Monday, August 5, 2013

AN Adventures on the Horizon

Greeting Nerds! Three weeks until the start of the new semester, and with it comes even more opportunities to dive into great AN courses to feed your need for disciplinary knowledge. If you are still looking for a course, you can check out Dr. Stock's Human Origins class, where you'll explore the evolutionary history of our species and learn how our splendid diversity came to be. It will build on much of the great stuff you learned in AN 102, Bones, Genes, and Everything in Between with Dr. Ullinger. We've also got space left in Latin American Societies and Cultures. Next spring Dr. Giblin is offering a new course, Archaeology of Food, so keep that in mind as you plan for the next semester (it'll be a TTh course).
To get you pumped for school and to energize your AN-loving soul, I've provided a link to my all time favorite AN video--The Anthropology Song: A little bit Anthropologist. Enjoy!

Friday, August 2, 2013

So cute - had to share!

Just a quick post - today was the last day of my fellowship at the library. As a parting gift, the staff gave me a very cute picture book called "Skeleton Hiccups." I'll bring it by the lab - it's awesome!

-Lucy

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Vale Dr. Stocking

Dr. George W. Stocking Jr. passed away on July 13, 2013.  Dr. Stocking's work informed an entire generation of scholars in anthropology about their own discipline, though he was not an anthropologist himself.  He published numerous books on the history of the discipline, and profiled many of the early scholars who contributed to the discipline's foundation in the U.S. and in Great Britain. His passing makes me regret we do not yet have a History of Anthropology class at Quinnipiac. If we had such a class, all our AN students would leave QU with a deep appreciation for the work this man did for our discipline. You can be sure of one thing: much of what you read in any of your AN courses has been touched, in some way, by the work of Dr. Stocking.

https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/07/30/george-w-stocking-jr-historian-social-anthropology-1928-2013?utm_source=newsmodule