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By: Complete this quote: “Cultures encode proprieties by…” « Neuroanthropology

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:35:49 +0000

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By: “Older workers don’t suffer from the deficiencies that a lot of people think they do.”

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:14:06 +0000

[...] Neuroanthropology (where you’re sure to find a link you like in this list of research papers on culture, [...]

By: Ivelin Sardamov

Ivelin Sardamov — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:04:24 +0000

I looked up Harvey Whitehouse’s dissection of anthropology (“Anthropology in Crisis – What, Still?”) and I was a bit taken aback. I am a political scientist and I am almost reconciled to seeing my own discipline taken over by people who are, essentially, engineers at heart. It was much more disheartening to see anthropologists trying to reason in such an emotionally lifeless language about the study of culture. There is all that research suggesting that our attitudes to ideas largely depend on the intuitive emotional reaction they provoke. But then – how do we evaluate the kind of ideas presented by Prof. Whitehouse and his intellectual fellow travelers whose writing is so utterly devoid of emotional appeal? One of the comments posted below Prof. Whitehouse’s text suggests an amicable divorce between scholars pursuing rigorous science and those committed to a more artistic expression. What’s the point of maintaining the pretense that the two groups belong under the same disciplinary umbrella, really? Be it anthropology, political science, or anything else…

By: Paul Mason

Paul Mason — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:43:06 +0000

What a fascinating cross-cultural research question about the link between foetal testosterone and empathy! Thanks for the link to Simon Baron-Cohen’s interview. I never realised the guy looked so young. I was expecting someone much older looking. I seem to have such a wacked imagination when it comes to the authors and researchers whose books and articles I read. Although, Oliver Sacks looks exactly as I imagined him! …Mind you Daniel Dennet’s Darwin impersonation leaves nothing to the imagination…