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Liliana and Anders would be a PERFECT couple... just saying
That looks so cool
I think they are all so CUTE!!! Oh my b'goodness, I'm going to have Dragon Age dreams again. While the last ones were pleasant, I woke up VERY disappointed that I wasn't in a camp out in the open with Varric beside me. Or Zevran. Or Alistair. ...darn it, I want them all!
If we're being technical, Morrigan doesn't swing that way, but this is lovely.
I especially like Anders and Leliana.
I especially like Anders and Leliana.
Anders and Liliana would have the most adorable rivalmance ever.
Love how you drew Fenris and Zev ^w^
All I can say is, I can see Morrigan getting very tired of Merrill very quickly
Aww. So cute! ^_^
Awe i like all of these! Especially the Anders/Lilianna one where they are cuddling with Ser Pounce a Lot!
omg omg omg I love it!!!
fenris and zevran
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I love your Dragon Age art!
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Your artwork is so amazing! ^-^ I'm quite jealous really.
Ohmygawd it's SER POUNCE-A-LOT!
1. Leliana and Anders? SO Right! Gods they are cute together
2. The funny thing is, Merril is actually "more" illegal than Morrigan. Both are apostates, but Merril is a bloodmage too... looks decieve
2. The funny thing is, Merril is actually "more" illegal than Morrigan. Both are apostates, but Merril is a bloodmage too... looks decieve
isabella! step away from the cute virginal Alistair!
didnt mean to put a one on the last review...i loved this
You forgot Oghren and Varric. Can you do one of those guys, please?
*gasp* if zev and fenris wre in the same game at the same time..id...id. be such a hoe lol i love the smexy elves!
They are in the same game at the same time.
yea i figured that out lol dragon age 2. hurr durr i had a dumb moment. but i mean like zev as a companion again along with fenris
It's probably just wishful thinking, but I can so see this happening. *snerk* Everyone but Morrigan and the Warden end up in Kirkwall eventually.
awwwww morrigan n merill are soooo cute together lol love this,great art!
MORRIGAN! I never imagined Fenris like that XD
Love morrigans face XD
I just realized the guy next to Fenris was Zevy.. O.OI know, without his facial tattoo I'm like whom is the cute blonde guy, qhere was there a blong guy in DA- Oh! It's Zevran. >.<
Just about laughed byself into stupid-vile.
Just about laughed byself into stupid-vile.
Maybe it's my fangirl mind at work, but I can totally see all this happening...
Awesome work! I really like the one with Morrigan and Merrill, you captured both their personalities so well in their expressions.
Leliana and Anders are so sweet together: two gentle souls (more or less, in Anders case )
All the character's are just done so well. You have some truly amazing artwork! I would have Favorited it all!
Soooooooooooo adorable each and every couple!!!!
Meryl and morrigan....................Excuse for an hour.
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Back SIgh the things dreams are made of
Ahh Morrigan.. you and your look that says "oh maker help me"..
Your Bioware art is just totally fantastic! Keep up the great work!
Fenris and Zevran...so much sexiness <3
The look on Morrigan's face!!!! Love it.
The stylization and rendering is hands down awesome, hats off!
Hehe love Moris expression, so like her XD
Morrigan just doesn't like Merrill because she's only met cutey-pie Merrill so far, not batshit-insane blood-mage killed-my-whole-tribe choke-me-like-that-no-do-it-harder (okay... that last part might just be in my head) Merrill
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The others are good too.
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On the coast, on the side of Klapparstigur near the beach, you can see this sculputer of Gunnar Arnason call SunCraft and it is rappresent a viking boat. But if you see very well it appeare like a big insect with 10 legs. Very very nice :)
In Reykjavik shorefront, not far from the city center -- nothing is far from anything in Reykjavik -- sits a commanding Viking ship statue. Made of metal, this modernised version of the ships Vikings used to conquer a big part of the northern hemisphere back then is a sight worth not missing. The statue, named Sun Voyager, is made by artist Jon Gunnar Arnason.
The ship looks very dramatic, and gives a lot of photo opportunities; either with your family or friends, or just the statue with dramatic Icelandic nature on the background. The best time to visit the status is either early morning or late evening on a clear day, when the last rays of sun make the statue turn reddish. We were not that lucky, so you can enjoy only rainy photo. On the other hand, the small water drops on the metal surface were pretty interesting...
Grindavik south on the Reykajnes peninsula (15 minutes from the Blue Lagoon) has an impressive and emotional memorial for those who were left at sea in accidents, and the sculpture depicts those bereaved. A source for afterthought and consideration of the traditional hard life of the Icelanders. Right near the Saltfisktur house and Brim restaurant.
Inside the Brim restaurant are several photos of local fishing vessels in stormy weather.
If you are taking a walk along the waterfront to the East of the old harbour you will come across the striking Sólfar or Sun Voyager. Reykjavik boasts many sculptures and statues scattered around the city but this is by far my favourite. It was created by artist Jón Gunnar Árnason and unvieled in 1971. The huge shinny steel structure is intended to be an abstract representation of a viking ship.
I think it is a beautiful piece of art. The sharp, symetrical lines of the work contrast nicely with the natural lines of the sea and the mountains of Akrafjall and Esjan in the background. The sculpture is also interactive in that you can climb and walk around 'inside it', and it is very big as you can see with me leaning against it in the photos.
The statue of Leifur Eriksson (the Son of Iceland, Discoverer of Vinland) is in front of Hallgrimsskirkja. Created by Alexander Stirling Calder and presented to Iceland by the USA in 1930.
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Aside from promoting the best quality and safest flour products, PFMC extends its commitment in manufacturing the best quality animal feeds after being recognized as GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) certified feed milling plant last August 28, 2012.
Since animals such as swine, poultry and fisheries are considered food by all people and having a vital role in the food chain, studies with regards on feed safety was established to know its benefit to farm owners as well as to third consumers while ensuring and preserving the quality of feeds being milled.
As we valued most our suppliers and with the unconditional support from the top management, PFMC have come up to bring the current management system on a higher step. Creating a new mark in feed milling industry, PFMC Feeds Manila was recommended as a FSMS (Food Safety Management System) Certified Feed Mill Plant last August 29, 2012 by an international certifying body SGS (Societe Generale de Surveillance) Philippines and certificate was granted by SGS Geneva this year which spearheaded by the Total Quality Management Department together with the Food Safety Team.
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Dinagyang Festival 2012
Dancing to the beat of bombastic sounds , Team EXCEL FEEDS catch Dinagyang fever once again!
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Kalibo Ati-atihan Festival 2012
EXCEL FEEDS Team headed by Mr. Jonathan Sausi made their way as they smashed the streets of Kalibo in the festive drumbeats of Ati-atihan rhythm in honor of Sto. Nino. This year's grandest festivity in the town was also graced by Excel Feeds business partners like Developers Foundation and personnel from Hog cockers Trading, Grand Saver, Will Agrivet Trading, Javil Store, St Gabriel Hospital and Tribal Winds.
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Tribu Pan-ay Shines at Aliwan Festival 2011
Excel Feeds and Philippine Foremost Milling Corporation, proud sponsors of Tribu Pan-ay were equally grateful and happy about the greatest achievement of Iloilo's best – Tribu Pan-ay, for winning the Aliwan Festival Champion for National Festival Street Dancing held in Manila last April 15 – 16 2011. Pan - ay tribe was composed of energetic warriors, drummers and dancers from Iloilo Fort San Pedro National High School.
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Excel Feeds joins Dinagyang 2011
As our yearly commitment to Senior Sto. Niño, Excel Feeds once again walked with great pride together with our tribes to celebrate Dinagyang Festival and to show our active participation to this grandest event of the City.
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Excel Feeds Rocks @ Kalibo Ati-atihan Festival!
EXCEL FEEDS walked an extra mile to take part and enjoy Kalibo's best Ati-atihan Festival. January 15, 2011, the weather was just right as the team started the day with a Caravan from Altavas area all the way to Kalibo proper. In the afternoon, Excel Team rocks the streets with excitement for it was their first time to participate in the street dancing. It was indeed a great day of celebration for Senior Sto. Niño. Excel Feeds was grateful that the group of Developers Foundation, Mr. Edgar Sta. Maria and Mr. Fernando Flores, their valued customers in Aklan supported them in this endeavor to give honor and tribute to Senior Sto. Niño who have been so generous to everyone all through out the year.
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Excel Feeds Party with Valued Dealers
December 21, 2010, Excel Feeds family together with their loyal and ever supportive customers gathered at Amigo Terrace Hotel for a grand Christmas celebration. A bombastic performance from Tribu Paghidaet started the program. Prof. James Narvaez , the Master magician surprised the crowed with his magical tricks. Outstanding dealers were recognized for their excellent sales performance for the year. More than 100 items were given away in the raffle draw for all the customers who came along to party.
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PFMC-Trade Feeds National Sales Meeting
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ASA-IM & Excel Feeds - Swine Nutrition & Management Seminar
American Soya Association International Marketing in Cooperation with Excel Feeds conducts a seminar on Swine Nutrition and Management among Farm customers of Philippine Foremost Milling Corporation. Resourced speakers were the Technical Consultants of ASA-IM on swine, Dr. Chris Cheong, and Dr. Basilisa Reas. Major topics be covered include:
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- highlighting good swine farm management practices that Dr. Cheong has seen in his travels around the region.
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Excel Feeds joins 2008 Dinagyang Festival
Dancing with the drum beats of Ati-ati warriors, EXCEL FEEDS salesteam rushed to the crowded streets of the city to enjoy the spirit of Dinagyang Festival, in honor of Sto. Nino. Active as ever, EXCEL FEEDS graciously took part in the celebration, living up to its spiritual and social obligations in the society.
EXCEL FEEDS is the major sponsor of Tribu Ilongganon, one of the best contenders in Atii-ati competition. It is in fact, supporting the tribe for four consecutive years. This tribe won the championship from 2006 and 2007, and this year, garnered the 1st runner up spot.
Dinagyang festival depicts the unique ingenuity and rich culture of the Ilonggos. This most celebrated activity has gained nationwide recognition, thus enchanting hundreds and thousands of local spectators and foreign as well, year after year.


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She upped her chances of being noticed by Mr. 'slow jam' President by having his director of broadcast media as her guest. That's totally not conflict of interest-y or anything.
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Since I became Commander we have been working non-stop with an event scheduled just about every weekend. I didn't have time to settle in as Commander before we had our first big event of the year. The District 21 Spring conference we hosted in April was well received. I heard nothing but compliments from the out of town attendees. Ben Garber and his crew did a wonderful job planning the conference, and the hotel staff was very accommodating. A special thank you goes to Ralph Hughes and his staff who took great care of us during the conference. Can't forget Harvey and his crew came in and cleaned up the Anchorage and rescreened the downstairs just in time for the conference.
We then jump straight into the Dragon Boat Races. With the help of Billy Navarre who donated half of the money for the team, the donations from members, members who cheered us on, the members who were our on the water safety watches, the rowers and Cher Walker who put the team together we came in first place for "Other Fine Organizations" and we were number 7 overall. We had a few rain delays but overall we had a great time. The rain didn't even keep Ms. Elaine away.
The last event we had was Contraband days. Some of our members participated in the Pirogue building contest with the help of the Sea Cadet or was it the Sea Cadets partici-pated in the contest with the help of some of our members. We then finished the party off with the boat parade and fireworks.
The rest of the month was packed with even more fun events. To kick off the National Safe Boating week we had our booth setup on Friday, May 15th during the Downtown at Sundown. We had a Boat Safety Class on Saturday, May 16th. Also on Saturday, May 16th the Pelican Coast Parrot Head Club did their semi-annual cleanup
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TMCA Spring Fling in Port Arthur, TX was May 22 - 23rd. We did VSC's and Darryl Walker taught a Seminar on Rules of the Road. The Lake Arthur Regatta trip will be June 12 - 13th. Get with Harvey Kuttner if you plan on going by boat to see if there are any slots available. We will have more information on what is planned for that weekend after the next board meeting. We will also be doing Co-Op Charting during the trip so get with Ken Wilkinson and let him know that you are interested in doing some Co-Op charting.
Hope to see you at the events!
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I don't know who is voting in these polls, but they are obviously not members of ours, and I'd like to address some of these votes, since the ones who are making these selections, are not posting as to why they'd vote on some categories:
2 - credit times are slow
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Our Crediting is NOT slow. We run mostly the same offers with the affiliates with the same affiliates as all the rest of the networks. Innovus Net is on a custom script that cost more than what most networks use and no complaints! We don't chase rates either, we leave offers where they are if they are crediting well to insure the best experience for our members.
2 - offer selection is poor
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See above. We will not run offers that do not credit well. As new offers become available, we will try them, but we'll pull them immediately if we see any complaints at all, which is quite rare. We also do not run all the offers that some network do just to have a large selection, because there are some bad crediting offers out there and we won't take part in those!
2 - support is very slow, mostly unhelpful or unavailable
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There is absolutely no truth in this. With Bonnie who has over 6 years of experience in support handling tickets every day, at least a dozens times a day, all tickets are generally addressed immediately if not within an hour. She has a great deal of experience so all questions are answered! Additionally, both Deb and myself help out.
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This is even more ridiculous than the rest. We ship out every day at least 4-5 times a day. Orders are approved and shipped within a one hour period generally, the longest wait ever being no more than 2 hours. You may not see a lot of proofs posted here as I remember our last referral race, the members chose to avoid for some reason posting proofs on A4F and instead posted the proofs from trades here on various other forums. But, with payments going out constantly throughout the day, there is no reason for anyone to vote like this has happened here. I can only assume these votes are for reasons other than what the polls are for. Lastly, Innovus Net has a policy where if your order is not shipped within 24 hours after approval we'll double your money. No one has had to use this, so obviously these are not valid votes.
If there's a problem, it would be nice if those who vote so negatively would state why. Because to me at this point, there's a great deal of invalidity to the polls when abused like this. Additionally, we had just as good as many poll votes last time networks were upgraded, but we were passed over by the forum, for some unknown reason.
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You were not passed over last time, you did not have a good enough poll to move. I have sent you a PM.
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When I was young these small pavilions were used by some of the local Department Stores, Gerards and Schaeffers (long gone)to demonstrate and sell appliances. These days they are used for bird and produce displays.
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Great MYM post! Have a great day!ReplyDelete
I don't remember department stores selling appliances at any of the local shows I have gone to. Perhaps the town was too small. The middle one is quite an odd shape.ReplyDelete
Not sure what the middle building was used for, it has the feel of a announcers/judges booth but it is in the wrong location.Delete
Nice shot, and love the beautiful blue sky:)ReplyDelete
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Yummy yummy yum yumPosted on 11 / 03 / 2010
I love Brookton's Market. I shop there and eat at their deli several times a week. They have baked goods, a small deli, sandwiches, lots of soy products in the small grocery store, even a bulk section. Many veg/an friendly foods in deli: spanikopita, kale salad (vegan), baklava (vegan), vegan danishes, hot meal on Wed nights (not usually vegan). Use local food when available and carry in the store. They also have more candy, food, drinks with alternate sweetners (not "sugar" but fruit juice, brown rice syrup, etc) than usual. Super friendly, kind staff of women. It's an old fashioned store and the only one in town. Very quaint, worth the drive from Ithaca. Also, nice room to sit with lots of sunlight, books for the kids, games, etc. Good coffee. Clean. Helpful.
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NO WAY OUT by BreakingPerfectionWatch
©2012-2016 BreakingPerfection
what part didnt I read?
The "share-alike" licence. You write in the description that your picture is not free for use, but it should be.
ok i fixed it. that is a very odd rule
Thank you very much ^^ Actually I am surprised how little people know about this kind of licence...
no problem Well, no many people expect to see that its normally standard rules such as 'credit and link back' 'ask about commercial use/no commercial use' etc. And when people make art, they instinctively think of it as their own, seeing as they spend hours an hours on the work they dont feel too eager to allow other people use their art for whatever they want at will. (I personally do not enjoy that rule)
Well whatever, please forget what I have said. I am changing my rules to the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license as of today, following an advice from =DamselStock. Let's hope there will be much less disputes and misunderstanding now
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Thanks to those who made it out last Friday to our roundtable at the AAA meetings, 'Advancing Science in Anthropology: 10 years of SAS', commemorating 10 years of the Society for Anthropological Sciences, reflecting on our past and future. Of course, I know that many/most of you are either not AAA members or were not able to attend the meetings or had a conflict. Fortunately, Stephen Lyon (@stelynews) and I (@schrisomalis) were live-tweeting the event, so we are now glad to be able to share with you the Storify of the whole roundtable, including a summary of all the panelists and discussion from the audience. Thanks to all who participated!
C U N DC? An AAA rundown
To any of my readers who will be in Washington, D.C. this week for the annual American Anthropological meetings, feel free to say hello if you should see me amidst a swarm of funkily-dressed hipsteroids. (P.S.: I won't be one of them.) I'll be there from tomorrow afternoon right through Sunday afternoon. If you're looking to hear me speak, I'm a participant in a roundtable entitled 'Advancing Science in Anthropology' sponsored by the Society for Anthropological Sciences: Friday 12/05, 2:30 – 4:15pm, (Marriott – Wilson B). I warned my seminar students last night that I'm feeling feisty, so prepare for some judicious cantankery! You can also definitely find me at the SAS business meeting at 6:30pm Friday evening (Marriott – Maryland Suite C), at the Graduate School Fair at the Wayne State booth (Saturday 12-4pm), and at the SLA business meeting at 8:30pm Saturday evening.
Now for some panels that may be of interest to some readers of this blog but may not get the attention they deserve:
(Friday, 11:00am, Marriott – Virginia C)
(Sunday, 8:00am, Marriott – Virginia B)
(Sunday, 10:00, Marriott – Washington 3)
Also I wanted to give a shout-out to Wayne State students who are presenting material based on their work in my Language and Societies course last year:
Alex Hill: A Critical Discourse on Detroit's "Food Desert" Metaphor
(Wed. 4:15pm, Marriott – Washington 6)
Kaitlyn Ahlers:"Bold, Brash" Brews: Sensory Description Among Craft Beer Consumers
(Thurs., 11:30am, Omni – Calvert)
Michael Elster: Transmitting "Realness": Linguistic and Economic Tension in Drag Queen Speech
(Thurs., 6:30pm, Marriott – Johnson)
Hope to see you there!
Review: Wynn and Coolidge, How to think like a Neandertal
Wynn, Thomas, and Frederick Coolidge. 2012. How to think like a Neandertal. New York: Oxford University Press. 224 pp.
Reviewed by Summar Saad (Wayne State University)
With so many false representations and stereotypes floating around about the Neandertals, it's difficult to know what is fact and what is myth. Armed with minimal archaeological evidence and their knowledge of primates and modern hunter-gatherers, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick Coolidge attempt to reconstruct Neandertal cognitive abilities, sometimes very indirectly, based on their diet, hunting strategies, and technology. While the book is an exercise in speculation, Wynn and Coolidge treat the Neandertal story in an engaging, witty way that rethinks the notion that modern humans are light-years apart when it comes to their cognitive abilities.
Wynn and Coolidge begin by examining the skeletal remains of recovered Neandertal fossils to recreate the Neandertal image – big-brained, stocky, muscular, barrel chested – and illustrate the rough lives they lived based on their injuries and likely causes of death. By doing this they are able to deduce three personality traits that Neandertals possibly exhibited: 1) tenacity or dogged perception, 2) wariness, and 3) love (p.20). Throughout the rest of the book, Wynn and Coolidge continue to build on these personality traits, growing the list to nine, to include unimaginative, dogmatic, and even xenophobic. Central to their discussion is their evidence of the "Caveman Diet" and stone tool technology. In showing what kinds of game Neandertals hunted and how, they are able to ask how they thought and planned. What follows is a thought experiment, in which Wynn and Coolidge tease apart the cognitive functions necessary in negotiating landscapes and setting up ambushes, which they argue require long-term memory, communication of tactical information, and a working memory.
In chapter 3, "The Zen and Art of Spear Making," Wynn and Coolidge discuss the Neandertal spears which employed two important techniques: stone knapping, to make the famous "Levallois point", and the hafting or gluing of the spear point to the shaft. The knapping technique they employed, in which they prepared a core in a way that would allow them to knock off a triangular flake, they argue, requires embodied cognition or thinking through the stone. "For an experienced artisan, tools are extensions of perception, and hence extensions of the mind" (p.57). Following an in-depth discussion of technical thinking and mastery from blacksmithing to music to sports, Wynn and Coolidge assert that modern technical thinking is very similar to how Neanderthals thought through their stone tools. Neandertals, however, apart from using glue to assemble their spears, did not innovate like modern humans, perhaps partly because of their lower working memory but more likely because of social networks, which Wynn and Coolidge argue, were not effective for the social transfer of knowledge and expertise.
From chapter 4 onward, the discussion takes an even more speculative turn. Making inferences about cognitive abilities based on known hunting and technology strategies are one thing, but making them about family life, humor, dreaming, and personality is a whole different matter. Their analysis of Neandertal symbolic life and language is somewhat less presumptuous. While there is evidence for minimal corpse burial, the use of fire, and the presence of ochre and manganese dioxide possibly used for coloring something, Wynn and Coolidge conclude that Neandertal life was not immersed in symbols (p.121). They also conclude that Neandertals did in fact have speech, as evidenced by their expanded Broca's area in the brain as well as the presence of the human FOXP2 gene found in DNA sequencing. However, their language was much different than modern language in that it was situated in task-relevant contexts with limited productivity. Wynn and Coolidge end by inviting the reader to imagine what life might be like for a Neandertal living in a period dominated by modern humans and a modern human living with Neandertals. The outcome, we can only speculate, does not look very promising for modern humans.
It's fascinating to think that Wynn and Coolidge's conclusions of Neandertal life came simply from knowing where Neandertals lived and traveled, the tools that they made, what game they hunted and how, and how they buried their dead. Sometimes Wynn and Coolidge voyage so deep into a single story you almost forget that it's mostly conjecture, and that Neandertals were not a stage of evolution that preceded modern humans. Despite this, How to think like a Neandertal is an entertaining read that does offer some interesting perspectives on what the cognitive abilities of our shared ancestor homo heidlebergensis might have looked like. It also provides a useful methodological approach through which to examine cognitive archaeological questions for which we do not have all the evidence to answer. Aside from this, there seems to be no evidence to back Wynn and Coolidge's often-frustrating claims about the behavior and culture of our prehistoric cousins who lived between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago.
Review: Malafouris, How things shape the mind
Malafouris, Lambros. 2013. How things shape the mind: a theory of material engagement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 321 pp.
Reviewed by Michael Thomas (Wayne State University)
In How Things Shape the Mind, the archaeologist Lambros Malafouris outlines his Material Engagement Theory, which developed along the lines of inquiry initiated by Colin Renfrew in his work on measurement and weights. Renfrew, thus, provides a useful introduction to Malafouris' book. In essence, material engagement is a synthetic approach of a few important developments in the archaeological study of materiality, neurology, and cognition toward understanding how humans engage with material artifacts in a way that constructs the human mind.
Malafouris asks that we take material culture seriously, and he's in good company. Seldom does one encounter an archaeologist or anthropologist who doesn't claim to be taking this important step away from underappreciating materiality. The familiar claim is that since Rene Descartes, Western science has not sufficiently apprehended the inextricable interactive connectedness between what was formerly erroneously dichotomized as body and mind. In truth, there is no such distinction and many attempts have been made to articulate just what sort of phenomena exists as "mind" that is continuous with the material world. Malafouris' attempt here is to integrate some of those prior attempts into a coherent whole that explains how the mind is an emergent property of particular interactions. He does this with three moves.
The first necessary step is to advance the theory of extended mind. This theory, developed from the philosopher Andy Clark, is expanded by Malafouris to include insights from the closely related cognitive approaches of distributed, embodied, and situated cognition. The principal contribution of Malafouris here is in providing empirical and historical evidence for the ways in which material artifacts are not merely aids to an internal cognitive process, but are in fact integral to the process itself. In short, the extended mind posits that the mind is not an internal processing device that is ontologically extricable from the elements of content, but rather, "mind" describes the process wherein external materials are constitutive of the process such that there is no process of which to speak absent the external materials. The example Malafouris uses are the Mycenaean Linear B tablets that encoded memory. They function not as reminders, or tools, but rather as external mechanisms of a memory process that requires perception and percept.
The second required argument is that of enactive signification. Enactive signification refers to the mode of signification wherein the meaning of some sign or act is located in the interactive process itself, and is not symbolically encoded in the sign as a representation. Readers familiar with Peirce and Heidegger will find this argument convincing, and this is due in no small part to Malafouris' presentation. Malafouris accomplishes this by appealing largely to empirical archaeological evidence wherein he demonstrates that numeracy was not merely encoded onto clay material as though it were a recording of a mental process, but rather, the clay itself acts as a means of providing signification for its enabling a qualitatively different cognitive process than what might be neurologically inherent prior to such material engagement. The manipulation of clay permits familiar perceptual processes to manage greater degrees of complex computation. The ability of the clay to do this resides in the process of manipulation such that it is no mere recording device, but a computational device.
Finally, Malafouris asserts the agency of materials. This agency is essential for supporting the thesis that not only do humans rely upon a tangible, manipulable world for cognition, but that the materials themselves play an active role in structuring cognition, and thus humans. Not merely do these materials structure a situated cognitive process, but they structure diachronically the neurological and physical substrate of the human insofar as they co-develop the means by which the world is intelligible.
In all, Malafouris' book will be sympathetically received by any reader familiar with, and convinced by, the phenomenological approach to understanding ontology. Further, Malafouris does quite a bit here to ground the phenomenological theory in much-needed evidence in order to make it comprehensible to the empirically minded. That said, Malafouris admits that his isn't a positivist perspective, and so making predictive explanations is theoretically outside the purview of his project. This may prove frustrating to those readers who feel inclined to test some of these theories; of course this is the case with much of socio-cultural theory. At last, Malafouris' crusade against Descartes and those models of cognition reliant upon abstract symbolic processing may appear to be a bit theatrical and slightly made of straw for the reason that few readers following the scholarship of cognition and materiality still find enthusiastic advocates the disembodied mind; the problem is less of theory than of application.
Review: Saxe, Cultural development of mathematical ideas
Saxe, Geoffrey B. 2012. Cultural development of mathematical ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 393 pp.
Reviewed by Summar Saad (Wayne State University)
In Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas, Geoffrey B. Saxe takes an ambitious approach in exploring the cultural and cognitive origins of mathematical thought. Using an extensive number of experiments oriented towards the particular practices of the Oksapmin of Papua New Guinea, Saxe demonstrates that individual action in relation to collective activities such as economic exchange and schooling is the "locus of both the reproduction and the alteration of cultural phenomena, whether collective practices of daily life or cultural forms of representation" (p.191). His conceptual framework, which follows Sperber and Hirschfeld's critique of the conceptualization of culture as fixed and bounded entities rather than a "property that representations, practices, and artifacts possess to the extent that they are caused by population-wide distribution processes (p.17)," seeks to illustrate the heterogeneity and permeability of cultural and cognitive processes through activity using synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
In Part I, Saxe begins by framing the scope of his study using relevant scholarly work on the area of cognition and mathematical thought, and details his time in the field in 1978, 1980, and 2001. His approach interrogates three genetic processes: 1) microgenesis, the transformation of the body-part form into a vehicle to represent values numerically, 2) sociogenesis, which involves the microgenetic activities of multiple individuals at multiple sites that, collectively, constitute a process in which representational forms and functions are reproduced and altered in a community over time, and 3) ontogenesis, which involves the shifts in form-function relations in activity over the course of an individual's development (p.29). Using a number of helpful figures, Saxe also unravels the specifics of the Oksapmin body-counting system where one begins counting with the thumb on one hand of the body and continues across to the opposite side ending at the little finger. Familiarity with this system is important for his investigation into how this system changes through time. By this point, the readers are ready to enter the field, where Saxe attempts to tease out the historical and social processes at play in the way the Oksapmin respond to mathematical challenges in collective activities under shifting conditions.
In Part II, Saxe traces the history of Papua New Guinea from a pre-contact period where people traded commodities including a shell currency (bonang) and through the sustained contact of the Oksapmin communities with Western societies, which led to the proliferation of trade stores that supported cash as the universal medium for exchange. Focusing on the activity of economic exchange, Saxe asserts that "with increasing participation in the money economy associated with Oksapmin cohorts, we find a shift from external correspondences that serve numerical functions to internal correspondences that serve arithmetical functions" (p.95). Saxe then shifts his focus from knowledge of Oksapmin body-part counting and Tok Pisin representational forms to look at the semiotic forms people use to represent the objects of economic exchange. What he discovers is that over time, as people began using the body system to quantify currency, reciprocally the currency system became incorporated into the structure of the body-counting system. Ultimately Saxe demonstrates that cognitive processes exhibit uniformity and variation in a single period as well as unity and discontinuity over historical time.
In Part III, Saxe reviews the transformation of schooling in Oksapmin beginning in the early 1960s and following the introduction of "Western schooling," Bible school, and community schooling. Rather than conceptualizing schooling as a direct cause of cognitive development, Saxe focuses on the dynamics of the reproduction and alteration of the forms of numerical representation and the functions they serve as students and teachers participate in collective practices of classroom life (p. 194). He establishes the ways in which Oksapmin children reproduce the body form as they solve arithmetical problems in the same way that they produce variants in the body form, "inadvertently altering the use of the system to serve new functions (p.236)." With recent educational reforms, he notes a shift in the teaching of mathematics using only English to using Tok Pisin and Oksapmin as well. Saxe observes that with this shift came others including the use of stones in classroom computations as well as a developing facility with Hindu-Arabic-based algorithms.
In Part IV, Saxe brings the discussion full circle and returns to the implications of his findings with regards to his conceptual framework. In his analysis, he points to three key properties that emerge in form-function relations: conventionality, hybridity, and instrumentality. Using parallels from evolutionary biology, he also takes up the question of how form-function relations develop and why. Though not an anthropologist, Saxe deserves great credit for his ethnographic treatment of this serious cognitive question. Saxe successfully presents an alternative methodological approach to our understandings of culture and cognition that does not treat them as independent but rather as an interplay of the two. His work offers great insight into cognition and culture as processes rooted in a multiplicity of contexts and activities. Although this book covers a lot of ground, and is sometimes very abstract, the organization and flow of the content is seamless and easy to follow. Saxe also takes great care to account for any threats to validity, and while each of the eighteen individual studies he conducts are not without their flaws; the overall picture shines clearly at the end: culture and cognition are processes interwoven and linked through activity.
Review: Ingold, Lines: a brief history
Ingold, Tim. 2007. Lines: A Brief History. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. 186pp.
Reviewed by Molly Hilton (Wayne State University)
Get out your walking stick and your comfortable shoes as you accompany Tim Ingold on this intellectual wayfarers' journey exploring the "comparative anthropology of the line" (p1). In his path-breaking book, Lines: A Brief History, Ingold guides readers through a unique theoretical model that explores the interconnected and enmeshed lines of people and things. Ingold argues things and people are the sum of interconnected lines; to study "things and people is to study the lines they are made of" (p5). Lines and their relationships to surfaces offer a provocative frame from which to consider questions central to anthropology.
Anthropologists will find themselves familiar with "lines": lines of descent, lines of story, lines of travel, lines of movement, lines of music, and so on. Lines: A Brief History challenges established conventions, such as kinship charts that use line to connect the dots, to advocate a theoretical approach that accounts for movement, growth and interrelationship. This challenge is animated by a key theme used throughout the book – the distinction between wayfaring and transport. Wayfaring describes a way of being in that the "traveler and his line are one and the same" (p 76). The path of the wayfarer is where life is lived. Drawing on Gibson, Ingold states that the wayfarer's path is where knowledge is forged along the way. Transport lines are destination-oriented. They are connectors. The traveler becomes a passenger fighting against time to reach a destination. Transport lines are teleological. Ingold enjoins the reader to become wayfarer, engaging in the journey through chapters building up knowledge as one "goes along" forsaking the impulse for a "built up" conclusion.
In Lines, Ingold commences with the question how did speech become separated from song? He explores the historical relationship between speech, song, writing and musical notation. Before the printing press, both written text and song were performative as were the processes of inscription. Written notation functioned as mnemonic artifact rather than a script or score that ensured a faithful record or copy. Using comparative examples from medieval history, present day Shipibo-Conibo people in Peru, and Japanese noh theater, Ingold argues that the words "speak" to readers not as a representation of sound but in the manner of synesthesia actual sound. Writing could not be accurately conceptualized as a "visual representation of verbal sound" (p27).
Both musical notation and writing involve lines and surfaces. "To read a manuscript… is to follow the trails laid down by a hand that joins the voice in pronouncing the words of a text" (p28). The advent of printing disconnected manual gesture from the graphic output and thereby disconnected the voice (embodiment) from the page of print. Printed works became static documents. What heralded this transformation was a "fundamental change" in the conception of line and its relationship to the surface. The inscribed printed lines (words) changed the manuscript surface from a landscape to be explored into a surface that is fixed and bounded.
Ingold proposes a taxonomy of lines. The two primary types are threads and traces. Threads have a surface and can be made by human hands, or not (i.e. roots, spider webs, yarn, fishing-net, violin strings). Traces are any enduring mark left in a solid surface. Traces can be additive or reductive, or neither (i.e. worn path, chalk on blackboard, stick in sand, snail trail). Ghostly lines have no physical manifestation (i.e. constellations, survey lines, time-zones, borders). Ingold notes that the distinction between ghostly lies and real lines is "decidedly problematic" (p50). The differentiation may privilege a Western perspective. The meridian lines of Chinese medicine may be real according to a Chinese practitioner but considered ghostly (imagined) to a Western observer. Ingold does not offer any guidance on how to resolve this conundrum. He concedes that the entire line taxonomy is imperfect and potentially confusing.
Surfaces are not simply a "taken-for-granted backdrop" (p39). Whether regarded as a landscape, a space to be colonized, the skin of the body or a mirror of the mind, the conception of the surface deeply affects its relationship to line. Threads transforming into traces create surfaces (p61). For instance, knitting constitutes a surface as the knotted threads form a single surface leaving traces of the composition still visible. Traces transforming into threads dissolve surfaces. To explicate, Ingold engages with Alfred Gell's argument that apotropaic patterns are perceived to lure demonic forces to a particular surface by their fascination with an intricate pattern. Gell's aerial-view perspective was mistaken. Ingold convincingly argues, the trap is not one of fascination, but rather, the lines drawn cease to be a surface and become threads that trap the demon. This example demonstrates the potential explanatory power of "a comparative anthropology of the line."
Can lines help us understand the ruptures of modernity? In the final chapter, Ingold explores the implications of "straight" lines. Straight lines are associated with moral uprightness, quantitative explanations, reason and dignity. Somewhat parallel to the metaphor of wayfinding/transport, the "workmanship of risk" has been displaced in modern society by the "workmanship of certainty." An implement of certainty, modern CAD design embodies no movement or gesture. The straight line, the line of certainty, has become an icon of modernity (p167). This is where ruptures occur. We are reminded that fragmentation can create passages.
Sections of this book are somewhat opaque and/or vague. Given the authors concluding statements we must accept that at some of these "loose ends" are intentional (p170). I've already mentioned that the taxonomy of line and surface have much room for elaboration. I'll mention just one other example here. In the Introduction (p3), Ingold argues that if we envision evolution as a tangle of enmeshed intra-human and inter-species relationships "then our entire understanding of evolution would be irrevocably altered." It is not clear if Ingold is referring to our proclivity to fix the human lives into "temporal moments." Alternatively this passage could refer to the enmeshment of multiple species "continually [forging] their own and each other's lives." How either alternative would change our conception of evolution is not clear.
Lines: A Brief History invites the reader on a wayfarer's journey. It's not entirely clear where one is going or where one has been, but it is clear that one has grown along the way.
Lexiculture: 2014 word list
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I am doing a new iteration of my Lexiculture Project in my undergraduate linguistic anthropology course, which I ran last year to some success (with eight papers published here online). Over the next month, each of them will research the history, social context, cultural significance, and transformations of one English word, chosen from the list below. Today I shared the word list with my students, giving them a couple of days to mull over their choices before the signup goes live, and so, in case you're interested, here it is!
baby bump
car phone
erectile dysfunction
going steady
Information Superhighway
make out
man cave
red Indian
rock and roll
soccer mom
soul patch
suntan lotion
ye olde