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Category: Archaeology
Over the last few weeks I've run into a few misconceptions about tobacco, as well as some interesting news, so I thought I'd share. If you already know some of this, forgive me, not everyone else does. First, tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum, is a member of...
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Category: Anthropology
This post started out as a comment that would have gone here, but it became sufficiently long and possibly interesting that I figured it would make a good, if somewhat rough, blog post....
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Category: Anthropology
An overview of the classic literature in my field of study.
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Category: Anthropology
What is tradition? How do concepts of tradition and education related? Do primates have "culture" and "traditions"? And much much much more.
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Category: Anthropology
Tradition. Not just a song from Fiddler on the Roof. You know the refrain: "The Papa, the Papa! Tradition." It's a great play but it is firmly rooted in the patriarchy, as "tradition" often is. There are many ways to define "tradition" and we can...
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Category: Anthropology
It is a document linked to a secret society. Here is the translated text...
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Category: Anthropology
I think I know why science does not understand the female orgasm. It is because science excels when it breaks free of context, history, human complexities and anthropology, but when a topic requires one to grasp context, history, human complexities and anthropology, then science, especially...
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Category: Anthropology
Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. "Drives" is a nicely vague term that we...
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Category: Poe warning
Richard Tokumei has written a book that is so bad he is ashamed to put his own name on it. "Richard Tokumei" is the pen name of a 'writer/editor in Southern California [with] degrees in Humanities and Phychology from the University of California Berkeley" and...
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Category: Religion
It's all just a matter of calibration. Let me 'splain....
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