#Anthropologists

The Qanon phenomenon is many things: for one thing, it's a grift. Q's top spokesgargoyles earn small fortunes in ad revenue, crowdfunding and merchandise.https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#q1/ But it's
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Adding one more output to the maelstrom of #COVIDー19 contact tracing technologies debate, but this is one I'm proud of. Academics from disciplines across @ourANU have joined forces to propose
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In light of #COVID19, the ideas that most Americans have about Chinese #food preferences, and eating habits are far from reality. I find them dangerous as they fuel #sinophobia, and
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I can’t keep count of the times I’ve been told “I hear you” and “I’m sorry” since May. All regular conversation I used to have with these white people about
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We have reached 1938 followers! That year, a small fishing crew, just off the coast of South Africa, pulled something unexpected out of Indian Ocean's waters. This fish was
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In case you were distracted by other things this week, such as, oh I dunno, the global pandemic, this was actually an extraordinary week for anthropology. Here's a summary with
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Even spicier, though, are studies showing that under conditions of stress and risk, you can provoke Western adults to behave as if they believe in magic. Magical thinking doesn’t mature
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67 Lessons on Marketing StrategyInspired by the conversation between @mkobach and @rachelmercer Notes What is Strategy?• Strategy is defining the problem you are trying to solve and the plan
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Join us in ten minutes for this conversation between @MeghaMaj and @roannagonsalves on power, nationalism, corruption and justice #mwfdigital https://twitter.com/MelbWritersFest/status/1294420522915135488 'I was particular struck by how
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Some thoughts on the recent paper about Polynesian ancestry by Ioannidis et al. (Long thread.)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2 The paper investigates ancestry in present-day Polynesians using genetic data from 354 individua
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A small story:Consort called from the road, to tell me he'd be back in an hour, we'd get the recipes from yesterday's class out for folks. Two minutes later, he
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Do y’all have any idea why darker Black folks started asserting that paler dark folks were “less black” in an antagonistic way? Did they always say this? Or is this
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I’m thinking a lot about human remains coverage & what care for the dead can look like in the pursuit of accountability. When I read the news about the MOVE
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If you're going to read the Cofnas piece on "Woke Twitter Mobs" in Quillette, I suggest you use the link I'll provide to avoid giving them clicks, & that you
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I’m opening a new shoe shop (crazy, in these times of economic chaos, but bear with me) & I’ve decided that I’ll just sell average-sized women’s shoes (size 6 in
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God creating mushroomshttps://www.tiktok.com/@lonnieiiv  I stayed up till 1am laughing at this good lifehack not wrong The choose your character meme is one of my absolute favorites and some do it
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