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#Anthropology roundup: “Claude Lévi-Strauss: Remembering the French anthropologist on his 110th birth anniversary…
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Remembering the French anthropologist on his 110th birth anniversary Firstpost Claude Lévi-Strauss: Remembering the French anthropologist on his 110th birth anniversary Firstpost Anthropologist: Tribe that killed missionary are ‘peace-loving people’ New... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Who are the Sentinelese? 60,000-yr-old tribe in focus after American John Chau’s death
Who are the Sentinelese? 60,000-yr-old tribe in focus after American John Chau’s death The News Minute Who are the Sentinelese? 60,000-yr-old tribe in focus after American John Chau’s death The News Minute... Read more
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#anthropology roundup- You can add your signature: “Public Statement on the AAA’s “Repository for the Common Good”
Public Statement on the AAA’s “Repository for the Common Good” The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced its intention to create what its president has termed a repository for... Read more
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Attending this workshop now: “Anthropological Publishing Through an Anthropological Lens
I have attended (or attending right now) this workshop. That was the reason I cut short my trip and got back to this fantastic workshop: UCI Open Anthropology Seminar Anthropological... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Interview: John Postill on his new book The Rise of the Nerds….
Interview: John Postill on his new book The Rise of the Nerds anthro{dendum} by Adam Fish I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. John Postill about his new book, The... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Recovering relationships in early anthropological research…
Confronting the Specter of Cultural Appropriation SAPIENS by George Nicholas [no-caption] kokouu/Getty Images Humans celebrate many things—from rites of passage to religious events to groundhogs. One of the most intriguing, anthropologically speaking, is... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire…
Wikipedia Leads Effort to Create a Digital Archive of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in the Brazilian Museum Fire Open Culture by Josh Jones The staggering loss of a possible 20 million artifacts... Read more
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#Anthropology roundup: I hear it is all gone:( “Firefighters battle massive blaze at 200-year-old Rio museum
Firefighters battle massive blaze at 200-year-old Rio museum KRMG Firefighters battle massive blaze at 200-year-old Rio museum KRMG Huge Fire Devastates Brazil National Museum (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) Sputnik International Is Robot Empathy a Trap? SAPIENS by... Read more
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#Anthropology roundup: “Ancient Denisovan/Neanderthal human-hybrid discovered…”The Latest Trends That Make A Career In Anthropology Interesting…
Ancient Denisovan/Neanderthal human-hybrid discovered 15 kottke.org by Jason Kottke Wow! Genetic analysis of a human bone fragment found in Siberia reveals that her parents belonged to two different groups of humans: her father was Denisovan and her... Read more
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#Anthropology roundup: “Can Cryptocurrency Revolutionize the Rituals of Money?
Can Cryptocurrency Revolutionize the Rituals of Money? SAPIENS by Sara Ceraldi Objects—pieces of paper, coins, lumps of precious metal—may serve as currency and represent specific monetary values, but what underpins the exchange... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: Turkey’s Göbeklitepe inscribed on UNESCO world heritage list…”The Age of Cultured Machines…
UNESCO inscribed Turkey’s Göbeklitepe on world heritage list News here. **** The Age of Cultured Machines SAPIENS by Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas and Djuke Veldhuis Two robots traverse the desert floor. Explosions from... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “The Evolutionary Enigma of the Human Eyebrow
Archaeology’s Search for History Hidden in Ice SAPIENS by Craig M. Lee When Ötzi the Iceman, the most complete Neolithic mummy ever found, melted out of the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, the field... Read more
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#Anthropology roundup: “Anthropologists and Espionage, chapter 4,378
Anthropologists and Espionage, chapter 4,378 anthro{dendum} by Rex Is there anything new to say in the never-ending discussion of anthropology and espionage? Most anthropologists think it is unethical to gather intelligence on... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: 12,000-year-old site Göbeklitepe in Turkey partially “concretized”
Anger over ‘concretization’ of 12,000-year-old site Göbeklitepe in Turkey Hurriyet Daily News Experts are warning about careless works around the ancient site of Göbeklitepe, considered the world’s oldest temple area,... Read more
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#Anthropology roundup: “Humanity’s Surprising Variety of Approaches to Toilet Training…
Humanity’s Surprising Variety of Approaches to Toilet Training SAPIENS by Alma Gottlieb [no-caption] David D/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Are 2-year-olds too young to... Read more
