The Anthropology of Everyday Life
by
Meredith F. Small
Meredith Small is an anthropologist, science journalist, writer, and educator.
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LATEST ANTHRO SNIPPET:
Dutch Return ‘Java Man’ Bones, With 40,000 Fossils Set to Follow…..
Repatriation is happening all over. A new announcement in the Ny Times says 40,000 fossils (pieces of bones) of Homo erectus (our ancient ancestor from about 700,000 to 1.5 million years old) are being returned to Indonesia, where they were uncovered 130 years ago by the Dutch scientist Eugene DuBois. But the hard work of digging them up and preserving them was done by Indonesians. H. erectus was the first hominin to leave Africa and spread out across the world. And now they get to go home.
ANOTHER ANTHRO SNIPPET:
Thirty-year photography project visually demonstrates that humans often dress alike, unconsciously aligning with others based not on our genes or ethnicity, but by clothing style choice. We are joiners.
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Here’s latest news in anthropology, covering everything from human paleontology, primatology, archaeology, and the behavior of people across cultures. And be sure and check out the latest blog post.
Upcoming Books by Meredith Small:
Coming June 6, 20206, and now on Amazon for preorder: The first of three volumes of essays and journalism from Meredith F. Small published by the American Philosophical Society: How We Think: The Hidden Life of Everyday Ideas
“A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration about how humans, as a species and as individuals, think about the world and themselves, How We Think presents essays about research, questions the way humans use their minds, and considers how that information informs each of us about ourselves. This is a book for everyone―for those interested in anthropology and human behavior and the “big questions” about who we are. How We Think takes the anthropological view about the human thought process, a view that is both evolutionarily deep and widely cross-cultural, always focusing on what makes humans so different from each other, although we are also universally so much alike.” (from Amazon)
