Anthropology

Time To Stop Thinking Of Video Games As Just 'Software'

Games appear in galleries, does that make them art? blakespot, CC BY By Ashok Ranchhod, University of Southampton and Vanissa Wanick Vieira, University of Southampton. ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 17 2014 - 11:42am

How To Be A Man, According To A Woman

The shirt Matt Taylor wore while being interviewed about the Rosetta space mission set off a media and online shirtstorm. Youtube/ ESA By Jamilla Rosdahl, University of the Sunshine Coast ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 29 2014 - 5:30pm

Farming Made Humans Fragile

It would be madness today to think of farmers as wimpy- watching a 160 lb. kid throw a giant hay bale around does not make people think of weakness- but skeletally the invention of agriculture made us weak compared to foraging ancestors. As we shifted from ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2015 - 12:38pm

Migration To America: Canine Genetics Tell The Story

Dogs successfully migrated to the Americas about 10,000 years ago, according to a new study. That's a long time ago but still thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed the land bridge from Siberia to North America. Dogs have been asso ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 11:01am

Music Is Cross-Cultural, From Montreal To The Mbenzélé

Whether you are a a hipster in Montreal or a Pygmy in the Congolese rainforest, certain aspects of music will touch you the same way. That applies to scores we associates with very different films, and therefore tones, like Psycho, Star Wars, and Schindle ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 10:51am

Divorce Monday: January Divorce Rush Dates Back To The Middle Ages

Odds are they won't be so happy after Yuletide. Shutterstock By Frederik Pedersen, University of Aberdeen January is a strain for most people. It’s dark and the festive lights don’t disguise this anymore. You’re back at work and the next holiday may ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 11 2015 - 9:02am

Conform To The Norm And Video Games Might End Racism

Conformity is a bad thing, in media portrayals like Apple advertisements- yet then they have a lot of people who look a lot alike all standing in line to buy the latest iPhone. In reality, despite the claims of creative people who insist that only one bran ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2015 - 2:00pm

Ideological Claims Debunked: Poor Parents Are Not Less Involved With Kids Than Rich Ones

Some cultural pundits contend that income inequality is linked to parenting inequality but new findings dispute that.  You don't have to be wealthy to be involved in your child's life, despite modern thinking, according to a new paper which finds ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2015 - 11:25am

Canine Cooperation Hypothesis: Thank The Social Skills Of Wolves For Dog-Human Cooperation

Most dogs and most humans get along well now and anthropological explanations are that selective selection is the reason; wolves that were not a threat were not killed and over time the agreeable ones got shelter and food. That cooperation has led to thous ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2015 - 11:43am

3 Million Years Ago, Pre-Humans May Have Used Hands Just Like Modern Humans

Social scientists believe that pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought. The authors say they have the first archaeological evidence for stone tool use amon ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2015 - 5:34pm