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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Charles Lockwood In Memoriam
From John Lynch, of Stranger Fruit, comes the upsetting news of Charles Lockwood's untimely death. He died in a motorcycle accident in London. For those that don't know who Charles Lockwood was, he was a paleoanthropologist who investigated the evolution of skull anatomy in hominins. Last year, his book "The Human Story: Where We Come... Continue Reading →
Introducing a new guest blogger, Tasha Spawn
I want to introduce you to a new guest blogger here at Anthropology.net, Tasha Spawn. Tasha is currently a student at University of North Dakota. Her primary anthropological interests are on topics like sexuality, gender, identity, the concept of race, equality, and male/female relationships. In our emails, Tasha expressed that she looks forward to sharing her opinions, hosting... Continue Reading →
Palabea’s sloppy attempt at viral marketing… Misleading the public with CyberChimp
On Primatology.net, I just blogged about some unethical marketing tactics by Palabea.com that I want you to be aware of. Palabea is a startup social networking site with something like 50,000 users. There are some press reports circulating the wires promising Palabea will provide users with an opportunity to talk with "Albert," a cyber chimp... Continue Reading →
A Demographic Breakdown of Anthropology.net Readers
So that poll I asked y'all to take last week has been closed. As promised, I want to share the results. Even though almost 1,000 viewers checked the post out, I didn't get nearly as many responses as I hoped for. Still, there is some useful data... Based upon the 55 people that did take... Continue Reading →
Anthropology.net’s One Year Anniversary on WordPress.com
Today is Anthropology.net's one year anniversary on WordPress.com. I've been running this blog for more than one year but I decided to scrap some of the old site because of technical difficulties. It was a bittersweet decision. Initially, Anthropology.net lost a lot of readership. All the inbound links were broken, and that dropped the site's... Continue Reading →
Four Stone Hearth 40, call for submissions
This coming Wednesday, May 7th, will mark the 40th edition of Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology blog carnival that began life here at Anthropology.net – so if you have anything you'd care to contribute to this next edition, you can send it via submit@fourstonehearth.net or instead to remote central, the hosting blog this time round.
Four Stone Hearth 39 @ Hominin Dental Anthropology
The latest edition of the anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth is now up and ready to be read - as ever we are offered a very nice mix of writing from around the anthropological zone of the blogosphere. The next edition will be at remote central on May 9th - so for now, many... Continue Reading →
Anyone going to the “What Makes Us Human?” Conference next week?
I caught some obscure news of an upcoming conference in Los Angeles that's packing panels with some big names in anthropology, such as Frans de Waal, Ian Tattersall, Craig Stanford, Donald Johanson, Marc Hauser, Christine Kenneally, and Bruce Lahn. They'll all be discussing "What Makes Us Human?" which also happens to be the title of... Continue Reading →
