A nice overview Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss
Category: Anthropology
is here, on Savage Minds. Where else!?!? Thanks, Rex....
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Anthropology:
Claude Lévi-Strauss has Died
Category: Anthropology
This is truly the end of an era, even if it is a golden era that ended decades ago.
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The corporation = one of the best documentaries ever.
Category: Anthropology
The Corporation could be termed a forensic personality profile of the American Corporation, but I viewed it as an insightful ethnography of the most important tribe to emerge in human history. The most important, and the most dangerous tribe.
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Cultural Preservation: The Blue Shield
Category: Anthropology
Corine Wegener interviewed by Scott Lohman...
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Silence = Death
Category: Anthropology
I have been to Uganda a number times, but only illegally or by accident, in which case I was in the remote bush, or in transit, stopping at Entebbe Airport, so I can't say that I know much, directly, about the culture there. However, I...
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Culture Shapes How We Look at Faces
Category: Anthropology
Constructivism. Determinism. It is all a bunch of hooey. A recent paper published by PLoS (Culture Shapes How We Look at Faces) throws a sopping wet blanket on widely held deterministic models of human behavior. In addition, the work underscores the sometimes spooky cultural differences...
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Cultural Evolution from Mosquitos to Worm Grunting
Category: Anthropology
A very good day of grunting worms. Credit: Ken Catania So-called Gene-Culture Co-Evolution can be very obvious and direct or it can be very subtle and complex. In almost all cases, the details defy the usual presumptions people make about the utility of culture,...
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The Bible in Translation
Category: Anthropology
Watch Humanist Views: Humanism and the Bible in Activism & Non-Profit | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com...
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The Hurricane Lantern Effect
Category: Archaeology
This is for all your nascent researchers about to head off to remote places to engage in your very first fieldwork, and for all you eco-tourists or educational travelers about to embark on a trip through strange lands afar....
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The Roman Polanski Drama: "Then" vs. "Now" effects.
Category: Anthropology
The Roman Polanski story has certainly gotten interesting. Well, actually, the story is still only mildly interesting, but the discussion about it has developed in interesting ways. So, I thought I'd muddy the waters by throwing in a few thoughts....
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