#anthropolgy — Public Fediverse posts

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17 April 2026

At home, I dress ultra‑casually — gym shorts and a T‑shirt, or, if it’s cooler, old worn‑out jeans with holes and a wrinkled tee. I don’t usually go out in public like that. When I leave the house, I put on clean, ironed clothes. Yes, yes, I know: irons are so 20th century. Be that as it may — and I love saying that because it sounds vaguely gangstery — I go out in public cleaned up and pressed. Still casual, but put together.

It’s not what I see when I travel out among the English.

(And for the record, “out among the English” is borrowed from the 1985 film Witness, where Harrison Ford plays a detective hiding in an Amish community. An Amish traveler heading to New York is warned, “Be careful out there among the English.” If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth watching.)

Anyway, when I’m out in public, I often see people dressed in ways that would make me hesitate to step into my own front yard. I’m not criticizing — just observing. In a way, I find it fascinating, maybe even anthropological. Though to be fair, I only ever took the intro course in anthropology back in college.

What I’ve come to realize is that everyone’s “normal” isn’t the same. People — even here in Louisiana — live in slightly different subcultures where they fit perfectly and feel not the slightest bit out of place anywhere, they go. And to be sure, I haven’t always been so self‑conscious myself. I’ve gone out in dirty, ripped gym shorts and a sleeveless tee, proudly showing off muscles I didn’t actually have.

From whence I come.

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” — Oscar Wilde

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” — Charles Addams

“Anthropology demands the open‑mindedness with which one must look and listen.” — Margaret Mead

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #morning #cloths #anthropolgy #normal

Heard the one about the #neonazi #tradwife wannabe trying to argue that #writing was invented in central #Europe, about 40k years ago? #Reading can be challenging. But #ignorance is a #choice.

#LearningIsSexy #anthropolgy #science #politics #neurologicaldisorder

The actual research paper for reference.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123

Book Review: The Mushroom at the End of the World

#Commerce, #economics, #psychology, #sociology, #Anthropolgy come together to learn about matusake #mushroom.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&id=381

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#chickensoup

In this way, the blog functions as both an index and an invitation.
#methods #anthropolgy #glassceilingrecords

http://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2026/01/21/glass-ceiling-records-bts-anthropology-transparency-and-the-shared-space-between-us/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

I wonder if it is possible to predict if ancient individuals were autistic based on the footprints they left behind.
#RandomThoughts #Autism #ToeWalking #Anthropolgy #Archaeology

Yesterday Goldsmiths
Today Kent
Tomorrow - watch your backs

#MassacreOfTheHumanities #UniversityFunding #PhilistinePolitics #KentUniversity
#Music #Anthropolgy #HealthAndSocialCare #journalism #artHistory #ComparativeLiterature #EnglishLanguage #Linguistics #ModernLanguages #Philosophy #religion #ethics

One complaint, riffing on an off hand comment in the interview: it’s long past time everyone abandons the outdated belief that #anthropolgy is about going to the field and studying #theOther, while #sociology is about studying #theSelf (or worse, the #modern ).

So my special interest right now is the differences between autistic and non-autistic communication or more accurately, direct and indirect communication (ask/guess culture) and I'd really like to look into the origins/why indirect communication became the majority. But I don't really know where to begin. If anyone has suggestions or recommendations I would love to hear them! #Autisic #SpecialInterest #research #Anthropolgy