Cultural Anthropology

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• The Internet and national cultures

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 122
  I’ve been blogging a little about a huge question: the Internet and global cultural diversity. I’m thinking one possible route into this mingbogglingly complex issue could be a comparative study of Internet practices in different national cultures. I realise this notion of ‘national cultures’ is dubious, but ...
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• Mayas Saving Maya Culture – The Archaeology Channel

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 488
  The latest offering from the Archaeology Channel is now online, and in this 22 minute video produced by Timothy Knowlton, which in brief is described thus: An association of Tz’utujil Maya people from Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, struggle to establish a cultural center and archaeological site museum at the ...
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• Raising the Buzz: At the Table with Tori Tuncan

  
  Innovate2Uplift.net — Authority: 103
  The oft quoted if not overly used statement from the late American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead suggests that we should:Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Tori Tuncan has taken this to heart as she devised an ...
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• Four Stone Hearth #81@ SpiderMonkeyTales

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 488
  The most recent edition of the anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth has been published over at SpiderMonkeyTales , with two main themes accounting for the entries – human evolution and primatology, both of which are inextricably linked, particularly in recent years as the latter field of enquiry ...
  2 weeks ago

• African Cultural Anthropology

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
  Political independence in any African nation opens the door  not only  to the right  to self-rule but  also to the  right, the duty and the pride-filled urge to search for, discover and live one’s national identity and culture. In this exercise, Africans are asking themselves not just the question: who am I, ...
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• Middle Pleistocene Bird Consumption at Level XI of Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain)

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 488
  Thanksgiving is now well and truly over, as are the lives of numerous birds, in this case turkeys, that were consumed as part of the tradition, whilst even larger quantities of this particular bird are slated for slaughter and consumption as Christmas once more raises its ominous spectre on the festive horizon. I’m ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Australian Journal of Anthropology – Selected Free Papers

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 488
  Publishers Wiley InterScience have made available a handful of pretty interesting papers, which concentrate on anthropological studies in Australia and neighbouring Asia, and are listed as follows: “They Always Seem to be Angry”: The Cronulla Riot and the Civilising Pleasures of the Sun Andrew Lattas   ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tool Use in Wild Orang-utans Modifies Sound Production: A Functionally Deceptive Innovation? – Proc. R.Soc B.

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 488
  Here’s the abstract of a paper which is freely available from the Royal Society, in which deceptive communication facilitated by tool use in Bornean orang-utans comes under the spotlight. The kiss-squeak may not be familiar to all, so here’s a link to a page at the University of Zurich where different types ...
  4 weeks ago

• Environmental Impact of the 73 ka Toba Super-eruption in South Asia – ScienceDirect

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 488
  A new paper by Martin A.J. Williams et al, on the Mount Toba eruption 73,000 years ago, proposes that the destructive aftermath of the event caused widespread de-forestation in India, some 3,000 miles distant from Sumatra, the island on which the volcano was located. Here’s the abstract of that paper which is ...
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• The Qualifications of a Shaman

  
  Black Woman Thinks...Religion, Politics, Race, Atheism and more... — Authority: 109
  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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