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Update on the Old Testament (Yup’ik Old Testament Translation Project)

2008 December 28 · 3 Comments

The translation of the books of the Bible into new Yup’ik (that is, the new orthography of modern Yup’ik) has been of much interest to those from the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. (see Small Business in Western Alaska)
by Rev. Peter Green
12 December 2008, The Delta Discovery
The Yup’ik Old Testament Translation Project (YOTTP) is the work of the [...]

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Tumblr Post Digest for hlthenvt

2008 October 19 · Leave a Comment

[My apologies for the messy formatting and duplicates. I still can't get the Yahoo Pipes Cleaner to work properly. It isn't collecting all requested and doesn't clean up after itself. But the links should all work.]
The latest from Tumblr Regular Post Digest for hlthenvt

Filter By Age – Remove feed results older than X days or [...]

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Tumblred week(s) of 2008apr11

2008 April 11 · Leave a Comment

[I can't get Yahoo Pipes Cleaner Greasemonkey script to work properly to clean up yahoo's messy coding.]
[aging] Re: road colouring theorem
Subject: Re: road colouring theorem Hooray for those of us in our 60s! Like we suddenly turn brain dead? SW On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:51 PM, M Pamela Bumsted wrote: “March 28, 2008 [...]

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Anthropology in a climate of change, war, and internecine environments 2

2007 November 29 · 2 Comments

[In process]
Background*
Part 1**
Part 2*** From a follow-up to the newslist discussion about anthropology and climate change–
Q. “So…what can we do to solve this problem? Can we think like engineers?”
Please, don’t. Not even anthropological engineers. For example, see this —

Tags: AI/AN · Alaska · Eskimo · Kuskokwim · NZ · New Mexico · Pueblo · anthropology · communities · environmental change · planning · public involvement · sanitation · sciencing · solid waste

Anthropology in a climate of change, war, and internecine environments 1

2007 November 28 · 2 Comments

[In process]
Background*
Part 1**
Part 2*** [separate post]
* Background
I think there is a need for anthropological perspective in any issue of human existence.
It is a sad irony that the discipline (science) which is most comprehensive and fundamental (science is a human activity and the basic science of human activity is anthropology) has often seemed through its [...]

Tags: Alaska · Kuskokwim · LANL · anthropology · communities · environmental change · nuclear · organizational culture · planning · public involvement · sciencing

Alaska at the national anthropology conference 2007

2007 November 28 · 1 Comment

106th AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual Meeting Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2007 Washington, DC
The abstracts are not on-line, but it may be possible to do an Internet search on the author’s names to find their contact information.
Governing the Harvest: Law and Subsistence Hunting in Alaska
Session Title: Legal Pluralism and Popular Justice
Start Date:
Session Time: -
Type: [...]

Tags: Alaska · anthropology

Readings for analysis and interpretation, sciencing

2007 August 4 · 1 Comment

I acquired the original set of readings through recommendations from my Oxford tutor. I added others from my own experience, especially browsing authentic bookstores and open stack libraries. I combined them into a set for teaching a university course in statistical methods– Readings for quantitative analysis and interpretation in biocultural science, human biology, anthropology
The [...]

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Other examples for use in HazArt mitigation

2007 March 23 · Leave a Comment

I still don’t have access to my deep storage of projects (wouldn’t your community like its very own “overqualified” thinker?) but there are other sources of information to understand and protect one’s self and environment. I will point to these sources here.
Pottery (shaping and firing) has already been mentioned here
| Native Crafts Health Effects [...]

Tags: AI/AN · ES&H · HazArt

Lydia T. Black 1925 to 2007

2007 March 12 · 6 Comments

I just received notice my friend and guide, Dr. Lydia T. Black, an anthropologist whose research restored to Alaskan peoples important features of their history and culture, has died early this morning in Kodiak, AK, with family, friends, and Orthodox services present. She was 81.
from the family (to be continued)–

Dr. Black’s research of the Russian [...]

Tags: AI/AN · Alaska · Eskimo · anthropology

Public involvement how-to readings

2007 February 21 · 2 Comments

I don’t use the term “stakeholders” because of my experience with the US Department of Energy. Too often when an institution or agency speaks about “stakeholders” they mean they hold the stake while the community gets stucked.
I am after community or public collaboration through public involvement (or community-involvement. [The latest term is CPBR Community-based Participatory [...]

Tags: ES&H · communities · planning · public involvement · published · resources

Nuclear Winter transmittal letter

2007 January 9 · Leave a Comment

This really belongs with the post but I only just located it.

The Anthropology of Human Survival –
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/ the-anthropology-of-human-survival/

mpb
DATE: May 8, 1986
IN REPLY TO: CHM-1/86-349-MPB
Chemistry Division
NAME, ADDRESS
The enclosed document, NUCLEAR WINTER: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL, may be of interest to you as a professional in [public communication] [or public policy] . [...]

Tags: LANL · anthropology · environmental change · published

regional nuclear war climate change?

2006 December 12 · 2 Comments

In 1985 I put together a panel of scientific experts to identify what the human effects of a nuclear weapons exchange might mean (as far as I know, still the only such report) and then assisted in the discussion in New Zealand.

The Anthropology of Human Survival -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/ the-anthropology-of-human-survival/

New Zealand after Nuclear War -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/02/20/ new-zealand-after-nuclear-war/

I moved [...]

Tags: anthropology · environmental change · nuclear · planning