It also examines the consequences of invisible sex for the education of children and for gender relations regardless of cultural and historical context