#Anthropologists

[giantsinthemist]

A genuine question for the economists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and anyone else who wants to join in of tumbler

please be respectful to each other and ideas presented.

[unwelcome-ozian]

It is probable that a majority of anthropologists and other academics who do field work “for CIA” are doing the kind of research they would do in any event, and some are financed for work they would not other wise be able to do. Their only contribution to CIA is to report on what they have observed. Some of them, however, undoubtedly do more.

[knucklescum]

i find it so sad as an anthropology student that people only really care about forensic anthropology??? i'm in love with people and you want me to talk about their remains??? no!!!

[happywebdesign]

SAPIENS

[monriatitans]

BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 2 OF 3 Wednesday, February 1, 2023

"Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us." - Brent Staples

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[art-thropologist]

Some days I wonder what it would be like if these languages were allowed to keep, or in some cases make, their own alphabets without having to transliterate.

Listen, for people wanting to call out colonialism, there are way too many of you mocking Irish, Welsh, and Scottish names.

No, they’re not alphabet soup, no they do not look like “you’ve thrown letters at a wall and used what stuck,” they are living, breathing languages which we did CPR on after the British Empire shot them.

Like, people DIED to keep them alive.

Every time I see some (English/American) interviewer make an entire segment forcing Saoirse Ronan to list off Irish names, I die a little inside. It’s particularly galling to see the same people ooh-ing over how “mystical” they sound, or claiming ancient heritage to us.

Realise there’s a world beyond your myopic lens and just accept sometimes you’ve got new stuff to learn. Fuck knows I do.

[abarroteraflores]

That all reminds me of when I got into a physical altercation with this girl over a free, nice copy of Malinowski’s Argonauts.

We’re no longer friends but that’s for different reasons lmaoooooo

[creativemedianews]

Anthropologists find 'sensational' site where Jesus was resurrected

Anthropologists find 'sensational' site where Jesus was resurrected #Anthropologists #Jesus #Jesuswasresurrected

[curiositypolling]

*this is just about having medical needs that would have meant death without modern medicine, so no ‘I’d probably die from not being able to distinguish the blur as a lion’ we have a healthy caveman squad who cares for each other, we just also dont have, yknow, penicilin. etcetera.

pls reblog for sample size etc

follow for more occasional useless polls :)

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

[darrylcalmandstrong09]

New Blog. The Beginnings of Humanity: Straight Outta Africa (Alkebu-lan: Land of the Spirit People)

“For some 600,000 years, Africa and Africans led the world.” – Lerone Bennett

To find out more about the beginnings of humanity in Africa, click here: https://rb.gy/20flns

Image: Repost @misterimhotep, via Instagram

[transpotato5]

anthropologists of tumblr is this accurate

[communistkenobi]

stealing this screenshot from a post correcting people about what liminal spaces are, because I want to say something kind of unrelated and don’t want to bother the op - it’s funny this wiki article identifies airports as one of these non-places, and one of the “criteria” for a non-place is somewhere where you are able to remain anonymous, because (at least in north america, I can’t speak globally), one of the primary terrors of airports is its ability to render you a known quantity at basically any time, to bring you into public attention specifically by cops and security people identifying who you are. Airport security, bag inspections, police, surveillance cameras, etc do this security theatre routine at airports in a way that is more intense than other public spaces. Like I just don’t think this state of remaining anonymous in the airport applies to muslims or other religious and racial minorities the state deems to be a “high risk population” vis a vis border security, I think if you want to make the argument that these places allow anonymity, a fundamental part of this analysis has to include the fact that this anonymity is premised on visiting state violence, surveillance, and coercion on largely non-white and religious minorities, particularly and especially muslims, to “protect” and secure this space of (largely white) public anonymity 

[azuremist]

Something interesting about the Alien Stage supplementary material is that the humans don’t know what kissing actually is, but it’s in the human characters’ instinct to show love through physical touch.

Luka is shown sucking on Hyuna’s forehead, and is implied to do this somewhat regularly. And, though many English translations use the word “kiss”, what Ivan says actually translates to “lips to lips���. That’s why he says he wants to do it because “everyone is doing it” — it’s not an established norm. But it feels ‘right’ or ‘natural’ to him, when he sees other humans kissing, to want to do it with Till.

[azu-mog]

The twelve expedition trip trough area X 🧬🍀

(The environment might be too imposing for area X, but well, I wanted the claustrophobic vibe of it)