new forms of anthro collaboration (electronically)

[launched May 5, 2010 via the e-list for Media Anthropology, www.media-anthropology.net]
...new forms of collaboration (research, teaching, multimedia, etc.) with other people interested in the anthropology of media. See, for instance, this page for new projects: http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=64

news story, Neanderthal genes 'survive in us'

Many people alive today possess some Neanderthal ancestry, according to a landmark scientific study.
The finding has surprised many experts, as previous genetic evidence suggested the Neanderthals made little or no contribution to our inheritance.
 
The result comes from analysis of the Neanderthal genome - the "instruction manual" describing how these ancient humans were put together. Between 1% and 4% of the Eurasian human genome seems to come from Neanderthals.
 
BBC story (excerpt). Full story, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/8660940.stm

Tip from www.insidehighered.com: mclemee

Guven Witteveen found an interesting article on www.insidehighered.com and thought you might enjoy it too.

"Six Feet Under"
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee288

And then back up again....Scott McLemee looks at new book on the history of reburials.

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Comment by Guven Witteveen <sjmi@hotmail.com>:

review of Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials

ethnographic films by students & researchers at Manchester

Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology now features 30 Granada Centre student films and research fellows' trailers  - with more to come. See http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/socialanthropology/visualanthropology/