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A gathering of sites related to my interests in various social sciences. A mere conglomeration for now.
Updated on Apr 08, 14
Created on Jul 11, 09
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"The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights."
AnthroCurrents appears Fridays
A dynamic GIF map of the US and its stages of expansion and formalization a system of states.
Book reviews for amateur and avocational archaeologists - with links beyond the SW USA to categorized reviews of books on archeology of Southeast, Missippian, Mesoamerica and Intl books.
University of Texas At Austin webpages devoted to the life and works of Marcus Tullius Cicero; the "Biography" page includes the translated text of Plutarch's Life of Cicero
"The UCL Social Networking Sites & Social Science Research Project based at the UCL Department of Anthropology is dedicated to understanding the implications of social media use for global humankind and society, and explaining their significance for the future of the social sciences."
"Twelve Years a Slave:
Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York,
Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853:
Electronic Edition.
Solomon Northup (b. 1808)"
The UNC-archived, digitized text of the first person slave narrative of Solomon Northrup, a free black resident of Washington, DC, kidnapped into slavery in 1841 and rescued from a Louisiana plantation in 1853. This narrative served as the basis for the 2013 film of the same name.
"Though I did not know it then, nor would I come to realize it for many years, what transpired in the fall of 1960 in New Orleans would forever change my life and help shape a nation. When I think back on that time and all that has occurred since, I realize a lot has changed. I also know there is much more to be done. That fateful walk to school began a journey, and I have now developed a vision to continue moving forward.
-Ruby Bridges"
"Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Chicago), Grant has studied American culture and business for 25 years.
He has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and worked for many organizations including Timberland, New York Historical Society, Diageo, IKEA, Sesame Street, Nike, and Kimberly Clark.
He started the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, where he did the first museum exhibit on youth cultures.
He has taught at the University of Cambridge, MIT, and the Harvard Business School.
He is a long time student of culture and commerce. Many academics prefer to look askance at interactions of culture and commerce. He has explored this theme in two books: Culture and Consumption I, and Culture and Consumption II."
Ranking of top economists and links to their basic info and works.
"The appearance and persistence of such complex forms of human social organization as property rights, companies, markets, cities, nation states, and democratic forms of government raise fascinating questions about human social development.
Why and how were such systems advantageous to those who adopted them? How have these systems co-evolved? Why do cities live forever but companies eventually die? What are the underlying structures and dynamics of financial markets? Why did complex urban centers suddenly appear in at least six places around the world at about the same time?
Social systems have been a mainstay research direction at SFI. Today, a growing numbers of Institute researchers are taking an empirical, quantitative approach to theories in social systems. Massive data sets and scaling laws offer new ways to understand modern complex social systems. By adding the increasingly expansive and detailed archaeological records of early human social systems, researchers are gaining valuable insights into human social and cultural evolution."
"COPAA is nationwide consortium of university departments and programs that provide education in practicing and applied anthropology.
Our mission is to collectively advance the education and training of students, faculty, and practitioners in applied anthropology."
"The Noam Chomsky Reading List is an unofficial site that uses references, taken from the notes in some of Chomsky's important works, to create book lists. The site catalogs 668 books, from 1163 references in 9 works by Noam Chomsky.
The references have been gathered from the following sources: Year 501: The Conquest Continues, Pirates and Emperors, Old and New, 9-11, Imperial Ambitions, Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Chomsky on Anarchism, Government in the Future, and Chomsky on MisEducation."
"Kant wrote his social and political philosophy in order to champion the Enlightenment in general and the idea of freedom in particular. His work came within both the natural law and the social contract traditions. Kant held that every rational being had both an innate right to freedom and a duty to enter into a civil condition governed by a social contract in order to realize and preserve that freedom.
His writings on political philosophy consist of one book and several shorter works. The “Doctrine of Right”, Part One of his two-part Metaphysics of Morals and first published as a stand-alone book in February 1797, contains virtually every directly political topic he treats."
Lectures and powerpoints by Peter Navarro, Professor at UCI-Irvine, Harvard Ph.D. in Economics: Power of Microeconomics; Power of Macroeconomics; Investing
"Listen in as Bill Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell compare creation myths from the bible and elsewhere, and talk about how religions and mythologies need to change with time in order to maintain their relevance in peoples’ lives.
Released in 1988, The Power of Myth was one of the most popular TV series in the history of public television, and continues to inspire new audiences."
89 items | 1 visits
A gathering of sites related to my interests in various social sciences. A mere conglomeration for now.
Updated on Apr 08, 14
Created on Jul 11, 09
Category: Others
URL: