Tag Archives: anthropology
Female Genital Mutilation in the USA
I have forgiven my mother and father for taking my foreskin at so young an age. She told me it was so I could look like my father. This was in a different time dimension. We must speed backward past … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Sex
Tagged anthropology, circumcision, cultural bias, culture, female genital mutilation, FGC, FGM, sex
Capture and Rape Fantasies in Human Historical Imagery
I have found an article sure to provoke a firestorm of commentary (and already has). I had recently commented on the recent spate of sex crimes in the US military. I don’t think it’s just an American issue, rather it … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Sex
Tagged anthropology, art, culture, kidnapping, love, misogyny, psychology, rape, sex, sexual conquest, slavery
Protolanguage Pronunciation Re-creation
Interesting notion, recapturing the sound of a proto-language. I’m familiar with a few romance languages and a couple of norse/germanic languages and am always surprised how languages change. There are languages, dialects, patois, and pidgins sometimes barely intelligible from village … Continue reading
Why Critical Thinking Can Be So Difficult
In the world we see differences between cultures through the lens of our own cultural formation. We are subject to biases against practices we do not observe in our own universe of experience. We have to leave to leave the … Continue reading
Posted in Mind
Tagged anthropology, attribution bias, biases, critical thinking, cultural bias, culture, intellect, psychology, social sciences
Linguistics: Ithkuil, a Constructed Language With Interesting Associations
I was first introduced to languages at four or five when my parents went on assignment to Cuba for six months. It was painful. I ran to my mother complaining that I couldn’t get the cook to make me a … Continue reading
Posted in Language
Tagged anthropology, artificial language, idomas artificiais, Ithkuil, John Quijada, language, linguistics, português, Portuguese
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The Wandering Roma: A Historical Snapshot
The much maligned Roma (Cigano, Traveler, Tzigane, etc) are seen the world over. While traveling in Guatemala in the 1990’s I decided to get off the chicken bus in Chichicastenango for a few days and rent an actual hotel room … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Travel
Tagged anthropology, Cigano, culture, genome, Guatemala, gypsy, language, mesoamerica, Roma, travel
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