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Farmers & Foodies of the Future (FFF)

Seguin - Around Quitting Time - Farmers Foodies Future

Sustainable production of food will in the future require more of us to be involved in the process. The world is going to need a lot more farmers & food makers.

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What should you do?

Fast Easy Cash - If the United States Collapses

We seem to be living through a process of declining US hegemony. However, if the United States collapses as an event rather than a process, what’s the plan?

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Links to the Highly Improbable

Black Swan Anthropology

An anthropologist caught between “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” and “Marginal Revolution: Small Steps Toward a Much Better World.”

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags agriculture, anthropology branding, capitalism, Eric Wolf, Jared Diamond 4 Comments

Party Like It’s 1999… with Napoleon Chagnon!

War in the Tribal Zone & Napoleon Chagnon

If “anthropology’s future depends largely on its ability to contest the Savage slot” (Trouillot) then what about Napoleon Chagnon?

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Categories Anthropologists Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, Eric Wolf, fieldwork, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Nicholas Wade, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz 23 Comments

War, Peace, & Human Nature

War, Peace, and Human Nature - Gun Control Podcast

Wonderful recent volume shows how views of human nature as inherently warlike stem not from the facts but from cultural views embedded in Western thinking.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, evolution, gun violence, human nature, Jared Diamond, natural selection, niche construction, primates, primatology, textbooks 25 Comments

Jared Diamond, Science, Violence & the Facts

Brian Ferguson - Yanomami Warfare

The Ax Fight shows how Yanomami used steel axes long before anthropologists arrive. The Jared Diamond violence calculations must consider interconnection.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, Eric Wolf, fieldwork, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Ruth Benedict 37 Comments

Geography, States, Empires

Eric Wolf - Europe and the People Without History

Eric Wolf’s Europe and the People Without History attempts to answer Yali’s Question – Why Europe? It’s time to rediscover the history of Eric Wolf.

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Categories Archaeology Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, capitalism, culture, Eric Wolf, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 27 Comments

Sidney Mintz, Franz Boas, Anthropology – A Celebration

Mintz Three Ancient Colonies Caribbean Themes and Variations

At the 2012 American Anthropological Association, Sidney Mintz received the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology and papers in honor.

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Jared Diamond won’t beat Mitt Romney

The really scary part of the Diamond Romney dustup is how Romney recaps Diamond: European imperialism is accidental but societies choose to fail.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags agriculture, ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, Eric Wolf, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, politics, primates, race, racism, textbooks 15 Comments

Walmart Socialism

Utopia-Dystopia - Walmart Socialism

On using the informational-distributional capacities of Walmart to enact a sensible and sustainable future, Walmart Socialism and Utopia.

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Community Supported Agriculture

A great recipe for Kale Quesadillas–a quick, simple, and tasty way to enjoy the kale from Community Supported Agriculture.

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Rural Solutions

Hartwick College’s symposium on “Rural Solutions: Economic Development on a Human Scale.” Keynote with Michael Shuman, author of Local Dollars, Local Sense.

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Jared Diamond & Richard Lee

Anthropology 2012-2013

The 1987 Jared Diamond article “Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” takes from Richard B. Lee–mongongo nuts without credit.

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Earliest Signs & Origin Stories

Wrangham - Catching Fire - Earliest Signs

Pronouncements of firsts and earliest signs are reminders of a truth from Robert N. Proctor: There’s no glory in “second oldest.”

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