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#Anthropology roundup: “Can Cryptocurrency Revolutionize the Rituals of Money?
Can Cryptocurrency Revolutionize the Rituals of Money? SAPIENS by Sara Ceraldi [no-caption] Andrew Baker/Getty Images Objects—pieces of paper, coins, lumps of precious metal—may serve as currency and represent specific monetary values, but what... 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
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#anthropology roundup: “How Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology…
How Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology SAPIENS by Philip W. Scher In creating other worlds, Ursula Le Guin showed the power inherent in constructions of culture and new realities.Marian... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “The Dude Troll As Anthropologist…”The Perils of Doing Ethnography on Darknet Drug Markets…
A Digital Bermuda Triangle: The Perils of Doing Ethnography on Darknet Drug Markets anthro{dendum} by Crystal Abidin anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Alexia Maddox, contributing the first post in the Private Messages from the... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017
Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017 SAPIENS by Aaron Brooks “Fossil scout” Pedro Boshoff inside the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, where Homo naledi fossils were found. Wits University This year’s anthropological findings... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Bonobos, Nicest Primates on the Planet, Make Humans Look Like Monsters…
Bonobos, Nicest Primates on the Planet, Make Humans Look Like Monsters Inverse mong the countless shitty things humans have done in the past year, we’ve revived Nazism, attempted to cover... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Learning to Trust Machines That Learn….
Learning to Trust Machines That Learn SAPIENS by Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas and Djuke Veldhuis Imagine lying on a hospital bed. Doctors with grave expressions hover. One leans down to tell you that... Read more
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My Digital Anthropology course this semester…
Three weeks have already passed. But there are many weeks to go and if any one is interested in joining reading discussions online (we are on Week 4), here is... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Iceland’s Forgotten Fisherwomen
Iceland’s Forgotten Fisherwomen SAPIENS by Roberta Kwok Fisherwomen have played a significant role in Iceland’s history, and yet their contribution has been, for the most part, overlooked. Michelle Jones/SAPIENS Explaining Ethnography in the Field:... Read more
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#anthropology roundup: “Great anthropologists who fought fascism”
Great anthropologists who fought fascism Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology Some of you who — unlike me — have not had family members murdered by nazis or had every synagogue in their... Read more
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#Anthropology roundup: “An Open Access Intro Anthro Textbook…”The Four Dimensions of Ethnographic Films
Perspectives: An Open Access Intro Anthro Textbook Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology (This guest post by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González announces the launch of what I believe... Read more
