Melvin Konner

(1946) Anthropologist

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Melvin Konner is an anthropologist, best known for The tangled wing.

Quick Facts About Melvin Konner

Born: January 1, 1946
Profession: Anthropologist
Notable works: The tangled wing

About Melvin Konner

Melvin Joel Konner is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Melvin Konner

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around…

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Blooming flower

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Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around…

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Things happen for a reason

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In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently.

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Children

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In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically…

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Bed

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If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do…

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Ifs

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Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any…

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Born

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Intern is not just a gripping tale of becoming a doctor. It's also a courageous critique, a saga of an immigrant family…

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American dream

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A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing…

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