by david allan van nostrand | Nov 6, 2023 | Americana, Anthropology, Human Behavior, Social archaelogy
Who Were the Beats? So many people were killed in World War II that no one knows the exact number. Officials estimated that 50 million military and civilian deaths were directly caused by the war and another 20 million died as a result of famine and war-related...
by david allan van nostrand | May 15, 2023 | Americana, Anthropology, Case Study, Human Behavior
After living among them for many years, University of Michigan anthropologist Horace Miner wrote about the exotic habits and magical rituals of a tribe called the Nacirema. His ethnography “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” was first published in 1956 and was such a...
by david allan van nostrand | May 8, 2023 | Anthropology, Human Behavior, The world around us
Beginning in the 15th century and for the next 200 years, European explorers and traders roamed the world in search of peoples to conquer and resources to wrongfully take by force and/or guile. In doing so, the Westerners came into contact with people who looked,...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 19, 2022 | Anthropology, Items in the News, The world around us
“Hello walls (Hello, hello). How’d things go for you today? Don’t you miss her since she up and walked away? And I’ll bet you dread to spend another lonely night with me, but lonely walls, I’ll keep you company.” This song about a...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 7, 2022 | Americana, Anthropology, The Wayback Machine
Say thanks this November 11th to a black veteran of the U.S. military Black soldiers served in the U.S. Army and Navy during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. In 1820, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, acting in his position as United States Secretary of...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 11, 2022 | Anthropology, Case Study, Outsiders
Not many people know that Trinidad is closer to Venezuela (6 miles) than it is to Tobago (20 miles). Just 1,800 square miles, Trinidad is smaller than Rhode Island, but nearly twenty times the size of Tobago, a little squirt of an island. More than a million people...
