Reader Comments on 'After Westphalia' From Wired News (((oh what the hell, why not))) but your list, especially as it has 'ethnicity' and 'tribes' in it (and because I am an anthropologist ;-) immediately made me think of 'segmentary societies' aka 'segementary lineage systems,' first described in 'African political systems' (1940) by Meyer Fortes and E. Anthrobase has a quite ok short summing up: 'Segmentary lineage Segmentary opposition A way of organizing descent groups that is found particularly in Northern and Eastern Africa (some of the...

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An Anthropology of the Road From tomasinabromleytzq.wordpress.com Dimitris Dalakoglou PhD candidate - UCL A road in Albania, February 2006. The pavement and the roadbed are partly under construction, the yellow bulldozer in the front was going to the road-workDimitris Dalakoglou PhD candidate - UCL A road in Albania, February 2006. Roads are dynamic, both materially and culturally, and proved so fruitful analytically that it would probably now be possible to produce a doctoral thesis solely in reference to roads, traffic and their infrastructure, which...

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truTV: What's up with CourtTV's new identity? From Film.com "Not Reality. Q: Is truTV a reality network? The goal is to let people know that truTV programming is different from typical reality shows, which often involve contests or other highly staged events." Intrigued by this whole "actuality" thing (and because my provider doesn't feature the station in its basic package), I logged on to their site to check out their offerings. In fact, most of their programs seem like reality knock-offs of popular films and TV shows. The Real Hustle, a show where...

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Future anthropologists learn about CSI From Valencia County News Bulletin Forensic anthropology students from the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus were able to get out of the classroom this week and get first-hand knowledge about what it takes to process a crime scene. Joe Portio talked to a group of students studying forensic anthropology about crime scene investigation and the department's new state-of-the-art crime scene van. Portio says while each scenario is different, detectives will spend hours at a crime scene gathering evidence, taking pictures,...

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Museum’s ‘Miracle’ worker uncovers the past From Grand Junction Sentinel He started off as a volunteer at Dinosaur Valley, then went to the Museum of Western Colorado's downtown Grand Junction dinosaur museum, working on the earliest known Colorado residents, albeit not the small, hairless bipeds that walked upright and made tools who arrived in only the last few hundred years. As it turned out, his electives in history fit into his anthropology core and his anthropology classes worked for his history degree, so Miracle was able to graduate on time with a double...

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