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Radical #Anthropology in Bethnal Green tonight
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We're doing a fun event, the day after 🌕 (Thur Nov 6) at Love Shack, on the #Moon in human origins and #Hadza lunar #cosmology

#lunarchy #humanevolution

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-full-presents-human-origins-under-the-sway-of-the-moon-tickets-1878902200059?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Victor Hugo Kebbe

@factolvictor@sciences.social · last week

Hello everyone,

Since I'm new here, I'd like to introduce myself.

My name is Victor Hugo Kebbe, and I'm a social anthropologist. My research interests include Japanese Studies, Kinship, Migration, Okinawan Shamanism, Religion, and Identity.

I'm currently teaching at the Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, and I'm engaged in several projects related to Japanese Studies Japanese institutions.

Feel free to send me a message.

#introduction #anthropology

Victor Hugo Kebbe

@factolvictor@sciences.social · last week

Hello everyone,

Since I'm new here, I'd like to introduce myself.

My name is Victor Hugo Kebbe, and I'm a social anthropologist. My research interests include Japanese Studies, Kinship, Migration, Okinawan Shamanism, Religion, and Identity.

I'm currently teaching at the Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, and I'm engaged in several projects related to Japanese Studies Japanese institutions.

Feel free to send me a message.

#introduction #anthropology

Travis F W

@travisfw@fosstodon.org · 2 weeks ago

the Italian language seems to carry this freedom of emotional expression that makes the rest of western #culture look austere.

I have just begun learning Italian and I really love it.

#sociology #Italy #anthropology

Radical Anthropology

@RadicalAnthro@c.im · 3 weeks ago

Radical #Anthropology in Bethnal Green tonight
👇👇👇

We're doing a fun event, the day after 🌕 (Thur Nov 6) at Love Shack, on the #Moon in human origins and #Hadza lunar #cosmology

#lunarchy #humanevolution

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-full-presents-human-origins-under-the-sway-of-the-moon-tickets-1878902200059?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Radical Anthropology

@RadicalAnthro@c.im · 2 months ago

Chris Knight and Camilla Power ask what can we learn from monkeys and apes about resistance to male dominance? Among machiavellian intelligent primates, just being bigger and stronger doesn’t always win. This is not only true with Old World Monkeys who have female kin bonds (eg vervets) but also unrelated female great apes such as bonobos and the highly sex size dimorphic gorillas. Critical features are strategies of ganging together, confusing males on fertility, and ability to say NO! What could that say about gender relations and conflict in our ancestry?

Everybody welcome #UCLAnthropology

#primates #greatapes #females #dominance #resistance #coalitions #evolution #humans #anthropology

Radical Anthropology

@RadicalAnthro@c.im · 2 months ago

Everybody welcome #UCLAnthropology

#primates #greatapes #females #dominance #resistance #coalitions #evolution #humans #anthropology

Megan ⚘

@meg@fediscience.org · 2 months ago

Since many people are canceling their streaming services, I can recommend a new documentary series from NOVA PBS about the origin story of Homo sapiens. It includes several recent discoveries on the different human species, as well as the impact that climate change had on our evolution.

The first episode was aired yesterday and you can watch it for free thanks to public television 💚 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjH71hmrGGQ

#Anthropology #ClimateChange #Culture #Documentary #Evolution #Science

Human: Origins | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 2 months ago

I have a friend who has been teaching anthropology as an adjunct lecturer. They're keen to get into UX, in the hopes of finding more stable employment.

Can anyone think of a way to get funding to pay them to work on #fediverse UX stuff? Ideally for a year or 2, but even a few months would be better than nothing.

TBH I'm not sure what form this might take. Ideas on that welcome to. Maybe a freely-licensed framework for doing UX reviews for decentralised networks?

#anthropology #UX #FediverseUX

calends

@calendsofapril@kolektiva.social · 2 months ago

I was raised by an anthropologist to be an anthropologist*, with all that entails.

She also raised me to be christian, I suppose, though never with much enthusiasm. And though she tried, disability and intermittent poverty meant that what science education she was able to provide was spotty.

I never told her I was an atheist. I think it's possible she was one, too.

When I was a young college student in the 1990s, I encountered postmodernism. I flirted with it. It was seductive. A professor I respected warned me to be careful with it. I was.

When I was a young mother in the 1990s and into the new millennium, I scoured every children's book purporting to be about science before I brought it home. Creationism was seeping into the world my children inhabited.

The resurgence of creationism in education in the 2000s—and the resistance to it—became one of the defining cultural battles to play out during my young adulthood.

I thought I understood where the resurgence came from. I had, to my horror, brushed up against reactionary christianity as a teenager. I had seen these people in their own environment. So I thought I could see the bulk of the iceberg under the wedge at the surface.

But what I was able to see didn't quite explain the anti-vaxxers.

That particular branch of anti-science sentiment was as likely to be embraced by "progressive" hippy homesteaders as reactionary christian natalists. Where did the anti-vaxxers come from?

What lead to denial of reality across the political spectra?

I did not know about the science wars in the 1990s. I did not know the role postmodernism played in driving anti-science sentiment on the right. I want to understand.

I'm reading Did the Science Wars Take Place? by William Gillis @rechelon . There are pieces missing in my understanding, and I want to slot them in. I want to understand the whole. Reading this book is part of that.

I'm going to share quotes and thoughts as I make my way through the book. You're welcome to join me. Scroll down in the linked thread. Let's try to work this one out.

Here's the thread: https://kolektiva.social/@calendsofapril/115169983053251178

*I am not an anthropologist. By the standards of the academy, I am not anything. I am an anarchist.

#realism #postmodernism #creationism #anthropology #anarchism #theory #amReading #reflections

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MetaFilter

@metafilter@mefi.social · 3 months ago

One of the best things about MetaFilter is that you never know who might show up in a thread. And when someone who really knows their stuff drops in, the whole conversation just gets better.

So check out this insights in social media & LLMs, Transocial roles and anthropology, and memories of the arly online service Quantum Link (back to the '80s)

https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/08/-Social-Media-LLMs-Anthropology-Trans-Social-Roles-Quantum-Link-Nostalgia

#trans #anthropology #socialmeida #llm #quantumlink #bestofmetafilter

MetaFilter

@metafilter@mefi.social · 3 months ago

One of the best things about MetaFilter is that you never know who might show up in a thread. And when someone who really knows their stuff drops in, the whole conversation just gets better.

So check out this insights in social media & LLMs, Transocial roles and anthropology, and memories of the arly online service Quantum Link (back to the '80s)

https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/08/-Social-Media-LLMs-Anthropology-Trans-Social-Roles-Quantum-Link-Nostalgia

#trans #anthropology #socialmeida #llm #quantumlink #bestofmetafilter

Tuomas Tammisto

@tutam@fediscience.org · 10 months ago

Dearest Fediverse (and apologies for the absence),

my book "Hard Work: Producing places, relations and value on a Papua New Guinea resource frontier" was just recently published in full digital open access. (Print-on-demand and oa epub out soon!)

https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-29/

"Hard Work explores the complexities of natural resource extraction, looking at both large-scale processes and personal human-environment interactions. It combines a political ecology focus on the connection between environmental issues and power relations with a focus on how value is produced, represented, and materialized."

#OpenAccess #anthropology #PoliticalEcology #PapuaNewGuinea #NaturalResources #LandUse #SwiddenHorticulture #logging #OilPalm

@anthropology

Hard Work | Helsinki University PressWikipediaWikidataWikipediaWikidataWikipediaWikidataWikipediaWikidataWikipediaWikidataWikipediaWikidata

For the Mengen people of Papua New Guinea, ‘hard work’ does not refer to drudgery or physically exhausting labour. Instead, it involves creating and recreating social relations through acts of care, marriages, ceremonial events, sharing, and working the land together. ‘Work’ as the Mengen see it, produces value understood as meaningful social relations. This differs significantly from the way colonial officials, loggers, and planters perceived value.

Hard Work examines human-environmental relations, value production, natural resource extraction, and state formation within the context of the Mengen. It delves into how the Mengen engage with their land and outside actors like companies, NGOs, and the state through agriculture, logging, plantation labour, and environmental conservation. These practices have shaped the Mengen’s lived environment, while also sparking debates on what is considered valuable and how value is created.

Tammisto’s monograph explores the complexities of natural resource extraction, looking at both large-scale processes and personal human-environment interactions. It combines a political ecology focus on the connection between environmental issues and power relations with a focus on how value is produced, represented, and materialized.

Tuomas Tammisto is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in political ecology. He currently works as an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampere University.

This book has received support from the Kone Foundation.

“The fate of tropical rainforests is a paramount global concern, and this is one of the best books yet written about how indigenous people themselves think about logging, plantations, and conservation as possibilities for their environment. Tammisto is uniquely skilled at synthesizing the anthropological tradition of meaning-focused analysis of space and landscape with scholarship on the political economy and ecology of resource extraction. Above all, he has done hard, valuable work of listening to Mengen people’s own accounts of their lives, and he describes with dignity and richness the varied approaches different community members take to futures of land and livelihood currently open to them.”

- Rupert Stasch, Professor, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

*****

“Meticulously researched and lucidly written, Hard Work uncovers the multiplicitous meanings and manifestations of work among the Mengen of Papua New Guinea. The book offers an innovative and timely theory of value understood through the lens of production, demonstrating through thick ethnography how work generates people, places, and relations that encompass yet also vastly transcend human worlds. At the same time, Hard Work usefully situates its findings against the growing encroachments of capitalist projects – agriculture, logging, and plantation labor–to identify how value itself becomes a site of struggle across differently positioned subjects on an extractive frontier. A true labor of care and creativity, this ethnography promises to become a landmark work in environmental anthropology, political ecology, and Pacific studies. It is also a powerful invitation for those both within and beyond academia to take seriously the value of hard work in making more livable, shared, and more-than-human futures possible.”

- Dr Sophie Chao, University of Sydney

Cover of the book "Hard Work". The cover is a photograph showing a foggy tropical river valley. On the foreground on the left stands a Papua New Guinean woman with her back to the camera holding a food basket on her head and walking staff in her right hand looking at the valley. The woman stands in tropical garden and in front of her are banana plants. On right, a bit further from the camera is a tall tree standing in the garden. In the background are forested mountain slopes.

On the top of the cover is the name of the author, "Tuomas Tammisto". Below it is the title of the book: "Hard Work: Producing places, relations and value on a Papua New Guinea resource frontier". On the bottom left is the name of the publisher: "HUP Helsinki University Press". — Cover of the book "Hard Work". The cover is a photograph showing a foggy tropical river valley. On the foreground on the left stands a Papua New Guinean woman with her back to the camera holding a food basket on her head and walking staff in her right hand looking at the valley. The woman stands in tropical garden and in front of her are banana plants. On right, a bit further from the camera is a tall tree standing in the garden. In the background are forested mountain slopes. On the top of the cover is the name of the author, "Tuomas Tammisto". Below it is the title of the book: "Hard Work: Producing places, relations and value on a Papua New Guinea resource frontier". On the bottom left is the name of the publisher: "HUP Helsinki University Press".

Human: Origins | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

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