Best of Anthro 2010 - Topical Round-up Maggie Awards

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Best of Anthro 2010Topical Round-upMaggie Awards


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Death in the Andamans

85-year oldindigenous womandies

Oldest member offew remainingpeople in the GreatAndamanese group

Last speaker of theBo language


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Dunbars Number

The size of humanneocortex limits usto 150 friends

maximum Professor RobinDunbar is nowstudying if his ruleapplies to socialnetworking: staytuned


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Domestication ofthe turkey

Analysis of turkeybones and

coprolites Two areas of

domestication

Mesoamerica

Southwestern US

Contemporaryturkeys descended

from Mesoamericanstrain via Europeand back toAmerica


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Sexless marriage in Japan

Survey of 2500Japanese married

people

Question: howoften did they havesex with spouse in

last year?

One-fifth said:never


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Anthro of pets

In US, pets are $45billion dollar/yearbusiness

Between 2/3-3/4 ofall households haveat least one pet

Cultural

anthropologistshave neglected thestudy of pets!


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Bonobos sharing

Study of bonobosin the DemocraticRepublic of Congo

Finds consistentpattern of sharingfood which isatypical for

nonhuman primates Researchers

wonder why theyshare?


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Yanomami blood rights

Long legal battlewith the Penn StateUniversity

Blood samplescollected byAmericanresearchers in the1960s are beingreturned to theYanomami


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Who let the dogs in?

Changing theoriesof location ofearliest

domestication ofdogs

Russia/EasternEurope? No

China? No Middle East: Yes, at

least for now


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A takeover mostbrutal

Forensic study of258 adult male Incaskeletons from a

burial Skeletal injuries

show excess ofviolence

Spanish weaponsincluded guns, steellances, and

hammers


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Maasai update Growing poverty in rural

areas and loss of

herding livelihood Increasing migration of

Maasai males to Dar esSalaam, Tanzania

Many find work assecurity guards

People have faith in

Maasai because wework diligently, we donthave greed for wealth,and we dont steal.


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Meet your match

In the past threeyears, 17 percent ofUS marriages basedon meeting online

Only 8 percent in abar or club

Still, 67 percent resultfrom meeting throughfriends, family, workor school


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Get in touch with your innerNeanderthal

Genetic datafindings indicatethat Neanderthalsand modern humanshad sex andproduced offspring

1-4 percent of non-

Africans probabyhave someNeanderthalgenomic material


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Oil spilldisasters

Comparative study of

social effects Exxon Valdez 1989,

others

Loss of homes,

livelihoods, income,communities

Spill workers facehealth risks due todirect exposure

Gulf spill effects: staytuned


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New findings at Stonehenge

Large feasting siterevealed

Long-distance

pilgrimage site:remains of youngboy found.

He was wearing an

amber necklaceand came from theMediterraneanregion


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Beer that was good for you

Ancient Nubia,between 350-550 CE

Intentional brewingof beer thatincluded theantibiotictetracycline

Evidence found inskeletal remains


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How guys should dance

Experimental studyused male avatarfigures dancing invideos

Female viewers ratedthe dancers

Finding: if male

dancer wants to beattractive to females,avoid flinging armsand legs about


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Dumps as new sites for foragers

Warao Indians of Venezuela

Traditional foraging lands providefruits, vegetables, ish

Longer canoe trips to urban dump asextension of traditional foraging

Warao who live in urban area are

destitute and survive on cast off foodleftovers and partially filled sodabottles


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Warao scenes


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Baseball rituals

San FranciscoGiants firstbaseman, AubreyHuff

Habitually wears ared thong under hisuniform

Its baseball magic:

response touncertainty and needfor sense of controland stability


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Maggie Awards 2010


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Mostnoted

nonhuman

primatespecies:bonobos


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Most notedearly human

ancestorspecies:

Neanderthals


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Most notedprehistoric

site:Stonehenge


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Most noted

culturalgroup:

Nacirema


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Most noted country: Haiti


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Most quoted culturalanthropologist: Paul Farmer

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Best of Anthro 2010 - Topical Round-up Maggie Awards