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Hatred and the Environment
Hatred and the Environment: The 21st Century’s Defining Political Issue E. N. Anderson www.krazykioti.com “Fascism includes supremacy of the military, the need for perpetual war and a disdain for pacifism, a merging of corporate and state power, dismantling the unions, indirect control of the media, national security and patriotism as a motivational tool […]
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Power and Politics
POWER AND POLITICS: Weberian Musings E. N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology University of California, Riverside gene@ucr.edu www.krazykioti.com “There are two wolves within you, a good one that causes you to help others and do well, and a bad one that causes you to be savage and hurtful. The one that wins out is the […]
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The Environment and China’s Future
The Environment and China’s Future N. Anderson Dept. of Anthropology University of California, Riverside ROUGH DRAFT; comments and corrections urgently desired! This paper is a very modest effort at bringing together quotes and facts from leading scientists on the environmental problems of modern China. Interpretation and commentary is kept to a minimum, […]
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Love: A New Model
Love: a new model Unpacking “Love” and Loves Positive emotions tend to get lumped as “love” in English and many other languages. The great cognitive psychologist Jerome Kagan (2006) admonishes us to unpack simple cover terms for psychological states, and see their full complexity. If we do this with the English word “love,” we […]
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Basic Human Nature: needs and individuals
Theory 1: Needs and Wants Basic Biology of Knowledge “[T]he economy, social structure, and beliefs of a historical era, like the fence restraining a baboon troop at a zoo, limit each person’s understanding of the world to a small space in which each day is lived” (Jerome Kagan 2006:253; cf. pp. 195-196). The simile […]
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Chickens and Millet: Early Agriculture in China
Paper delivered at Society of Ethnobiology annual conference, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2015 Chickens and Millet: The Significance of New Findings in Chinese Food Archaeology Recent findings in archaeology have considerably pushed back the dates for domestication of chickens, millets, rice, pigs, and other domestic life forms of eastern Asia. North China has taken […]