Thinking through Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908-2009 Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the true giants of anthropology, passed away this past week on 30 October, just shy of 101 years old. As Maurice Bloch writes, Lévi-Strauss was ‘the last survivor of these great beasts such as Sartre, Foucault and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu,’ the theorists who have given contemporary anthropology, and social theory around the world, a French accent and Gallic cadence

Complete this quote: “Our brain is…”
How would you complete this quote?     “Shaped like a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is…” This week’s quote is inspired by Diane Ackerman (2004) An Alchemy of Mind. The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain.

Four Stone 79
Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology carnival bringing together all things four-field, is now up in its 79th edition over at Anthropology.net. Thanks, Tim, for putting this one together on short notice! Some really intriguing data and ideas about female choice and sexual strategies among chimps, which are rightly highlighted right at the top. Good st

Second annual Neuroscience Boot Camp wants you!
Not your grandad's boot camp! Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Neuroscience Boot Camp at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, head on over to the Boot Camp website. Kezia Kamentz dropped me an email and shared that last year’s Boot Camp went really well: “great teachers, a small but very diverse group of students, and a varied set of teac

Wednesday Round Up #88
A busy week – but now you can peruse some economics, war, NY Times mind, anthro, and blogging mind. Top of the List Sandra Kiume, Social Neuroscience Channel N gives us a great video with John Cacioppo speaking on “Connected Minds: Loneliness, Social Brains and the Need for Community.” Sometimes Channel N didn’t load right for me, so you can also go straight to the RSA page with the Caciop