Here are all the student posts from this year in the order I put them up. As a group they’ve already proven popular, getting attention from a range of high-power sites and social networks. That’s great, and well-deserved!
Below I also outline how I approached this project with my students. If you want to incorporate something similar into your teaching or comparable work, feel free to use and/or adapt these guidelines. Of course any suggestions or alternative approaches are always appreciated. Leave a comment below or email me at dlende at nd dot edu
These nine posts join the eight from last year, which went from understanding brain imaging to the differences between men and women drinking on campus – those were rounded up in Why A Final Essay When We Can Do This?
This time we’ve got scintillating zigzags and surrealism, the bearded lady syndrome, language as a technology?, miocene apes (don’t you love them too?), the open anthropology collective, and more!
Also, for those of you interested, I found that smokin’ hearth at this site on the Knapdale Hearth Tax of 1694.
Welcome to Encephalon #71 – a Big Night here at Neuroanthropology, as we are hosting Encephalon for the second time (last year it was The Usual Suspects). Enjoy your multi-course mind feast!
Editor’s Selections What is this: ‘Too much’? HEY! It is never ‘too much’; it is only ‘not enough’! Bite your teeth into the ass of life and drag it to you!
For more on the 1996 film Big Night, you can see the IMDb site and Wikipedia. The quotes (with occasional slight modifications) were taken from two sources: IMDb and MovieQuotes.
Sorting Out Science is hosting the latest Four Stone Hearth, gathering together the best of recent anthropology blogging.
The lead is the entire Pig in the Garden Series, covering the recent Jared Diamond and New Yorter controversy. If I had to pick one piece for this audience, it would be Nancy Sullivan’s ‘Light Elephants’ and Dark Revenge In The New Yorker: The Problems of Amateur Anthropology. Besides covering ethical concerns, she brings a deep ethnographic appreciation from a more psychological/cultural anthropology angle of how revenge actually works in Papua New Guinea.
Then there are big boobs featured in the media (yes, the recent venus figurine – Sorting Science has three solid pieces on this discovery); plus the recent Neanderthals got eaten by humans controversy is dismantled; some hot joe on head shaping and trepination; and much more.
Aardvarchaeology is hosting the latest Four Stone Hearth (#66 to be exact), which rounds up the best of anthropology blogging over the past fortnight.
I couldn’t resist this absurdly cute photo, but go over there for the latest on population genetics of modern Africans, the Flores hobbits, cross-cultural variation in creationism, first hugs, and more.
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