'Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Harvard in the USA have developed a new tool which enables them to identify prehistoric and historic individuals' relatives up to the sixth degree. Previous methods worked only up to the third degree.'
Does anyone have any references for interpretive social science(ish) papers that use public comments (as in a federal register) as data? Or perhaps any methods papers that address using public comments? (Have I asked this already?) TIA!
@inquiline The other thing I'd say is that I was using material gathered under the Scottish public consultation process, which uses far more direct and specific questions to structure replies rather than open public comment as is common stateside. So I think that made my job a bit easier.
@inquiline (sorry for the comment spam, just still thinking out loud)
The other thing I did was to not take public comments as representative barometers of public opinion because, obviously, no.
Instead, I used a basic metric to split comments into supportive, oppositional, and mixed, and then coded for the rhetoric deployed in stating their case. That provided really interesting results and I think survives questions of performative bias.
#RandomThoughts
Do you ever wonder how far back in time certain food recipes go? For instance, how far back in time did people scramble eggs?
I suppose you might infer when people started eating eggs from the earliest evidence of chicken farming, but is there really any way to deduce if they poached, hard boiled, or scrambled their eggs?
The scrambling of eggs is an ancient technique. The earliest documented recipe for scrambled eggs was in the 14th-century Italian cookbook Libro della cucina.[3]
I feel like this makes sense, so much it seems obvious. It was literally a struggle to survive, one that was often lost, and you'd just have half the people hang out at home?
@TheConversationUS
I have picked out my favorite sentence:
"The myth that female reproductive capabilities somehow render them incapable of gathering any food products beyond those that cannot run away does more than just underestimate Paleolithic women." 😏
I've just finished teaching a class on Anthropology of Food in Japan. How I like this topic, wow... it's really, really cool, being able to think about culture through the meals we eat, food production and consumption systems. As the anthropological motto says, food is good not only for eating, but also for thinking. @anthropology#anthropology#japan
@taichara@anubis2814@anthropology Regarding some Anthropology of Food in Japan, there are several interesting works. I strongly suggest T.J.M Holden’s “The overcooked and underdone: masculinities in Japanese food programming”. I also like Jordan Sand’s “A short history of MSG” and Nancy Stalker’s “Gourmet Samurai: changing food gender norms in Japan TV”. > #anthropology#food#japan
Graeber, David; Wengrow, David. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
I have already finished reading this long and powerful book. Now I have to meditate on the ideas it brings...
"Over the course of these chapters we have instead talked about basic forms of social liberty which one might actually put into practice: (1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings; (2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and (3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones."
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