Cryptoforestry

Tupaia , Captain Cook’s Polynesian navigator, sketched a Maori man exchanging a large, live spiny lobster for a piece of cloth when the ...

James C. Scott on Jared Diamond . Nothing new really but it sounds better when it comes from him. He imagines he can triangulate his way ...

Jarod Diamond's latest book (the world until yesterday) I have not read but I have read reviews and it was trashed by almost everyone. C...

In a paper published in April 2012 Benezra, DStefano and Gordon argue for the foundation of an ' Anthropology of microbes '. Taking ...

Haida Costumes  "Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience o...

In a paper called " Long-Term Foraging Expeditions (Molongo) among the Baka Hunter-Gatherers in the Northwestern Congo Basin, with...

The earlier post of the Inuit carving of a Viking reminded my of Julia Blackburn's 1979 book 'The White Men, the first respons...

Near Valencia can be found the Cuevas de la Araña , a cave-system that contains 8000 year old images of hunting-gathering scenes: g...

David Maybury-Lewis is an British anthropologist who lived with the Sherente and Shavante in 1955/56. He did a proper anthropological study ...

Noam Chomsky is the shaman of the industrial-military complex, welcome to the intellectual highlight of the year! The fourth issue of the ...