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Chiapas: Police attack Indigenous farmers, killing six
Recycled Minds | October 10th 2008
"...[O]n October 3, 2008, federal and state police in Chiapas, Mexico, carried out a violent operation that left six people dead, 17 injured, and 36 more detained, almost all of whom were inhabitants of the ejido (communally held land) of Miguel Hida read more
Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia
Seattle Mom Blogs | October 8th 2008 by Jenny
SEATTLE-Ethiopia is the cradle of mankind, the birthplace of coffee, the purported resting place of the Ark of the Covenant-and home to legions of Bob Marley fans. Discover five million years of this country’s diverse history and culture in the read more
Four Stone Hearth at Clashing Culture
Tangled Up In Blue Guy | October 8th 2008 by Mike Haubrich
Please visit Clashing Culture. Thomas Robey agreed to take on the Four Stone Hearth Carnival for this fortnight’s session and has brought together some articles on anthropology, archaeology and current events. No more babbling from me. Go. read more
I watch the people and the cars, it's slow motion; they're beauti…
Charlotte | October 6th 2008 by Bekah Richards
I’m doing a lot better, so much better that I’m fairly certain I never really cared for Jason at all. This isn’t anything like it felt when Paul started dating Ashley. Probably because Paul and I are still doing well. And now that it’s Octobe read more
Linguistic Relativity and Culture Contact Among the Native Americ…
Indigenous Issues Today | October 4th 2008 by Peter N. Jones
Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity Among the Indians of Northwestern CaliforniaSean O’Neill2008University of Oklahoma PressOne of the most perplexing problems in the field of anthropology over the last hundred years has been the relationshi read more
Give us back some heavy duty maturity rituals
In Search of Meaning | October 3rd 2008 by Robert Krzisnik
When I manage to observe my teenagers with empathy, I can see that they have a tough time trying to figure out their position in this world and their identity. Perhaps a tougher time than my generation had. This new generations, at least in the moder read more
Looking at Europe from Asia
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | October 3rd 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
Finally I have reached my destination and I am fully connected so that I can now go back to my blog after nearly two months of neglect. I am in Singapore, at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. My new office has a window read more
Russian artists in Israel
Gallery of Israel | October 1st 2008 by Tehila Gonen
For beautiful artworks by leading Israeli artists, please visit www.galleryofisrael.com  Diana Shimon - “Mother” Russian artists who have immigrated to Israel over the past several decades, comprise a fair portion of current art in read more
Don’t Fence Me In!
Catherine Sherman | September 30th 2008 by Catherine Sherman
Devon, England, has some of the most ancient and renowned hedgerows in the world. I haven’t been there in person, but Paula of Locks Park Farm in Devon (link below) took her readers on a virtual tour of the hedgerows on her farm. You could read more
The ethnosphere
Revolving doors | September 30th 2008
Species are going extinct at an alarming rate. This is also true for a lot of indigenous cultures and languages. Old traditions and ways are disappearing. Wade Davis argues that we should be concerned not only for preserving the biosphere, but als read more
Wade Davis reports from the Dreamtime
TEDBlog | September 30th 2008
Wade Davis recently spent time in the Northern Territory of Australia, working on a film with the Aboriginees on Dreamtime and the Songlines. He reports from his time there: I must tell you of the Dreaming. Spent a month... read more
My Latest Art: Bedouin Girl 3
PAP Blog | September 30th 2008 by filip spagnoli
Posted in art Tagged: anthropology, art, bedouin, Egypt, islam, muslim read more
It’s true. Sarah Palin is in a corn maze.
clusterflock | September 28th 2008 by clusterflock
Sarah Palin is in a corn maze. This does not mean that Sarah Palin is actually in a corn maze, but that there is a corn maze made to look like Sarah Palin. You have to be looking down on the maze and not in it in order to see the likeness. Courtesy o read more
The Other Crisis
Recycled Minds | September 27th 2008
Most media and many people are, understandably, consumed by the U.S. economic crisis. Hopefully, political debates and new presidents will soon focus on the "other" crisis as well.The "'tsunami' of hunger," writes Esther Vivas, "is no natural process read more
Wisdom! Let us attend
Khanya | September 27th 2008 by Steve Hayes
Bishop Seraphim writes in his LiveJournal: Looking into matter of ‘Sobornost’ I find a good quote from I.V.Kireyevsky who can be regarded as the initiator of the terminology: “In the physical world each being lives and is maintained read more
American Anthropological Association Sessions Focusing on Indigen…
Indigenous Issues Today | September 26th 2008 by Peter N. Jones
The American Anthropological Association Annual meetings are coming up in San Francisco. Although anthropology and anthropologists have not always had a positive history when it comes to working with indigenous peoples, this is rapidly changing. Than read more
Patterns, Colors, Textures, Hues
Mikes Thoughts | September 23rd 2008 by Michael Perry
Its amazing how anthropologists take a small idea which may relate to something, drill into it, produce a idea which ties that small idea to other ideas that cross cultures. Here is a small and simple one I did. I was driving to work the other day an read more
Sexually active girls more prone to depression than virgins
Seduction Labs | September 23rd 2008 by Seduction Labs
Young girls who are sexually active are far more likely to suffer from depression than those who remain virgins, according to a controversial new study. Research which appeared recently in the Journal of Health Economics has found that young girls wh read more
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Ever…
tour chinese | September 22nd 2008 by zc
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named: John Keay Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly In this nicely detailed chronicle, British historian Keay (India: A History) portrays the arduous half-century read more
Troubled teenage girls have sex earlier
Seduction Labs | September 21st 2008 by Seduction Labs
Teenage girls from poor neighbourhoods with conduct issues are more likely to have sex at an early age, according to a joint Canadian-American study. Researchers from the Université de Montréal, the University of New Brunswick and New England’ read more
Don't Know Much about Neanderthals
Southern Rockies Nature Blog | September 21st 2008 by Chas S. Clifton
But if you think you do know much, take the quiz before reading the National Geographic article about a group of skeletons found in a Spanish cave in 1994.More on DNA research and, yes, cannibalism. read more
this is how we’ll dance when they try to take us down
Charlotte | September 19th 2008 by Bekah Richards
A/N: Sorry about the delay in updating. I’ve just moved to London to spend a semester at UCL, and I haven’t had internet access until now.Forget English, I’m going to major in Anthropology.Unfortunately I can’t really forget English, as I nee read more
Neanderthal brain size at birth provides insights into the evolut…
Henry | September 16th 2008 by Simon G
Ponce de León et al in today’s P.N.A.S. discuss how the “Neanderthal brain size at birth provides insights into the evolution of human life history“: From birth to adulthood, the human brain expands by a factor of 3.3, compared wit read more
Sex affects the way you walk
Seduction Labs | September 15th 2008 by Seduction Labs
You can tell a lot about people from the way they move, and previous studies have shown that gender, age, and even mood could be predicted. Now it seems that a survey published in the journal Current Biology has found that the way you walk is directl read more
Anthropology Buffs - Online Artifact Catalog | Museum of Anthropo…
i2i | inception2invention | September 14th 2008 by Karen
This page has K-12 Lesson plans/guides for teachers. Click on “Return to Collections Page” on the left side-bar for the Main Page. Really cool! i2i Online Artifact Catalog | Museum of Anthropology | WFU. read more
Polygamy may be the key to a longer life
Seduction Labs | September 13th 2008 by Seduction Labs
New research suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. Virpi Lummaa, an ecologist at the University of Sheffield, suggested that after accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60, from 140 countries read more
Anthropology of the Web 2.0 — Michael Wesch on YouTube
SEO Marketing Zone | September 13th 2008 by Assaf B
… the fact that I can’t get the song “Numa Numa” out of my head, I’m thrilled that I did, because it makes me really excited about how anthropologists can engage Web 2.0 in new ways to guide our products as well as ou read more
Statistics
clusterflock | September 13th 2008 by clusterflock
Do you ever find yourself wondering about bizarre statistics that would be impossible to compile? I mean, sometimes I’ll find myself wondering about things like: How many people have died while sitting on the toilet, relative to how many people read more
The Real Eve
Online Documentaries 4 U | September 12th 2008
Narrated by actor Danny Glover, "The Real Eve" reveals that our shared genetic heritage links every living person on earth and traces the expansion of modern humans throughout the world. The discovery of the Eve gene stunned the world. It seems we co read more
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