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  • Twelve Lessons (Most of Which I Learned the Hard Way) for Evolutionary Psychologists

    International Cognition and Culture Institute
    20 Jan 2012 | 4:04 am
      As an undergraduate, most of the professors in the Anthropology Department at my university practiced psychological anthropology, a subfield of sociocultural anthropology that combines theories from various branches of psychology with the study of culture. I decided that I was going to be a psychological anthropologist, and I continued on at the same university, with the same professors, for my graduate degrees. Although I was confident that, to understand human behavior, it was necessary to investigate the interaction of mind and culture, I nevertheless became increasingly…

  • Following genetic footprints out of Africa: First modern humans settled in Arabia

    ScienceDaily: Anthropology News
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:37 am
    A new study, using genetic analysis to look for clues about human migration over sixty thousand years ago, suggests that the first modern humans settled in Arabia on their way from the Horn of Africa to the rest of the world.

  • Presentation to raise funds for Tarahumara Indians

    anthropology - Yahoo! News Search Results
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:37 am
    An anthropology presentation will be held Sunday in Oxnard to help a Mexican Indian tribe whose members run hundreds of miles without rest and were featured in the nationally bestselling book "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall.

  • Applying to Grad School in Anthropology- Where will we go?

    Anthropology.net
    mmagnan1
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:20 pm
    My graduate applications–probably like many of yours– are almost completely submitted by now. I spent the fall traveling around the east coast and filling out the same information on similar looking websites for hours on end. I poured over my personal statement line by line until I could recite it by heart and my girlfriend almost stabbed me. I met with professors, teasing myself with ideas of where I might end up next year. I’m approaching my last semester as an undergraduate at Binghamton University, and if you haven’t guessed it by the context of this blog already, my…

  • Mining World of Warcraft for Publications

    Savage Minds
    Rex
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:46 pm
    A while ago Kerim wrote a post on the difference between ‘mining’ and ‘harvesting’ strategies of publication. It touched off a lot of interesting discussion, but lacked a concrete example of what Kerim was talking about. So I wanted to offer one here: how I am mining my World of Warcraft research for publications. My ultimate goal for my WoW (as World of Warcraft is known) research is a book — now in its third draft. Along the way, however, I am ‘mining’ my research by producing several other publications. The two I want to discuss here are Being in…
 
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    Anthropology.net

  • Applying to Grad School in Anthropology- Where will we go?

    mmagnan1
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:20 pm
    My graduate applications–probably like many of yours– are almost completely submitted by now. I spent the fall traveling around the east coast and filling out the same information on similar looking websites for hours on end. I poured over my personal statement line by line until I could recite it by heart and my girlfriend almost stabbed me. I met with professors, teasing myself with ideas of where I might end up next year. I’m approaching my last semester as an undergraduate at Binghamton University, and if you haven’t guessed it by the context of this blog already, my…

  • Are YOU a Neandertal?

    mmagnan1
    2 Jan 2012 | 10:50 pm
    In 2010 the draft genome for Neandertals was released by Svante Pääbo and colleagues. It was reported that European and Asian populations are between 1-4% Neandertal—but what percentage Neandertal are you? The company known as 23andMe recently released an analysis that claims to answer precisely this question. While personal genome sequencing has not yet hit the mainstream market, 23andMe looks at SNPs, or variations in single nucleotide pairs. Through a comparison between your SNPs and those found in the Neandertal genome draft, for a couple hundred dollars you will be given a…

  • Microwear Analysis at Dmanisi

    mmagnan1
    21 Dec 2011 | 8:55 pm
    This month in the Journal of Human Evolution, a new study on the teeth of the Dmanisi Homo erectus has been published. A site in the Republic of Georgia, Dmanisi has yielded a vast quantity of hominin fossils dating to approximately 1.8 million years ago—even an elderly individual without teeth. The discovered crania are remarkably well-preserved, and have given scientists the ability to look at our evolutionary history with higher resolution. Based on the skeletal remains, how can we ascertain specifics about hominin diet? For this particular study, researchers used microwear analysis on…

  • Keeping up with the Hominin

    Prancing Papio, FCD
    22 Sep 2011 | 7:45 pm
    “Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus).” Australian Museum. A lot had happened this year with hominin research and some would redefine conventional understandings of this group. Below is a list of new studies that came out this year that I find quite interesting on hominin. Read up so you can show off in class with your knowledge of current hominin research. You know, just so you can make sure that your adjunct is really…

  • Dopamine & Anticipating Rewards

    Kambiz Kamrani
    31 Jul 2011 | 1:33 pm
    I am now two-thirds done with my psychiatry rotation. It has been a fascinating experience so far. I’ve seen the gamut of psychiatric cases, depressed people who cut their necks through and through, to florid schizophrenics worried that the Hiroshima bomb will go off any moment. The treatment of psychiatric conditions like depression or schizophrenia often revolves around regulating monoamine neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that functions in a lot of behaviors and reactions, such as movement, lactation,…
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    Savage Minds

  • Mining World of Warcraft for Publications

    Rex
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:46 pm
    A while ago Kerim wrote a post on the difference between ‘mining’ and ‘harvesting’ strategies of publication. It touched off a lot of interesting discussion, but lacked a concrete example of what Kerim was talking about. So I wanted to offer one here: how I am mining my World of Warcraft research for publications. My ultimate goal for my WoW (as World of Warcraft is known) research is a book — now in its third draft. Along the way, however, I am ‘mining’ my research by producing several other publications. The two I want to discuss here are Being in…

  • My Journey Through Innerspace

    Matt Thompson
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:41 pm
    This past Thursday I spent the morning floating in a sensory deprivation tank. I saw it on sale through Groupon and I thought, why not? An interesting experience, it was very relaxing and left me with a kind of euphoria which permeated my being for another two hours after the event. It put me in a gentle, mellow mood for the rest of the day. I found out about this place by following a link from an io9 post to a website called Float Finder, which puts people in touch with their local sensory deprivation center and also seems to be a hub for a whole tank-subculture. The io9 piece is really…

  • The unexpected micro-politics of fieldwork

    Ryan
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:12 pm
    A few years ago my wife Veronica (who is also a cultural anthropology graduate student) was doing her M.A. fieldwork in Yucatan, Mexico.  I was there with her.  We were staying in a decent sized pueblo, about three thousand people (although it seemed like much less for some reason).  We rented a room from a family for the summer–we found out later that two of the kids in the household were actually moved out of that room to make space for the two visiting anthropologists, but that’s another story of micro-politics for another time.  Lets just say that these two kids…

  • From the Archives: Savage Minds vs. Jared Diamond

    Kerim
    22 Jan 2012 | 12:41 am
    Those of you following Savage Minds since the beginning will remember when this blog was the object of scorn and ridicule across the blogsphere as a result of our temerity in attacking Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel. The debate was nicely summed up at the time by Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik: And in the last week, a relatively new blog in anthropology — Savage Minds — has set off a huge debate over the book. Two of the eight people who lead Savage Minds posted their objections to the book, and things have taken off from there, with several prominent blogs…

  • Wikipedia > Encyclopedias

    Rex
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:20 pm
    Yesterday important swaths of the Internet were blacked out to protest SOPA, PIPA, and the RWA. We would have blacked out our site as well but… uh… we sort of didn’t get around to it. One site that did, however, was Wikipedia. This lead to a certain amount of chortling and self-staisfied rubbing of hands from conservative academics as they enjoyed imagining what life is like for undergraduates without Wikipedia. I’ve been rethinking the now-ancient war between Wikipedia and its paper forebearers myself, since I’ve just been asked to write my first encyclopedia…
 
 
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    Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

  • Chris Stringer, "Rethinking Out of Africa"

    Dienekes
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:11 pm
    Over at the Edge: I'm thinking a lot about species concepts as applied to humans, about the "Out of Africa" model, and also looking back into Africa itself. I think the idea that modern humans originated in Africa is still a sound concept. Behaviorally and physically, we began our story there, but I've come around to thinking that it wasn't a simple origin. Twenty years ago, I would have argued that our species evolved in one place, maybe in East Africa or South Africa. There was a period of time in just one place where a small population of humans became modern, physically and behaviourally.

  • The Arabian cradle (Fernandes et al. 2012)

    Dienekes
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:10 pm
    I have written about Out-of-Arabia before. It is important to remember, when discussing the prehistory of Arabia in terms of the modern inhabitants, that the peninsula undergoes periods of extreme aridity followed by periods of relative humidity. Hence, unlike other regions of the world where continuous occupation can be argued due to a fairly stable climate, this is not the case for Arabia. This observation is important because when looking at modern populations we cannot a priori assume the survival of the most ancient inhabitants. Nonetheless, it can be well argued that Homo sapiens is an…

  • fineStructure paper (Lawson et al. (2012)

    Dienekes
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:23 am
    Related: ChromoPainter and fineSTRUCTURE Comparison of MCLUST with fineSTRUCTURE PLoS Genet 8(1): e1002453. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002453 Inference of Population Structure using Dense Haplotype Data Daniel John Lawson et al. The advent of genome-wide dense variation data provides an opportunity to investigate ancestry in unprecedented detail, but presents new statistical challenges. We propose a novel inference framework that aims to efficiently capture information on population structure provided by patterns of haplotype similarity. Each individual in a sample is considered in turn as a…

  • Y chromosomes of West African descendants (Torres et al. 2012)

    Dienekes
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:31 pm
    PLoS ONE 7(1): e29687. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029687 Y Chromosome Lineages in Men of West African Descent Jada Ben Torres et al. The early African experience in the Americas is marked by the transatlantic slave trade from ~1619 to 1850 and the rise of the plantation system. The origins of enslaved Africans were largely dependent on European preferences as well as the availability of potential laborers within Africa. Rice production was a key industry of many colonial South Carolina low country plantations. Accordingly, rice plantations owners within South Carolina often requested enslaved…

  • Paleolithic Siberian domestic dog

    Dienekes
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:29 pm
    From the press release: A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an equally ancient find in a cave in Belgium, indicates that modern dogs may be descended from multiple ancestors. I've been following the dog domestication saga for a few years now; it seems that geneticists are in general agreement that domestic dogs share a fairly recent ancestry from East Asia, although there are some lingering controversies about the role of other dogs in the formation of modern breeds. On the…
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    antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog

  • Consuming Space: On "blood timber", chewing gum, and free roaming hens

    Lorenz
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:26 am
    Book Review. Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective edited by Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman & Michael Redclift. Ashgate, 2010. Tereza Kuldova, PhD Fellow, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo Chicken industry in UK, the violent history of luxury teak wood in Burma, boutique hotels in New York, chewing gum and the ‘tropical paradise’ of Cancun, seduction and commodity fetishism, ethical local and organic food, Chilean wine in UK, internet and consumption…Wondering what they have in common? The answer is: they are all amazingly…

  • Thank You!

    Lorenz
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:40 am
    Antropologi.info was recently voted as one of the best anthropology blogs. Jason Antrosio, editor of Living Anthropologically and Anthropology Report asked his readers to pick their three favorites among 120 anthropology blogs. I’m especially happy about the result as I haven’t told anybody about the survey and I don’t use facebook og twitter to “promote” this blog. And his list included also several popular blogs within physical / biological anthropology and archaeology. So, thanks a lot to everybody who voted for antropologi.info! It has been quite quiet…

  • Lookism: Why we don't want to be perceived as "ugly" or "different"

    Lorenz
    13 Dec 2011 | 9:12 am
    We are living in a visually biased society. Bonnie Berry has written a book about prejudice and racism based on looks. Antropologi.info contributor Tereza Kuldova has read the book. Here is her review. Book review of The Power of Looks. Social Stratification of Physical Appearance by Bonnie Berry, Ashgate 2008 By Tereza Kuldova, PhD Fellow, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo “When we consider the disparity in what we spend our money on, we find the depressing fact that, in the US, more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services. This fact shows the…

  • Here is the Preview of "Hau. Journal of Ethnographic Theory" - New Open Access Journal

    Lorenz
    19 Nov 2011 | 7:09 pm
    It’s Open Access, Copy Left, and Peer Reviewed: Hau. Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Only ten days left, then the first issue will be available online. Yesterday, the preview (=table of contents) of the inaugural issue was posted at http://haujournal.org/ “By drawing out its potential to critically engage and challenge Western cosmological assumptions and conceptual determinations, HAU aims to provide an exciting new arena for evaluating ethnography as a daring enterprise for ‘worlding’ alien terms and forms of life, by exploiting their potential for rethinking…

  • Updated overview over anthropology blogs and their newest posts

    Lorenz
    15 Nov 2011 | 8:56 am
    Nearly every hour an anthropologist somewhere on this planet publishes a blog post in English. The antropologi.info overviews over the newest blog posts in English are now updated with several new blogs. I’ve also removed some blogs that haven’t been updated for a while and tried to fix some bugs. It’s not the edited overview with hand picked posts that Greg Downey at Neuroanthropology is looking for, though (and I hope will be realised somehow in the near future as well). I haven’t included all anthropology blogs, though, so there was some editing. I’m sure…
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    Material World Blog

  • Call for submissions: Course syllabus collection

    Haidy L Geismar
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:35 am
    The Material Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association is rekindling the exchange of course syllabi (outline of topics, readings, and schedule). The earlier initiative led 10 years ago to a collection representing courses in US universities and published by the Winterthur Museum. It’s time for a new version, with an international outlook and a wider breadth. We encourage submissions of syllabi from any course a faculty member considers as falling within the field of material culture studies, broadly conceived, at whatever level, graduate or undergraduate. We're aiming for…

  • CFP: Games+Learning+Society Conference 8.0

    Heather Ayn Horst
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:56 pm
    http://glsconference.org June 13-15, 2012 Madison, WI* The University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to announce the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 8.0 to be held June 13-15, 2012, with preconference activities on June 12 including the GLS Educators Symposium and the inaugural year of the GLS Doctoral Consortium at the Memorial Union on campus. The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its eighth year, this grassroots “indie” event is evolving to include more innovative content formats and new programming. The GLS Conference is one…

  • CfP, Objects of Affection: Towards a Materiology of Emotions

    Patrick Laviolette
    22 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am
    INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE May 4-6, 2012 Program in Russian & Eurasian Studies Princeton University In the first issue of the journal Veshch-Objet-Gegenstand, which appeared 90 years ago in Berlin, the avant-gardist El Lissitsky placed the object at the centre of the artistic and social concerns of the day: We have called our review Object because for us art means the creation of new objects. Every organized work; be it a house, a poem or a picture is an object with a purpose; it is not meant to lead people away from life but to help them to organize it [...]. Abandon declarations and…

  • Sensate - a journal for experiments in critical media practice

    Haidy L Geismar
    22 Jan 2012 | 3:37 am
    Sensate is a peer-reviewed, graduate-student-run journal for experiments in critical media practice. It aims to create, present, and critique innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences and to build on the groundswell of pioneering activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and innovative media practice to provide a forum for scholarly and artistic experiments not conducive to the printed page. Sensate is currently accepting: 1. Submissions for publication (Due: February 8, 2012) 2. Applications (Due: February 1, 2012) 1. Call for Submissions: Exploring new ways…

  • CFA: CCI Winter School (21-27 June 2012)

    Heather Ayn Horst
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:07 pm
    Please find below information about the CCI Winter School - 21-27 June, 2012 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 31 JANUARY 2012 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia The CCI's 2012 Winter School offers selected doctoral students and early career researchers a week-long program of interdisciplinary study, collaboration and social interaction in the broad area of creative industries and innovation research, drawing on the Centre's expertise in media, cultural and communication studies,…
 
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    Museum Anthropology

  • Opening: Director, Yavapai Indian Cultural Center

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pm
    POSITION TITLE: Executive DirectorLOCATION: Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe Reservation, Prescott, ArizonaDEPARTMENT: Yavapai Indian Cultural CenterREPORTS TO: Tribal Board of DirectorsSALARY: $54,200 - $67,800SCOPE OF WORK: Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing operations and associated activities for the Tribe’s nonprofit cultural center & museum enterprise. Serve as

  • DMNS Internerships

    24 Jan 2012 | 10:31 am
    The Denver Museum of Nature & Science offers numerous summer and year-round internship opportunities. Check them out here!2012 Teen Science ScholarsAs a Teen Science Scholar, you will collaborate with professional scientists in the field and in the lab at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.Lloyd David and Carlye Cannon Wattis Foundation Internship Program for ZoologyThe Lloyd David and Carlye

  • Culture Lab at the Haffenreffer

    22 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
    Not to be confused with the DMNS Culture Lab, a very exciting development at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology:In February the museum will open CultureLab. I’ve written about it before, when it was just an idea – that post showed a rough floor plan, and reproduced our planning document – a document based on the ideas and interests of museum staff, and also the input of students in my

  • Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship for 2012-13

    20 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    The School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College announces a Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship for 2012-13. The fellowship supports promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy in order to better prepare them for tenure track appointments within liberal arts or comprehensive colleges/universities. Applications are welcome in the following areas: Anthropology, Art

  • Opening: Director

    18 Jan 2012 | 10:25 am
    Director, Villa Finale Historic Site Posted January 9, 2012 Offered By National Trust for Historic Preservation Department of Historic Sites San Antonio , Texas ABOUT VILLA FINALE:Villa Finale is located in the King William Historic District of San Antonio, Texas, and was once the home of Walter Mathis, an important figure in the historic preservation movement in San Antonio. While the site
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    A Hot Cup of Joe

  • Grave Dowsing?

    Carl Feagans
    11 Jan 2012 | 4:38 pm
    Survey of possible graveyard site along a highway destined to be four-laned. What’s a water dowser do when his method is demonstrated time and again to be nonsense on stilts? Turn to dowsing for graves, I suppose. It wasn’t mentioned if the dowser who worked for Mississippi landowner about to lose a strip of pastureland to a new highway project used a forked stick or metal rods, but one thing is clear, he didn’t actually find any graves (click “A Grave Matter” for the story). But that hasn’t stopped MDOT from sending out a CRM team to clear the area.

  • SciCulture – A New Site

    Carl Feagans
    5 Jan 2012 | 10:52 pm
    I’ll still be blogging here, but I’ve also just launched a new site called SciCulture (www.sciculture.com) and it’s my hope to entice a few new bloggers to make it their home. So if you know anyone that might be interested, have them contact me at cfeagans AT sciculture DOT com. I’m still working out some of the kinks, but SciCulture will be more or less a hub for science news and discussion. I’m working on some news feeds, but there’s an active discussion forum (The Science Forum) linked as well as an example of the blogs format (WordPress). Potential…

  • Atlantis Rising’s Micheal Cremo and the Calaveras Skull

    Carl Feagans
    30 Dec 2011 | 3:01 pm
    Michael Cremo is the author of the pseudo-archaeological tome Forbidden Archaeologist and has a regular column in that woo-woo rag Atlantis Rising. In the March/April column, Cremo revisits the so-called Calaveras skull, which was long-ago revealed as a hoax. Cremo is an old-earth, Vedic creationist (weird, eh?) and his failed position has always been that man isn’t a recent addition to the animal kingdom, rather an old, old one. Cremo consistently argues, albeit without evidence, that Homo sapiens was not only on the planet millions of years ago, but with…

  • Newt Gingrich: Americans are an Invented People

    Carl Feagans
    19 Dec 2011 | 8:37 pm
    He didn’t say that in those exact words, but he might as well have. In a recent interview with the Jewish Channel, Gingrich a professor of history until he failed to gain tenure, referred to Palestinians as an “invented” people[1]. So are they an “invented people?” In as much as any nation is an artificial construct, sure. Gingrich cites the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which flourished until 1923. Gingrich said in the same interview linked above that the Palestinians were simply Arabs who had a chance to go wherever they wished. I suppose the Palestinians…

  • Feminism and Classism in the Context of MTVu in University Public Spaces

    Carl Feagans
    16 Dec 2011 | 12:45 pm
    I came across this article today on the Serendip forum at Bryn Mawr College. The author posts photos and a transcript of several “napkin notes,” a Bryn Mawr tradition for communicating with the dining facility (which I find fascinating by itself!), which are debating the appropriateness of MTVu in the public space of the dining hall. Free of charge, MTVu provides televisions and a feed for universities to place in dining halls, recreation rooms, break areas, etc. The idea is that MTV is getting their programming to a target audience -perhaps the target audience: young,…
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    Somatosphere

  • Universes of Kinship by Leo Coleman

    lcoleman
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm
    The Metamorphoses of Kinship By Maurice Godelier Translated by Nora Scott. London: Verso. 615pp. + index. US$49.95 / £30.00 (hardcover)   Maurice Godelier opens his magisterial tour of the “universe of kinship” with the observation that formal anthropological kinship theory has long been left for dead.  What follows is a dazzling analysis that revisits ethnographic data on marriage, descent, siblinghood, and gender from around the world, and revives the entire mode of anthropological thought and argumentation that once used such data as its prime material.  As he says, the…

  • Call for papers: Ethnographies of Biomedicine in Post-Socialist Europe, Bucharest, June 2012 by Jennifer Carroll

    Jennifer Carroll
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:41 am
     Health In Transition: Ethnographies Of Bio-Medicine In Post-Socialist Europe Call for Papers 7-8 June 2012 Kindly hosted by: Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania www.hitconference.org With notable exceptions, the topics of health and medicine in post-socialist Europe have received limited anthropological attention compared to research on both the global ‘North’ and ‘South’.  Implicitly, medical anthropological research from academic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe is little known by scholars from other parts of the world. The goal of this Conference is…

  • Claire Wendland’s A Heart for the Work by Liese Pruitt

    Liese Pruitt
    18 Jan 2012 | 11:49 pm
    A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School By Claire Wendland University of Chicago Press, 2010. 352 pp., US$27.50 (paperback).   In A Heart for the Work, Claire Wendland explores how biomedicine and its values are remade in an African context through an ethnographic study of the impact of medical training on students of Malawi’s College of Medicine.  She opens by describing her introduction to medicine in Malawi, as an American medical student to whom the resource-poor hospital full of unfamiliar ailments offered a startling counterpoint to her own training…

  • Lucre and the law: A money narrative of who stands to gain from suing a pharmaceutical company by Kalman Applbaum

    Kalman Applbaum
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:04 am
    The courtroom is a modern and fairly small space, with room for perhaps 100-120 people in the gallery. At the start of proceedings on January 10, the gallery was quite full. By the next day fewer than half the seats were occupied. Most of those remaining appear to be connected to the legal teams of the two sides. This is a big case, financially speaking, so it isn’t surprising to see full teams of lawyers buzzing about. I will yet investigate what the cost of this case will turn out to be, and who pays for what. I can tell from the almost unremitting good humor of the lawyers on both sides…

  • The banality of corporate corruption: Janssen’s reimbursement department takes the stand. (Risperdal on trial, cont’d.) by Kalman Applbaum

    Kalman Applbaum
    15 Jan 2012 | 5:47 am
    When I first began interviewing pharmaceutical company executives on site, I was baffled by the size of their “government affairs” or similarly named departments. I understood that regulatory matters were complex and important to the process of drug licensing, but did management of that task require entire departments of full-time employees? The reason for this remained unclear to me until I realized that government affairs was a subdivision of marketing, as indeed every other function has come to be in the modern pharmaceutical company (Applbaum 2011). The first witness whose deposition…
 
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  • Love this guide to speaking Suthern

    Karen Nakamura
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:54 pm
    Like the author, I too am in love with the Southern accent: http://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/w_southern.html

  • Free… free at last! from LinkedIn spam

    Karen Nakamura
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:27 pm
    Yay! Using the info here, I finally liberated myself from that incessant LinkedIn spam: LinkedIn Customer Support Message Subject: Add My Email To Do Not Contact List Hi Karen, I truly apologize for the delay in my response. Per your request, I've added your karen.nakamura@yale.edu email address to our "do not contact" list. You will no longer receive any email from LinkedIn or our members on this email address. If you decide at a later date that you want to set up a LinkedIn account, you will need to first contact us to have your email address removed from the “do not contact”…

  • Ethics in TV Journalism - 5th grade version from This American Life

    Karen Nakamura
    13 Jan 2012 | 6:38 pm
    My pal Eric sent me this link: Some links for further cogitation: Narrative Journalism: Subjectivity, No Longer a Dirty Word Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work NY Times Ethics I was trying to find a link to the oft-quoted dilemma of TV news crews in disasters -- keep filming the person being swept away by a river, or jump in to save them. But couldn't. Readers?

  • Monitoring Tokyo's radiation levels

    Karen Nakamura
    9 Jan 2012 | 8:48 am
    I've been spending the past couple of months in Tokyo. Worried about the radiation, I brought my DRGB-90 russian geiger counter /dosimeter that I had bought a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, the DRGB is a rather old analogue design and the readings at low (natural background radiation) are rather imprecise. I modified it so that it could hook up directly to an application on iOS called Geigerbot that is a sophisticated click-counter. Set up correctly, it can give you precise microsievert per hour readings. It also interfaces with Pachube which allows historical readings. Now Geigerbot can…

  • Call for Entries - Jean Rouch International Film Festival

    Karen Nakamura
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:48 am
    From my mailbox: Jean Rouch International Film Festival CALL FOR ENTRIES Please, pass this on to your colleagues, friends and students Dear Friends, We are very pleased to announce that the 2012 Jean Rouch International Film Festival is now open for entries. We remind you that the deadline to submit a film is 15th April 2012. This deadline is for all films completed after 1st January 2011 . You will find the online entry form on our website via: http://www.comite-film-ethno.net/festival-international-jean-rouch/2012/entry-form.html We are looking forward to receiving your film submissions.
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    Constructing Amusement

  • Online game protests in China - A public lecture

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:16 pm
    The SFU School of Communication Presents:"Beyond the “Great Firewall”: Negotiating Online In-Game Protests in China"A public talk by Prof. Dean Chan - University of Wollongong, AustraliaSFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings St., Vancouver)Thursday February 2, 20127-9pm, Room 2270This event is free, and open to the public – all welcome !ABSTRACT:Online in-game protests are part of a burgeoning

  • Dissertation preview

    9 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm
    What better way to begin the New Year, than with a dissertation teaser? Here it is.Title: Online games as a medium of cultural communication: An ethnographic study of sociotechnical transformationIntroductionMethodology and RationaleThe Rise of Korean GamingGaming: from Subculture to Mainstream Conclusion and Moving ForwardAbstract: <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family

  • Game changers: the women who make videogames

    8 Dec 2011 | 5:24 pm
    An article in today's Guardian discusses women who play video games and more importantly, those who make them. What is notable are the reasons suggested for the traditionally low numbers of both, including the numbers of women in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) disciplines. Culture:Mitu Khandaker, who started programming at the age of 12 and now runs her own indie development studio,

  • Eye on the prize

    1 Dec 2011 | 7:42 pm
    Gettin'er done.

  • Did, and doing. Europe, UK, US.

    23 Sep 2011 | 8:13 am
    Greetings from Oxford! The 20 day blitz 'across the pond' is winding down, and it's been super busy but such a concentration of awesome. Just one of these would have been amazing in and of itself, but in the interests of 'efficiency' I ended up doing three in order to be jet lagged once (though sleep deprivation could not be helped!). I'm still at Oxford winding down right now, and I'd better
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    Visual Anthropology of Japan - 日本映像人類学

  • Stand! In the place where you work (as ordered)...

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:34 am
    Stand in the place where you live Now face north Think about direction Wonder why you haven't before Now stand in the place where you work Now face west Think about the place where you live Wonder why you haven't before If you are confused, check with the sun Carry a compass to help you along Your feet are going to be on the ground Your head is there to move you around ("Stand" by R.E.M. from the album Green released in 1988) I doubt R.E.M. was thinking about Japan, the Hinomaru and Kimigayo when they wrote this song. Perhaps it is time for a re-make of the video featuring the Hinomaru flag…

  • "Yomiuri ties up with AFP for broader worldwide photo circulation"

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:35 am
    From NSK News Bulletin January 2012: The Yomiuri Shimbun is to begin distributing its news photos on a subscription basis to foreign media via AFP, the French state-owned news agency, starting on Feb. 1. The Yomiuri’s photos for overseas distribution via AFP include photos not appearing in the Yomiuri’s daily newspaper, various on-the-spot photos of disasters or incidents that have been provided by Yomiuri readers, and an archive of the paper’s past news photos. The leading Japanese daily signed a distribution contract with AFP on Dec. 9. The Yomiuri had earlier tied up with the…

  • Diversity in Place Film Festival

    18 Jan 2012 | 2:15 am
    Announcement from SSJ-Forum... Diversity in Place Film Festival (April, 2012, Honolulu, HI) Seeking short films (under 30 minutes) in any style or genre (narrative, documentary, experimental, animated) on the theme of Urban Explorations: "stories about the existing, yet unseen places in or around the urban areas you've lived, visited, encountered." An intersection between film festival and conference, DIPFF explores the potential applications of film as a format through which we can understand our relations with place and promote awareness and a critical outlook on how we experience place.

  • "Preparing for death while still healthy / Leaving memorial portraits, 'final wishes' can ease burden on loved ones"

    17 Jan 2012 | 3:44 am
    From the Daily Yomiuri Online, 1/15/12:  Activities to prepare for the final stage of life, including having photos taken to leave behind, writing down final thoughts and wishes in a special notebook, and attending workshops on how to write a will, are enjoying a quiet boom. Experts say that behind the recent rise in popularity of these activities that take a candid approach to death is the emotional impact of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, in addition to uncertainty over the future, including life after retirement. "Please smile. That's good," a female photographer said while…

  • "Aichi director records the deaf's stories"

    16 Jan 2012 | 3:39 am
    Photo borrowed from Yomiuri Online. From the Daily Yomiuri Online, 1/14/12: Deaf director Ayako Imamura's filmography boasts movies about the lives of deaf and hearing-impaired people. Imamura, 32, recently shot a documentary titled "Coffee and Pencil," whose main character is a deaf man who runs a surf shop. The man offers customers coffee with a smile, shows them paper and a pencil, and starts communicating with them using gestures and writing. "Did you surf today?" he writes. Customers, puzzled at first, are soon drawn into a conversation with him. "Even if we don't talk and people don't…
 
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    International Cognition and Culture Institute

  • Are humans innately bad social scientists?

    23 Jan 2012 | 3:11 pm
    I know, this sounds a bit extreme. How can the ability to do (bad) social science be influenced by our genes? Well, quite easily if you carefully read Robert Trivers’ last book (see reviews in NYT Nature, Science). Indeed, his book is about our innate tendency for self-deception. Here is the blurb: Whether it’s in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive—but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead  In his bold…

  • Twelve Lessons (Most of Which I Learned the Hard Way) for Evolutionary Psychologists

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:04 am
      As an undergraduate, most of the professors in the Anthropology Department at my university practiced psychological anthropology, a subfield of sociocultural anthropology that combines theories from various branches of psychology with the study of culture. I decided that I was going to be a psychological anthropologist, and I continued on at the same university, with the same professors, for my graduate degrees. Although I was confident that, to understand human behavior, it was necessary to investigate the interaction of mind and culture, I nevertheless became increasingly…

  • International Conference on Thinking 2012 London

    20 Jan 2012 | 3:37 am
    The 7th International Conference on Thinking will take place on the 4th to 6th July 2012 at Birkbeck College and University College London focusing on the most recent research on thinking from psychological, cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience perspectives. To submit papers, posters, or symposia proposals and to register please go to http://www.ict2012.bbk.ac.uk/.  Deadline for submission: 31 March 2012.

  • Conference: Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications

    20 Jan 2012 | 2:50 am
    A conference on "Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications" at UCLA, October 19–20, 2012 Many lines of research on culture, mind, and brain can no longer be neatly separated. Some questions run together, thanks to our growing understanding of the genome, the biological roots of human sociality, and the mutual constitution of cultures and selves, as well as the complex interactions between the physical, cultural, and social environments underlying health and illness. The aim of this 2-day conference is to highlight emerging concepts, methodologies and applications in…

  • Early social cognition in three cultural contexts

    16 Jan 2012 | 5:01 pm
    Coming out of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology An important comparative study on Early social cognition in three cultural contexts by T. Callaghan, H. Moll, H. Rakoczy, F. Warneken, U. Liszkowski, T. Behne, & M. Tomasello, published in 2011 (Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development, 76(2), 1-142) and available here. Abstract: The influence of culture on cognitive development is well established for school age and older children. But almost nothing is known about how different parenting and…
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    DNApes

  • Vegetarian orang-utans eat world's cutest animal

    17 Jan 2012 | 3:21 pm
    by Michael Marshallfrom the New ScientistThanks to Tracy K for the link!When fruit is scarce, try chomping on a slow loris. That seems to be the strategy adopted by the normally vegetarian orang-utans, which have been spotted knocking the small primates out of trees and killing them with a bite to the head.Sumatran orang-utans (Pongo abelii) get almost all their nutrients from fruit and other plant products, but there are a few isolated reports of them eating meat (American Journal of Primatology, vol 43, p 159). Madeleine Hardus of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and…

  • The long, slow sexual revolution

    15 Jan 2012 | 5:40 am
    PLOS Blogs has a LONG blog series about the LONG SLOW SEXUAL REVOLUTION (with video too)The long, slow sexual revolution (part 1) with nsfw videofrom PLOSblogsby GREG DOWNEYA while back, Bora Zivkovic directed me (well, …all his Facebook followers) to the word, ‘sapiosexuality’: the tendency to become ‘attracted to or aroused by intelligence and its use’ (thanks, Bora!).Ironically, although the term may be a bit of a joke, the idea that intelligence is a species-specific aphrodisiac has more than a shred of evolutionary plausibility. Moreover, ‘sapiosexuality’ is a crucial point…

  • Bootylicious! Horse fly with bling named after Beyonce

    15 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    From msnbc.comAustralian insect with golden butt reminded researcher of pop-music divaBy Jennifer WelshThanks to Erin W for the link!Beyonce may be one of the biggest pop divas out there, but she isn't the only diva with that name. A previously unnamed species of horse fly with a glamorous golden rear end has been named Beyonce because it is the "all-time diva of flies," researchers say.Bryan Lessard, a researcher from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, is responsible for officially describing the fly and naming it Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae,…

  • Turn Back

    14 Jan 2012 | 7:03 am
    from http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2458550066638&set=p.2458550066638&type=1&theater Thanks to Lissa O for the link!

  • Bath Time for Baby Sloths

    13 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
    this is to counter balance the post about death today. -MA
 
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    Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

  • Now I am… 11?

    Alex
    18 Jan 2012 | 6:12 pm
    It’s taken more than half a month, but I’ve finally found time to sit down and write a brief note here to celebrate the fact that my blog is now 11 years old. Perseverance in the blogosphere is easy, especially if you only bother to update your blog once a year! I think in fact I’ve posted more this year than I have last year, but I’m not ashamed of the slowdown here — it’s a problem of success. Twitter has stolen some of the more concise entries and Savage Minds the longer ones, and I have less and less to say publicly as more and more of my life is…

  • Getting Burkean Wit It

    Alex
    23 Dec 2011 | 12:32 am
    Just a quick note for the occasional visitor to this site. I’m going to try to prune comment spam by using the (Tim) Burke solution: comments are still enabled but I’ve required you to register if you want to say something here on the blog. Hopefully this will encourage community and keep me from having to come through and clean out the viagra spam regularly. I’m also redesigning the main site with WordPress to make it prettier and shinier as well. You know, in my Copious Free Time.

  • BookCrawler

    Alex
    15 Dec 2011 | 8:22 pm
    I’m a professor. I have a lot of books. After testing several bibliography apps I chose BookCrawler to catalog my home library (mostly so I could alphabetize it) with my iPod touch. The program is great — using Pic2Shop as a barcode scanner it easily sucked down info about my books. In one case when I did inexplicably manage to break the app, the developer responded to my email request for help literally within minutes. I’d really consider this a one-stop shop solution for book cataloguing for most amateur bibliophiles. For professional and expert users, however, there are…

  • A drash on parshah Ki Tavo

    Alex
    18 Sep 2011 | 7:49 pm
    (delivered at Sof this week) I’ve organized my drosh for today around two song lyrics. I’ll tell you about the second one later. The first is from one of my favorite musicians, Tom Waits, who says in one of his songs: “The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.” Reading this parshah, right at the tail end of the torah, I feel very much that we are very much being given the small print: “inhaling fumes may cause vomiting, do not remove this tag unless owner, Improper use of dye may cause bleaching, try on a small, unseen sample first” More seriously, though, this parshah…

  • Doubling down on yesterday’s media

    Alex
    5 Sep 2011 | 12:02 pm
    With broadband adoption surging across the country, my wife and I are switching our netflix subscription to unlimited streaming + four CDs at home at a time. It’s the opposite of adoption patterns but makes good sense. Think about it: after two years with a Roku box we are simply running out of things to watch on Netflix streaming — and particularly quality TV shows, which are our standard fare these days. No other flat-rate service can provide them, especially not the pathetic Hulu Plus, which not only makes you pay money to watch commercials, but basically takes a whole tranche…
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    Anthropological Notebook

  • Climbing trees

    12 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pm
    Batek children at Taman Negara, Malaysia, 1/1/12. Climbing trees is fun, beloved of children everywhere, and these children develop their skills early. Later, there will be many a discouraging shout from the adults when they try to climb trees that are too big for them.

  • Fieldwork with the Batek, 1995-96 (video)

    11 Jan 2012 | 11:54 pm
    Before my Google Earth Pro trial version expires, I've made a video of the old Batek campsites from 1995-96. The narrative is chronological. It's good to see that many of the areas remain under forest cover of some sort. Batek fieldwork 1995-96: maps and movements from tp Lye on Vimeo.

  • Learning to walk in the forest

    8 Jan 2012 | 6:06 am
    His mother (na'Cangap) is supporting him with just one finger. She could have lifted him, grabbed him, or heaved him over the log, of course, but then he wouldn't have had the adventure of trying to climb over by himself, or the experience of learning to do so. He used his toy digging stick for support and tried about three or four times before he made it. He's about 2-3 years old. Taman Negara, Malaysia, 1/1/12.

  • Batek portraits: Then and now (II)

    7 Jan 2012 | 6:29 pm
    Once were children.... Continuing my photo series of Batek friends as they were "then" (left), and as they are today (right). All the "now" photos were shot in Taman Negara national park, Pahang, Malaysia, between 31/12/11 and 5/1/12. I told a couple of amusing stories about their childhood antics to people; they seemed delighted to hear them and asked for repeated viewings of the old photos "when we were naughty children." na'Jamol in 1999 at Tabung camp (left) and in 2012 with her son in Taman Negara (right). I never knew her as a child. Her family are from Atok and I almost never went…

  • With Batek in Taman Negara (video)

    7 Jan 2012 | 9:04 am
    A montage, really, rather than a proper video, combining audio, a few stills, and video from this week's return visit to Batek friends at Taman Negara (my first videos of Batek, using an iPad -- I don't own a videocam). It was a splendid few days... walking in the forest, digging for yams, fishing, and we got meat from the hunt as well. I took a boat and surveyed groups along the Tembeling, caught up on the news and kinship and saw some people who I hadn't seen in 15 years. Children were adorable. The importance of making such visits was really brought home to me when I heard that old…
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    media/anthropology

  • Researching digital media and social change: A theory of practice approach

    John Postill
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:49 am
    Milan presentation notes, IULM University, 26 January 2012 Introduction Many thanks to Alessandra Micalizzi for the kind invitation. First attempt for me at connecting practice theory with media and social change. The story behind both – until now separate – interests: EASA Media Anthropology Network, first media and practice theory (Bräuchler and Postill 2010), more recently media and social change – Paris meeting 2012 to be co-convened with Tenhunen and Ardevol. See both websites. Digital media and social change All digital media scholars study social change- yet surprisingly…

  • Best of media/anthropology 2011

    John Postill
    31 Dec 2011 | 6:38 am
    As readers of this blog will know, I use this site as a notebook where I occasionally gather thoughts, drafts and other work in progress. I suspect I am the main beneficiary of this archival work. Nevertheless, as today is the last day of 2011, below are some of the posts that may be of wider interest: January. Activism in the age of viral reality. This is an article proposal that I wrote before the 15-M aka Indignados movement took off in Spain in May 2011. I am now about to submit a revised article that develops some of these ideas in the context of 15-M. February. Egypt’s uprising:…

  • Democracy in the age of viral reality (and 5)

    John Postill
    16 Dec 2011 | 4:05 am
    Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (4) Conclusion In his anthropological study of the free software movement, Chris Kelty (2008) concludes that this movement signals a global reconfiguration of power/knowledge relations that goes well beyond the field of software design. This shift rests on the C21 idea of knowledge as living and in flux rather than final or static, and on the technical ease with which changes to a text can now be made and shared ‘in real time’ (2008: 280). However, adds Kelty, the diffusion and ‘modulation’ of free software principles and practices…

  • Democracy in the age of viral reality (4)

    John Postill
    15 Nov 2011 | 2:05 pm
    Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (3) Distributed democracy What are the implications for the future of representative democracy of the 15-M movement – and indeed of indignados and occupy movements in other countries? For the social movements scholar Donatella della Porta (2011) the answer lies with the deliberative (or consensus) democracy experiments currently being conducted by Spain’s protesters: This conception of democracy is prefigured by the very same indignados that occupy city squares, transforming them into public spheres made up of ‘normal citizens’. It…

  • Democracy in the age of viral reality (3)

    John Postill
    6 Nov 2011 | 7:38 pm
    Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (2) Media epidemiography In the introduction I noted that the new coinage ‘media epidemiography’ collapses the terms ‘epidemiology’ and ‘ethnography’ as a provocation to think about how we may study ethnographically the media epidemiology of popular protests that ‘go viral’ and morph into new social movements. Following the cognitive anthropologist Dan Sperber (1996), I am using the term ‘epidemiology’ in a neutral sense to refer to the study of the distribution of a given cultural representation within a population…
 
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    American Journal of Physical Anthropology

  • Age-related changes of digital endocranial volume during human ontogeny: Results from an osteological reference collection

    Hélène Coqueugniot
    31 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    AbstractEndocranial volume (EV) estimation is widely used in physical anthropology for assessing brain size differences between taxa and monitoring the emergence of brain growth patterns in modern humans. However, to date, no reference data are available for modern human EV ontogeny. We measured 94 skulls with known sex and age (ranging from 0 to 7.5 years) from the osteological collection of Strasbourg University (OCSU) by using an accurate digital active contour model algorithm on 3D virtual models, reconstructed by CT. The OCSU data also allow us to propose improved equations for…

  • Morbidity in the marshes: Using spatial epidemiology to investigate skeletal evidence for malaria in Anglo-Saxon England (AD 410–1050)

    R.L. Gowland
    31 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    AbstractConcerns over climate change and its potential impact on infectious disease prevalence have contributed to a resurging interest in malaria in the past. A wealth of historical evidence indicates that malaria, specifically Plasmodium vivax, was endemic in the wetlands of England from the 16th century onwards. While it is thought that malaria was introduced to Britain during the Roman occupation (AD first to fifth centuries), the lack of written mortality records prior to the post-medieval period makes it difficult to evaluate either the presence or impact of the disease. The analysis of…

  • Brief communication: Enamel thickness and durophagy in mangabeys revisited

    W. Scott McGraw
    31 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    AbstractThe documentation of enamel thickness variation across primates is important because enamel thickness has both taxonomic and functional relevance. The Old World monkeys commonly referred to as mangabeys have figured prominently in investigations of feeding ecology and enamel thickness. In this article, we report enamel thickness values for four mangabey taxa (Cercocebus atys, Cercocebus torquatus, Lophocebus aterrimus, and Lophocebus albigena), offer revised interpretation of the significance of thick enamel in papionin evolution, and place our new data in a broader comparative…

  • Estimation of stature and body mass from the skeleton among coastal and mid-altitude andean populations

    Emma Pomeroy
    31 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    AbstractAdult stature and body mass represent fundamental biological characteristics of individuals and populations, as they are relevant to a range of problems from assessing nutrition and health to longer term evolutionary processes. Stature and body mass estimation from skeletal dimensions are therefore key to addressing biological and social questions about past populations. Anatomical reconstruction provides the most direct proxy for living stature but is only suitable for well-preserved remains. Regression equations for estimating stature from bone lengths are therefore extremely…

  • Nondestructive sampling of human skeletal remains yields ancient nuclear and mitochondrial DNA

    Deborah A. Bolnick
    31 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    AbstractMuseum curators and living communities are sometimes reluctant to permit ancient DNA (aDNA) studies of human skeletal remains because the extraction of aDNA usually requires the destruction of at least some skeletal material. Whether these views stem from a desire to conserve precious materials or an objection to destroying ancestral remains, they limit the potential of aDNA research. To help address concerns about destructive analysis and to minimize damage to valuable specimens, we describe a nondestructive method for extracting DNA from ancient human remains. This method can be…
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    Neuroanthropology

  • Neuroanthropology on PLoS – Best of 2011

    dlende
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:47 pm
    The last year was a great one for us over at Neuroanthropology’s new home on the Public Library of Science – our first full year as part of PLoS Blogs, a lot of great writing, and a vivid sense that anthropology online is developing into a robust arena. Here is a quick run-down of the most read 2011 posts by Greg and by Daniel, as well as a selection of other notable posts. Greg – Top Five ‘The last free people on the planet’ *Greg’s comprehensive take on media hype over “uncontacted” Indian tribes, and how these groups truly challenge those of us living in…

  • Neuroanthropology.net at 1,000,000

    dlende
    20 Dec 2010 | 8:29 pm
    Neuroanthropology.net just broke through the 1,000,000 visits mark! We’ve done that in three years. Our very post came in December 2007. Even though Greg and I have moved over to Neuroanthropology PLoS, this site has continued to generate impressive traffic since September 1st. Here are some of the posts that got us over the top: We agree it’s WEIRD, but is it WEIRD enough? -Greg dissects the excellent study by Henrich et al. that took psychologists to task for basing claims about universal psychology using samples of college students Inside the Mind of a Pedophile -Absolutely incredible…

  • The Wilberforce Award: The population puzzle part 2

    Paul Mason
    7 Dec 2010 | 2:05 am
    Our Neuroanthropology blog has moved to PLoS Blogs, and if you are interested in the topic of sustainable population growth, you may be interested in The Culture of Poverty Debate, The Culture of Poverty Debate continued, and Culture of Poverty: Analysis and Policy. Attention to the Population Puzzle has been gaining attention with blogs written by: Rachel in Melbourne, Himalayan Sun, EconNewsAustralia, Simon Butler, Thomas Parkes, North Canberra Community Council, Jeremy Williams, Steve Austin, Population Media Center, Sharon Ede, The Australian, 2UE, and more… If there is a team of…

  • Great New Stuff over at PLoS Neuroanthropology

    dlende
    14 Nov 2010 | 9:03 am
    I hope our regular readers have moved over to PLoS Neuroanthropology. But just in case you haven’t, I’ve posted some of our recent posts from over there below. And for those of you new to neuroanthropology, welcome! Here’s a taste of what we do. But one thing first. If you like getting your internet through a feed, please update the rss subscription for PLoS Neuroanthropology> Here’s the actual address in case you need it: http://feeds.plos.org/plos/blogs/neuroanthropology Popular Posts An Interview with Mark Changizi: Culture Harnassing the Brain *Our most popular…

  • Announcing the Notre Dame Hub: Taking Students’ Academic Lives Online

    dlende
    1 Nov 2010 | 12:53 pm
    The Hub @ Notre Dame is now live! The Hub takes students’ academic lives online, providing a platform for exploring ideas, presenting their work, and social networking within an academic community. I initiated this project in the spring of 2009 at Notre Dame, so it is wonderful to see it come to fruition. Here is the opening to my original Hub Proposal: Students today can share their personal lives on online sites like Facebook and MySpace. They do not have a comparable site for their academic lives. Through the creation of the Notre Dame Hub, students will be able to share their research…
 
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    Warped And Weft

  • The Fingerprint Of God

    RJ Vigoda
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:39 pm
    In one way or another all of us are searching for evidence of God.  Granted, few words in the language are more loaded than “God.”  Those more linguistically tempered wisely sidestep the inevitable religious associations by using a bevy of other, more neutral appellations.  For them such terms as Pure Being, Supreme Consciousness, Ultimate Intelligence, The One or [...] posted in Altered States by RJ Vigoda Leave A Comment©2012 Warped And Weft. All Rights Reserved.

  • Star Crossed

    RJ Vigoda
    18 Jan 2012 | 7:03 pm
    Evaluating “Cosmos And Psyche” And Archetypal Cosmology Richard Tarnas and I share a common pursuit.  We’re both seeking order and meaning within what we believe to be a purposefully intelligent and profound universe.  We’re looking for confirmation of what we sense to be true, what in the core of our souls we know to be [...] posted in Media by RJ Vigoda Leave A Comment©2012 Warped And Weft. All Rights Reserved.

  • Reorienting Expectation: The Changing Locus Of Spirituality

    RJ Vigoda
    16 Aug 2011 | 4:36 pm
    It’s often assumed those living in more traditional cultures have a greater degree of metaphysical awareness and lead more spiritually oriented lives than their modern counterparts.   To varying degrees virtually all who study Transpersonal Anthropology harbor this essential bias.  Many claim traditional living provides surroundings and conditions more conducive to recognizing the greater, more essential [...] posted in Philosophy by RJ Vigoda Leave A Comment©2012 Warped And Weft. All Rights Reserved.

  • The Intuitive Truth

    RJ Vigoda
    21 May 2011 | 2:49 am
    Observations On The Work Of Sri Aurobindo In the world of Transpersonal studies mystics and theorists rarely mix.  In truth the relation between the two is often filled with mutual disdain and a mistrust bordering on antagonism.  Mystics frequently view theorists as rigid, empirically compulsive, soulless thought brokers whose need for evidence, order and explanation [...] posted in Philosophy by RJ Vigoda Leave A Comment©2012 Warped And Weft. All Rights Reserved.

  • Preposterous Ponderings

    RJ Vigoda
    29 Jan 2011 | 4:39 pm
    Losing Your Mind Over Zen If the answers to all the big questions of existence were easy to come by everybody would know them.   There’s good reason why so few hold the most profound secrets of life.  Let’s face it, the path to enlightenment is undeniably a tough and arduous slog.  Those deciding to pursue [...] posted in Philosophy by RJ Vigoda Leave A Comment©2012 Warped And Weft. All Rights Reserved.
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    Into the Wild

  • Into the Wild Meets: Mark Wood - Walking to the Ends of the Earth for Climate Change

    Gap Year Blog
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am
    Mark Wood considers himself an ordinary guy, but his current situation is about as far from normal as you can get. Mark has completed part one of his attempt to be the first person in history to ski solo – unsupported and unaided, to both the South Geographic and the North Geographic Pole’s consecutively.

  • Happy Australia Day

    Gap Year Blog
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:31 am
    Nowadays, Australia Day is all about celebrating what's great about this beautiful country, with a public holiday full of ‘barbies’ and fireworks. So we thought we’d get into the spirit of things and tell you all about our highlights from down under.

  • VOLUNTEER INTERVIEW: RACHAEL LAPPAGE - COSTA RICA BIG CATS, PRIMATES AND TURTLE CONSERVATION

    Gap Year Blog
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:55 am
    Today we speak to future volunteer Rachael Lappage who later this year will be heading off to the ever popular Costa Rica Big Cats, Primates and Turtle Conservation project. We asked Rachael a few questions about her upcoming trip, finding out what she’s excited about, what she’s going to pack and a few other bits and pieces.

  • X Prize – Revolution through Competition

    Gap Year Blog
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am
    Humanity has always faced a huge number of challenges, from exploration and navigation to advances and breakthroughs in medical science. One way that these challenges have been overcome is through incentivised competition, where prizes are offered to the first individual or team to find a solution. Read how the X Prize Foundation approach this.

  • The Telegraph Adventure Travel Show

    Gap Year Blog
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:36 am
    This weekend London’s Olympia plays host to the 2012 Telegraph Adventure Travel Show, where some of the world’s most accomplished and inspirational adventurers and explorers will be speaking about their experiences, including our friend Dave Cornthwaite. Why not come along and get inspired for your next trip of a lifetime? We’ll see you there.
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