Ethnography.com: Gene Promoters 3: Tony Strikes Back
Ok, I think I will jump into Michael’s stream. I have a problem with the reductionism of geneticists, evolutionary psychologists, socio-biology, etc., too. And I’m also annoyed when such types go...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Human Genetics and Social Theories
It has been a lively week on this blog. “DAD” and Razib Khan have challenged our (Michael Scroggins and myself) basic competency to discuss genetics and race/intelligence/etc. We have responded with...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Gene Promoters 4: Attack of The Armchair Scientist
The reason I post about cultural anthropology now and then isn’t that I want to argue or discuss with cultural anthropologists. Rather, I want to aid in spreading the message the discipline should be...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Max Weber, Cavalli-Sforza, Ethnicity, and Population Genetics
Ok, below is a complicate and attenuated definition of ethnicity by the classical sociologist Max Weber. Variations of this definition are found in many anthropology and sociological textbooks,...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Can Cultural Anthropology Scrogg Population Genetics?
James Mullooly invented the word Scrogg, meaning something along the line of “anthropologist who catch geneticists playing fast and loose with the data.” In my experience, Scrogging is fairly easy to...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Max Weber for Geneticists: Why the UC Davis Department of...
I’m pretty happy about my post about Max Weber, and Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. Getting geneticists to at least acknowledge the existence of the patron saint of Sociology is big thing! From an academic...
View ArticleEthnography.com: The History of the World is But the Biography of Great Genes
- Thomas Carlyle, genetic Historian Raymond Williams begins his introduction to Keywords by telling of his return to Cambridge following the end of World War II. He recounts meeting a friend he had...
View ArticleEthnography.com: First Random Impressions of a Caribbean Country: Antigua
Another new country, and region of the world. This time it is the country of Antigua, in the Caribbean where I am on vacation for 10 days. Going new places assaults the senses, as you the old...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Local Archaeology vs. the National-Geographic-NSF-sexy...
Mark Dawson’s April 2012 post “Why I Chose not to Get a PhD” post has been one of the more popular postings at Ethnography.com. There is also a good comment stream at the end of the post with a...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Incidental Anthropology: Infant Waste, Tourists, The...
In this long overdue installment of Incidental Anthropology I bring you a few examples of anthropology interest incidentally found in the media. First, the vexing question of how to handle to infant...
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