Besides the obvious, here are some generic travel tips of a fieldworker. In no particular order:
1. Always Carry a Pen that can write on skin without smudging
Archive for August, 2009
Top Ten Travel Tips for Anthropologists
Posted by Paul Mason on August 10, 2009
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The Birthday Hearth
Posted by dlende on August 9, 2009
While I was on vacation, Carl Feagans at A Hot Cup of Joe hosted the anthropology carnival Four Stone Hearth #72. It fell on his birthday – and what better way to celebrate than with all four fields of anthropology!
From the axes of Neolithic gods to moving beyond war, cranial plasticity to Shoshone language, it lights candles across the breadth of the field. Enjoy.
Link to Four Stone Hearth #72
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Wednesday Round Up #75
Posted by dlende on August 8, 2009
Back from vacation – so better late than never. Had a great time camping, by the way.
Top of the List
Vaughan Bell, How Long Is a Severed Head Conscious For?
One of those morbid questions we often ask – well, here’s the answer.
Jerry Coyne, Creationism for Liberals
The dismantling of Robert Wright’s new book The Evolution of God over at The New Republic. Wright responds to Coyne here.
Clarence Gravlee, New TAPS Paper in Current Anthropology
Godoy et al. paper on changes in well-being over time in the Bolivian Amazon. Data come from the Tsimane’ Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS), which uses a longitudinal approach not often seen in anthropology. Plus get Lance’s forthcoming paper, Methods for collecting panel data.
Christopher Kuzawa & Elizabeth Sweet, Epigenetics and the Embodiment of Race: Developmental Origins of US Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Health
Pdf of a 2009 article – “The model outlined here builds upon social constructivist perspectives to highlight an important set of mechanisms by which social influences can become embodied, having durable and even transgenerational influences.”
Ed Yong, Confirming Aesop – Rooks Use Stones to Raise the Level of Water in a Pitcher
And see the video too!
Anthropology
Mark Flinn, Why Words Can Hurt Us: Social Relationships, Stress and Health
Pdf of the very accessible chapter on stress in the recent volume Evolutionary Medicine and Health
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Uncyclopedia on anthropology
Posted by gregdowney on August 6, 2009
The famous photo of Malinowski learning the enforcement mechanism for the kula ring as reanimated skeletons attack his camp.
Wizened anthropologists will notice all sorts of crucial elements that are still missing from the entry; our friends on the Australian Anthropological Society mailing list have pointed out that perhaps the most famous recently-deceased anthropologist, Michel Foucault, is missing from the un-entry. I also noted the absence of any discussion of the role of hallucinogens in the production of anthropological theory, from the early crucial inspiration of absinthe to the later influence of Amazonian pharmacology and performance-enhancing peyote, to more recent experimentation with endo-generated narcotics such as extreme reflexivity and disciplinary megalomania/self-castigation bipolarism.
Also mysteriously missing is any mention of thesis-related slavery in the teaching of anthropology, chunky ethnic jewelry or hemp clothing, or any word with the prefix ‘post-’. In other words, the uncyclopedia entry on anthropology is a work in progress, but definitely not likely to become the least bit more accurate or reflect the field in a favourable light. I’d heartily recommend that you click on the link to visit the site so that someone might fall under the illusion from the page traffic that anthropology has a larger audience than it actually has, or you could maliciously hack the page and suggest that the field is closely related to sociology.
Photo archived at: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Harryhausen_skeletons_2.jpg
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