Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Told You So

Matriarchal Bonobo apes are as violent, if no more so, than male-dominated chimpanzees. Anthropologists claim that this calls into question the belief that feminist societies would be inherently more peaceful.

Readers of Rudyard Kipling and the Norse sagas just shake their heads in exasperation.

Wednesday, 7 March 2007

Anthropological Idiocy



Preparing for the next edition of the Newspeak dictionary, the Association of Social Anthropologists has decreed that the term "Stone Age" is now officially "offensive" to backward, primitive savages.

It may also be offensive to people who are not social anthropologists.