Human-chimp gene study upsets long-held view

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5808

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Put a human and a chimpanzee side by side, and it seems obvious which lineage has changed the most since the two diverged from a common ancestor millions of years ago. Such apparent physical differences, along with human speech, language and brainpower, have led many people to believe that natural selection has acted in a positive manner on more genes in humans than in chimps.

lyrics as cultural goldmine

rich source of history, popular culture, discussion topics - LYRICS!

Yahoo Launches Online Song-Lyric Database
Most sites publish words without permission from copyright owners
By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press
MSNBC, <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18280188/>
...lyrics of 400,000 songs

online Native American sites

Native Americans - Internet Resources, http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm

children's titles - emic/etic vision

Jamie Lee Curtis. Is There Really a Human Race?
Leo Leonini. Fish is Fish.

audio slideshows

http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/ cf. http://magnuminmotion.com

NSF "front window" of research findings

People and Society links to research vignettes,
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/index.jsp?prio_area=12

language

* You are what you speak *

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6499797.stm

quote

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human
differences. -- Ruth Benedict

[s/cultural anthro definition] ...the study of common sense... turns out
to be extraordinarily diverse, maddeningly inconsistent and highly
resistant to skepticism of any kind. It is embedded in both sensory
experience and practical politics - powerful realities that constrain and
shape access to knowledge." -- Michael Herzfeld (2001) Theoretical
Practice in Culture and Society.

JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jaa2/journal/