Marvin Harris, an anthropologist who spent his career adding fuel to the fires of academic controversy, as when he theorized that the cannibalism of the Aztecs was motivated by protein deprivation, died on Thursday in Gainesville, Fla., where he lived.
That's classic Durkheim (1964), exactly what he theorized as organic solidarity.
Emerson became widely known in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when, appearing as an expert on CBS News, he theorized that the attack was the work of Islamic extremists.
He theorized that as protons passed through the mitochondria membrane back to the central region, they caused the wheel--and the attached rod--to spin, forcing the rod to rotate within the stationary cylinder.
He theorized that another — as yet undiscovered — "visual buffer of recent experience" must be "propping up the visual system and feeding into it".
In one of his most famous seminars, the twentieth (Encore, 1972 1973), he theorized sexual difference as "sexuation," depicting the non-biological, denaturalized subject-positions of masculinity and femininity in terms of formal logic.
He theorizes that symptoms as different as colitis, backache, depression, circulatory illness and skin eruptions may all originate in sustained tension among groups of voluntary muscles.
He theorizes that as devices like drones, autonomous cars and robots proliferate, they are going to require extremely rapid processing — so fast, in fact, that sending data up to the cloud and back to get an answer will simply be too slow.
"My guess would be some kids," David Buskell, a UPS driver, theorized as he and his poodle, Tuli, played a game of fetch just beyond Joan's now slightly diminished shadow.
Beginning at Bletchley Park they were known as Turing Machines because he had theorized them before he came to Princeton.
It spurred him to theorize, as he did in 1937, at age twenty-five, about having as his material "the entire field of sound".
