Month: November 2009

Coffee Thursday @ 10:00AM at the AAAs

I’m leaving for Philadelphia and the annual American Anthropological Association meeting on Wednesday. My workshop Taking Anthropology Online is Thursday at 12:00. But I’d also like to use the meeting to talk with people about neuroanthropology.

So if you want to get together, I’m planning to be at the Starbucks in the Marriott at 10AM on Thursday. Leave me a comment below or send me an email at dlende at nd dot edu. Or just feel free to come by – here’s some photos of me if you don’t know what I look like. It should be a chance to network, as well as talk about our encultured brains.

Hope to see some of you soon!

-Daniel Lende

Wednesday Round Up #91

Top of the List

Jamil Zaki, The Two Human Natures
The view of human nature as violent and anti-social has a long social history, according to Marshall Sahlins, and a new blog looking at a more social view of ourselves and society

Fabiana Kubke, Making Science Culturally Appropriate
Fascinating snippet on using human brain tissue in New Zealand and intersections with the Maori concept of tapu (where our word taboo comes from)

Steven Mithen, The Music Instinct
Online article in the Annals of the NY Academy of Science that examines the evolutionary basis of musicality. The title above links to the abstract. Though it doesn’t always load, here’s a link that can hopefully get you the full text.

Online Tools

Erkan Saka, Online Tools for My Students
One of the early leaders of anthropology online puts up his list of all the online software he uses, complete with tricks and insights into a wide variety of programs

Kerim, House Cleaning
A list of links about Anthropology, including a list of anthropologists on Twitter and another list of anthropology blogs

Alexandre Enkerli, Vague Experience
Google Wave – looking at its uses (reflections in French)

John Postill, Still Networking in Iran
Keeping in touch with Iran via Facebook and Twitter

Thanksgiving

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