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December 2011
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american anthropological association, a stand... →
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American drug policy has direct effects on discrimination against Mexicans and Central Americans. We do not know how much Mexico’s drug war has cost. It is not a simple calculus, as many of the expenses are incurred at the state and local levels, and indirect costs are many. At the federal level, though, budgetary expenditures in...
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Ancient Organisms Found Alive in Salt Crystals →
“They are trapped alongside a type of algae called Dunaliella, which just so happens to produce the food the archaea need to survive—the sugar alcohol glycerol,”
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Noam Chomsky, on consciousness
Bertrand Russell asked, “How comes it that human beings, whose contacts with the world are brief and personal and limited, are nevertheless able to know as much as they do know?”
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Aristotelian lines: the world is structured in a certain way and that the human mind is able to perceive this structure, ascending from particulars to species to genus to further generalization and thus...
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Liaoning discovers largest Yan tomb →
After analyzing the unearthed pottery as well as the construction style of tomb passages and coffins, experts confirmed that this large tomb was built by the Yan Kingdom during the Warring States period.
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Speculation on exhuming Pablo Neruda's body →
To study whether or not he was poisoned by government officials for opposing Pinochet…
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WatchExcellent documentary.
Essentially, the film covers a specific course (Man: A course of Study), taught in the United States following the educational reforms of the seventies. The goal of the course was to teach children about what it means to be human while avoiding ethnocentric biases. The class attempted to portray humans as animals beyond cultural boundaries and used a specific film series...
November 2011
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By the way,
There was really no need to specify that the transgender woman in the article I posted a while ago was a person. You would not say male person or man person, these characteristics are usually assumed when paired with a photo of a human skeleton. Either way, I apologize for offending anyone: I had no intention of “dehumanizing” her.
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October 2011
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Rick Scott and his views on the irrelevance of... →
My favorite part is that his daughter majored in anthropology. He is right, let us morph our youth into capital gain and manufacture them based on what is better for the “state”. Why would anyone need to know anything about humanity to progress as humans?
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5,000-year-old transgender woman from Prague. →
Need I say more?
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A question for my lovely antropoloogs and the...
Which anthropologists do you cherish and admire; why? Who are your least favorites?
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September 2011
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Remains of horses and chariots found in... →
Zhou funeral customs, anyone?
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An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate... →
Sequencing of a West Australian Aboriginal man’s hair shows he was directly descended from a migration out of Africa into Asia that took place about 70,000 years ago.
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An article outlining what I hate the most about... →
I was so excited when I stumbled on this. I’ve actually been dying to make a documentary/mockumentary on the nature of anthropologists (mostly American) as they study indigenous peoples. Who will collaborate with me?
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Encyclopedia of Peaceful Societies →
My personal favorite aspects of humanity. The ability to communicate efficiently enough to respect and treat others equitably.
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New thoughts on Human-Neanderthal coupling →
“The new computational model, based on DNA samples from modern humans in France and China, shows successful coupling happened at a rate of less than two per cent.”
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Archaeology of Beards →
Valid Archaeological texts studying the history of facial hair cultivation. A proper thesis idea? I would say so.
trynottodrownit asked: this is by far the most interesting tumblr i've ever come across
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Watch48 minutes and 21 seconds of anthropological goodness.
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“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on... →
Happy belated birthday Gould! A silent and heated battle through centuries.
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Story of Zana →
You absolutely must read this if you haven’t already.
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