Thursday, November 19, 2009

precollege Anthro curriculum launches in Britain (A-level)

http://anthropologistabouttown.blogspot.com/2009/11/special-announcement-first-anthropology.html

Congratulations colleagues around Britain for leading the way for others to follow!

Monday, November 16, 2009

iron age life in N. Europe

http://www.tollundman.dk/tollundmandens-tid.asp is about the "bog man" (Tollund, Denmark) with text, pictures, video about the time period of 500 BC to 800 AD - overlapping with the Okhotsk society along the north coast of Japan' north island of Hokkaido.
 
In S. Sweden (west of Malmo) there is a village recreation with people volunteering to live in the old ways as an experiement. Imagine this experiment with Okhotsk living, as well.
Also on the S. coast of Sweden there is also this large monument, http://ystaddailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/02/megalithic-ship.html
 
Another village (near Stockholm) was included in the May 2000 documentary about viking society.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

maligning the Canis Lupis - language & culture

http://ystaddailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/05/wolf.html -all the English language expressions about wolves seem to be pejorative (against them)
 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

topics for teachers (soc sci web project)

issues such as migration, citizenship, youth crime and other topics

Anthropologist About Town 


Diary for 5th November to 11th November 2009


SUNDAY 8th November- Social Science for Schools

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), have just launched a new website called Social Science for schools. The aim of the website is to provide teachers with accessible information bringing together ESRC funded research on issues such as migration, citizenship, youth crime and other topics, so that they have reliable quantitative and qualitative data to use in their classrooms. This is an excellent resource for any social science teacher!