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How Did Anthropology Begin?

How did anthropology begin?

Early episodes of European colonialism, plantation slavery in the Caribbean, and Darwin in Tierra del Fuego are crucial to “How Did Anthropology Begin?”

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags capitalism, cultural relativism, culture, Eric Wolf, evolution, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 2 Comments

Entangling the Biological

Introduction to Anthropology

An Introduction to Anthropology course for 2014, with emphasis on “entangling the biological” and the relevance of anthropology for important dialogue.

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Epigenetics & Human Nature

Everett - Language The Cultural Tool - Epigenetics

Could epigenetics finally re-write the script about human nature? Maybe, but first we have to go over The Edge’s promotional tribute to Napoleon Chagnon.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, natural selection, politics, racism, Sidney Mintz, Tim Ingold 13 Comments

Testosterone Anthropology

Mothers and Others - Testosterone

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s intriguing ideas on testosterone changes in “Mothers and Others” is answered by longitudinal anthropology on fatherhood testosterone.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, sexuality, textbooks 1 Comment

Living with Darwin & Evolution-Creation Controversy

Evolution-Creation Controversy

“Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy” (1982) has long been part of the Applying Anthropology reader. Time for a Living with Darwin update?

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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

Busting Myths

Agustin Fuentes: Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You

“Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You” launched Agustin Fuentes into a public defense of anthropology’s relevance.

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Science, Media, Anthropology

Race and the Crisis of Humanism - Denisovan Brains

Denisovans! Exciting findings, cutting-edge genetic sequencing technologies, and scientists tone-deaf to a modern world built on colonialism and racism.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Denisovans, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, Neandertals, race, racism 4 Comments

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

Darwin in Mind–The End

Complexities - Evolutionary Psychology - Darwin in Mind

“Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology” (2011) marked the end of evolutionary psychology as foil for anthropology.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, culture, ethnobiogeny, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, natural selection, niche construction, Nicholas Wade, politics 14 Comments

DNA Battles

Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds - Nicholas Wade

Research on earliest Americans reveals multiple migrations and complexity. But Nicholas Wade botches the coverage–and the anthropology.

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Categories Archaeology Tags education, empathy, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, race mixing, textbooks 12 Comments

Dawkins versus Wilson: The Descent of Science

Dawkins versus Wilson: The Descent of Science

A Call for Blog Posts (CFBP) for an anthropological analysis of Richard Dawkins versus Edward Wilson on Social Conquest of the Earth.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags culture, evolution, genetics, human nature, natural selection, niche construction, Tim Ingold 6 Comments

Sex, Gender, Sexuality

Warnke - After Identity - Gender is a Social Construction

Anthropology insists sex, gender, and sexuality include human activity and imagination–explaining why “gender is a social construction”

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags culture, evolution, gender, genetics, human nature, sex, sexuality, textbooks, Tim Ingold 39 Comments

Traditional Race Ideas

Barbujani - Delle Razze and Harpending

Anthropology has debunked traditional race ideas that humans come as 3-5 genetic types. But backlash & misunderstandings around social construction persist.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Eric Wolf, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, race, racism 28 Comments

Seizing the Holistic Moment

Anthropology on Race

The innuendo on race and IQ is an opportunity to revisit anthropology on race and seize holistic understandings to reclaim this issue for anthropology.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, race, racism 6 Comments

Metaphors & Evolution

Zimmer - Tangled Bank

How can we stop trellises from turning into trees? Emphasizing non-directionality and complexity in evolutionary understandings.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, Denisovans, education, evolution, genetics, natural selection, Neandertals, textbooks 2 Comments

Scientific Humanism

Research Methods in Anthropology - Humanistic Science in Anthropology

“We should be the humanistic science and the scientific humanism that Eric Wolf described nearly 50 years ago” (H. Russell Bernard, Science in Anthropology)

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Categories What is Anthropology? Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, Eric Wolf, evolution, Nicholas Wade, politics 10 Comments

Capitalism, Denisovans, Anthropology in Media

Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century

Free PowerPoint for “Anthropology and Moral Optimism”; Denisovan admixture update; AAA news and the 2011 Anthropology in Media Award.

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Categories Anthropology Blogs Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, education, evolution, genetics, political economy, politics, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments

Four Field Manifesto

Communist Manifesto - Anthropology, Moral Optimism, Capitalism - Four Fields Manifesto

Anthropology’s Moral Optimism: Four Field Manifesto & alternative visions of humanity. Capitalism is not the most beautiful or respectful of shared planet.

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Categories Moral Optimism Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, David Brooks, Eric Wolf, evolution, gender, human nature, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, occupy, planning, political economy, politics, primates, Sidney Mintz, Tim Ingold 59 Comments

Admixture All the Way Down

Malinowski - Sexual Life - Admixture

Despite Nicholas Wade’s emphasis on splits among human groups, the research is clear that it’s admixture all the way down. Plus some Malinowski!

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Denisovans, education, Eric Wolf, evolution, genetics, human nature, Nicholas Wade, race, race mixing, sex, sexuality, Sidney Mintz 9 Comments

Oh no I’ve said too much

Re-listening to R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” as a professor teaching evolution in front of a classroom: Oh no I’ve said too much / I haven’t said enough.

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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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Mismeasuring Gould

Mismeasure of Man - Mismeasure of Science

“The Mismeasure of Science” reassessed Gould’s “Mismeasure of Man.” In a climate of race resurgence and attacking anthropology, this was a horrible idea.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, politics, race, racism 22 Comments

Australopithecine Teeth & Gender

Australopithecine Teeth

Fascinating study of australopithecine teeth and residence patterns. Ridiculous headlines about gender and family. Anthropology analyzes science and media.

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Do anthropologists study everything?

Toward an Anthropology of Women - Anthropology is Necessary

Anthropologists don’t study everything. Anthropology studies important issues, in context, and gets real data. Anthropology is necessary.

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