Anthropologist sees the world  as a world of extreme complexity or as a series of Big Data ( NP hard ) problems , hence, some field complexities could be described as“ botanic rarities of the most exotic kind “ by literary forms , whereas another complexities are ready for scientific computational analysis.

As is known the first attempts to introduce systematic scientific analysis of culture as “ a set of mechanical devices “ ( Malinowski ) or  as a  sort of “computer…

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I just came across this piece, which might be of interest, excerpted below.

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As Andrea Stuart writes in the current issue of Granta magazine, her Barbadian heritage is a complicated one. Stuart was born and raised on the Caribbean island, but in 1976, when she was a teenager, her family moved to England. She says her new home wasn’t especially welcoming to newcomers from the Caribbean —…

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An anthropologist studying political economy in ethnographic situations or by reading history can get a perspective on the locus of problems in contemporary society.  The problem is that anthropologists are almost never consulted in these matters – economists are.  As a rule, they lack the ethnographic and historical insights a seasoned anthropologist gets from doing fieldwork and reading history.  History is important and it can teach us many things. This applies to what I see happening in…

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I recently sought to re-connect with a fellow-anthropologist with whom I’d been out of touch for many years, indeed, since our days as graduate students.In the course of finding Dr Susan Lowes, currently Director of Research and

Evaluation at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University, via the wonders of the internet, I also encountered a digital archive of material that she has assembled on the history and culture of…

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Este libro recoge los testimonios de los pobladores de la Ex hacienda San Agustín. Quienes provienen de diversos lugares del Perú "la historia de trabajo, solidaridad, conflictos, discriminación, explotación, sueños y logros, leyendas y mitos, de una localidad que va a desaparecer en aras de la modernidad que se impone de manera desigual en nuestras sociedades.



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I have the great pleasure of taking British Literature I, Medieval through Restoration with an excellent teacher. I had her for BritLit II last winter and have looked forward to this class since that time. I get to spend the first six weeks wallowing in the roots of British literature, and Arthurian Legend. Our first reading was The Dream of the Rood. A lovely poem teaching the crucifixion from the tree's point of view. Much can be derived from this short but deep work, author unknown.… Continue

Prehistoric Populations, Genetic Data, and Cultural Affiliation with Native American Indians



The use of genetic data in forensic science, demographic and population history, archaeology, and a variety of other disciplines has been one of the most rewarding advances in recent times. Allowing for a level of detail and traceability not found in the other methods used by these disciplines, genetic data… Continue