Along with its usual fare — ethnography and anthropology about the peoples of the Western Hemisphere — Paris’s Journal de la Société des Américanistes devoted part of its 1909 issue(*) to a sort of review article summarizing all known extremely tall people of the Americas. These were mostly modern cases of acromegaly who died before […]
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Mapping noses in the Basque Country
Anthropologist Esther Rebato [pictured here] of the University of the Basque Country has mapped the presence of nasal characteristics in people who dwell in the Basque Country. Her study is: “Aspectos métricos y morfoscópicos de la región nasal en vascos [“Metric aspects and morphoscopic the nasal region in Basques”],” Esther Rebato, Munibe Antropologia – Arkeologia, no. […]
Anthropology exercise: British wedding ritual
This video was pointed out to us by a British person as possibly being in some sense typical of modern British wedding rituals. It documents a recent wedding held on the Isle of Bute. This week’s Anthropology Exercise of the Week is to write a limerick (in traditional Limerick form) explaining some key ritual element that […]
Anthropology essay assignment: Mummy
This month’s Anthropology Essay Assignment for Classrooms is to write a 50-word essay summarizing the anthropological and psychological import of this Associated Press report. It describes a situation in the city of Concord, New Hampshire. Here are sentences from the beginning, middle, and end of that report: The mummified body of a baby, kept by […]