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About Blog Occasional posts on anthropologically interesting science fiction, anthropological futures and my own future as an anthropologist by Samuel Gerald Collins.

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Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

In addition their is a great book called the 7 Truths of the Bible that have nothing to do with proving religion but the historical facts as agreed upon by archaelogist / historians / anthropologists, many of whom are nonbelievers / skeptics / atheists

These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.

This criticism has indeed been applied by anthropologists as well as by black and indigenous people.

He counters this hunch by extending it, in a strange thought - experiment, to Martian zombies sent to earth as anthropologists to study human behavior.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

As has recently been pointed by an anthropologist, the early Christian communities bear many features that are specific to millenarian movements, such as homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of propertAs has recently been pointed by an anthropologist, the early Christian communities bear many features that are specific to millenarian movements, such as homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of propertas homogeneity, equality, anonymity and absence of property.

A corollary, promoted by some anthropologists, says that the pristine cultures of such remote people groups should remain undisturbed by modernity — and especially by missionaries, who are seen as meddling cultural imperialists.

Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, for example, proposed that the study of religion is concerned with «the traditional acts and observances, regarded by the natives as sacred, carried out with reverence and awe, hedged around with prohibitions and special rules and behaviour.

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»

Delving into the emotional strife of three anthropologists battling their own demons as well as each others», King's historical novel set in 1930s New Guinea gave insight into a time and place that had been previously unknown - unthought of, even - by me.

It as if an anthropologist writing on human sacrifice ascribed to the belief that the gods could be propitiated by throwing virgin girls into volcanoes, and having accepted that assumption, proceeded to describe the meaning and meaning - making of the ceremonies surrounding the sacrifices.

Mother Nature, also by an anthropologist, shares experiences of motherhood as witnessed across the world and various cultures, across history and a variety of time periods, and even across species.

«There is no such thing as infant sleep, there is no such thing as breastfeeding, there is only breastsleeping,» reads the title of a new peer - reviewed commentary piece by University of Notre Dame anthropologists James McKenna and Lee Gettler that appears in the prestigious European journal Acta Paediatrica.

An international team led by anthropologist Dr. Michaela Harbeck from the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy (SAPM) and population geneticist Professor Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now performed the first genomic analysis of populations that lived on the former territory of the Roman Empire in Bavaria, Germany, from around 500 AD and provided the first direct look at the complex population dynamics of what has popularly been known as the Migration Period, or «Völkerwanderung» in German.

In 2010, a team of anthropologists claimed that cutmarks on a pair of 3.4 - million - year - old animal bones found in an area of the Afar region known as Dikika were made by ancient stone - tool butchery.

By the time he and his crew had slogged their way through, they were covered with mud, and before long, Leakey, who was just beginning an illustrious career as an anthropologist, was on hands and knees scouring the ground for newly exposed bones.

«Jedek is not a language spoken by an unknown tribe in the jungle, as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village previously studied by anthropologists.

Islamic State (also known as ISIS) soldiers and Kurds who have fiercely battled them sacrifice themselves for sacred, nonnegotiable values, says a team led by anthropologist Scott Atran of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's humans, or potentially DNA extracted from ancient bones.

She is, she says, continuing work pioneered by other African - American physical anthropologists such as William Montague Cobb and Caroline Bond Day.

The low humming beneath our words seems to be, as an anthropologist once put it, «an elaborate code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.»

«Your characteristics as an adult male — body size, lean mass, and sexual maturation — are programmed by your early experiences,» says lead author Christopher Kuzawa, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

«I hope that... the standards in the forensics space will be informed by innovations in the academic labs,» says Cris Hughes, a University of Illinois forensic anthropologist who also works as deputy forensic anthropologist at the Champaign County Coroner's Office.

Gigantopithecus: again, it's misleading to describe this as «dropped by most anthropologists», because it had never been adopted by them in the first place.

That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain, who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in the same way as 178 other large mammals, so - called megafauna, which are suspected of going at least partially by the hand of hungry human hunters.

As an applied medical anthropologist, Quandt works to correct health disparities experienced by rural and minority populations.

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The latest team to enter «the shimmer,» as it's become known, is led by psychologist Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and includes a paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), an anthropologist (Tuva Novotny) and a physicist (Tessa Thompson).

The best scenes involve Willem Dafoe as a scary anthropologist who interrogates Keitel by confronting him with buried childhood memories.

A little - seen 2005 movie directed by Régis Wargnier, Man to Man stars Joseph Fiennes, Kristen Scott Thomas and Hugh Bonneville as 19th century anthropologists who kidnap a couple of pygmies from Africa and take them back to Scotland for research, initially believing them to be the missing link.

The film will be produced by, among others, Drew Barrymore and is described as the following: «How to Be Single» is the story of Julie Jenson, single New Yorker turned anthropologist.

Based on Jeff VanderMeer's book of the same name, Annihilation follows four female scientists (known by their areas of expertise; the biologist, the psychologist, the surveyor, and the anthropologist, respectively) as they try to uncover what happened to the biologist's husband (Oscar Isaac) and his team of researchers, who disappeared while studying Area X, a pristine ecosystem cut off from the rest of the developed world.

The film stars Diane Lane as the mother of a teenage son, played by Anton Yelchin, who dreams of reconnecting with his father, a famous anthropologist who studies a primitive South American tribe.

The normally fine Bill Pullman is none - too - convincing as Dennis Alan, a Harvard anthropologist who's tasked by an American pharmaceutical company to travel to Haiti and learn the mystery behind a powder believed to cause zombification (the pharmaceutical conglomerate claims that it wants the formula for humanitarian reasons; ha!).

by Walter Chaw As executed by our pre-eminent insect anthropologist, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises is more fairytale than thriller, one that finds new muse Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai, the rising star of an émigré Russian mob family taken root in the heart of London within the red velvet - lined walls of a restaurant innocuously - / romantically - named «Trans - Siberian.&raquAs executed by our pre-eminent insect anthropologist, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises is more fairytale than thriller, one that finds new muse Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai, the rising star of an émigré Russian mob family taken root in the heart of London within the red velvet - lined walls of a restaurant innocuously - / romantically - named «Trans - Siberian.&raquas Nikolai, the rising star of an émigré Russian mob family taken root in the heart of London within the red velvet - lined walls of a restaurant innocuously - / romantically - named «Trans - Siberian.»

Apparently the consulting anthropologists insisted (as dinosaurs were extinct by the Ice Age).

As put by anthropologist Clifford Geertz, «The giving to art objects a cultural significance, is always a local matter».

The narrator, a «corporate anthropologist» known only as «U.,» has been granted free rein to devise a Great Report for his employer, the Company, an influential PR firm led by jet - setting, visionary executive Peynman.

Jackson follows forensic anthropologist Dr. Michael Charney and his colleagues as they solve an actual case by developing a physical profile from bones and teeth, reconstructing the victim's skull, and using clues from fibers and other material to make further identification.

As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.

With a background of geology, astronomy, and meteorology, Saint Exupéry presents the human struggle for knowledge and security against the powers of the natural world; with an anthropologist's understanding of tools and techniques, he compares the airplane and the plough, the flyer and the shepherd, and evaluates the long process by which the tool, even when it is as complicated as an airplane, comes to be taken for granted and used with the simple directness of an Indian's paddle.

Bringing together the ideas behind this unique commission, this book features an illuminating conversation with Kwade about the work, as well as a detailed survey of her practice to date by curator Cameron Foote and new essays by curator Daniel F. Herrmann and anthropologist Debbora Battaglia.

Taking its title from anthropologist Mary Douglas's analyses of how disturbances arise in the city's physical contours and social order, Matter Out of Place presents new work by New York — based artists who observe, represent, and activate public sites, generating alternative relationships to such strictly defined spaces as the housing project, park, and museum lobby.

The exhibition, featuring Agnes Calf, Dorota Gawęda & Egle Kulbokaite, Mikko Kuorinki, and Tabita Rezaire among others, takes French anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss» «The Savage Mind» text as a starting point, citing the term bricolage as an associative practice experienced by many non-western societies, wherein «solutions are invented following paths made of fortuitous, unstable and contingent discoveries».