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Liberal Arts

On June 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Anthropology, Quotes

Sometimes when I step back and take a look around, I realize that I’m nowhere near where I thought I would be at this point.  I had planned on getting a masters by now and starting my PhD.  Then again, I also didn’t know that I would have a husband, dog, and house [...]

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Evolution Erasers

On February 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Anthropology

Office supplies have to be my favorite shopping genre.  My dad and I used to spend an enormous amount of time at Office Depot just looking around and these evolution erasers are just the type of thing I would have forwarded to him, to which he would have likely replied “Too cool!”

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Anthropology in Arabic

On December 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Anthropology

I just found out what the word anthropology looks like in Arabic and I never realized how pretty Arabic text looks:

علم الانسان

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The Art of Dependence

On December 2, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Anthropology

My parents, being the awesome people they are, raised me to be completely independent.  I viewed complete independence as being the greatest characteristic a person could have.  I never asked for help, even when I needed it because I didn’t want to appear weak or needy.  Somewhere along the line, I think it [...]

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The Attack on Anthropology

On October 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Anthropology

Rick Scott, governor of Florida, stated recently that tax dollars should not be used to fund liberal arts programs – specifically anthropology.  He feels that tax money should only be used to fund programs where jobs are plentiful, asking “is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists?”  This from a father whose [...]

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The Left Hand of Darkness

On July 12, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Books I'm Reading

Based on a recommendation, I picked up The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin.  I’m really enjoying it so far – even if the story weren’t compelling the fact that it’s set in a world called Winter helps cool me down on these hot July days.  Makes for wonderful summer reading.

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Monkey or Ape? Anthropology Lesson!

On June 2, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Anthropology

It always irks me when someone on TV or IRL calls a chimpanzee a monkey considering chimps are our closest living primate relative.  There are hundreds of species of primates, Homo sapiens being just one.  We break these hundreds of species into three groups (and of course many more subgroups, but for the sake of [...]

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