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Re: Any thoughts?
Jonathan E. Feinstein (jfeinstein@UMASSD.EDU)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:38:47 -0400
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From: Joyce Lucke[SMTP:jlucke@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU]
Sent: Friday, July 26, 1996 12:25 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ANTHRO-L
Subject: Any thoughts?
This summer I have run into an interesting, if not amusing, discussion =
with
another professor on my campus. The instructor who teaches human =
geography
and I share several students this summer. In my class, I often hear =
from
the students what they hear in geography that relates to we are =
discussing
in intro cultural anthro. About a month ago, they came to me before =
class
to ask if what they heard in geography was true. It seems that our
geographer lectured on how southern African Bushman have enlarged =
buttocks
so they can store water like camels for travelling across the desolate
landscape.
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Well, as I recall the Bushmen of the Kalihari do exhibit a condition =
called Steatopygi (or somethibng like that) which is described as having =
buttocks excessively enlarged with fatty tissues. It exists to one =
extent or another in a few other peoples of southern Africa. I don't =
recall ever hearing why such a feature should have been genetically =
selected, although I understand that it is more pronounced in women than =
in men.
Jon. Feinstein
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