Questions tagged [anthropology]
For questions relating to the study of various aspects of humans within past and present societies.
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Quote on other cultures from Greek scholar
I can remember from my Greek / Latin classes that a scholar from antiquity once wrote that
to write about another culture shows more about the writer himself than about the other culture
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What evidence do we have for the state of ecstasy in primitive cultures?
I'm studying anthropology just out of curiosity and my knowledge on this field is really limited. I am interested in the state of ecstasy and its effects in primitive psychology.
What evidence do we ...
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Which country had the largest indigenous itinerant population?
Which country has or had the largest numbers (in absolute and/or relative terms) of indigenous itinerants in any period of history? For this question, I consider itinerants to mean a group for which ...
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Is there any evidence that people in the late Pleistocene understood that their environment was changing?
Of all the periods of geographic and climactic transformation our planet has undergone, the late Pleistocene is of particular interest to historians, since it was the first to be witnessed by human ...
