Tag: anthropology
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July 04, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
When his girlfirend takes a job as a school teacher in northern Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working as little as possible for one of Thailand's English language newpapers. . . .
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December 15, 2009 01:19 AM EST --
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
This really made me think for some reason.
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October 01, 2009 11:02 PM EDT --
New Guinea is a Western invention, a name and a cultural identity given by European travelers in the 1500s . . . authorized by anthropologists such as Margaret Mead, who claimed to have a superior . . .
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June 07, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
The oldest shoes in existence date from 10,000 years ago.
But according to an article at Live Science, anthropologists now believe that humans first started wearing shoes about 40,000 years ago. (One . . .
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August 20, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
The Society of Visual Anthropology meets every year in the context of the American Anthropological Associations annual meeting. I'm a member of their board of directors. It's part of the requirements . . .
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January 09, 2008 05:30 PM EST --
This is just a little post to introduce myself and whatnot, since I just joined yesterday and have been commenting a little. I live near St. Louis with my wonderful man and beautiful baby girl.
Since . . .
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January 01, 2009 05:18 PM EST --
Debates and ideas about when, from where, and by what route Native American Indians peopled the Americas are often “resolved” within generalized models based on an assumption of north to south expansion . . .
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December 07, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
The social sciences have experienced a number of rapid and expansive theoretical developments over the course of the last hundred years. From fighting for their existence as an intellectual endeavor . . .
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September 15, 2009 03:17 PM EDT --
Rhetoric, as usual, has misdirected people on both sides of the health care debate, inciting fears of rationing, overuse of services, even 'death panels.' A New York Times op-ed suggests that we focus . . .
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December 22, 2009 11:23 AM EST --
artifacts are clues to Irish experience in America
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE IRISH DIASPORA, A Transnational Approach by Stephen A. Brighton. U. of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN; www.utpress.org. . . .
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March 23, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
Anthropology & Archaeology Job Search Engine
A highly focused search for anthropology professionals.
I tweaked it some last night, after having my husband, an archaeologist, give it a spin. Hope it's . . .
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June 21, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
Tusheti: Hidden But Vital
The first known humans to inhabit this province were the pagan Georgians from Pkhovi who took refuge in the uninhabited mountains during their rebellion against Christianization . . .
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September 15, 2009 01:40 PM EDT --
From The Prism , a group anthropology blog devoted to public anthropology.
By Ryan Anderson, Sept. 12, 2009
In the contentious debate about health care reform in the United States, Cuba is used . . .
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October 01, 2009 02:37 PM EDT --
Well ,until now Lucy was the oldest… but now brilliant scientist believe she is just a kid…. All my life science has made itself out to be so damn smart, but I have seen almost everything . . .
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May 12, 2006 05:47 AM EDT --
Anthropologists believe the growth of the human brain was due to the upright position.
With nothing special in their heads
Our forefathers became bipeds.
Descending their ancestral tree . . .
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April 13, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
OK. Today is Sunday. Most of us went to church today. I will
Leah and I went to my church today (LDS), next week we go to hers (Presbyterian) because there is a wedding during the . . .
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August 20, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
author: W. Michael Gear
This author who is a historian and anthropologist has written a long series of books about the Native Americans and their long history in North America. On those . . .
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November 29, 2009 10:47 PM EST --
The Yanomami are tribes that have helped anthropologist and students alike to learn many important concepts of working with a people and learning their way of life for the past forty years. After . . .
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December 14, 2009 09:54 PM EST --
In the history of the Pre-Christian Rus, the name of the "kapyshche" which is still known in many regions where those pre-Christian sites are preserved was, possibly, very widely used as the denomination . . .
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April 25, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
Greetings,
I've been poking around here at gather for a few days now and I figured it was time for a semi-formal author introduction.
My most recent published work is Voodoo and Afro-Caribbean . . .
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