Monthly Archives: September 2008

“Does she really think dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago?”

Posted on September 28, 2008 by cfeagans

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 … Continue reading →

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Seeing is Believing? ABC interviewed Palin -now they’re on to UFOs

Posted on September 16, 2008 by cfeagans

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 … Continue reading →

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Four Stone Hearth #49

Posted on September 10, 2008 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Last Chance! Call for Submissions

Posted on September 9, 2008 by admin

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

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Stolen & Looted: $5-6 Billion in Stolen Artifacts?

Posted on September 8, 2008 by cfeagans

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 … Continue reading →

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Call for Submissions: The Four Stone Hearth

Posted on September 6, 2008 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Reviewing an Ethnography

Posted on September 6, 2008 by cfeagans

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 … Continue reading →

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