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Nuns Fighting Back
According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times the Leadership Council of Women Religious, under heavy censure from the Vatican and ordered to submit to a team of bishops who are charged w… more →
Pam Klainer's Day
Nuns Fighting Back
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wrote 12 hours ago: According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times the Leadership Council of Women Religiou … more →
The Uphill Climb of Time for the Yupno of Papua New Guinea
wrote 1 day ago: For many of us, the concept of time is linear. Whether French or Iraqi, the past is referred as behi … more →
Neolithic Class Divisions of Central Europe
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wrote 2 days ago: This week PNAS published evidence of social stratification and hereditary inequality from over 7,000 … more →
Prolegomenon for A Treatise on the Unity of Anthropological Inquiry, Part 1
wrote 2 days ago: My field, Anthropology, is divided into four subdisciplines: Biological/Physical, Cultural, Linguist … more →
What a Wonderful Life
wrote 3 days ago: I’m back home in beautiful Eastern Oregon with less than two weeks until my wedding! My life h … more →
THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!
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wrote 3 days ago: You can probably tell the end of training for the Haerenga 2012 interns is imminent as we have been … more →
Definition of tribe
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wrote 4 days ago: The tribal group is a community of intermarried families, all claiming descent from a common ancesto … more →
Seattle Harborfront
wrote 6 days ago: Cruise season has returned to Seattle. Construction of the new ferris wheel is well underway. Ferrie … more →
What Should Human Evolution Be?
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wrote 1 week ago: Two days ago, Matt Ridley published a rhetorical editorial in the Wall Street Journal‘s column … more →
The role of the bar in Andalusia, redux
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wrote 1 week ago: In doing fieldwork in Andalusia, the southernmost region on the Iberian Peninsula, it is impossible … more →
Remembering Etan Patz
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wrote 1 week ago: My kids were one and three when Etan Patz disappeared from a Soho street in 1979. We lived in Roches … more →
The Motley Fool Take on 3-D Printing
wrote 1 week ago: The just-released Mojo professional grade 3-D printer by Stratsys. It’s available for $9,999, … more →
What is Culture?
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wrote 1 week ago: The word culture has many different meanings. For some it refers to an appreciation of good literat … more →
The Application of Anthropological Knowledge and Methods
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wrote 1 week ago: Museum of Anthropology (Photo credit: masabu) Most anthropologists carry out research and teach abou … more →
Cultural Anthropology
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wrote 1 week ago: Cultural (or socio-cultural) anthropologists are interested in learning about the cultural aspects o … more →
Deep in the Heart of Texas
wrote 2 weeks ago: My taxi driver on the way to SeaTac airport yesterday was an Aussie who’d met a Seattle girl a … more →
Breast-feeding Around the World
wrote 2 weeks ago: A 26-year-old mother of two in Los Angeles, depicted on the cover of TIME this week breast-feeding … more →
First fieldwork, Things get (even more) complicated
wrote 3 weeks ago: Panicked by a lack of data and the deferral, I scrambled to salvage the project. After reflecting up … more →
Anthropology of Natural Hazards (2): The flood from children’s views
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wrote 3 weeks ago: My research area is the local community near Nava Nakorn, at the west back of the industrial estate. … more →
