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Original Technorati articles tagged “anthropology”

• in Lifestyle
  Why Not? Monumental Architecture Before 11,000 Years Ago
  Early civilizations didn't leave evidence of their existence for several reasons.
  by katiejane1982 / on Jan 23, 2012
• in Entertainment
  The Book of Symbols: Reflection on Archetypal Images by The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
  “It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.” — C. G. Jung
  by fcetier / on Dec 11, 2010
• in Technorati Women
  Katie Couric on Fact-First Journalism and Digital Identity
  Katie Couric on the importance of fact-first journalism and how we must proactively shape our digital identities
  by briansolis / on Dec 8, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “anthropology”

 

• Memorializing through reforestation: the Flight 93 National Memorial

  
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  Readers from outside the U.S. may or may not remember, but Flight 93 was the one hijacked commercial flight on September 11, 2001 that failed to reach its target (presumably Congress or the White House) due to a passenger revolt, crashing in a field in southwest Pennsylvania. The crash site was subsequently turned ...
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• Hot Time in the Old Town

  
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  Last Wednesday, an arsonist set nine fires in the woods around my community.Local News Story, 2nd DayDue to swift recognition of the perpetrator by firefighers and fast-action by local law enforcement, the suspected arsonist was arrested early the same day.Suspect in CustodyOur fire departments Chief and I were first ...
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• “1 + 1”: More than an Equation

  
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  by Amina Tawasil Schooling is supposed to either spark or augment IQ/cognitive ability which is then exhibited as ‘skills’. Thus, it only follows that schooling increases the chances of upward mobility for girls, women and people of color. And, for men and women in ‘small villages of ailing countries’, ...
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• Who invented clothes? A Palaeolithic archaeologist answers | Becky Wragg Sykes

  
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  Hadley Freemans answer to the question was chiffon-flimsy, so heres the lab-coat response "Who invented clothes?" Its one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers. Its the kind of thing that archaeologists like me get put on the ...
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• Australia’s Aboriginals

  
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  Before visiting Matamata, a lost-in-the-bush village of 25 or so people in Australia’s Northern Territory, Michael Finkel needed permission from the village’s matriarch, Phyllis Batumbil. She agreed and asked him to bring dinner for everyone: I unloaded two duffels of personal effects and a dozen bags of ...
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• On psychopathy (and no, Im not a doctor. Yet.)

  
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  I didn’t start this to discuss the neuro-biological factors or implications of psychopathy, as it is the task of neuro-scientists and not mine. I started this because I’m annoyed to the brink with the way they are portrayed and glorified in mass media, a task more familiar and closer to my area of focus - ...
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• Photo Series Documents American Life by Capturing Families Eating Together

  
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  For the past decade, photographer Douglas Adesko has been creating a photo series that is half photography, half anthropological study. His series Family Meal captures families of all types, cultures and sizes sitting together and enjoying a meal. According to photographer Timothy Archibald , who became the ...
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• NOTE: Der Tamada - Zur Trinkkultur in Georgien (wikipedia.org)

  
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  (wikipedia.org) Der Tamada (georgisch თამადა) ist ein Tischmeister, der das Geschehen bei einem georgischen oder aserbaidschanischen Bankett, der Supra, lenkt und Trinksprüche ausbringt. Seine Aufgabe ähnelt dem eines antiken Symposiarchen.Statue eines Tamada, Tiflis.Der Tamada wird zu Beginn des ...
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• Drone Policy in Yemen

  
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  For anyone in the NYC region, I will be giving a talk at the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR on KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, and SOCIAL SYSTEMS on Wednesday, May 15, 7 pm (at Columbia University’s Faculty House). The title of the talk is: “Drone Strikes in the War on Terror: The Case of Post-Arab-Spring Yemen.” Unmanned ...
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• The Political Economy of IQ, Or Tilting At Windmills with Steve Hsu (and Jason Richwine)

  
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  Steve Hsu has been on a tear lately. Giving talks about IQ, here and here , and partnering with BGI to sequence the genomes of “high cognition” individuals in a quest to solve the giant “problem” of IQ. This effort has hit Vice magazine, Slate, and, more recently, NPR . To give you the CliffsNotes ...
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• The Corner Stone by Julie Smutko Daugherty

  
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  The Corner Stone by Julie Smutko Daugherty 4 out of 5 stars The Corner Stone A novel by Julie Smutko Daugherty 2013 / 337 Pages Did diamonds, which are essentially made up of crystallized carbon, play a crucial role in the creation of complex life on planet Earth?  It’s this recently regarded ...
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• Book reviews: Connected in Cairo

  
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  " Connected in Cairo  provides an accessible and instructive reading of the everyday construction and negotiation of what is oftentimes glossed as globalization, and will be of value to students and academics interested in the importance of social imagination in the making of local worlds in global times." — ...
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• Jonathan Edwards on Adam Before the Fall

  
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  The Christ the Center panel gather for an informal discussion about Jonathan Edwards and his treatment of the question of how Adam, who was created in righteousness and holiness and knowledge could ever fall into sin. Historically this has been a problematic issue and proves to be a challenge even to Edwards. Jeff ...
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• Ascension vs. Chain of Being

  
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  That Psalm 8, followed by Hebrews 2, speaks of a transition from being “lower than the angels” to being exalted over them sounds the death knell for the “chain of being” view held by so many throughout history.  In this view, God is at the top of the chain, with angels — as spiritual beings or pure ...
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• Self-assembling robot worms.

  
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  Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts : Researchers at Harvard and MIT teamed up to produce a 3D-printed inchworm robot that is able to aseemble itself. Using shape memory polymers that automatically fold into desired ...
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• New hunter/gatherer theory on why men love watching playoff sports

  
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  Kopitar’s got the puck, passes to Carter for a sweet little one-timer – Elliott never had a chance – Kings score!! The man beside me explodes off the couch with a terrifying “YAAAAAAA” Viking battle cry of testosterone madness that shoots me straight into an adrenaline panic. Fight – give him hell for ...
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• Video: Moral behavior in animals

  
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