We also have EXTENDED THE DEADLINE to the ECR summer school focused on academic writing and publishing led by Antti Silvast & Heta Tarkkala as editors of the journal Science & Technology Studies New deadline is April 12th.
I heard a story, the colony that herons gather to breed is called "heron forest." Just before taking this photo, there were many more herons, and I was so excited that this was truly a "heron forest." So I finished shooting and headed home. Looking closely at the photo I had taken, it seemed like there were more cormorants than herons...?
Anyway, I have often seen cormorants, great egrets, and grey herons hunting fish together in the river. And although they merely have their share of scuffles, they seem to get along well. However, I never imagined they would be so friendly that they would form a colony in the same place and breed.
"Heron forest" is the translation from the Japanese word "Sagi-no-Mori" which means straightly the forest of herons.
The Japanese word "Sagi-no-Mori" is often used in the name of place, Japanese Shinto shrine, or Buddhist temple.
The Shinto shrine in Japan was originally a place of worship for the forest ecology itself, so it is not surprising that some Shinto shrines were named after the forest where herons breed.
The Japanese word "Mori" does not simply mean only forest, but also includes the nuance of being a place where devines and spirits reside. And Bird was symbol of spirit or soul of dead.
"Civilization" did not "start" 10,000 years ago. This is a profoundly flawed model of human culture and economics, and constitutes a racist trope that treats hunter-gatherer cultures and economies as "uncivilised".
What started 10,000 years ago was agriculture, and shortly afterwards feudalism and slavery.
The baseless claim that hunter-gatherers have no "civilisation" has been used for centuries to justify continent-wide land theft and genocide of hunter gatherers by agricultural societies. It has no place in science.
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If modern human intelligence evolved 60,000 years ago, why did civilization not develop until 10,000 BC? This question lies at the heart of the sapient paradox, one of the great mysteries of human existence. Potential explanations range from a reconsideration of prehistory to the power of collective learning to early humans getting stuck in "gossip traps."
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The connection to social media and "cancel culture" seems like a stretch (as this social pressure has nowhere near the same consequences as institutionalized power), but the idea that big societies with high levels of specialization require a different mechanism for organization than raw social pressure sounds sensible.
21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook by H. James Birx, 2010
Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of anthropology ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century.
Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists by Jerry D. Moore
This classic textbook offers anthropology students a succinct, clear, and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of 25 major theorists are briefly described and—unique to this textbook—linked to the biographical and fieldwork experiences that helped shape their theories.
"The researchers devised a way to disentangle the extensive genetic mixing of populations that has occurred since the dispersal out of the hub in order to pinpoint this region."
I’m hiring for a 2-year postdoc position for my project “Silicon Island” funded by the Danish research council, researching in/equities and tech futures in Newfoundland. The postdoc position focuses on policy practices relating to technology innovation & entrepreneurship.
@Mashable reports: "A new study shows that after an especially powerful supervolcano eruption some 74,000 years ago (the largest in the last 2 million years), foraging humans in modern-day Ethiopia survived."
"The future lecturer will teach in the Master's degree #DocumentaryFilm and #VisualAnthropology" as well as in the Bachelor's degree #PerformingArts in the form of
theoretical and practical courses in cinema, especially documentary film"
7 [!] PhD Positions in Historical and Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
@ The University of Vienna
[...] within the framework of the new interdisciplinary FWF doc.funds program "The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation: State, Society, and Economy at Critical Junctures", starting on 1 September 2024.
A compelling argument that certain features of our human biology and psychology (in particular: large brain size, cooperative eyes, symbolic language, menopause, intersubjectivity and Machiavellian counterdominance) provide evidence of an egalitarian past during our evolution.
If I were an anthropologist I would study the cultural practices of girls. I am talking kid's culture, not the things adults impose. Some examples from my own childhood:
Divination (M.A.S.H., fortune telling using playing cards, soda cans, apple stems)
Spiritual Practices
(Light As A Feather, Stiff As A Board, Bloody Mary, etc)
Bonding Games (Truth or Dare, Never Have I Ever, etc)
Chants (For clapping games, jump-rope counting, and picking who is 'It').
My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!
Here are my 8 reasons for this:
POSSIBILITIES
At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n
EMPOWERMENT
The skills, knowledge, critical thinking, intellectual flexibility and values you gain by studying anthropology empower students to become the kind of change makers the world needs now.
Please, do share, and please do direct anyone you know who is thinking of going to university and might be interested in Anthropology to me! I am happy to answer any questions. #Anthropology@academicchatter
The most significant and valuable through it all has been the values, theory, and methods from my years explicitly learning / training / practicing anthropology. I wish more (any!) of my undergrad and postgrad students could deep dive in anthro at my university, but it doesn’t exist here as a discipline, degree, or department.