Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria?
Here is a challenge to standard views about the evolution of linguistic generativity: ““Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria: Implications for the Origins of Linguistic Generativity” by Thomas…
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From civil war to mining boom
Ten years after the civil war, life has come back to Lunsar in Sierra Leone. Anthropologist Robert Pijpers is talking with CEOs and motortaxi drivers about the curr…
New Book, Intimate Economies of Development, out from Chris Lyttleton
Culture Matters is pleased to announce that Assoc. Prof. Chris Lyttleton’s new book, Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia, has been launched by Routledge Press.…
Happy Earth Day, Babies!
Today I am thinking of all the babies who will come into the world on Earth Day. I am thinking of all of the babies who will grow…
Happy Earth Day, Babies!
Today I am thinking of all the babies who will come into the world on Earth Day. I am thinking of all of the babies who will grow…
Britain is a ‘Christian Country’, apparently
David Cameron has recently claimed that the UK is a 'Christian country' and has said that he will act as a 'giant Dyno-Rod' for Christian organisations here (implicitly…
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Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
Structural Violence and Contemporary Indigenous Health
Although colonisation is often seen as a part of our history, as a relic of the past, it is a force that has created and sustained structures within our society that…
The Brave New World of Campus Life
There are an increasing number of scholars who, like Giroux, stand strongly against the corporate university. Like Giroux
The Brave New World of Campus Life
There are an increasing number of scholars who, like Giroux, stand strongly against the corporate university. Like Giroux
Visual Anthropology Revisited – This Anthro Life
Join us for an ‘enlightening’ trip as we ‘shed some light’ on the world of sight, seeing, and visual anthropology. In this episode we explore the deep impact…
Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs
A new article by Dan Fessler, Anne Pisor,& David Navarrete, highly relevant to cultural epidemiology in PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. doi:10.1371 Abstract: The functions of cultural beliefs are often…
Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely admit that people have…
Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely admit that people have…
Vershawn Young, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy, “Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy”
[Cross-posted from New Book in Language] In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely…
Zareena Grewal, “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] Zareena Grewal‘s monograph Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU Press, 2013), seamlessly interweaves et… Visit New Books…