Anthropology

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• After Consciousness Reframed X, Conference Biofeedback and Ubiquitous Anthropology

  
  [ AOS ] Art is Open Source — Authority: 107
  This year’s Consciousness Reframed conference has just finished, and we just returned home for a little while. A sunny Munich hosted the tenth edition of the Planetary Collegium ’s annual conference themed “Experiencing Design, Behaving Media”. We presented two FakePress projects: Conference Biofeedback ...
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• Duke Publishes Book By Obamas Mom [Family Matters]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  Ann Durham Soetoro was probably best known as Barack Obamas mom, but she was also a dedicated economic anthropologist. Thanks to Duke University Press, her dissertation on metalworkers in Indonesia will soon be available as a book. [ PublishersWeekly ]
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• 3-D Renderings Bring Ancient Hominids to Life

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 772
  For decades, paleoartists have told the story of human evolution through sculpture and drawing. Now their tools have evolved, too. Computers allow a level of detail and control that isn’t possible with other media. Their creations can come closer than ever to bringing our ancestors to life. “What’s driven my ...
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• Whats Your Christmas Card List Got to Do With the Development of the Human Brain?

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  It is safe to say that our primate ancestors and the early humans they begot never picked out sparkly snowflake paper, wrote up a missive about Og and Janes many achievements in the last cycle and handed out copies to all their friends, relations and hunt/gather coworkers.But, according to anthropologist Robin Dunbar, ...
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• Book review: Presenting 2nd generation Multi-Sited Ethnography

  
  antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog — Authority: 112
  Tessa Valo has read another book for us: Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research , edited by Mark-Anthony Falzon. It consists of 14 articles. Tessa Valo is currently planning a “multi-sited” fieldwork and has picked four articles that she considered most inspirational. ...
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• Recommended reading - health study

  
  Daniel Lubetzky — Authority: 126
  Interesting article about a calorie-restriction study financed by NIH.
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• The Age of Apology--Now In Paperback

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 129
  The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past Edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4033-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2087-2 | $26.50 | £17.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights ...
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• Social surveys in the developing world

  
  Vukutu — Authority: 456
  Robert Chambers, sociologist of development, writing about social science surveys in the developing world: As data collection is completed, processing begins. Coding, punching and some simple programming present formidable problems. Consistency checks are too much to contemplate. Funds begin to run out because the ...
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• Watch Tim Brown’s “Innovation Through Design Thinking” talk at MIT Sloan School of Management

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 130
  Not so long ago, Tim Brown recounts, designers belonged to a “priesthood.” Given an assignment, a designer would disappear into a back room, “bring the result out under a black sheet and present it to the client.” Brown and his colleagues at IDEO , the company that brought us the first Apple Macintosh ...
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• Supervolcano eruption in Sumatra deforested India 73,000 years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, November 24 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have come across what they call “incontrovertible evidence” that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter.The volcano ejected an estimated 800 ...
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• Nov. 24, 1974: Humanity, Meet Lucy. Shes Your Mom

  
  Wired Mods — Authority: 745
  A November morn at a previously explored site reveals the remains of a noticeably human ancestor.
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• found: 21st century at AAA meetings…

  
  Long Road — Authority: 110
  From the AAA official blog: If you plan on blogging or tweeting the upcoming AAA annual meeting in Philadelphia, please email Brian Estes (bestes AT aaanet DOT org) with your name (optional) and a link to your site or twitter feed. In the interest of providing the most comprehensive meeting coverage ...
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• 100 Years – 100 Objects: Pre-Columbian figurine fragments

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 128
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred ...
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• Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures

  
  The Teleomorph — Authority: 423
  New book from editor of Dancecult, Graham St. John just published:Technomad: Global Raving CounterculturesGraham is also planning to publish a book about psytrance next year.Posted in anthropology, book review, burning man, dance, electronic music, music, psytrance, society, technology
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• The magic of mobile phones?

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 494
  via The Knowledge Network  [with thanks to Katrien Pype for the tip-off] Are mobile phones the modern equivalent of Jack’s magic beans, bringing health, wealth and happiness wherever they are scattered? Recent studies might make you think so. According to a 2005 paper by economist Leonard Waverman and colleagues ...
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• Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya--Now in Paperback

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 129
  Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya Bilinda Straight 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3964-5 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2092-6 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series The miraculous blends with the mundane in ...
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• Dell Hymes, Linguist With a Wide Net, Dies at 82

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Dell H. Hymes
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• In Which The Law Will Reign Supreme

  
  Sugabelly 2.0 — Authority: 121
  The Igbo tendency towards self-impedance and particularly self-delusion will never cease to amaze me. This of course does not mean that all Igbo people are like this or even that the majority of Igbo people are like this, but let me hold my tongue. (*side eye Igbo girl on Facebook that claims Im a lesbian because I ...
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• Race and white dominance in American anthropology

  
  decasia: critique of academic culture — Authority: 107
  In demographic terms, anthropology in the United States continues to be dominated by white Americans. Consider this graph of the racial distribution of anthropology doctorates over the last twelve years (incidentally, the NSF had no data for 1999, so there should really be a gap year inserted here, but I trust you can ...
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• The Qualifications of a Shaman

  
  Black Woman Thinks...Religion, Politics, Race, Atheism and more... — Authority: 113
  This time of the year seems to be an opportune time for people who profess to be experts or special proponents of supernaturalism to crawl out of the woodwork and make more money. People want to know what the next year will bring. Will they find a new love? or will their current relationship improve or their finances ...
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