We have a new paper out in which we find that people overwhelmingly like to help one another, independent of differences in language, culture or environment. This is a surprising finding from the perspective of anthropological and economic research, which has tended to foreground differences in how people work together and share resources.
Been reading this paper by @blasi_lang @JoHenrich @EvangeliaAdamou Kemmerer & @asifa_majid and can recommend it — Figure 1 is likely…
Natural conversations are a great source of data for all sorts of linguistic research. Linguists and conversation analysts usually study…
The world’s many endangered languages are often characterized as “unwritten” and “oral” languages. Both of these terms reveal the language…
In Kawu on the very final day of my 2012 fieldtrip, I heard something unusual. Some people talked about a…
Food writer Molly Watson from Gastronomica provides us with an update of Bourdieu’s food space, where different types of food…
One of the most interesting sources on the history and customs of the Mawu people of eastern Ghana (also known…
The Language & Cognition group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics will present a session on The Senses in Language and…
The oldest written fragments of Siwu found so far come from Rudolph Plehn (1898). Besides some words and phrases (edited…
The AAA is currently conducting a survey on how to implement a website that would be hosting AAA Meeting Abstracts.…
“See what I just did? Made another me.” Darwin (Marvel Comics), panel from X-Factor issue 37. There is a very…
The Winners and Finalists of the 2008 AAA Photo Contest are now available in a Flickr gallery. The photos are…
Science has just published a comment by me on Oard’s “Unlocking the potention of the spoken word” (Oard 2008). It…
Funeral dirges (sìnɔ in Siwu) are sung during the period of public mourning preceding a burial. The musical structures of…
It’s that time again! The 60th edition of Anthroblogging’s very own blog carnival Four Stone Hearth is up at Middle…
The results of the AAA photo contest have just been announced. Congratulations to the winner, Peter Biella! Of my four…
An intriguing article in Science two months ago suggests that advances in speech processing ‘may soon place speech and writing…
28-11-2008Claude Lévi-Strauss’ 100th birthday German television channel Arte devotes much of today’s programme to Claude Lévi-Strauss to celebrate his 100th…
The 51st installment of Four Stone Hearth is up at Clashing Culture, featuring an interesting mishmash of anthropological topics. For…
Today’s posting brings you the second part of Pfisterer’s 1904 article (see the previous posting for details on the context…