The average body size of humans has fluctuated significantly over the last million years and is linked to a changing climate, according to research published Thursday.https://t.co/oD37OmZIAU
— Michael Petraglia (@MDPetraglia) July 9, 2021
Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts
Friday, July 09, 2021
Relationship Between Climate and Body Size/Human Development?
Thursday, July 01, 2021
The Diet of Early Humans
The latest on what human diets from 100,000 years ago and onwards: Neanderthals who enjoyed a plant rich diet, neolithic communities baking bread before domesticating cereals, grind stones and beer at Göbekli Tepe predating even pottery. Fascinating. https://t.co/XwtL11mfNg
— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) July 1, 2021
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Hunters Were Not Vegan?
In a major blow to vegan beliefs/pride, early humans were actually apex predators who hunted large animals for two million years before they sought vegetables to supplement their diet. https://t.co/o0XZ74A9SO
— Andrew Mente (@andrewmente) April 12, 2021
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
No Direct Evidence?
New archaeological findings about hunting challenge entrenched beliefs about gender roles in ancient hunter-gatherer societies. Originally @ConversationEDU https://t.co/VJbFS2mtZ4
— SAPIENS (@SAPIENS_org) November 30, 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
Derek Turner Reviews Humankind
"Are human beings essentially killer apes, or egalitarian pacifists? In Humankind, Rutger Bregman argues we are not as bad as we believe we are, and by believing we are bad, we may be making ourselves so.” Derek Turner writes in the November Chronicles: https://t.co/HmxhsCGVv6
— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) November 27, 2020
Little, Brown and Company
Sunday, November 08, 2020
Believe It or Not
Early big-game hunters of the Americas were female, researchers suggest https://t.co/UbmX5MKrrB via @physorg_com
— PaleoAnthropology+ (@Qafzeh) November 8, 2020
Monday, July 27, 2020
A Hint of Anarcho-Primitivism Here?
Animal foods have always been critical to meeting our biosocial needs. The urban West, with its excessive focus on status & the self, takes those needs for granted & eulogizes veganism. Unless metabolic illness or a pandemic reminds it of its hubris?
— FrĂ©dĂ©ric Leroy (@fleroy1974) July 26, 2020
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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Dreher Utilizes Girard
But to what degree is he successful? He also refers to Bishop Barron's most recent piece at CWR.
I am reminded of C. R. Hallpike's criticism of Girard. See also his book Ship of Fools, and I do not find Girard's account of scapegoating convincing. (Though I suppose I should read what he has to say about sacrifice as well.) Just because his theory lead to his reversion back to the Catholic faith, it doesn't mean that it is true or correct; it may be that God can nonetheless use error to lead someone back.
See also Death to the Death Penalty? RenĂ© Girard’s Challenge to Thomas Aquinas by Tyler Graham
Dreher is still Dreher in his concerns:
I am reminded of C. R. Hallpike's criticism of Girard. See also his book Ship of Fools, and I do not find Girard's account of scapegoating convincing. (Though I suppose I should read what he has to say about sacrifice as well.) Just because his theory lead to his reversion back to the Catholic faith, it doesn't mean that it is true or correct; it may be that God can nonetheless use error to lead someone back.
See also Death to the Death Penalty? RenĂ© Girard’s Challenge to Thomas Aquinas by Tyler Graham
Dreher is still Dreher in his concerns:
One immense challenge to Christians is to find a way to fight this scapegoating, and to endure it when it can’t be fought, without returning hatred for hatred. I can imagine that it would be easy for those Covington boys to be tempted by far-right white nationalism, especially given the disgraceful spectacle of some of their own woke Catholic bishops throwing them under the bus. (This is what Girard meant when he talked about churches today being “vulnerable to the ongoing blackmail of contemporary neo-paganism.”) But that would be morally wrong, and even a betrayal of the Gospel. When we lose sight of the fact that we ourselves can be part of the mob, and start to see ourselves as innocent by virtue of our identity (racial, sexual, religious, etc.), then we fall into the same scapegoating mechanism that has captured those who hate us.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Monday, October 20, 2014
Romanticizing Hunter-Gatherer Groups?
Learning From Ancient Human Cultures by Chris Martenson (Resilience)
Monday, July 22, 2013
Douglas Fry on War
War not part of human nature: Science study
Murders were far more common for personal reasons than tribal conflict in modern hunter-gatherer cultures, anthropologist Douglas Fry found, suggesting early humans weren’t prone to go to war until civilization came around.
Is it natural for humans to make war? New study of tribal societies reveals conflict is an alien concept
More ammo for the anarcho-primmitivists.
I would love to read about what sort of practices existed within the tribe and between tribes for mediating disputes and questions of honor - rituals of formalized aggression?
Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War by Douglas P. Fry and Patrik Söderberg
Latest Skirmish Over Ancestral Violence Strikes Blow for Peace by Elizabeth Culotta
Related:
Life Without War
Worlds Without War
Beyond War - OUP
War, Peace, and Human Nature
Murders were far more common for personal reasons than tribal conflict in modern hunter-gatherer cultures, anthropologist Douglas Fry found, suggesting early humans weren’t prone to go to war until civilization came around.
Is it natural for humans to make war? New study of tribal societies reveals conflict is an alien concept
More ammo for the anarcho-primmitivists.
I would love to read about what sort of practices existed within the tribe and between tribes for mediating disputes and questions of honor - rituals of formalized aggression?
Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War by Douglas P. Fry and Patrik Söderberg
Latest Skirmish Over Ancestral Violence Strikes Blow for Peace by Elizabeth Culotta
Related:
Life Without War
Worlds Without War
Beyond War - OUP
War, Peace, and Human Nature
Friday, April 19, 2013
Anarcho-Primitivists Would Disagree?
Or any anthropologist? Where does Ian Morris get this from?
Via Damian Thompson:
So members of hunter-gatherer groups were not friends with one another? Or is he claiming, rather, that friendships between those not related by blood (or significantly related by blood) did not come into existence until large population settlements came into being? Isn't that rather obvious, if you are familiar with the patterns of human civilization?
Or is the problem with Mr. Thompson's representation of the claim?
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules -- For Now from The Long Now Foundation on FORA.tv
Long Now Foundation
Macmillan
Related:
Ian Morris, Department of Classics
Ian Morris's new book, "Why the West Rules--For Now" (+video)
The Shape of History: Ian Morris, historian on a grand scale
NYT Review
Human Experience @ Stanford
More videos:
Via Damian Thompson:
“The love between husband and wife or parent and child is natural, bred into us over millions of years,” writes Morris. But friends were late on the scene. Homo sapiens, humans like us, arrived 150,000 years ago. For the first 100,000 years, however, they stubbornly refused to talk to each other. Ted Heath would have been proud of them.
Networks of friends weren’t possible until about 9000 BC, when humans in the Middle East – actually the birthplace of the West, says Morris – started farming and the first villages appeared.
So members of hunter-gatherer groups were not friends with one another? Or is he claiming, rather, that friendships between those not related by blood (or significantly related by blood) did not come into existence until large population settlements came into being? Isn't that rather obvious, if you are familiar with the patterns of human civilization?
Or is the problem with Mr. Thompson's representation of the claim?
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules -- For Now from The Long Now Foundation on FORA.tv
Long Now Foundation
Macmillan
Related:
Ian Morris, Department of Classics
Ian Morris's new book, "Why the West Rules--For Now" (+video)
The Shape of History: Ian Morris, historian on a grand scale
NYT Review
Human Experience @ Stanford
More videos:
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday
Penguin
I read an interview with Diamond in the United Airlines in-flight magazine. He talks about the modern Western way of war, which recognizes a moral distinction between combatants and non-combatants, contrasting them with certain traditional societies which have no hesitation to kill children.
The doctrine of limited warfare arose gradually in the West and was precipiated by Christianity? Destroy an entire society was not unknown to the Jews, though it has been questioned by contemporary Christians and scholars whether this was actually ordered by God or not. It seems that one pattern was to kill all the males while females were taken captive. Does Diamond remark upon the impact of Christianity on our conduct of war? Or did this merely happen as a result of "progress" or "civilization"?
He also compares the members of "traditional" societies with our vets who suffer ptsd. The former suffer no ill effects, no hesitation to kill. How does this square with Dave Grossman's contention that we have a natural aversion to killing another human being? What sort of rituals and psychological mechanisms are present in traditional societies that facilitate the taking of human lives in war? And how is the inclination to kill developed and enhanced? Is the lack of a hesitation a sign of nature, or "second nature," habit acquired through training? Perhaps Diamond goes into greater depth in his comparison and analysis within the book.
NPR interview
UCLA Magazine
Live on Earth
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Guardian
KUOW News
'Collapse' in Congress: Lawmakers should learn from tribal elders
More philosophy masquerading as "anthropology"? Sure, there is data - observations being reported, but what of the interpretation that is in the judgments made in observing and the subsequent interpretations made when the observations are reviewed and taken as a whole? How well can an outsider understand a different culture, without becoming a part of it, learning its language, and so on? Anthropologists do learn the language, but is this sufficient?
More of Jared Diamond:
How Societies Fail - And Sometimes Succeed
The Evolution of Religions
another interview
Lt. Col. Grossman on Glenn Beck: How do we stop the next Sandy Hook? Glenn talks with Dave Grossman about gun violence in schools
Paul Howe, Second Amendment and the Kool-Aid Drinkers
Misc:
Of course they have to include several women: Buzzfeed - 10 Modern Military Heroes You Should Know About
I read an interview with Diamond in the United Airlines in-flight magazine. He talks about the modern Western way of war, which recognizes a moral distinction between combatants and non-combatants, contrasting them with certain traditional societies which have no hesitation to kill children.
The doctrine of limited warfare arose gradually in the West and was precipiated by Christianity? Destroy an entire society was not unknown to the Jews, though it has been questioned by contemporary Christians and scholars whether this was actually ordered by God or not. It seems that one pattern was to kill all the males while females were taken captive. Does Diamond remark upon the impact of Christianity on our conduct of war? Or did this merely happen as a result of "progress" or "civilization"?
He also compares the members of "traditional" societies with our vets who suffer ptsd. The former suffer no ill effects, no hesitation to kill. How does this square with Dave Grossman's contention that we have a natural aversion to killing another human being? What sort of rituals and psychological mechanisms are present in traditional societies that facilitate the taking of human lives in war? And how is the inclination to kill developed and enhanced? Is the lack of a hesitation a sign of nature, or "second nature," habit acquired through training? Perhaps Diamond goes into greater depth in his comparison and analysis within the book.
NPR interview
UCLA Magazine
Live on Earth
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Guardian
KUOW News
'Collapse' in Congress: Lawmakers should learn from tribal elders
More philosophy masquerading as "anthropology"? Sure, there is data - observations being reported, but what of the interpretation that is in the judgments made in observing and the subsequent interpretations made when the observations are reviewed and taken as a whole? How well can an outsider understand a different culture, without becoming a part of it, learning its language, and so on? Anthropologists do learn the language, but is this sufficient?
More of Jared Diamond:
How Societies Fail - And Sometimes Succeed
The Evolution of Religions
another interview
Lt. Col. Grossman on Glenn Beck: How do we stop the next Sandy Hook? Glenn talks with Dave Grossman about gun violence in schools
Paul Howe, Second Amendment and the Kool-Aid Drinkers
Misc:
Of course they have to include several women: Buzzfeed - 10 Modern Military Heroes You Should Know About
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
More on Patriarchy
Analysis of Claimed "Nonpatriarchal Societies" by Steven Goldberg (via DC)
His website: Steven Goldberg on Patriarchy
Can't help but post a link to this again: The Garbage Generation by Daniel Amneus, and this... The Authority of the Husband According to the Magisterium Rev. Paul N. Check
His website: Steven Goldberg on Patriarchy
Can't help but post a link to this again: The Garbage Generation by Daniel Amneus, and this... The Authority of the Husband According to the Magisterium Rev. Paul N. Check
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