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Anthropology

Xenophobia Founded on Faulty Assumptions

Her Human Nature column appears each Friday on LiveScience. Every generation of citizens, many of them immigrants themselves or of recent immigrant ancestry, is afraid of the next wave of others looking for a better life. It...

Ketchikan professor receives Emmy award

University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan faculty member, Priscilla Schulte, professor of anthropology and sociology, recently received an Emmy, as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee, for an educational series titled...

Science, sex, and the art of seduction

Humans have long been baffled by just what shapes sexual attraction. Overall, they’ve focused on three measures: averageness (how closely the size and shape of facial features match the average), symmetry (how closely the two...

Modeling The Egalitarian Revolution

I mentioned the drawn out process of me trying to download this new paper, “Dynamics of Alliance Formation and the Egalitarian Revolution,” the other day. I’ve read it and although I found it to be a difficult and theoretically...

Studying the 'World of Warcraft' culture

California professor gets $100,000 grant to fund research on video game Bonnie Nardi is doing research on the World of Warcraft Some students think it is a waste of time and money Anyone who was once concerned that they do not...

A Response to World as Laboratory by Rebecca Lemov

In World as Laboratory, Rebecca Lemov, an anthropologist, writes for a larger audience. “I think it’s too bad that a lot of scholarly work never gets read, usually because it’s just plain difficult to read,” she says in an...

Open Access or Faux Access?

The headline on Monday’s announcement seemed impressive: “AAA Creates ‘Open Access’ to Anthropological Research.” The announcement starts off by calling the new policy of the American Anthropological Association “a...

Guess what? There's no harm in a little gossip

Our love of idle chatter brings us closer together, many experts say We are fascinated by gossip, but that is not necessarily be a bad thing, many experts believe. But Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at...

Egalitarian Revolution In The Pleistocene

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2008 - Although anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are still debating this question, a new study, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, supports the view that the first egalitarian...

It's no secret! We love gossip

Our love of idle chatter brings us closer together, many experts say We are fascinated by gossip, but that is not necessarily be a bad thing, many experts believe. But Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at...

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