A5018339758- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- African history and culture analysis
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Language and cultural evolution
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
University of Maine
2014-2023
Smithsonian Institution
2020
Google (United States)
2020
University of St Andrews
2015
Duke University
2015
University of Maine System
2012
Specialty Materials (United States)
1992
University of Wales
1989
Archaeological evidence plays a key role in longitudinal studies of humans and climate. Climate proxy data from Peruvian archaeological sites provide case study through insight into the history "flavors" or varieties El Niño (EN) events after ∼11 ka: eastern Pacific EN, La Niña, coastal EN (COA), central Modoki (CP). proxies are important to because more commonly used paleoclimate unavailable equivocal. Previously, multiproxy coast elsewhere suggested that frequency varied over Holocene: 1)...
Advances in primatological research have recently led to a hypothesis that lethal coalitionary raiding chimpanzees is the product of an evolutionarily adaptive “dominance drive” disposes adult males seek out low‐cost opportunities for conspecific killing. This conclusion has been extended into claim human warfare and other forms coalitional killing are outcomes hardwired, “demonic male” complex. Reversing this evidential approach, I argue from data on humans aversion conspecifics. Their...
Radiocarbon summed probability distribution (SPD) methods promise to illuminate the role of demography in shaping prehistoric social processes, but theories linking population indices organization are still uncommon. Here, we develop Power Theory, a formal model political centralization that casts density and size as key variables modulating interactive capacity agents construct power over others. To evaluate this argument, generated an SPD from 755 radiocarbon dates for 10 000–1000 BP...
‘Positivism,’ it seems, is a movement that cultural anthropology can do without. But what positivism, who are these positivists, and precisely their sins? Notwithstanding appearances to the contrary, image of positivism in comparatively coherent criticism directed at relatively well founded. What dubious conclusion which many critics think leads: methods natural sciences inappropriate study human culture society.
Un certain nombre de chercheurs melanesianistes ont recemment accuse les theories occidentales du lien social et la violence - qui derivent, selon eux, d'ideologies servant a legitimer societes etatiques deformer nos analyses des sans etat, en particulier communautes melanesiennes. Harrison montre que notion personne dans region Sepik est tout fait differente conception occidentale qu'elle engendre comportement sociaux guerriers tres distincts. Alors sepik projette hommes un reseau...
Drawing ethnographic data from the foraging communities of New Guinea, an underused resource in hunter-gatherer research, this article examines relationship between subsistence form and four aspects cultural complexity: density, settlement size, form, permanence. On basis global data, it is commonly proposed that forager communities, these characteristics are directly related to degree dependence on aquatic resources. For serendipitous reasons, Guinea allow propositions be assessed with some...
The anthropological analysis of art is still dominated by a notion that the artistic creations traditional societies communicate intellectual meanings or 'messages' are implicated in reproduction culture and society. In this article, I argue frequently approach at best incomplete, worst untenably functional. Using as illustration ka nimbia spirit house produced Yangoru Boiken East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, show how attention to affective properties can surmount these difficulties...
Climate change is the latest in a dismaying series of challenges that industrialism and modernity have gifted to humanity. To date, anthropological archaeological responses focused largely on culturally particular—that is, interactions climate, environment, cultural schema, social systems specific locales eras. In this article, I urge complementary response capitalizes archaeology anthropology's holistic universalistic investigative aspirations expertise. For two decades, Intergovernmental...
In Sex and Temperament, Margaret Mead depicted the Mountain Arapesh of New Guinea as a gentle, nurturant people among whom warfare was "practically unknown." A few years later, however, Reo Fortune, her husband cofieldworker, to claim that "good custom." This article reexamines this disagreement, addressing two issues: Did have tradition warfare?, How do we reconcile differences in Fortune's descriptions? I conclude that, prior pacification, resorted significant levels violence waged war on...
Military brokers have played a decisive role in human affairs, but pragmatic obstacles make this an exceedingly difficult phenomenon to examine. Capitalizing on unpublished documentary archive of interviews conducted the early 1970s, we attempt partial reconstruction three barely known consequential episodes military brokerage encounter between empire and Middle Sepik people New Guinea. In these incidents, “ethnic soldiers” emerge as classic brokers, monopolizing manipulating flow...