Archive for September, 2008
“Does she really think dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago?”
Matt Damon on Sarah Palin. Regardless of what you think about celebraties using their notoriety to make political statements, I think Matt Damon nails her.
So to speak.
Sorry about the political post -I don’t usually stray that way, but I *do* write here about skeptical topics and Palin and her narrow-minded beliefs on the age of [...]
Seeing is Believing? ABC interviewed Palin -now they’re on to UFOs
Back in 2005, ABC’s Primetime aired a special on UFOs.
Tonight, they aired another special -same topic; same title.
There’s a companion website, Could So Many UFO Witnesses Be Right?
The very title of the site reveals an appeal to popularity, but the question is still one that probably seems intuitive to most people. Obviously the term UFO [...]
Four Stone Hearth #49
Welcome to the 49th edition of the Four Stone Hearth, a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word. Here, anthropology is the study of humankind, throughout all times and places, focusing primarily on four lines of research:
archaeology
socio-cultural anthropology
bio-physical anthropology
linguistic anthropology
Each one of these subfields is a stone in [...]
Last Chance! Call for Submissions
The Four Stone Hearth is tomorrow and I’d like to have it posted on time, so if you have any late submissions please get them to me no later than 11pm CST to cfeagans@ahotcupofjoe.net
Stolen & Looted: $5-6 Billion in Stolen Artifacts?
This is part of an on-going series dealing with the theft, sale, and trade of artifacts and archaeological finds that are abruptly removed from their contexts, destroying valuable data that can be gleaned and sold to the highest bidder for profit at the expense of ever improving our understanding of cultural heritage and history.
S. Heather [...]
Call for Submissions: The Four Stone Hearth
The next edition of the Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival will be hosted here at A Hot Cup of Joe on Sept. 10th, 2008. Please send your submissions to cfeagans@ahotcupofjoe.net by Tuesday, Sept. 9th.
The Fourth Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word. Here, anthropology [...]
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Reviewing an Ethnography
I recently had the pleasure of reading Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, an ethnography done in an experimental style just at the end of World War II in 1946. Benedict studied anthropology under Franz Boas and was the friend (and lover, I believe) of Margaret Mead. There’s plenty I could go one to [...]
