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Postmodern concepts in contemporary life
“The theory of rejecting theories.” - Tony Cliff From Wikipedia: “postmodernism tends to refer to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or org… more »
Humane Systems Design (HSD)
Is burn-out an American phenomenon?
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Phil wrote 4 days ago: Part of my sabbatical is designed to understand how better to help pastors and their families avoid … more »
The Motivation Behind the Uncontacted Amazon Indians
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 week ago: Remember that sensational set of photos of the ‘uncontacted’ people from the Brazilian-P … more »
What Do You Think, is Pair-Bonding the Key to Strong Kinship?
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 weeks ago: Bernard Chapais, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal, specializes in studying primate so … more »
Cross Cultural Burial Rituals
Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 weeks ago: I stumbled upon this list of 10 ‘extraordinary’ burial ceremonies that I want to pass on … more »
The Concept of Race
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tashaspawn wrote 2 weeks ago: Introduction Before I dive into the concept of race, I just want to thank Kambiz for this opportunit … more »
Paul Ehrlich and Carl Zimmer discuss Cultural Evolution on Bloggingheads.tv
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 weeks ago: I have brought up Paul Ehrlich a lot lately. And this morning Razib emailed me a link to an intervie … more »
More on Cultural Evolution
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 weeks ago: Cultural evolution has been a pretty active and heated topic in the anthropology blogosphere, especi … more »
Digitage of Nakoda-Stoney-Sibbald Flat
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 4 weeks ago: Digitage of Nakoda-Stoney-Sibbald Flat Work-in-process “The Stoney-Nakoda bands, commonly … more »
Memory work: colonialism, control, civilization
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Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 month ago: Haraway’s work examines how ideology informs science both through legitimization of claims and … more »
Harper's Apology: Politics and the Ethical Imperative: Canada's Aboriginal Residential School Survivors' Closure and Healing
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 month ago: From a political philosophy viewpoint, an apology is an ethical act by which the perpetrator admits … more »
Cultural Evolution: Can natural selection explain cultural rates of change?
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: PNAS has just published a back and forth discussion between John Skoyles and Deborah Rogers and Paul … more »
Ancient mtDNA sheds some light on gender roles in Ancient Greece
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: Historians have for a long time thought ancient women of Greece were treated as property. That … more »
A Review of the "What does it mean to be human?" panel at the 2008 World Science Festival
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: Wired Science shared some news of an interesting panel titled, “What it means to be human … more »
Aerial Photos of Uncontacted People at the Brazilian-Peruvian Border
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: Survival International, the non-profit organization that helps tribal peoples defend their lives, pr … more »
Michael Tomasello on How Humans Are Unique
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: Michael Tomasello, a well known comparative psychologist, has a column in today’s New York Tim … more »
David Harrison speaks about "When Languages Die"
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 1 month ago: About 9 months ago, I shared some news of language extinction and the conservation efforts of K. Dav … more »
Greed, groupthink, and the housing/debt crisis
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Phil wrote 2 months ago: This week I heard a great program on “This American Life” (NPR) regarding the housing an … more »
The Genius of Kinship: Human Kinship Systems and the Search for Human Origins
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dziebelg wrote 2 months ago: Thank you, Kambiz, for letting me introduce my new book to the Anthropology.net community. The story … more »
Introducing a new guest blogger, German Dziebel, author of “The Genius of Kinship”
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Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 months ago: I recently got an email from German Dziebel letting me know that he’s recently published his b … more »
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