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It is surprising that this is regarded as a novel discovery because they have been finding remains that were dated to 10,000BC in the basin for years now. For example, in 2013, a shell midden was found that dated to the same time period as the grave above in the Bolivian range of the Amazon. The amount of fossils don't just suggest a small human population. It suggests a very large one that subsisted on freshwater snails. But the continuous wave of evidence that civilization is much older in South America has been dismissed or ignored. The domestication of the potato was estimated to be as old as 13,000ya yet we continuously see archaeologists walking that back because it conflicts with the known discovery of agriculture in the West.

It is odd that the early archaeologists of the Amazon Basin originally claimed that the inhabitants of the Basin were recently arrived hunter gatherers. Underneath their feet was a highly cultivated fertilizer. Beneath the jungle stretched ruins of a vast and ancient civilization.

It's almost as if even the most educated among us are just as susceptible to cognitive bias and preconceived notions as the least educated. Can you imagine what a highly educated racial supremacist would have to say about the ruins today? It would be similar to what they said in the 1800s.

This problem is not as simple as this article suggests.

There are studies that show that allowing a child to get their way some of the time helps them develop their sense of power and independence, which is very healthy for an adult in a free-market (as opposed to an adult in an agrarian society). Simply having a completely controlled environment with hard and fast rules does not allow a child to develop negotiating skills and how to compromise.

Having hard and fast rules, or letting a child always do what they want are both forms of lazy parenting, they both allow the parent to not have to be aware of what their child is doing. It is much harder to have rules that are consistent yet also flexible when genuine effort is made and to also sort out the mess when they are learning (such as the garbage on the lawn).

Studies also show that rewarding effort is much better than awarding success and it is easy to see how hard it is to parent children in the best of ways; awarding effort takes much more attention than success as you have to weed out when they are faking trying, which takes conscious attention.

I don't have time to dig out full sources just now, but Nurture Shock is a good place to start.

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A role for microchimerism in obesity and evolution?

> Here we propose that microchimerism may play a more fundamental role in health and evolution by setting a limit to genomic variability within populations. This means that microchimerism allows immune recognition of genomic differences between donor and host which may, depending on the level of variability, cause chronic inflammation. Since chronic inflammation has been experimentally linked to metabolic syndrome, we propose that genomic variability could affect the individual’s weight. Thus, metabolic syndrome, which is a growing health problem, may not only result from our lifestyle, but in part be caused by global migration and the increasingly diverse origin of the present human population.

I know what Rumsfeld is talking about and it does not have much to do what you are talking about. I have worked on the issue that Rumsfeld described terribly for some time (I am an econ phd student, who once was interested in these kind of partitional informational structures). What Rumsfeld is talking about the issue of awareness (the known knowns, unknown unknowns, known unknowns). You can't stretch an unknown that you know, you are already aware of it and for the unknowns you don't know, there is nothing you can do. You are not aware of them.

You are making a speculation, and selectively looking for proofs from highly dubious sources. You can find only the questions from this methods (is there a connection between the findings from these genetic studies and myths), but you are in return presenting as myths as semi-proofs. It is as if I see a correlation between the number of gophers in an area and economic contraction, then I raise some questions "is there a connection", then I say "yes, the proof is the correlation I see".

The Y chromosome is passed along from father to son virtually unchanged except for the occasional mutation. Similarly, the mitochondrial DNA is passed along from mother to child virtually unchanged except for the occasional mutation.

These two aspects of your DNA are inherited from a single ancestral line. Out of your 64 great-great-great-great grandparents, you inherited your Y chromosome from one of them and your mitochondrial DNA from one of them. This means that your mitochondrial/Y DNA isn't really a great predictor of your overall ancestry because it's such a small sample.

On the other hand, your autosomal DNA comes from all your ancestral lines. So you're likely to get a better picture of your overall ancestry when analyzing your autosomal DNA.

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Hard to get through the snarky beginning to get to anything useful.

> The anthropologist Bruce Latimer has pointed out that the fastest human being on the planet can’t catch up to your average rabbit.

As a kid, I've personally watched an Apache neighbor chase down and simply grab wild rabbits. Then there's persistence hunting. While we're not outstandingly fast, humans certainly have endurance.

Bryn Mawr specifically has a Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology grad program as well as a Middle Eastern Studies Program. Remember though that "good" is subjective, personal, and hard to rank. Rather than ask online, you will have better luck googling around and looking at academia.edu for authors you like to familiarize yourself with their work, ask about it, and ask their advice.

Remember also that no department would have a committee just of Bronze Age Arabian Peninsula specialists, nor would you want your work to only interest people in that specialty. You'll want a specialist on your committee for sure, but that person could easily be from outside your department if you have a strong relationship with them. So also look to researchers in departments without grad programs as well as scout around grad programs with say strong Middle Eastern and archaeology researchers! And of course good funding, track records, and all that. Best of luck!

I recommend Against the Grain: A deep history of the earliest states. By James C. Scott. You'll learn what archaeologists know about these questions, how they figure it out, what the evidence is, and so on. Here's the link to the Amazon listing.

/u/brigantus provides a very good answer in this thread that corresponds pretty closely to this book. As far as I know, there is no competing theory, although the experts still debate some of the details.

That's one possible etymology for 'Iraq'. See also Wikipedia. I don't know if there's any scholarly consensus on which etymology is most likely.

Fernando Ortiz's 1929 Los Afrocubanos Dientimellados about that topic among Cubans of African descent is also available in English

I definitely agree with you.

When it comes to the case of hut, the author says:

> But this was a story in which the family's poverty was the central focus — one in which I was featuring their own detailed account of the deprivations they had suffered and the steps they had taken to surmount those circumstances. So to describe their dwelling with a word that purposefully obscured the reality of their poverty would have seemed far more disrespectful — as if their straitened circumstances were somehow shameful, something to be hidden, rather than a simple, and frankly unjust fact of their life.

Even more disrespectful is conveying ideas and images that do not reflect reality: mud and sticks. Scroll down to the 4th and 7th picture and you can see what their home looks like:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/09/542357298/cash-handouts-could-solve-poverty-but-theres-a-catch

Their home is obviously well kept and respectable. Living sustainable is more admirable than living in an extravagant way of waste and pollution. The author seems to be falling in the same trap as so many others by measuring everything by western standards. The entire article seems to be a justification of the usage of the word hut where it was obviously misplaced.

Look at google scholar, and see who is citing Second Life Its kind of the bible for this stream of stuff. Here

Just did it and holy fuck someone wrote a book on WoW. Fucking hell anthropology, fucking hell. My Life As a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft By Bonnie Nardi

Not just your take! There's a mountain of literature on this—Trigger's classic History of Archaeological Thought in archaeology, and even more in history of science and science and technology studies. Objectivity, for example, has not always been what we think it is today. Folks are free to disagree, but the weight of historical evidence is not in favor of those who pretend at objectivity.

I think The Art of War in World History by Chailand, and Transnational Studies in general would be good reading for you. Documents of US Indian Policy by Prucha, and Like a Hurricane were also informative for me on the topic of peace. Obviously that's more of a historical perspective, but I gained a lot by integrating anthropological and historical resources throughout my studies.

Anthropology undergraduate student here, I can confirm that The Affluent Society appeared very early on in the course (Sahlins in general does, altough if I ever have to deal with the death of Captain Cook again shits gonna get real)

I'm both very happy and surprised to find this is in this subreddit.

If you found the video interested, I highly suggest you read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" and the first half of "What do you Care what Other People Think" (the second half is about his working with NASA over the Challenger disaster.) They're pretty short and you get into the head of one of the greatest minds in history. Perhaps the most interesting person in history in my opinion.

23 year old Anthropology (social/cultural) student at BYU

I first became aware that Anthropology was a thing when a friend of mine informed me that it was her major. I converted (I was an Arabic major previously) after watching Wade Davis' TED talks.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/wade_davis_on_the_worldwide_web_of_belief_and_ritual.html

Afterwards I read his books (I cannot recommend The Wayfinders enough.) , and now I'm looking to do some fieldwork of my own in central mexico (with the Nahua) this coming spring/summer.

I direct you to the work of Michel Agier. Here's his article on refugee camps:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249730364_Between_War_and_CityTowards_an_Urban_Anthropology_of_Refugee_Camps

Seth Holmes's recent ethnography of migrant farmworkers, "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies," is probably a good entry point on the topic of immigration.

I wrote an article a few years ago on the cremation of infants:

https://www.academia.edu/6410956/Jæger_J._H._and_Johansen_V._L._2014_The_cremation_of_infants_small_children_an_archaeological_experiment_concerning_the_effects_of_fire_on_bone_weight

While it doesn’t primarily concern emotional responses to child deaths it touches a bit on the subject on different burial customs between infants and adults.

https://medium.com/@publicanthro/academia-and-the-people-without-jobs-c7e503f3bbc3

Relevant. I included this in my post on this thread, but I don't know if you'll see it. This guy knows.

It really is not self-sustaining for the discipline, and academia as a whole, to treat its students as revenue and cheap (slave) labour.

I use IfTTT (If This Then That) but there are many websites to choose from that are geared specifically to Kindles or other e-ink devices.

Here are some of the more popular websites for Kindles:

kindlefeeder.com , kindle4rss.com , sendtoreader.com

The Moche were among the prehistoric gold metallurgists of the Americas. Play around with Google Scholar and you'll find several resources!

This might sound trite, but seriously consider Khan Academy. They've added a very slick visualization and grading system, so you can progress through various exercises in math. There's also a strong collection of lecture videos that are cross-linked with the exercises, in case you get stuck.

Personally, I've been overwhelmed with how effective these courses are. This is a project to watch!

I love to geocache! The whole enterprise is basically a giant treasure hunt, and the hunt for caches has taken me to multiple historic locations (Pueblo ruins, old springs, ghost towns, hidden cemeteries, etc.) or taught me something new about the history of the area. They even have apps so you can geocache using your iPhone. Give it a try!

Why not choose some aspect of anthropology both you and your teacher consider relevant, then select one of Yale philosopher Shelly Kagan's topics from his lectures on death and base your paper on Kagan's observations as they may or may not apply to the anthropological interests you and your prof share?

Conformity and conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology by James Spradley and David McCurdy and Cultural anthropology by Barbara Miller.

I don't believe the article was based on a book. The author of the book also has a book called Extreme Metal, which you can find on Amazon, but I think it's a matter of him being contracted to write this article based on having written about metal around the world in the past, not that his book specifically covered Botswanan heavy metal.

Transition Magazine did an interview with the photojournalist who compiled this project which is titled "Visions of Renegades", you can find it on JSTOR or a few other databases, though it doesn't appear to have much more info than what's contained in the linked article.

There's also an article called Headbanging in Nairobi which my university doesn't appear to have access to, but it's in a journal called Metal Music Studies, which might be worth search through if you have access to it.

It should be noted that technology isn't the only place you can apply anthropology skills, you can also do the same for processes and physical objects as well. Here's a great video by Vox showcasing one of the thought leaders in my field, Don Norman, and talking a bit more about human centered design: https://www.facebook.com/Vox/videos/651251625062443/

I would highly recommend his book "The Design of Everyday Things" if this is a topic that interests you. It ends up being required reading in most HCI/HCD programs, along with the book "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug.

You clearly have not studied indigenous history and culture.

The oral history of the Anishinaabe, for example, contains clear lessons on land stewardship throughout their very complex anthology of myths and stories. Their very worldview held nature to the divine-as a mother that should never be sold or owned, but rather respected and protected for the benefit of all. The term "all our relations" is often used in reference to the land itself. Anishinaabe culture absolutely goes against the colonialist view that nature is a resource to exploit. For more on this, I suggest you read Ojibwa Heritage and Braiding Sweetgrass

Autism: The Eusocial Hominid Hypothesis

> ASDs (autism spectrum disorders) are hypothesized as one of many adaptive human cognitive variations that have been maintained in modern populations via multiple genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Introgression from "archaic" hominids (adapted for less demanding social environments) is conjectured as the source of initial intraspecific heterogeneity because strict inclusive fitness does not adequately model the evolution of distinct, copy-number sensitive phenotypes within a freely reproducing population.

> Evidence is given of divergent encephalization and brain organization in the Neanderthal (including a ~1520 cc cranial capacity, larger than that of modern humans) to explain the origin of the autism subgroup characterized by abnormal brain growth.

> Autism and immune dysfunction are frequently comorbid. This supports an admixture model in light of the recent discovery that MHC alleles (genes linked to immune function, mate selection, neuronal "pruning," etc.) found in most modern human populations come from "archaic" hominids.

> Mitochondrial dysfunction, differential fetal androgen exposure, lung abnormalities, and hypomethylation/CNV due to hybridization are also presented as evidence.

I have a tool similar to this one. No idea why it's so expensive here. It's basically a plastic handle with a small bearing attached to a collapsible metal antenna from an old radio.

I was taught how to use it during field camp by my professors. They took us out to a parking lot that had various sewer lines and electrical pipes underneath it. They showed us how to use ground penetrating radar, science grade metal detectors, and various other instruments including a simple dowser.

There really isn't much to it. Just hold the device so the rod is parallel to the ground and can swing freely and walk in a grid pattern. When you pass over an magnetic anomaly, the rod will swing to be parallel to the direction of the disruption. Buried metal gets the strongest reaction, followed by subsurface voids like concrete pipes. Filled in holes that are newer react more strongly than older ones which have compacted to more closely match the density of the surrounding sinstrate.

It's a pretty coarse tool obviously, but useful for locating areas of interest to further inspect using more advanced instruments. Since I did environmental sampling with a drill rig, it was extremely useful for me to avoid obstructions that weren't marked by utility locate services like water sprinkler systems, drainage pipes or underground storage tank supply lines.

This is a great recent article regarding mtDNA and nuclear DNA, it's pretty much a summary of recent work that's been done and remaining controversies. Short, easy to understand, and a good place to start:

Chuan-Chao Wang, Sara E. Farina, Hui Li, Neanderthal DNA and modern human origins, Quaternary International, Available online 21 February 2012, ISSN 1040-6182, 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.027. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618212001085)

Good luck! (and remember for when you're writing: Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis - no capitals on the second word)

I wouldn't deny there are always social and cultural factors at work as well, but to say "ancestry only plays a small part in athletic ability" is not true when you're dealing with the top athletes in the world, and any minor advantage may be the difference between winning and losing.

> Swimming in the US is a good example as many African Americans were denied access to swimming pools in the past which has indirectly been carried down to future generations through lack of education to children as well as well as urban planning denying geographic access to pools and swimming areas over decades.

Swimming is a bad example to pick because differences in center of mass affect swimming ability, and people with African ancestry have a higher center of mass than people with Eurasian ancestry (which hurts in swimming but helps in running).

See: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268060016_The_evolution_of_speed_in_athletics_Why_the_fastest_runners_are_black_and_swimmers_white

>Figure skating is prohibitively expensive for all but the most dedicated skaters with families who can scrape up enough money for lessons and training. That's even if there's a rink in a local region if in a specific country at all.

This is a good example, and I agree with you here, but I would also say that figure skating has less to do with pure athletic ability than distance running or swimming does, since a substantial portion of the scoring system revolves around style. Same with something like diving.

Edit: I think we're talking past each other a bit, though. My post was about the affect of ancestry when it comes to the top athletes competing at the Olympics. I don't disagree with you regarding the importance of cultural factors more generally, but when you're talking about the top athletes in the world ancestry plays a big role.

When you come across a pay-walled article add this to the front of the URL: https://www.lib.umn.edu/log.phtml?url=

If you use Chrome there's a plugin that does it for you.

> "Feminized male" seems more like a cultural description than a biological.

Nope. Fetal androgen exposure falls on a spectrum, and correlates with innate sexual orientation. If you'd like I can provide you with literature to support this.

> While it could be efficient shorthand for what you are trying to describe

No. Feminization (sometimes called "hypomasculinization") is not shorthand. It's a term used in biology.

Here is some entertaining science:

Relative Lengths of Fingers and Toes in Human Males and Females (Dec 2002)

> nonheterosexual males have previously been reported to be hypomasculinized for throwing accuracy and hand strength (Hall and Kimura, 1995) and hypermasculinized for penis length (Bogaert and Hershberger, 1999) and certain auditory evoked potentials (McFadden and Champlin, 2000).

Cal (UC Berkeley), UCLA, & University of Michigan have some of the best anthropology departments in the U.S.

eHow states that Stony Brook, University of Michigan, & University of Chicago are top contenders as well.

I just came across this - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110995.Before_the_Dawn

Seems like an opposing argument to GGS but no reason to think it is more accepted.

This article by Louise Lamphere, "Bringing the Family to Work: Women's Culture on the Shop Floor" could be interesting. It's about the social organization of the workers within the plant in relation to the management, and looks at ethnic and gender tensions in its analysis.

This article by Carla Freeman, "Femininity and Flexible Labor: Fashioning Class through Gender on the Global Assembly Line" also touches upon organization in the work place.

i don't know any sources specifically for this topic. but here's a couple general-use starting places.

i find that Google Scholar is usually a good starting place for names and articles.

also, Wikipedia is a good jumping-off point for new research topics, and for offering citations at the bottom of the page.

I am sorry if I sounded rude. I recommend On the origins of extractive metallurgy: new evidence from Europe, and Early Copper Metallurgy on the West Black Sea Coast Archaeological Evidence on Prehistoric Exploitation of the Rosen Ore Field. It's also important to define metallurgy, because some authors accept heat treatment as metallurgy, some think smelting is required.

Additionally, Hunt and his colleagues have a new paper out on the lithics of Easter Island and the implications for warfare. Even at a first glance, I'm not sure how a lithic analyst could conclude that these were incredibly effective weapons of war.

DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All

> The downside of archaic immune material is that it may be responsible for autoimmune diseases like diabetes, arthritis and multiple sclerosis, Dr. Parham said, stressing that these are preliminary results.

Two books I've come across in different aisles of life:

<em>Food and Culture: A Reader</em> - I used essays from this in my first-year comp classes.

<em>Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women</em> - a friend who is a divinity scholar recommended this to me. Apparently it's well-respected in church studies. I never read it, though.

Atlas.ti is pretty popular, but it doesn't feel very user-friendly to me. Another one (with a dedicated Mac version!) is at [Maxqda](www.maxqda.com). A new one I've heard good things about is kept all in the cloud, which appeals to me. It's called Dedoose

I did mine on how the rise in witchcraft in Tanzania led to albinos getting murdered for their supposed magical body parts. It's a very current, interesting issue with lots of sources! Check out this paper from this year.

Not in the sense that is was filled with cash, but the large gold and ivory parts of the Athena Parthenos statue could be (and IIRC was) sold to finance Athenian enterprises.

http://www.ancient.eu/article/785/

Absolutely, "performance studies" is the umbrella for a lot of related theories and ideas for understanding how and why humans do things in social settings (and how systems of education, rehearsal, and interpretation help create meaning).

There's a pretty excellent edited volume that goes from the earliest performance studies stuff to much more complex post-structural versions:

Bial, Henry. 2004. The performance studies reader. London: Routledge. http://www.worldcat.org/title/performance-studies-reader/oclc/51848407&amp;referer=brief_results

This reader covers some of the biggies like Erving Goffman (who wrote an excellent book on social performance called The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) and Victor Turner. But also important people like Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler (my personal favorite, but she has the , deserved or undeserved, reputation for being a difficult author to wrap your head around).

This reader was one of the texts we used in my grad seminar on Performance, Narrative, Identity, so it comes with the academic seal of approval. This will give you the chance to get some of the basics of the approach and see if it helps you disentangle some of the issues you're facing. Then you can use the bibliographies in the reader as a jumping off point for further work.

Good luck!

Probabilistic belief systems are well defined in philosophy and computer science. Keywords that latch onto the conceptual manifold include Markov models, Bayesianism, and pgm. The connection between these theories and anthropology is less clear to me.

So, I'm bored and tequila'd and this struck me as funny, so I went ahead and threw together a kind of fugly clovis point cursor file for windows using the stock image from Wikipedia to use as a mouse pointer if you'd like. You can grab it here: http://www.filedropper.com/clovispoint

Some scholars like Harvard Professor Michael Frazer actually argue that wasn't quite what Nietzsche was saying (see his article <em>The Compassion of Zarathustra: Nietzsche on Sympathy and Strength</em>.) But plenty of people have interpreted him that way and there is certainly a line of thought that compassion is equal to pity, which holds people back.

Of course in an anthro sub it is worth pointing out that it is obvious that this isn't only a Christian philosophy and therefore compassion hasn't exactly been imposed by the West on other cultures. Clearly Buddhism, for example, developed a philosophy of compassion independent of Christianity and that spread all over East Asia. Unlike Nietzsche, Siddhārtha Gautama argued that the way of dealing with suffering was in many ways compassion albeit a compassion without attachment.

The absence relates to the pre-Juvenilis group, i.e. under 15 years. It should be noted that it is individual children's burials which are generally lacking, and quite a few infants and children have been found in multiple burials along with adults:

https://www.academia.edu/5275216/Multiple_Burials_And_The_Question_of_Celtic_Suttee

This logically undermines the theory that children's remains were treated with less respect than those of older members of society, and may suggest that they were deposited in an environment which removed archaeological evidence. One obvious possibility is water/rivers.

> You're actually wrong - the machine didn't start "eating" Jews, until it was, morbidly saying, well bloodied - including by a lot of those who were considered to be criminal or "distasteful" in the public eye

Well after WWI many blamed the jewish people for loosing the war, anti-semitism was pretty common in europe, so I don't think your statement contradicts what I was saying. My point was, that the concentration camps were very similar to the ones at the US border nowadays; I didn't mean that they started out as death camps targeted at jewish people.

> As for emigration - most of the first wave of the Soviet Jews emigrated to the Baltics or Poland

People who went further, were imprisoned at the german border tho: You mentioned you like to read; this book is about emigrating east-european jews. Many of them tried to get to the US and UK, but the countries were actually pretty anti-semitic to and didn't give many a chance (to contrast it, after WWI there were approximalty 10mio jews fleeing across europe, trying to find asylum; it's called Fleeing, Unwanted and Deported: East European Jews in the Republic Baden 1918-1923 (Baden being a German state)

Kets are basically just mixtures of ANE with extra "Yakut" Siberian, same with the Selkups. Only the Selkups speak a Uralic language, and thus have an appreciable amount of Y haplogroup N (as well as R through contact with Indoeuropeans)

They don't really predate anyone any more than Cambodians or Greeks do.

They have an insanely high proportion of Y haplogroup Q, which is highly related to R, the latter which was also found in ANE samples (notably Mal'ta Boy). Both are basically subgroups of haplogroup P, which has also been found around Lake Baikal like Mal'ta Boy.

Haplogroup P/R/Q all have a very strong link with eastern Siberia. The ANE population itself has strong autosomal links to Indians, Siberians, Americans, Europeans, and possibly Caucasians. I'm of course talking about the "pure" peoples, not the modern mixed peoples who exist today.

As the male PRQ lines migrated west into Central Asia/Europe, so did their languages, including Yeneiseian and Indoeuropean.

For introductory reading, you may enjoy The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us What We Are. There's a review here

I'm trying to think back to my economic anthropology subjects. How much do you know about money? Learning about money from a basic economic perspective might be a great place to start if you're starting green.

Once you understand how money is created and how it gets it's value then you can start looking at it as a means of exchange, a store of value or a symbol, and in relation to other things.

When you're ready for some heavier reading, read some excerpts from Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'. 'The Gift' by Mauss is a classic on exchange and reciprocity.

'The Devil And Commodity Fetishism' by Taussig is also fascinating and looks at people who make deals with the devil to secure money in the future.

You could also look up about cargo cults (search John Frumm Cargo Cult) to give another perspective on commodities, where they come from, how they get their value, and what rationality really is, etc.

Also search for a video about Freeganism on YouTube. It looks at commodities in terms of exchange value vs use value in capitalist systems and is about a bunch of people reclaiming the use value of items that are seen as worthless by the market.

There's also "Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3rd Edition". It was required reading for two of my classes.

https://www.amazon.com/Cengage-Advantage-Books-Introduction-Anthropology/dp/1285738519/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1512613557&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=culture+counts

The biological anthropologist Helen Fisher has a book that gives the "natural history of mating" among other things.

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families is a great read about tribalism and the causes and events of the Rwandan Genocide. Long title but great book.

So for my undergrad thesis, I studied the correlates between hemochromatosis and multiple sclerosis from an anthropological lens, and basically spent two semesters writing a 50 page literature review on the topic. I think undergrad theses should stick to a literature review, as if you want to carry that research on into your masters you have a strong base to work with, and if not you have done serious research into a topic, giving you a plethora of skills that can be transferred into any masters, regardless if that masters is thesis or course based.

Also, based on what you're interested in, check this book out. I read it for a class, and I think it would connect really well with what you are looking to do.

Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0199797080/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_uqNAyb0JRT5N4

I use a Sony A5000 (which has sexier siblings, like the A6000, but this is the one I have), which I picked up for about $300 (refurb, but new ones are quite affordable too).

The Sony E-mount feels solid and there is a good array of lenses. I got it with a 16-50mm lense.

I've been extremely happy with it. It feels robust, and it is -very- compact and have not had problems with battery life. With a small tripod it will also do alright video for interviews, which I've used for consumer research stuff.

Plus: Portability, affordability, but definitely a strong important on point and shoots in terms of picture quality. Very well reviewed, too.

I carry it in a case like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zenness-Protective-Leather-Camera-16-50mm/dp/B00P0GGJUO/

Hope this helps!

The bro force has come out to defend this fetishization.

If you want to take the academic/intellectual high road then at least read Edward Said's Orientalism to understand why people are criticizing this post. The crux of his argument is every bit as applicable here.

I was talking more about books that could support this type of "evidences". https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Africa_ethnic_groups_1996.jpg

I searched amazon but i only found this: https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Groups-Africa-Middle-East/dp/1598843621 which is WAY expensive.

I majored in cultural anthropology in college. My absolute favorite class was Medical Anthropology. This book I kept, still a very interesting read: http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Mental-Illness-Client-Centered-Approach/dp/0534345581

things mentioned in the writings: the release of the waters, the ancient and now dry rivers, temples offshore. all of these things that point to writing of things that happened before and during the last glacial maximum and the very rapid rise in sea level when ice dams broke during the glacial meltdown.

link: http://www.amazon.com/Underworld-Mysterious-Civilization-Graham-Hancock/dp/1400049512/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1447847522&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=underworld

Just at first glance, it looks like The Anthropology of Sex would be a good resource:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Anthropology-Sex-Hastings-Donnan/dp/1845201132

In terms of a general introductory text, I would suggest picking an interesting ethnography geared towards the public. Mama Lola by Karen McCarthy Brown is one of my favorites and my go-to recommendation. Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes is great but may not be what you're after. Compañeras by Hillary Klein is a recent release and quite interesting. Look for something on the Na people in rural China, their practices around sex and kinship are really interesting (I can't think of a text off hand, sorry).

Man's Rise to Civilization As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525152695/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_pbsZvb4Y60XSF

Peter Farb wrote about many of the Native American cultures that existed before the White man conquered the land. Perhaps this would be a good starting point.

With 12,000 words you're most likely going to be conducting a literature review. Don't worry about there not being enough material – there will be. Your goal should be to critically analyse material that has already been published.

You're going to have to do a bit of work. Start leafing through some work on performance and feminism, which will generate ideas. Look for a course syllabus online from a class that focuses on these topics. Find scholars who write about this and peruse their list of publications. There are plenty of shortcuts out there.

Does your school's library have this reader

I'm sure there's a section of feminist perspectives in there. Read it and then follow the references cited. Would be a great place to start.

The best advice I can give is to narrow down your topic as much as possible beforehand. This will save you loads of time in the end.

In Darkness and Secrecy deals with Amazonian witchcraft which could be considered day to day life by groups discussed.

Maybe a little different than what you're looking for, but I've really been enjoying (and learning a lot from) Global Outlaws

Thank you very much for the reference. I found the book on Amazon, even in Kindle format, which is great ! http://www.amazon.fr/Fire-History-Stephen-J-Pyne-ebook/dp/B006ORPAIU/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1_kin?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1430678273&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=fire+a+brief+history

Couple other thoughts from a practicing UX/Anthro person:

• You need to locate yourself where the action is: San Francisco, Portland, NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc. Trying to (re)start a career in a smaller city is going to be difficult.

• If possible, try and work the manufacturer side before going to agencies. The difficult truth of UX testing is that most clients see it as a "nice to have." Testing budgets tend to be the first thing that gets cut when budgets are tight. The plus side of being hired into a corporation is that the UX department are often more stable than at smaller agencies.

• As others have suggestions, interning and co-oping are great ways to start. If you are still in school, start hanging out in the IT/CS departments and seeing if there are any student projects or research labs that could use some help.

• Grab syllabi for reading lists. Also, track down a copy of "Universal Methods of Design" - http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Methods-Design-Innovative-Effective/dp/1592537561 - which will help you begin to understand the language that the industry uses. And look into "Contextual Inquiry" which is a modified form of Ethnographic research that many companies use.

I just got the ebook and it is awesome! There are also youtube presentations from Nolan regarding professionalization and how to get a non-academic job.

This book is also pretty useful, and has a list of anthropologist-seeking employers in the back. I just discovered my dream consultancy firm in there about an hour ago, actually.

Also, a work of fiction that brilliantly addresses the topics your looking to focus on is Ishmael - more than anything, it really just helps prime your mind for understanding these concepts without the clouding of our own cultural perspective.