Daniel Dennett

“Trash anthropology in NYC… an Anthropology roundup…

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Trash anthropology in NYC For years, Robin Nagle was anthropologist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation     Blood Is Their Argument: anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon During the brief moment that I majored in anthropology in college, I was fascinated by the work of Napoleon A. Chagnon and his seminal 1968 text Yanomamo: The … Read more

“Three University Projects Use Twitter to Understand Happiness, Hate and Other Emotions in America…and an Academic roundup…

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Three University Projects Use Twitter to Understand Happiness, Hate and Other Emotions in America It turns out that the fleeting pronouncements we post on Twitter are catnip for academics and others eager to find the allusive pulse of American society. Since Twitter launched in 2006, researchers have been hard at work figuring out how to … Read more