Humans of New York
This reminds of me of the kind of “job” / “career” that many of you are preparing for. Brandon Stanton artfully demonstrates many of the best characteristics of a good anthropologist – a willingness...
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Facebook: Anthropological Fieldwork in Cyberia
You may not know whether your new love is perfect, but Facebook does. A recent study of the social media giant’s user data reveals that in the first three months of a budding relationship,...
A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Living Nomads
“Since the beginning of time, nomadic people have roamed the earth. Looking for food, feeding their cattle. Looking for an existence, freedom. Living in the wild, mountains, deserts, on tundra and ice. With only...
Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in England 800,000 BP
Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England. The footprints are more than 800,000 years old and were found on the shores...
Sunshine – an ethnographic portrait of the emerging Chinese ad industry
While in Shanghai to film a commercial, Nichol turns his handy 5DMarkII upon his friend and longtime producer John Benet, and what results is a remarkable work, one that tells two stories with equal aplomb—an...
Could initiation rituals explain why Kenyans dominate distance running?
Legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why Kenyans dominate long-distance running. In this short, we stumble across a surprising, and sort of terrifying, explanation. – Cut and Run,...
“People everywhere hunger to understand.” – Carl Sagan
This is true: A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea Highlands, where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches,...
Fewer Americans now accept Evolution
Evolution Survey Reveals Divide Over Scientific View A Pew Survey of Americans’ views on evolution reveals that fewer believe that humans have evolved over time. The number of Republicans who said they believe in evolution...
Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European language
________________________________________ From: Anthropology Club on behalf of Lauren Ritterbush Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:39 AM To: anthclub-l@listserv.ksu.edu Subject: reconstructing Proto-Indo-European language Read about and listen to a reconstruction of what the Proto-Indo-European language...
Mystery Early Human revealed by DNA data
BBC, 18 December 2013 Mystery early human revealed by DNA data Mystery early human revealed by DNA data The genome sequence came from a toe bone found in Denisova Cave, Siberia Continue reading the...
