Book Review: Stories in Stone
Keister, Douglas. (2004). Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. 256 pp., ISBN: 008-2552023218 (hc). $24.99 I purchased this […]
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Book Review: Cracker: The Cracker Culture in Florida History
Ste. Claire, Dana. (2006). Cracker: The Cracker Culture in Florida History. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press. 255 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8130-3028-9 (trade paperback). $19.95 Introduction […]
The Noah’s Ark Pyramid
Noah’s Ark is one of those mythical ideas that continues to find its way in both the fringe and the mainstream media. This week, Ken […]
Book Review: The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia
The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia: Paleoenvironments, Prehistory and Genetics (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology). Michael D. Petraglia and Jeffrey I. Rose, eds. The Netherlands: […]
Review: Beyond The Hoax
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture, by Alan Sokal (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-956183-4, 465 pp. Paper $24.95. The “Hoax” in […]
Vampire Forensics: A Book to Sink Your Teeth in
Vampire Forensics presents the lore and myth of vampires with an eye for science, particularly anthropology, psychology, physiology and, more to my liking, archaeology. I […]
Robert J. Braidwood: More Than Just One Man
You can’t study prehistoric archaeology without encountering the name Robert J. Braidwood. An innovator of archaeological method and inquiry, Braidwood pioneered new ways of investigating […]
The Greatest Show on Earth has a Sneak-Peak
Richard Dawkins’ new book, The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution, is due to hit the shelves on September 22nd but he’s written […]
Czech Biologist or Ethnographer?
He’s a biologist, but from the posts I linked to below, Vojtech Novotny reads like an ethnographer. It just goes to show you, when it […]
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 […]