Savage Minds is happy to welcome Lua Wilkinson as a guest blogger. Despite advances in agriculture and medicine over the last century, millions die each year as a direct result from hunger and malnutrition. While malnutrition clearly warrants the attention of the medical community, chronic hunger remains a social illness. Paradoxically, non-communicable disease is now [...]It just occurred to me that two amazing things happened in Ryan’s post about Wasting Away In Grantlandia. First, I find it sort of amazing that someone could write a post asking for advice how to apply for grants and then have the readership, which includes people who have actually doled grants out, offer advice. [...]At the weekend I saw the film Project Nim, a documentary about the chimpanzee at the center of a language learning experiment at Columbia University in the 1970s. It’s a great film for anthropologists. Not only are these misdirected intellectual endeavors an important part of the history of the discipline, the social universe portrayed in [...]
The “Bauhaus Optischer Farbmischer” (via Mabak) The title of this post comes from a 1930 article in Man which discusses the superiority of such tops over various other ways to measure skin color, such as Broca’s skin color charts. While I knew anthropologists had used Broca’s charts, I don’t recall reading about the use of [...]I just spent the last few days driving across the massive territory that is the United States via the hot, humid route known as the I-40. (The heat index in Oklahoma City was 118, by the way.) I-40 happens to be strewn with that ever interesting media known as the billboard, which got me thinking [...]