http://www.adambohannon.org Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:15:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.adambohannon.org/totems-of-war/ http://www.adambohannon.org/totems-of-war/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 07:40:35 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=18056 Hetherington.911.2011-04-24-at-7.48.49-PM.png 680×449. Bandolier of Grenades, photo taken by Tim Hetherington in the Korengal Valley. Appreciated this photographer/blogger‘s interpretation: The power of the image is borne in some measure by its apparent simplicity as a still life photograph—an aesthetically beautiful rendering of the form of mundane, everyday objects.   But of course, there’s the rub, since for [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/totems-of-war/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/the-anthro-war-question/ http://www.adambohannon.org/the-anthro-war-question/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:30:57 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=588 Another article glossing over the significance of soft power for the easier-to-comprehend (and market) horrors (fascination?) of physical violence. For those unfamiliar with HTS Since 2007, the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System (HTS) has been placing social scientists in every Army combat brigade, regiment and Marine Corps regimental combat team. There are now more than 500 [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/the-anthro-war-question/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/levistrauss-wife-fieldwork-mato-grosso-brazil/ http://www.adambohannon.org/levistrauss-wife-fieldwork-mato-grosso-brazil/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:27:55 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=458 This photo helps anchor Tristes Tropiques in reality for me.  Hard to believe he’s nearing his 101st birthday.  Thanks @kerim for this. This beast of an intellectual is one of the few scholars who are responsible for blowing my mind all over the place with their theories of humanity.  I still use his ideas on [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/levistrauss-wife-fieldwork-mato-grosso-brazil/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/let-the-reconceptualizing-begin/ http://www.adambohannon.org/let-the-reconceptualizing-begin/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:37:49 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=435 From a new Ad Age white paper, with projections on the 2010 Census: “The concept of an ‘average American’ is gone, probably forever,” demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. “The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling.” The message to [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/let-the-reconceptualizing-begin/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/crosscultural-differences-happiness-east-west/ http://www.adambohannon.org/crosscultural-differences-happiness-east-west/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:23:09 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=362 Came across an interesting report via MindHacks on the different conceptions of happiness between East Asians and European-Americans.  I’m always happy to see research that closely and thoughtfully considers the impact of culture on pretty much any behavior or concept often taken as universal.  As an anthropology and psychology student I always approached psychological research [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/crosscultural-differences-happiness-east-west/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/anthropology-wall-street/ http://www.adambohannon.org/anthropology-wall-street/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:37:27 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=280 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9rUzLoKpfs For several years, anthropologist Karen Ho worked at an investment firm on Wall Street.  Her experience there resulted in her dissertation Liquefying Corporations and Communities:  Wall Street World Views and Socioeconomic Transformations in the Post-Industrial US. Today, Time released a brief interview with Ho, in which she discusses her thoughts on what’s wrong with [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/anthropology-wall-street/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/edward-hall-education/ http://www.adambohannon.org/edward-hall-education/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:05:26 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=274 From Beyond Culture Citing Washburn (1973) on the importance of play in learning “Through play (emotional, repetitious, from within) children prepare for the adult life of their culture.  Separation of education from life…is new in the history of primates.  In the American school there is no view of adult life…In schools discipline is substituted for [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/edward-hall-education/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/ http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:45:45 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=246 I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public.  According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/feed/ 2 http://www.adambohannon.org/takes-mike-wesch-pdf09/ http://www.adambohannon.org/takes-mike-wesch-pdf09/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:16:26 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=162 As I watched my Twitter feed flutter this past weekend with amazing update after amazing update of the Personal Democracy Forum, my former adviser and mentor was there giving what apparently turned out to be a standing-ovation-worthy preso on YouTube Culture and Politics of Authenticity.  The fact that he brought the house down with his [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/takes-mike-wesch-pdf09/feed/ 3 http://www.adambohannon.org/every-7-years-we-shed-half-of-our-friends/ http://www.adambohannon.org/every-7-years-we-shed-half-of-our-friends/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:50:14 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=120 Interesting research on the dynamics of online and offline social networks.  Seems like our close connections undergo some pruning as time passes. You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/every-7-years-we-shed-half-of-our-friends/feed/ 0