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• Afghanistan: What Obama Should Do Next and Why Your Opinion Matters

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 439
  As the President’s decisions are made while the conflict continues, it will be incumbent upon each of us to be advocates for the highest and best position – the movement toward a global policy of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• The two human natures

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Immediately following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Iraqi government collapsed and Baghdad was engulfed by widespread looting and violence. Medical equipment was stolen from major hospitals and many of the worlds oldest cultural artifacts--housed at Iraqs National Museum--were stolen or destroyed. ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss: ‘Neolithic’ & A Man of Science

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died on October 30th (aged 100), made the study of anthropology as fashionable as philosophy and poetry. The Economist pays a tribute: “Before Claude Lévi-Strauss revolutionised the discipline, anthropology in France, and generally elsewhere, was a matter of ill-attended lectures in ...
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• In Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  By Scott Atran Claude Lévi-Strauss, arguably the worlds most famous and influential anthropologist, died on October 30 at the age of 100. This is a lasting memory of my first encounter with him. In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Older and Less Sure: Evidence & its Absence in Opinions

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Interlaken, Switzerland) When I was younger, I was so much surer that I knew the answer for everything. I took my beliefs for granted. Now, there are many things for which I do not have an opinion as I realized that I have no clear reason to believe things one way or another. I have become an agnostic on most ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) -...

  
  chacal does tumblng — Authority: 136
  Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a ...
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• French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss dies aged 100

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Paris, Nov 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The father of modern anthropology Claude Levi-Strauss has died at 100 years. He was widely known for his work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies.His career spanned a huge time of six decades, during which Levi-Strauss authored literary and ...
  2 weeks ago

• From the Archives: Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died over the weekend at the age of 100.  His theory of structuralism was a major influence on such titans of philosophy as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Back in 1967, TNRs  Patrick Gallagher reviewed his seminal work The Savage Mind , which sought to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist, dies at 100

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 969
  Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, one of the preeminent social anthropologists of the 20th century, whose erudite, often mind-bendingly labored studies of indigenous Brazilian tribes led to influential theories examining human behavior and culture, died over the weekend in Paris. No cause of death was re...
  2 weeks ago

• Switzerland Made Me Appreciate Noise

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) My recent trip to Switzerland reminded me how much I miss noise. Sounds give meaning to a city. The odd siren, the rumbling subway, or the pitter patter of footsteps on concrete pavement. They are the city’s heartbeat. And they do not exist in Switzerland, for good reason. Some Swiss ...
  3 weeks ago

• Of Consultants & Management Gurus

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland) I recently read an Economist article on the “ Three Habits of Highly Irritating Management Gurus .” It’s a great read even coming from the perspective of someone interested in business academia. I agree with the article’s premise: management gurus tend to oversimplify solutions ...
  3 weeks ago

• Green Scenery

  
  Genuine Cuisine — Authority: 132
  A couple of months before I left Thailand, my eyes were aching a lot and when I looked up and down I felt dizzy and my vision became so blurry so I decided to see an anthropologist. The doctor gave some advised, she said, every time my eyes were aching and felt some dizziness I would not looked at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Freaky Friday: Ghostly Visions

  
  A Dude's Guide — Authority: 127
  by Richard So, here it is, the day before the greatest holiday ever invented. Halloween. The ghouls and goblins are about to come out, but what I wanted to talk to you about is ghosts. Real ghosts. Or, really, as real as they ever are. More precisely, I’d like to talk about common characteristics shared by people ...
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• Do Markets Destroy Communities?

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Grindelwad, Switzerland) I don’t know what this has to do with the topic but I just had to put it up I was in Geneva a couple of days ago presenting at a conference organized by the Observatoire de la Finance. The keynote speaker for the conference is Stephen Marglin , the Walter S. Barker Professor of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Launches & Releases: Anthropologies Art Website

  
  Racked NY — Authority: 678
  Image via the Anthropologist Anthropologie is really on a multimedia roll these days. First, the company that is the retail equivalent of naming your baby "Emma" launched Man Shops Globe, a travel-porn series on the Sundance Channel. Now, theyre taking their deadly-serious-about-whimsy aesthetic online with ...
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• Six Steps To Becoming A Professional Learning Community Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  I have advised those concerned with the performance of Professional Learning Communities to gain fresh insight into how PLCs behave and information about how to drive improvement or fix problems is to play the role of the anthropologist. The Anthropologist is one of the three learning personas from the Tom Kelleys ...
  4 weeks ago

• French teens pretty old-fashioned in their choice of girls and cuisine

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  London, Oct 24 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that French teenagers prefer traditional home-cooked food and the curves that go with it.No matter what social background they come from, French teenagers still like traditional dishes such as bouillabaisse, fish stew from Provence, choucroute, the Alsatian sauerkraut, ...
  4 weeks ago

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