#anthropology problems

[ochipi]

Weird things I have done as an archaeologist

Washing cannonballs

Comparing human leg bones to my leg

Balancing knee caps to see if they’re left or right

Smashed my head on a drill handle while I tried to look cool dropping 3 meters of stainless steel down a hole

Trying to rescue mice out of the trench using a shovel and screaming how you’re trying to help

Glass still cuts skin, even after 500 years. And me being the dumbass I am to swipe my finger across to clean it

Getting distracted because you’re convinced these two pottery shards match in some place

Pushing my thumb into the decorative indentation a potter has made 300 years ago cuz I’m still a child

Trying to match shoe prints to one of your colleagues

Surely google knows the brand name on this 100 year old shoe shine can

#archaeology #history #meme #history meme #archaeology meme #glass #pottery #pottery shards #skeleton #human skeleton #Indiana Jones #shoe prints #anthropology #anthropology meme #geography #paleontology #European archaeology #geology #archaeology problems

[thearchaeologicalwitch]

#archaeology #anthropology #archaeologist problems #sharable #holy fuck we gotta give that shit back #fuck the british museum

[deadvee]

My sister is cheating on her husband!!!!!!

first of all, i'm sorry for using so many irrelevant #'s. i really needed the reach i don't have on tumblr

a few days ago my cousin sister told me how she has been seeing this guy for 6 months even tho she is married…. she confessed she also once planned to elope with him and that she's actually serious about him. He is also from a different religion. I can't confront her cause I don't know what to say. also I can't talk to her husband cause I kinda wanna save her marriage (I know it's wrong) I also can't talk to any other adult because we have a very strict family and it's going to be a real mess. So please tell me what can I do to end it all but without creating a scene???

#help #please help #relationship #homewrecking #breakup #wife #husband tag #problem solving #affair #love #poetry #anthropology #children #cars #aesthetic #public relations #relationship questions #relationship quotes #literature #dark academia #writing #original character #words

[captlok]

Wade Ripple is everything I want to see in terms of gender.

He’s so DUDEBRO and yet he embodies a very female-associated way of being that’s sensitive (even hyper-sensitive) and aside from people kind of acting bewildered sometimes at him and his over-emotive family, he’s never shamed for it.

In meatbag land (humans) he’d get called a sissy boy. Even gay. Despite the fact that he is nearly 0% swishy (he has a few moments. barely) But it seems to be simply a facet of Water culture at large.

It, in turn, stands in stark contrast to the people in economic power in the real world, who tend to have inherited the ‘stiff upper lip’ attitude of colonizers.

I know it’s probably just meant to be a gag bc water = tears but it ends up being really fascinating.

#wade ripple #elemental movie #fictional anthropology #worldbuilding #it’s like in Zootopia where prey-pred problems are genuinely their own world’s thing and don’t track precisely to real world. it’s great #it’s immersive

[soldier-poet-king]

I'm finally back into the way of kings and like.kaladin. Kaladin. Babe. My poor little meow meow. Sad boy times only. Prime Blorbo material. I would die for him.

What a shame bsanderson is such A Worldbuilding Guy and I'm very much more a character driven person where the world mostly exists to serve the narrative & themes bc like. Ho boy is this one dragging. The dalinar chapters SHOULD be smthn I enjoy! Sad old men! Guilt! Honour! Chivalric codes! The ever encroaching fear that you're losing your sanity! And yet. Mcdying.

Love shallan and jasnah. Absolutely fascianted by scholarly, philosophical and religious infighting and implications there. But Kaladin is THEE cosmere guy of all time. He's uprooted even my mistborn era 1 faves. Guilt complex chronically depressed sometimes suicidal enslaved soldier is actually meant to be a healer and a surgeon and he is kind. And good. He doesn't want to be a miracle but for his men he will be. But he also said fuck the lighteyes class oppression all my homies hate this shit. I stood ZERO chance of him not being my fave immediately

#fran reads #fran reads cosmere #not tagging bc i like to be alive and not yelled at for not loving it as much as everyone else #im having fun! but also the PACING OH MY GOD #and bsanderson worldbuilds for its own sake. and THEN populates it w characters #or it feels like that. which is fine. #but im such an emotive character and theme driven hoe its like. om. #ok. but i need to be compelled #ur little racial group cultures and religions that worship rocks and long eyebrowed traders #all fine. #but WHY do they exist like this. HOW does it affect our characters and why they behave certain ways #if youre gonna go ham on the worldbuilding i need historical anthropological explanations in world #else I just get. bored? #which is v much a ME problem its not really a criticism just a preference #i find i don't have the same issues w tolkien either bc nostalgia blinders or bc tolkien was a historian and linguist and that comes out #*out in his work #and most the rest of my fantasy novels are character driven. loke even tge which has an expansice socially stratified political world #it facilitates character arcs and interactions. it doesnt just exist for its own sake #REAL LIFE CULTURES. VERY RARELY. JUST DO SHIT JUST BC #yeah yeah archaeology for ritual purposes joke. but THATS SLOPPY ANTHRO WORK. WE HATE IT #unhinged insane of me ik. i am going back to being sad abt prime blorbo material kaladin #bc he truly is SO good. THE bsanderson character For Me Definitely

[ghelgheli]

the problem with imputing label-based "division of labour" onto archaeological evidence is that the presentist will confuse correlation between perceived labels (e.g. what they may call "sex") and inferred occupation with a causal relationship whereby the latter was somehow decided on the basis of the former. but there will not even be any decisive evidence that the label they assigned today existed at all then.

#text #this is to say nothing of the comfortable elision between sex and gender as though either are historical and cultural universals #these (paleo)anthro papers and everything downstream of them suck #the same problem repeats in anthropological analysis of contemporary social organization ofc

[hussyknee]

People thinking they can poke holes in the quality of the media I hyperfixate on puzzle me. Dude, I know it's trash. I know it's mediocre-to-actively bad. I know it has the nutritional value of Fruit Loops. That's why I hyperfixate on it. If it was actually good it wouldn't produce the kind of under-the-skin irritation only scratchable by 738274 fics, fanedits and meta. I'm not gonna apologize for it.

Of course people who hyperfixate on this trash thinking it's good is a whole other class of animal. That probably belongs in a zoo.

#insert CW show here #I wonder what it would be like to be in a fandom whose source material is actually good #like LotR or Alexis Hall or Discworld or Leverage #although I've blocked some of those tags because their fandom's avoidance of discussing their problems at all #the blind worship of their creators and general superiority about the ''goodness'' of their source material #is a lot more insidiously toxic than having to share space with J2 truthers #fandoms of trash media are a lot more open to criticism of our source material and creators #exception being RWRB fandom #but that's down to it being somehow annexed entirely by Swifties #they're the class of animal I'm talking about #supernatural #DCU #harry potter #DCtv #flarrowverse #BtVS #DC comics #should put Bones in here but the show was testing my cringe resistance even before I quit by S6 #imbibing copaganda is one thing but completely disgracing the field of anthropology is where I draw the line #same with Queer as Folk #like enjoyable for its time but I can't sit through it at all now #sometimes I do want to apologize for my hyperfixations #knee of huss

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photography Credit: Margaret Mead In The Admiralty Islands, 1929. Courtesy of The New York Times Archives. via: Parabola Magazine on Tumblr

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"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems." ―Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978), was an American cultural anthropologist.

#quotes #Margaret Mead #Parabola Magazine #anthropologist #anthropology #problems

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

The first step of writing in the fantasy genre is NOT to chart out language trees and phonetics. You do NOT need to understand how different languages relate to each other to write a little adventure story. That is the Devil talking.

(I am gripping the edge of the sink, akin to someone holding the Bad Decisions Hair Scissors)

#the reason my university doesn’t offer linguistic anthropology is because they knew I’d become insufferable #adventures in writing #writing problems #okay but WHAT IF—

[punkcaligula]

There is no pattern here. Or, if there is one, it resides precisely in the fact that this shifting back and forth allowed mature and self-conscious political actors to be continually aware that no social order was immutable: that everything was at least potentially open to negotiation, subversion, and change. Are rituals and ritual seasons expressions of arbitrary authority or venues of social creativity? Are they, in essence, reactionary or progressive? Were our earliest ancestors simple and egalitarian, or complex and stratified? Are humans good or bad? Perhaps all these questions blind us to what really makes us human, which is our ability to negotiate between such alternatives.

We do not have to choose between an egalitarian or hierarchical start to the human story. We just have to bid farewell to the childhood of man and acknowledge – as Lévi-Strauss insisted – that our early human ancestors were not just our cognitive equals, but our intellectual and philosophical peers too. Likely as not, our Palaeolithic forbears were aware, at least in a very broad sense, of many later social possibilities. Likely as not they grappled with the paradoxes of social creativity just as much as modern theorists, and understood them – at least the most reflexive among them – just as much, which means also just as little. Perhaps this is what being ‘intellectually modern’ actually means. If there is a riddle here it is why, after millennia of constructing and disassembling forms of hierarchy, Homo sapiens – supposedly the wisest of apes – allowed permanent and intractable systems of inequality to first take root?

Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality; David Graeber, David Wengrow

#quotes #david wengrow #david graeber #anarchism #anthropology #prehistory #archive #i have my own problems with w&g #as everyone else in the human sciences seems to have at some point #but they go sooo hard sometimes

[ricisidro]

#3BodyProblem (Chinese: 三体), No. 2 tv show on #Netflix, is based on a book by Chinese #science #fiction author #LiuCixin, set against the backdrop of #China's #CulturalRevolution.

A secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth.

#scifi #technology #universe #existentialism #life #ethics #anthropology

#3 Body Problem #Netflix #novel #Liu Cixin #science fiction #science #scifi #technology #universe #existentialism #life #ethics #science research #anthropology

[ochipi]

Things I hate about archaeology -as an archaeologist-

Ungodly hours changing every week. What healthy sleeping pattern?

Rain that just keeps pouring for hours and hours with material that’s water sensitive and a boss that wants you to continue. I don’t work well when I look and smell like a street dog

Working on “your field of specialty”. Don’t think it’ll ever happen to me.

People with no knowledge of your line of work that decide everything for you

No one knows what archaeology is about, no one wants to know. Worse is being declared mad.

Every archaeologist has OCD. Which makes it hard to please yourself and your superior

Why does sand end up everywhere?

#archaeology #field archaeologist #field archaeology #fieldwork #geology #history #anthropology #geography #archaeology meme #archaeology problems #history meme #geology meme #Indiana jones #sand #rain #ocd

[ichayalovesyou]

I was wondering if you had any headcanons or thoughts about Pre-reform/ Pre-Surak times?

My god Anon it's been over a year since I partially answered this in my drafts and I apologize, holy crap. Haven't been active in a while and am trying to catch up on soooooo many Trek things!

Pre-Surakian Reform Headcanons!

As a baseline, imagine how much things would SUCK if everyone was suddenly touch telepathic and even more empathetically interconnected with all the undisciplined emotion and political madness we've got now in the 21st century. NOT a pretty picture amiright? Oh gods...

"I'm arguing with you in my head" except real, debates on every scale from personal to grand political have a spoken layer AND a psychic layer. And regular arguments are already painful and confusing enough as it is, oof.

I bet some fights get so bad (see, canon mind rape being a thing) it's like those rodents that are so territorial they die even if they never fight if they're too close to each other? Two people staring at each other angrily for five hours until one of them just drops dead.

Psychic Warlords I believe are a thing briefly touched on in Enterprise and novel canon. Sybok's "hunting for god" V'tosh Ka'tur cult was unsettling enough, imagine that being a much MUCH bigger and more frequent problem. Entire governments using powerful Vulcan telepaths to ensure loyalty.

Just thinking about how invasive advertising is without you forcibly learning about an entire brand of hair care products because the kiosk girl at the mall tapped you on the shoulder. Ugh, makes my skin crawl to think about it.

Privacy, oh sweet mercy, again, something that's virtually non-existent now in our human Age of Information, the only totally secure place to have thoughts these days is your mind, Pre-Surakian Vulcans may not have even had that.

Mental illness is already established to not only affect the Vulcan who has it but almost everyone around them as well in-canon. Could you imagine the consequences of mental illness like Depression and Anxiety and PTSD and Alzheimer's and Bipolar being contagious like how some Humans pretend it is in real life? That would be a NIGHTMARE.

War was probably even rougher on societal psyche as well because of the k'war'ma'khon, individuals constantly feeling the immense death tolls may not have tamped war down but exacerbated the cycle of vengeance and the deep rooted prejudices that spring from it. Biiiiig yikes.

So I guess Pre-Surakian Vulcan was probably the hell that it's advertised as in canon, just on more levels than war and violence. While the primarily addressed thing is Vulcan rage in a lot of Trek shows, it's obvious Surak's teachings tamped down other emotions. Emotions like greed, ambition, jealousy, and selfishness. Which were probably the worser society destroyers than the more basic emotions like anger and sadness and joy. Which I think is telling of both how the age before Surak was like, and how many Vulcans misunderstand his teachings on certain levels post Enlightenment.

#The more you think about it the more you really GET why Vulcans are the way they are now #I mean they still DEFINITELY have their problems but compared to the alternative they are extremely chill #like wow shit was probably really REALLY bad on so many levels #star trek #vulcantology #vulcan history #vulcan anthropology #vulcan culture #vulcan telepathy #vulcan psychology #vulcan #vulcans #pre-surak vulcan #vulcan headcanons #sybok #star trek enterprise #ent #star trek ent #lar trek

[hylianengineer]

Every time I see a fake human skull or skeleton I must analyze it for anatomical correctness. This is the curse of knowing too much about bones.

#problems my anthropology degree gave me #hylian rambles

[bl00dw1tch]

the way i have absolutely no business being the way i am

#horse.txt #vent // #sort of. too high to be sad abt it im in anthropology mode and listening to music that makes me feel sexy so its fine yk #anyway i typed a whole bunch of other tags talking abt how and why i feel this way by going through a few of the events i can remember #from my childhood that Might explain why im so emotionally guarded and struggle to open up anymore. #bc i Wanted to say they all felt dumb and juvenile esp since ive actually like #made peace with most of the ppl who were involved with them #but the Anthropology mode was just tearing it all down as i typed it bc that Is just a ridiculous way to look at it no matter how you cut it #doesn't matter that nobody involved really Meant to deal that kind of harm and i dont need to hate or blame anyone in order to acknowledge #that it still just Happened. like thats a Memory already babe no do overs. #which is kind of just accidental therapy so sick. love that fir me genuinely! #but also yes theres the bitch part of me that still wants to discredit it bc acknowledging that it happened =/= Fixing My Issues #so im still at square one technically. ive just been pacing in circles on it for a while ig #EVEN WORSE that the Scale of my issues is so incredibly mundane compared to so many of the people i seem to meet. #sitting in bed crying abt not having friends for a few days in elementary school when other ppl have jojos bizarre adventure levels of Lore #i know im not technically invalid for feeling the way i do or anything but god. if it doesn't feel fucking Embarrassing to open up about😭 #its impossible NOT to feel stupid and sensitive for having these first world ass problems. And letting them hold me back #bc ppl not liking me for any reason makes me sooooooooo fucking scared So fucking scared its not even funny 😝 #at least. ppl in my Circles. im pretty ok about being assertive with randos #still some work to be done on it but its better than whatevers going on with my personal relationships rn #sincerely to my mutuals and loved ones who see this i swear to GOD i love you so so so fucking much and im so. im trying to figure out this #the stuff thats got me so distant and bad at keeping in touch. its a whole slew of feelings about how i see Myself--not yall #i double pinky promise cross my heart im extremely serious #thank you for being patient with me you mean more to me than im capable of putting into words right now #alright theres a shot of tears in the hollow of my collar bone time to wrap up this post #daily reminder that i love body hair. there's some honesty. #😎😎😎💪💪💪 #the Quaritch under the cut is just to make me feel better bc i love him and i think hes so pretty. hes like a security blanket

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

seeing e-trads posting photos of their ugly plastic christmas trees in the middle of november is frankly extremely pathetic. e trads love to cry about the fall of western civilisation and consoomerism and shit like that bla bla bla but they're the first to buy a giant fugly tree to keep for 2 months straight in their houses

i'm judging them for being plastic enthusiasts who screech about seed oils but then willingly put a plastic tree in their living space for months and i'm judging them for being laughable cringelords who are SOOOOO AGAINST the modern world that they have to rebel against it by jumping on the consumerisn bandwagon

likes are more important to them than proper christian pracxtices (setting up a christmas tree on the christmas eve) so i assume that probvably quite a few of them don't even have souls lmao

and yes, december 1st is almost just as bad as middle of november

#but the main problem of course is that e trads shouldn't be a thing #if you're so trad then what the fuck are yopu doing on tumblr #go back to your trad life and leave tumblr to us girlies #but ofc farming likes is more important than being a good christian #hater moment #hating is good for your soul #e trads #e-anthropology #moje