#anthropology

#anthropology

The interaction we have had made every week exciting; you engaged with my arguments, sometimes with vigorous pushback, making me a better writer.

Oddly echoing persistent allegations that telecommunications systems made by Chinese company Huawei are used to spy on other governments, in 1865 China's leaders rejected a foreign government's attempt to install an electric telegraph.

'It looked like a dry lake bed to me, nothing else, but at night it was a different story.'

Cultural anthropologists have found that perceptions of time vary across cultural groups, with some societies focusing on linear time and others on cyclical patterns.

Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist whose insights drew on Hindu texts, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Christian mysticism, was a leading intellectual figure in Sri Lanka and Western academia.

Graeber argues that the commonly held belief that money arose from barter is fundamentally flawed; instead, credit systems were established first, facilitated by governing authorities.