#Anthropologist

GenericPerson

GenericPerson4

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA. An introduction. And some terms, defined.Years ago, I spent many hot antipodean winters in the archives in Adelaide, Canberra, and Darwin, reading 19th century

IAmSciComm | @Annelinda_c

iamscicomm

Scientists believed that humans evolved to have unrealistically optimistic beliefs about much we influence the world around us. But now research is revealing how culture shapes beliefs about action, agency

Dr. Kamal Arora

kamarora

45 microaggressions experienced by BIPOC academics. A thread. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #Academics4BlackLives #Racism #Microaggressions #Academia 1. Assuming your work is not good enough because you don’t quote Foucault/Bourdieu/

GenericPerson

GenericPerson4

Another particular example of #CulturalSubversion with a long multi-decade timeline that underscores, serves, and brings us to this moment of full-scale political subversion: the subculture of US Civil War reenactments.These

Rob of X

RobertSecundus

fuck it WW84 i guess is.... the crowd cgi? does it look bad to other people? it looks bad to me the opening scene is Amazonian Horse Basketball, and the

Ụ́kpụ́rụ́

ukpuru

Thread for some ‘upscale’ traditional architectural styles from the Lower Guinea area of western Africa. (Lower Guinea is the biogeographical area between southern Ghana and southern Nigeria).Mansion in Kumasi, Ashanti

Undisciplinary

Undisciplinary_

A threadOn an American sociologists' visit to Australian medical schools in the 1970s to see how they taught "behavioural sciences". David Klein (Michigan State) visited UNSW and USyd in 1972

GenericPerson

GenericPerson4

(Prior Thread 0: LOCAL PUBLIC CORRUPTION: Introduction, Overview, Organization)1 - (But first,) A POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKS AT U.S. GUN CONTROL/RIGHTSWhen I first began to notice unusual activity in the GOP

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Lots of "cultural anthropology" dead-enders are just the softest limb of US regime change operationsI thought that after their embarrassing participation in Bolivia's 2019 coup, some of them would have

Valentina

valentina_schia

A thread (in English and French) on folktales in Siwa, an Egyptian oasis in the Western Desert where Siwi Berber is spoken. Un thread sur les contes en siwi, une

Eliza Mondegreen

elizamondegreen

What comes first? An attempt to seek the truth or the desired conclusion to which the ‘facts’ must cleave? Ideally, this should be a two-step process. - 1) What's going

Kliph Nesteroff

ClassicShowbiz

The campaign for a national healthcare system was opposed by the Canadian business community for decades. Before the system was implemented in 1966, they cranked out all kinds of propaganda,

Amy Thunig

IndigenousX

I want to talk impacts of racism & intergenerational trauma, speaking of my families story. I want to speak this acknowledging how my mental health deteriorated this yearI won’t go

Mel Conway

conways_law

Here I will demystify “emergence” and make it utterly concrete.Most people, if they think about it at all, regard emergence as a vague, “woo-woo” concept that philosophers and mystics deal

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

Those dismayed at what is evidently considerable support for Trump must remember that fascism isn't a fad. It takes time to grow. It's been growing a long time. It will

Uriah

crimkadid

Going to come out of eight years of Twitter lurking to try and answer some basic problems of human variation, first one being: "why are Polynesians so big and strong?",

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