I will be presenting at the 2008 Northwest Anthropological Conference held in (so I've been told) beautiful Victoria, B.C.
My presentation will be on the cultural change of land use in Skagit County over the past 60 years, using photos to analyze what people were up to, as well as what was important to people. For example, in the 1950s only one picture of the cat and because the kid was playing with it; in the 1980s lots of pictures of dogs all by themselves, they are the featured player in the article.
I'm only going for a day, so I don't know how much I'll be able to see, but I hope to get a little bit out of the whole deal.
I'll write an synopsis when I get back.
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I am constantly fascinated by the complex interplay of biological and cultural influences that make up human nature. Both are elements are crucial to what makes us human, and studying each of these is a valid way of studying human behavior. One of my mission's in life is to advocate the total abandonment of cultural or biological determinism. Humans are too complicated to determined by any one thing.
I am a science writer with an MA in Anthropology. I am currently living in Seattle, but am always yearning to get back to the woods.
Blogs we like
- Anthropology.net
- Babels Dawn
- Behavioral Ecology
- Carl Zimmer The Loom
- Catalogue Of Organisms
- Dienekes Anthropology Blog
- Gene Expression
- John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
- Laelaps Paleobiology Blog
- Michael Shanks and Archaeography
- Not a blog: The National Institute for Play
- Savage Minds
- Tetrapod Zoology
- Thunderlizard
- When Pigs Fly
- Yann Klimentidis
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