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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
psychmesu

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113507028148383483 persagen@mastodon.social - Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests 7000+ years ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years

  • genetic analysis
  • could help First Nations secure land rights in Cdn courts
  • actively cultivated crop
  • transported hazelnuts 800 km
  • cultivate nutritious/reliable food source in new regions

Genetic differentiation/precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2402304121

#Canada #Indigenous #BC #BritishColumbia #cultivation #anthropology #LandRights

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elegance@socialhome.network
elegance@socialhome.network

Wade Davis on cultural relativism and the importance of anthropology in the modern age

Whilst this talk is from 6 years ago and the original was shared on TED in 2003, this is so relevant even now. This guy changed how I viewed the world, so many years ago and what he shares here is so pertinent even today. For those who have the "eyes & ears" to see and hear. Some hope.

#Wade-Davis #anthropology #Nat-Geo #hope #new-ways-of-of-viewing-the-wolrd #beyond-politics

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

The survival skills of Helena Valero - by Tove K

#society #anthropology

One of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century was a dirt-poor mestizo woman called Helena Valero. After having read the one and only book in English about her, I'm convinced of that. Her insights into a primitive society is worth more than that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple reason: Helena was there for real, as a member of those societies. She didn't only study stone age life. She lived it. For two decades, she lived among the Yanomamö horticulturalists of the Amazonas, after having been kidnapped at the age of 11, in 1937.

https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/the-survival-skills-of-helena-valero

The survival skills of Helena Valero

Anthropology has been bad at capturing the living conditions of women. A kidnapped woman who returned to civilization was the exception.

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Fetal Schmittianism - by Mary Harrington

#society #anthropology

But does it make sense to produce certificates acknowledging the baby-ness of an early pregnancy, for grieving parents experiencing miscarriage, while legislating elsewhere to diminish the baby-ness of a late-stage pregnancy for desperate women terrified - like the woman in last year’s court case - of the social consequences of her pregnancy? From a perspective that views personhood as given, as our legacy Christian worldview does, the answer must surely be ‘no, this makes no sense’.

This makes perfect sense in Emmanuel Todd's latest developments : our societies are "post religious", going from Christian to "Zombie christian" then to complete nihilism. It explains a lot of trouble in Western societies.

https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/fetal-schmittianism

Fetal Schmittianism

How, when, and why do babies become people? We are no longer sure

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devevo@diasp.org
7B'JaJaDa

#biology #anthropology #homolongi
A Brazilian anthropologist has reconstructed the face of the archaic human species Homo longi from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s. Homo longi is an extinct species of the genus Homo that lived in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene.
Nicknamed Dragon man, the species was identified from a nearly complete skull dated to 148,000 years ago.
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/homo-longi-face-12609.html

Face of Homo longi Reconstructed | Sci.News

A Brazilian anthropologist has reconstructed the face of the archaic human species Homo longi from a well-preserved skull discovered in northeastern China in the 1930s.

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