Ciarán Brewster, a.k.a. adhominin, just tweeted about three book reviews. The reviews, written by Robin McKie of The Observer, cover recent books on cooking and human evolution which were written by some pretty big names in anthropology:
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
Wrangham’s thesis is that the advent of cooking reduced [...]
In World as Laboratory, Rebecca Lemov, an anthropologist, writes for a larger audience.
“I think it’s too bad that a lot of scholarly work never gets read, usually because it’s just plain difficult to read,” she says in an interview with Nicole Merritt of MyShelf.com. “Being difficult is sometimes necessary, but sometimes there’s deliberate obfuscation going [...]
Nature has put up a little teaser book review of Amos Nur & Dawn Burgess’ new book, “Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God.” The book investigates the possibility that earthquakes are a cause for the collapse of many ancient civilizations. Nur is a geophysics professor, and my understanding is that he advised Dawn [...]
Christine Kenneally, author of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, is actually no stranger to me. She has linked up Anthropology.net before, and ever seen then I’ve subscribed to her site’s RSS feeds.
When I caught news that the New York Times is running a book review of her new title, I [...]
Peter Andrews, a research scientist at the Natural History Museum in London and a professor in the department of anthropology at University College London, has reviewed the book, “A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia,” by Mike Morwood and [...]
Considering the scope of anthropology is broader and more inclusive than other sciences, it rarely focuses on the impact of one person on the course of humanity throughout all time and place. In doing so, certain key figures throughout the course of human evolution and development and the process of people, are neglected. One such [...]
