These are the highs of the past year. Some might call them lows. But we’re handing out our own self-inflicted prizes anyway. Or go traditional and check out our month-by-month summary of 2008 and our popularity contest.

Best One Night Stand
Girls gone guilty: Evolutionary psych on sex #2

Best Soldiering On
Cultural Aspects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Thinking on Meaning and Risk

Best Balancing Act
Balance between cultures: equilibrium training

Best Hook
Studying Sin

Continue reading “Our Very Own Neuroanthropology 2008 Prizes”

It’s 2009, and Neuroanthropology is turning a new leaf. As some of you have noticed, we have some new pages. Best of Anthro gathers together all our posts on the Best of Anthropology Blogging 2008 initiative. Conference gives you the compilation of all our pre- and post-San Francisco coverage of the Encultured Brain: Neuroanthropology and Interdisciplinary Engagement session. And Examples & Theory provides you with some of our best examples of neuroanthropological work, as well as some more general statements about neuroanthropology.

As a bonus, our About Anthropology, Popular Posts, and our Web Resources pages have been updated. In particular, the Web Resources now includes stuff we’ve done onsite and has more coverage of anthropology alongside the previous brain links and sites.

If you like addiction, video games, brains both pretty and damaged, biocultural interactions, funny videos, and internet resources, then Daniel is your guy. With some brain mechanisms, obesity, and loose morals thrown into the mix too!

Top Ten
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City
Poverty Poisons the Brain
Brain vs. Philosophy? Howard Gardner Gets Us Across!
Steven Pinker and the Moral Instinct
Dopamine and Addiction – Part One
Psychopharma-parenting
Jeff Lichtman’s Brainbows
Encephalon #48: The Usual Suspects
Anthropology and Neuroscience Podcasts
Decision Making and Emotion

Eleven to Twenty
MMORPG Anthropology: Video Games and Morphing Our Discipline
Genetics and Obesity
Sleep, Eat, Sex – Orexin Has Something to Say
The Neural Buddhists of David Brooks
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Gerald Edelman, and How the Mind Works
The Legend of the Crystal Skull
Video Games, Brain and Psychology Round Up
Cultural Neuroscience
Culture and Inequality in the Obesity Debate
The Allegory of the Trolley Problem Paradox

If you like balance, embodied cognition, critiques of evolutionary psychology, neuroplasticity, snarky comments, and language, then Greg is your guy. With meditation, gender, perception and good reporting thrown into the mix too!

Top Ten
Synesthesia & metaphor — I’m not feeling it
Girls gone guilty: Evolutionary psych on sex #2
Identical twins not… err… identical?
Brain doping poll results in
Girls closing math gap?: Troubles with intelligence #1
Bad brain science: Boobs caused subprime crisis
Our Blessed Lady of the Cerebellum
Chicks dig jerks?: Evolutionary psych on sex #1
Psychiatry affects human psychology: e.g., ‘bipolar’ children
We hate memes, pass it on…

Eleven to Twenty
How well do we know our brains?
Get into trance: Felicitas Goodman
Two languages, one brain and theory of mind
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was right… about adults
Neuroplasticity on the radio
Equilibrium, modularity, and training the brain-body
How your brain is not like a computer
‘Innate’ fear of snakes?
Relax your genes
Is evolutionary psychology really rational choice theory?

Making the work of a blog more accessible than the front page is a challenge. One solution is a systematic accounting of the work we’ve done here (for other ways to explore, check out our 2008 prizes, examples & theory page, and our popular posts). This post takes you month-by-month through our blog, back to its beginning in December 2007 and onto the end of 2008. It focuses on the substantive posts, leaving out the links to other blogs, carnivals, and so forth. Enjoy.

Continue reading “Months of the Year: Neuroanthropology 2008”

The Best of Anthropology Blogging 2008 has a submissions deadline set for this Monday, December 29th. Both people who blog about anthropology topics and readers of anthro blogs can submit entries. For more details, see the details in the language that suits you best.

Best of Anthropology Blogging 2008: Call for Submissions
Melhor de blogging antropolgia 2008
Le meilleur de la blogosphère anthropologique francophone: appel aux candidatures
Anunciando La Primera Edición de “Lo Mejor de los Blogs Antropológicos”
Antro-blogoskape yang paling baik untuk tahun 2008: sejenis kompetisi
Annunciando la prima edizione di «I migliori dei blogs di antropologia»

We’ve already had a great number of submissions from a diverse range of blogs. I’ve posted the list of participating blogs below. If you don’t see yours on the list, please send me a submission!

And if you did send me a submission but don’t see your blog, send me a reminder note. With Christmas, over-aggressive spam filters and the like, I want to be sure everyone gets included! Just one note – if it’s a blog in Portuguese, Greg is handling those submissions. So I haven’t included any of those in the list below.

Continue reading “Best of Anthro Submissions – Two Days Left”