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• Middle Pleistocene Bird Consumption at Level XI of Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain)

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  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 ...
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• The Australian Journal of Anthropology – Selected Free Papers

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  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   ...
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• Tool Use in Wild Orang-utans Modifies Sound Production: A Functionally Deceptive Innovation? – Proc. R.Soc B.

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  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 ...
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• Environmental Impact of the 73 ka Toba Super-eruption in South Asia – ScienceDirect

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  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: 114
  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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• Into the Uncanny Valley – Seed Magazine

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  This via Mind Hacks – Seed Magazine have published a piece by Joe Kloc, in which he looks at the relationship between humans and life-like robots, with regard to the so-called ‘uncanny valley’ effect, described here at Wikipedia : ( Masahiro) Mori’s hypothesis states that as a robot is made more ...
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• Can Too Many People be Creative?

  
  ZenStorming - Where Science Meets Muse... — Authority: 114
  How many people need to be creative to have optimum performance in cultures?
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• Why we fail to act (sins of complicity)

  
  Musings of a Christian Psychologist — Authority: 122
  In the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre we are now hearing evidence of a very troubled man–trouble that it appears many observed over the last few years of the Maj. General’s life. Some of his former teachers and supervisors took note of his strange behavior, his loner tendencies, his rages. They even mused about his ...
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• David Eagleman: Heaven, Hell and Synaesthesia

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  Following on from a recent post which linked to the Neuroanthropology website, I want to give brief mention to a neuroscientist by the name of David Eagleman , his research into synaesthesia and an excellent book he published earlier this year, ‘Sum – Forty Tales from the Afterlives’ , a pocket-sized tome ...
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• Thinking through Claude Lévi-Strauss @ Neuroanthropology

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  Here’s a link to a post at Neuroanthropology which should really have been included in the recent and 79th edition of Four Stone Hearth, which was somehow overlooked by me at the time. The linked essay was constructed by Greg Downey, in which he considers amongst much else, traditional structuralism, its origins ...
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• "No use in you runnin, or screamin an cryin..."

  
  bogol, a logob — Authority: 105
  Indeed not. Welcome to 1978. Those of you who are too young to remember those days may not realize how ordinary and unremarkable these events were, in that long-vanished age. We came this far, but then, somehow, we lost our way.
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• Orbinski on humanitarianism, dignity, and hope

  
  Musings of a Christian Psychologist — Authority: 122
    Two days ago I had the privilege of meeting and hearing Dr. James Orbinski at the 2009 Frobese Day, an educational conference held at Abington Memorial Hospital each year. Dr. Orbinski is the former head of Medicins Sans Frontiers (Drs without Borders), current head of Dignitas, professor at U. of Toronto, author ...
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• Current Anthropology – New Edition, First 50 Years Issue

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  Current Anthropology , December 2009, Volume 50 number 6 is now out, which as will be apparent from the headline, marks no less than 50 years in the field, and there are a number of essays contained therein which reflect on the past, present and future of this publication. Here’s part of editor Mark Alfenferfer’s ...
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• Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 523
  The French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, has died, aged 100. Levi-Strauss was one of the towering intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. At Crikey , Guy Rundle provides an appreciation, and contextualises Levi-Strauss’ thought and influence for our times.
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss Has Died

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  Claude Lévi-Strauss died two days ago. He was 100 years old. I shouldn’t have to write about his impact to the field of anthropology, in summary it was profound. He authored many texts. He set forth structuralism, a mode of thought by which we can compare relationships between social systems. His contributions ...
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• Philip Cushman’s prophetic words

  
  Musings of a Christian Psychologist — Authority: 122
  One of my all-time favorite books is Philip Cushman’s Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy. In this 1995 book he details the social constructed nature of psychotherapy. My Social & Cultural Foundations class is reading a summation of this book published in article form ...
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• A Young Couple Reviews Their Heavy and Abusive Drinking and Their Short and Long-Term Aspirations, Hopes, and Dreams

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 153
  Merissa and Augie have been dating digit added for seven-and-a-half years. They met patch attractive the aforementioned social anthropology class at a relatively small, countryside, Church affiliated progressive subject college settled in the Northern conception of the United States. While they were meet beatific pals ...
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• A Cave Shut by Closed Minds? La Carihuela Neanderthals vs. the Junta

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
    Back in August of this year, two words I frequently encountered when trying to visit sites of interest in Andalucía, southern Spain, were “Cerrado” (closed) and “No” , which as a tourist you take in your stride, leg it to the nearest hostelry and reconsider the rest of the day from the perspective of ...
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• Grandma Plays Favourites: X-Chromosome Relatedness and Sex-specific Childhood Mortality – Proceedings of the Royal Society B

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  As this paper is freely accessible for the next 7 days , I’m posting it here in the hope that as many readers as possible will have time to read it through. Molly Fox et al turn their thoughts to the question of why women are able to live for many years after they able to conceive offspring, a phenomenon ...
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• Evidence for food storage and predomestication granaries 11,000 years ago in the Jordan Valley

  
  Anthropology.net — Authority: 536
  Science Daily report on a paper published back in June which I appear to have missed, and as it’s freely accessible at PNAS, I’m pleased to be able to link to it here. This is the abstract: Food storage is a vital component in the economic and social package that comprises the Neolithic, contributing to ...
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