Random Vagrancies
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Living small: Lulu's shipping container home This article introduces me to the concept of “Elegant Poverty” and I love it.
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Deconstructing the definition of ethnography.
It’s fieldwork time!
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Whenever I talk about you guys (things you’ve done, places you’ve work, articles you’ve posted) I refer to you as my “not real, sort of real internet-friends”. I just thought you should know.
You lot are all just the voices in my external memory.
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Men had no problem violating women’s bodies while they had on corsets, petticoats and farthingales, so what the fuck makes you think a short skirt has anything to do with it?
Men also have no problem violating women’s bodies while they wear a niqab, hijab and burqa, some of the most covered form of clothing. So basically, what the fuck makes you think clothes have anything to do with it?
Super relevant.
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I realized yesterday that Starfleet is the future of anthropology and about lost it.
You mean if we actually had funding.
(via anthrocentric)
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Annoyingly nagging thought of the day
Why do scientists always deny things that do not fit their status quo?
Aren’t we supposed to…yanno, investigate?
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Amazon Debuts ‘Kindle Worlds,’ Where Your Gossip Girl Fan Fiction Can Earn You Cash | TechCrunch This…. This is not going to end well…
As a fanfic writer, there are multiple reasons why I do not support this- key point being, I don’t trust the quality of probably close to 85% of the writers in any given fandom.
Besides that, there are dozens if not hundreds of websites and the like devoted to not-for-profit fanfiction.
Congratulations, Amazon, this is what the military calls a Charlie Foxtrot in the making.
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- by Oscar Lao Christian Becker, Silke Brauer, Mannis van Oven, Peter Nürnberg, Peter de Knijff and Manfred Kayser
Background
“The presence of a southeast to northwest gradient across Europe in human genetic diversity is a well-established observation and has recently been confirmed by genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data. This pattern is traditionally explained by major prehistoric human migration events in Palaeolithic and Neolithic times. Here, we investigate whether (similar) spatial patterns in human genomic diversity also occur on a microgeographic scale within Europe, such as in the Netherlands, and if so, whether these patterns could also be explained by more recent demographic events, such as those that occurred in Dutch population history.
Methods
We newly collected data on a total of 999 Dutch individuals sampled at 54 sites across the country at 443,816 autosomal SNPs using the Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 5.0 (Affymetrix). We studied the individual genetic relationships by means of classical multidimensional scaling (MDS) using different genetic distance matrices, spatial ancestry analysis (SPA), and ADMIXTURE software. We further performed dedicated analyses to search for spatial patterns in the genomic variation and conducted simulations (SPLATCHE2) to provide a historical interpretation of the observed spatial patterns.
Results
We detected a subtle but clearly noticeable genomic population substructure in the Dutch population, allowing differentiation of a north-eastern, central-western, central-northern and a southern group. Furthermore, we observed a statistically significant southeast to northwest cline in the distribution of genomic diversity across the Netherlands, similar to earlier findings from across Europe. Simulation analyses indicate that this genomic gradient could similarly be caused by ancient as well as by the more recent events in Dutch history.
Conclusions
Considering the strong archaeological evidence for genetic discontinuity in the Netherlands, we interpret the observed clinal pattern of genomic diversity as being caused by recent rather than ancient events in Dutch population history. We therefore suggest that future human population genetic studies pay more attention to recent demographic history in interpreting genetic clines. Furthermore, our study demonstrates that genetic population substructure is detectable on a small geographic scale in Europe despite recent demographic events, a finding we consider potentially relevant for future epidemiological and forensic studies” (read more/open access).
(Open access source: Investigative Genetics 4:9, 2013)
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“Fieldwork is like sex: It is often messy. It can be awkward, especially at first. It requires some flexibility. It is at best spontaneous and, no matter what one’s proposal may say, simply cannot be planned. Like sex, even bad sex, fieldwork is always productive: it produces sensations, emotions, intimate knowledge of oneself and others.” —Patty Kelly, “Awkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico”
(Looking forward to that dissertation…)
(via zomganthro)
