Claude Lévi-Strauss died two days ago. He was 100 years old.
I shouldn’t have to write about his impact to the field of anthropology, in summary it was profound. He authored many texts. He set forth structuralism, a mode of thought by which we can compare relationships between social systems. His contributions to studying cultures and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Announcement’
November 3, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss Has Died
October 1, 2009
The 4.4-Million-Year-Old Ardipithecus ramidus
I want to be the first to break news to you that Science has published White’s contentious 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus! I caught news of the release on the internet. The link is not live yet, but when it is I’ll fill you in.
Owen Lovejoy is one of the authors of the paper, and he says [...]
September 23, 2009
Free Out of Africa: Modern Human Origins Special Feature In PNAS
The latest issue of the Proceedings from the National Academy of Science journal hosts a Out of Africa: Modern Human Origins special feature for free online. I recommend you check it out.
Here’s a line up of the content:
Editorial by Richard G. Klein, “Darwin and the recent African origin of modern humans.”
Perspective by Ian Tattersall, “Human [...]
July 18, 2009
The Open Laboratory 2009 – Call for Submissions
Over the past three years, a book comprising what are considered the best science posts of the year is published, and the selection process for this year’s edition is already in progress, with 210 entries already submitted, as we see from Coturnix at A Blog Around the Clock:
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to [...]
April 26, 2009
Introducing A New Guest Blogger, Raymond Ho
As you may have noticed, it has been rather silent here for the last 5 months. I’m happy to break the silence with most excellent news of a new guest blogger to Anthropology.net & Primatology.net, Raymond Ho, of The Prancing Papio. I’ve been an avid reader of Raymond’s blog ever since he started it earlier [...]
November 28, 2008
1 Million Unique Visitors To Anthropology.net!
Anthropology.net has gone platinum. With the help of guest bloggers and regular contributors, I have hosted 1,000,000 unique visitors since March of 2007. For a highly specialized niche site with no advertisement campaign I consider this milestone a success.
But, I’m going to bid blogging adieu because I have been accepted to medical school. Once I [...]
October 4, 2008
When Open Access Fails
I’m fairly busy as of late and so I regularly set aside some weekend reading, such as Sergey Gavrilets‘ new paper on investigating the impact of egalitarianism on human evolution during the Pleistocene. The paper was published the other day in the open access journal PLoS One. Yesterday, I bookmarked the paper’s DOI (10.1371/journal.pone.0003293), in [...]
October 1, 2008
Introducing A New Guest Blogger, Emanuel Lusca
Emanuel Lusca recently contacted wishing to guest blog here at Anthropology.net. As a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, double majoring in anthropology and philosophy, I think Emanuel will fill some gaps in my lack of coverage of cultural anthropology topics… so I’m really excited to have him on board.
In his email, he explained that his [...]
September 4, 2008
I’m Off To Turkey Until September 20th!
I don’t regularly make announcements about my life, but I wanted to let you that blogging here will be sparse because I’m leaving to Turkey to do some fieldwork. I should return in two weeks time, unless we find something that needs a bit more time or if the PKK and Turkish government have another [...]
