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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From Malinowski to Human Terrain Systems By ROBERT LAWLESS Weekend Edition November 6-8, 2009 Courtesy Of Counter Punch I n the September 30, 2009, online edition of CounterPunch in an article titled “ Country of Constant Sorrow: McChrystal's Afghan Desolation ,” Vijay Prashad wrote, “Enter a war zone with the expectation that the heavy armor will coerce the population into electing...
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Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yet another new report is out that recommends messaging solutions for motivating the public to action on climate change. This one, featuring leading research on how our minds respond to the threat of climate change, is neatly synthesized in a new guide, “ The Psychology of Climate Change Communication .” Says Grist: The 43-page booklet was released Wednesday by the Center for Research on...
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Neuroanthropology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the true giants of anthropology, passed away this past week on 30 October, just shy of 101 years old. As Maurice Bloch writes, Lévi-Strauss was ‘the last survivor of these great beasts such as Sartre, Foucault and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu,’ the theorists who have given contemporary anthropology, and social theory [...]
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
A series of conferences and workshops on African traditions will take place on Nov. 23-25 at the University of Yaounde in Cameroon, organizers told Xinhua on Friday. Under the theme "Tradition and Modernity", these meetings aim to identify the challenges to African culture in globalization. They are organized by the Center of International Studies in Biology and Anthropology (CEIBA) in Barcelona,...
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Platform Nation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our next bio features one of our writers. If you can’t find Jordan online check the nearest cave. Here’s a look at Jordan Silverthorne: Jordan Silverthorne (XBL: Silverthorne, PSN & Twitter: Silverthorne06) I’m a 21 year-old Senior at the University of Texas at Austin, where I study marketing and anthropology. I’ve been with P*N since Fall [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.
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Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Although I haven’t been able to catch this latest offering from TAC, this video and the previous two, first aired a few weeks back should definitely be worth setting aside some time for over this (or any other) weekend – here’s a description of the first, Archaeology in Taguatinga Valley, from TAC’s website: This video describes [...]
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Music 000001 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Kinship has traditionally been one of the major preoccupations of anthropology, and for good reason, as it reflects some of the most fundamental aspects of human relationship in a manner that appears, at least on the surface, to be systematic, consistent and logical, thus particularly amenable to scientific study. Unfortunately, the promise that kinship studies would tell us something important about...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Google Docs Thanks very much to the anonymous comment on a much older post. He/she has provided a new URL for the above article, the original link to which is now broken. The abstract is shown below but click on the above link for the full paper. Clines and Clusters Versus “Race:” A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile C. LORING BRACE, DAVID P. TRACER, LUCIA ALLEN YAROCH,...
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smoke and mirrors (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Claude Levi-Strauss , the father of modern anthropology because of his revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ from modern ones. He banished the whole idea of primitive man as separate from civilized man, and that the “savage mind” is a necessary to the creative process and is something we all have access. According to Strauss, the "savage mind"...
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IF! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
When traveling to other countries, it is often the simple domestic items which most fascinate us rather than big design statements. These more common items may be familiar and seem almost too insignificant to be “designed”. Yet when held in our hands this simple something, formed over generations, speaks intrinsically of the people who have long lived there. The impact can be memorable...
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Two Doctors (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Like many, I find the jar-rattlers and direct-debit-form-wranglers intensely irksome. It's not just that I'm tight: I've given some serious thought about which charities to support, and I already make regular payments to each. It occurred to me today to talk about the organisations I support in my own tiny way, and to put up some donation links. I feel strongly about all four of them. Typically they're...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Mexican city of Juarez, on the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, has been suffering from wild waves of drug war-related violence in the past few years. Howard Campbell, a professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, just came out with a book, Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juarez that sheds light on the background of what he calls...
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Room 611 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Today's schedule is A-B-Lunch-C-D Hau'oli lā hānau to my son Noah who turns 14 today! A - Social Studies 11 - Today with Mr. Jones you will be looking at the rise of dictators in Europe from the 1920's through the late 30's. You'll focus on Joseph Stalin in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Adolph Hitler in Nazi Germany, and Benito Mussolini in Fascist Italy. You'll need to look at...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss—the man who has created anthropology as a total occupation, involving a spiritual commitment like that of the creative artist or the adventurer or the psychoanalyst—is no man of letters. Most of his writings are scholarly, and he has...
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