Radio Australia/Pacific Beat: "An American zoologist is returning to rural Papua New Guinea to videotape local customs, after an overwhelming response to a similar expedition last year. Mark Wanner, a zoological manager at the St Louis Zoo, last year developed a school curriculum on world cultures, using Inuit from Alaska, the Masai of Kenya, and Australian Aborigines." Zoologist?!? Of course, of course, science should be -- as it was of old -- more interdisciplinary, with physicists doing geology and naturalists studying the stars. But still, can't we at least refer to Mr Wanner, despite his specialty, as at least a temporary anthropologist?
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