Neuroanthropology: Neuroanthropology – 2011 Highlights
The last year was a really good one for us here at Neuroanthropology – our first full year as part of PLoS Blogs, a lot of great writing, and a vivid sense that anthropology online is really...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Anthropology Report: Best Anthro Blogs of 2011
The Anthropology Report has released its list of the top anthropology blogs of 2011. Using a survey of readers who ranked their favorites, Jason Antrosio took the long list of anthropology blogs (120...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Wednesday Round Up #159
Timothy Snyder, War No More *An important critical read of Steven Pinker’s overall argument in his recent book, The Better Angels of Our Nature. Particularly convincing both on the role of the modern...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Brainy Trees, Metaphorical Forests: On Neuroscience,...
Seeing the Building for the Trees was a Sunday Op-Ed in The New York Times on neuroscience and architecture, and promptly provoked an outcry from a neuroscientist. Here is how the opinion piece by...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: The long, slow sexual revolution (part 1) with nsfw video
A while back, Bora Zivkovic directed me (well, …all his Facebook followers) to the word, ‘sapiosexuality’: the tendency to become ‘attracted to or aroused by intelligence and its use’ (thanks, Bora!)....
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Wednesday Round Up #160
This week I lead off with some controversy over the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM 5, which is due out in 2013. This is not the first time the DSM 5 has come into the...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Wednesday Round Up #161
Lalage Snow, We Are Not The Dead: Soldiers’ faces before, during and after serving in Afghanistan *Photographer Lalage Snow photographed UK soldiers as they deployed and returned home, and interviewed...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Wednesday Round Up #162
I open with some social media/e-pub material, and then turn to the usual mix. Enjoy. And the image comes from the post, Social Media Neuromarketing Revisited 2011. I think it does summarize well the...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Facebook as a Colonial Power?
I came across this clever image today, comparing Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. Of course I came across it on Facebook! On the left Assange says, “I give private...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: The Digital Return: Digital Repatriation and Indigenous...
By Kimberly Christen, Joshua Bell, and Mark Turin On January 19, 2012, twenty-eight participants convened at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC for the “After the Return: Digital...
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