Growing Things Nothing on the Earth can grow or expand indefinitely. All living systems and the Earth itself are finite.…
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Human [Nature?]
/ June 20, 2016“It is marvellously easy to confuse ‘our local culture’ with ‘universal human nature.’” (Renato Rosaldo 1989 Culture and Truth. Beacon…
A Change of Mind – Part 1, Seeing Culture
/ June 9, 2016Usually, we just see what we see. As we go about our daily lives (And what else is there?), we…
Anthropology—The Holistic Social Science.
/ June 4, 2016Anthropology is the only science whose subject matter encompasses humankind as a whole. This holistic approach has distinct advantages, but…
Why Trump?
/ May 18, 2016Everyone, it seems—everyone who is paying attention at all—is focused on the political spectacle of the U.S. presidential race. Clinton…
Human Nature and Human Beings in Nature: Culture, Consciousness, & the Fragile Earth
/ May 11, 2016This blog will be partly built around a book I am writing. Human Nature and Human Beings in Nature: Culture,…