SO if i found this video, i am blessed.

I don't agree with you even critiquing Hancock as a researcher using the scientific method. He has never researched anything scientifically nor claims to. He is a reporter trying to expose some issues with the modern archeological methods and processes. That's all. He doesn't even claim to be right. He only advocates for modern archeologists to be open to different aspects that challenge their foundational understandings, and pushing them to research these issues. Isn't that what science is all about? So the very premise of your critique is highly flawed. Your lesson on Confirmation Bias is exactly the issue with modern day archeology. Every discovery has to fit within their existing belief of the human timeline or its considered to be taboo or ignored. Our most advanced AI when asked about the topic, also points this out about modern archeology.

I don't know whether I regret studying anthropology at this point. My 3 years of undergrad studying anthropology were so insightful and I felt like I truly belonged. In some ways, it helped me overcome my internal conflicts and identity crisis that I was going through at the time. However, as a full-time Masters student pursuing global development studies and working part-time, the frustration of not being valued in a world that prioritises only STEM gets on my nerve all the time. At this stage, money is very important, especially when you're married and have plans to start a family soon. It is a shame that despite being aware of how valuable the skills I gained from anthropology is, I still wonder how different and easy my career life would have been had I taken another STEM program (i.e., apart from medicine and engineering).

I was trying to learn but I got really distracted miss i think you need to be a Disney princess part time lol

Thank you for confirming my initial idea related to this

PhD!? Miss me with that

Life history strategy, slow or fast, is different between modern industrialized and other societies. At least in the modern West, bad conditions are associated with a fast life history strategy, whereas good conditions are linked to slow. But in premodern examples and hunter-gatherer tribes, it's the complete opposite. That indicates confounders are involved. I suspect it might have to do with diet, such as caloric levels. In the past, harsh conditions often meant limited calories. Whereas, in the modern world, most people in harsh conditions still have plentiful access to calories, even if they're deficient in certain micronutrients. We moderns have eliminated the caloric cue that tells our body how to respond. It's possible there are multiple cues to determine life history strategy. We eliminated one of them or maybe several of them. But there are is at least some other cue that tells the body which strategy to take. I'd say another possibility is stress. In the past, general stress (acute and chronic) tended to go hand in hand with caloric limitation. But stress without caloric restriction seems to have the opposite response. That would make sense historically. Caloric restriction is one kind of stress. But there are other kinds of stressors such as poverty, high inequality, toxicity, pathogen exposure, parasite load, etc. The various stressors might elicit different patterns of responses. The research supports this. The stressors of today are different than before. To clarify these complications, we'd need to look into the research on other stressors: mean world syndrome, regality theory, behavioral immune system, parasite-stress theory, sickness behavior, conservation-withdrawal, disgust response, threat reactivity, cognitive load, etc. I'd expect that life history strategy has never been studied in relation to these other theories and factors. As a side note, there is another dietary factor. It might not only be how much calories one is getting but what kind. Agricultural foods may be more conducive to fast life history strategy. This is why agricultural societies were able to outbreed, outcompete, and overwhelm non-agricultural societies. Some of that could be about an easier access to simple carbs. But we know wheat consumption is correlated to higher rates of certain mental illnesses. Then again, if we look at the larger context, we are back to stressors again. Until modernity, agricultural societies would flip back and forth between abundance and famine. But hunter-gatherers tended to avoid such extremes with a more stable food supply and more stable population levels. What we might be looking at is that, in agricultural societies, there was a divergence in life history strategies, depending on socioeconomic or caste status. About stressors, it also depends on the kind of agriculture (see Thomas Talhelm). Wheat-farming areas tend to have lower rates of pathogens and parasites, with higher rates of individualism and analytical thought. Whereas rice-farming areas are reversed, as warmer and wetter areas are linked to disease, and this is seen with greater collectivism and synthetic thought. One suspects that life history strategy would diverge accordingly. These various other potentially confounding factors could be tested by including other known stable factors. The personality trait 'openness to experience' increases with healthy conditions and decreases with unhealthy conditions (stress, sickliness, malnutrition, etc). So, when comparing modern industrialized populations with premodern and traditional populations, we would expect openness to reverse in it's association with life history strategies. I'm not sure if any of my speculations are valid and helpful. But it's the kind of hypotheses we need to articulate, so as to be tested. In any case, most of the present research in this area is problematic. We are entirely missing out on important factors. It's not clear exactly what life history strategy indicates and means. Yet all of what's being discussed here would be easy to set up as studies, if any researcher thought to do so.

I was the only anthropology major in my anthro 101 class, first semester. I was also the only good student because, amazingly, no one was really interested in it. I had plans to travel to Northern Africa the next year for my first field study, but, one morning, I walked up to a group of students watching the outside TV at my college, posted between the lunch and admissions offices. Right when I looked at what everyone was looking at, I saw the second plane hit. After that, most anthro and archeological programs were being "shuttered". All gone in a matter of days, for us as the time. There would only be "vital" travelers overseas for the "foreseeable future". Thankfully I'm a business owner now, but would have been nice 👍

Much Appreciated!

Do you play the cavaquinho?

Can you go more in depth on the concepts of racism and prejudice in regard to anthropology

The video is very useful, but what are key characteristics of ethnographic research?

Thank You 🌼

As a 42 year old woman who graduated way back in 2000 and just now starting my college career and deciding wether i want a ba or bs in geology you helped me tremendously young lady! Thank you sooooo much!

Ma'am ,, could you please guide me how can i get a internship in museums located in England, i am very enthusiastic in the museum profession , i am from india 🙏

Ok, so anthropology is basically primitive, barbaric, instinctual, biological selection etc, but where and I really mean this! Where does INTELLECT fit in? Logical INTELLECT, problem solving is far different from primitive instinct. So where then does intelligence fit in? The intellectual to deal with new world wide problems? Problems that are not primitive or instinct, but unconsciously created by all the unnecessary useless technology and gadgets we now have in our unnatural fake and false world?

Is there a possibility to be aMD if you graduated inBA Deegree?

I think, today, what it is to be human from an anthropological perspective is to first give up the idea that we can compare humans to other animals, particularly our genetically closest relatives, because despite our scientific advances, nobody can honestly say they know what it’s like to be anything else but a human. So, that is why we have the four different major branches of anthropology to help us better understand ourselves. The problem is, if we’re not Māori, for example, we’ll never know what it’s like to be Māori. We can live with them for years and become an expert on their culture and language, but we’ll never really be a Māori. But cultural anthropology helps us relate to them better and understand what it’s not like being a human of a different culture or from a different generation/century. Just a thought.

Loved the video. To me, we'll only evolve our thinking when we break free from the shackles of speciesm, which I think was the point of the NYT article.

Yeah clownish. You can use these to critically think about it. But to say there is nothing wrong with female genital mutilation, eating people's dogs, child marriage, honor killings, is insane. To say "can't judge them it's all relative" is just giving monsters cover. And especially when you bring those people into our countries. Yes we can judge them based on our beliefs when they willingly come to our communities. Not all cultures value women, or these universal rights you talk about.

Just discovered your channel and I love the whole theme behind of the essence of us and you share your praqctical knowledge in afantastic way. I've been inspired to take antropology as a potenitally second major or minor along with my biology major!

(TLDR: very long mini essay on how anthropology is a very fulfilling, flexible, and nontraditional career that can be used in any job. All which would not reflect in the statistics about anthropology careers this video describes, meaning you can't really measure the salary that can be made with an anthropology major. For anyone who doesn't want to read my big thought and want to pursue anthropology, PURSUE APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY its really neat and deserves more credit) As someone who is in an applied anthropology program I highly disagree with this and would argue that anthropologists are chameleons in the job market. Anthropology in school is about practicing and developing valuable skills as well as help you rethink how to observe the world like studying systems and relationships of power. Graduating anthropologists can get any job that uses research, policies, community collaboration, ethnographic work, accessibility design, needs assessment for natural disasters and other areas to make sure people's needs are met, marketing, communication skills, adapting to various cultures, construction, translators, policy writing, development, project management, product design, public medicine, tech, ai, etc. Those are just a few areas. Any job that interacts or involves people and life in any capacity, an anthropologist can use their skills and be in that job. SO when you graduate with a anthropology degree and searching for a job you never search anthropologists. You should always search for the the skills and location. There are anthropologists in libraries, businesses, tech, medicine ( Paul Farmer a doctor and an anthropologist), even in weather services. Problem solving is another skill that applied anthropologists cultivate. Instead of statistics and surveys, there is more grassroots ground work by talking to individuals through interviews and participant observation (its like shadowing). There is anthropologist in New York, Robin Nagle, that became a trash collector in New York city to understand material culture and waste. I am considering on joining or creating a consulting firm when I graduate because I do like to travel, but I love new problems to explore which could lead to learning new skills. That kind of lifestyle I consider intellectually enriching. But I am also leaning towards urban planning and development due to the disconnect between businesses and politics, and how people actually use and think of the urban space. So there are jobs for anthropologists that are for all lifestyles, even work from home and community-based. My degree program has a required class that is all about jobs, we read articles about different areas anthropology can be used, listen to anthropologist speakers in these nontraditional fields, but most importantly the class invites a lot of introspection on what experience and knowledge you have collected academically and personally that can be tools that aide you in your career. Unfortunately, not all anthropology programs have this available. My teachers really try to break the hierarchy of power that traditional academia has socialized into us. That teachers are scary, that you must respect and understand you are beneath them, to be on their level you must sound and be more intellectual. That your teachers are authority figures you shouldn't question. These ideas are very harmful and could carry over to increased hesitation to make connections and imposter syndrome. One of the first things a teacher said on the first day of class was describing their filing cabinet drawer of job rejection letters. Anthropology is one of those majors that require you to use any and every resource at your disposal, by making friends and connections with other anthropologists you can broaden your network of information needed since some become experts in niche areas and they will reach out to you. It can also lead to having an insider to a job recommend you on your behalf or have them hire you for your expertise. Also anthropologists will always have to define/ explain what anthropology is (a lil running joke but still reality) and sell why their skills are so valuable. Now for the friends and family problem, that can take an adjustment since you will also be making close friends with areas you are studying. My friends in the anthropology department have come to the same idea that whenever we cross paths we catch up. We may be a part of a team for a research expedition. Since we won't have access 100% of the time to the internet, we are to try to share the general location and address to send letters and keep in touch. This arrangement is actually my ideal friendship, to be able to travel anywhere (like a traveler in a fantasy world/ could think of Frodo, Samwise, Pippin, and Merry going on separate paths but still run into each other) and there will be a friend to see. And when we part, we may not know when we will meet again but the reassurance that we are welcome again and that time won't affect the friendship. For my family, holidays are treated like group vacation and either be near where I am working or try to be in as close of a time zone as they can. Cultivating experience can be intimidating when you would think of internships and field schools, but you can conduct research. All you need is maybe some mentoring on how to navigate IRB boards if your research involves humans, and a ethical research 101. Bonus points if your school supports students conducting independent research and if your anthropology program has a class where you are required to do research for a client. Create projects that are within your university and community, no one can stop you. The only thing that could be holding you back is lack of knowledge and skills, but practice is practice. I am joining with my friends in anthropology department to learn neurodivergent learning techniques and coping mechanisms so our university centers that coach students in studying would be able to provide support for late-diagnosed neurodivergent and cognitive disabled students. Since this project is coming from a personal experience it creates fulfillment for my soul by helping and creating supports in the community and leaving it better than when I arrived. Also since it is personal and a problem, I can use anthropology to take agency and fix this problem. Very off topic, www.proximate.press/latest-stories/asset-based-community-development Isabelle Clerie was a guest speaker and made a big point on how the development field is in desperate need of anthropologists

That's wild! Anyways, I've just finished my internship at the Smithsonian and worked this summer performing archeology in Hungary. Anyways, sorry to y'all who say that you can't find a use for your degree -- Can't relate at all!

I am sure that he made mistakes and wrong takes but if we know that homosapiens living on earth for about 500 000 years, let's say 200 000 years for this talk and as scientists say they were absolutely same as we and have little biger brain then we today (this I heard from scientists) so they were sitting 192 000 years and didn't come up with any idea (like wheel, constract something, invent some things) for about 192 000 years and then one day some genius invent wheel and we become super technologically advanced in 8 000 years?!? Do you really believe in this story and do you understand how crazy is this story they telling us in the school?!?

It's depressing the number of people who are deceived by people like Hancock.

Thank you this was a very lucid explanation ❤️

Boas is the (self-professed) father of modern anthropology. He had an agenda like many of his peers called communism.

Do you have a vid where you connect the anthropologists' ideas with each other?

I can't say that doing my sociology degree was very statistical. But it is good to learn more about anthropology

My understanding is that Anthropology is a science. Science has predictive power. That's why physics is a science and mainstream economics is not. Each ethnography posits certain relationships between people. To use your example, those two people could be very cultured mortal enemies who know how to keep up appearances. If you later see them fighting a dual to the death, the "great friends," interpretation needs to be revised. All ethnographies cannot be equally true. Perhaps each captures some parts, gets others wrong, and misses still others entirely. At the end of the day, the expectations and power relationships within a society that shape resource distribution are a certain way and not other ways. Some ethnographies will yield more accurate predictions over time than others. To claim otherwise means that Anthropology ceases to be a science. Anyway, that's my POV, what's yours?

Speed up your speech, stop using the same word anthropology and get to the point. You are so freaking boring. I’d love to hear more having 3° from college but you are so boring. Do you speak so slowly. Don don’t you have a coach? Why don’t you hire me?

I would love to hear more about anthropology but your voice is so boring I have turned you off on the past three videos. You talk too slowly. You lose my interest. Yes I am a professional. You use the word anthropology so many times without getting to the point, you’re a young girl, I get it but you don’t get it I feel so sorry for you you can’t have a consult in marketing, business to move along quicker with your business. You need to hire me

I would love to hear more about anthropology but your voice is so boring I have turned you off on the past three videos. You talk too slowly. You lose my interest. Yes I am a professional. You use the word anthropology so many times without getting to the point, you’re a young girl, I get it but you don’t get it I feel so sorry for you you can’t have a consult in marketing, business to move along quicker with your business. You need to hire me❗️

I think I'm in love.

I’m from the DMV and there are so many museums in Maryland and Washington D.C. alone, this is so encouraging and exciting. I loved field trips to museums and still love museums to this day.

Me and my family did this too! Haha

There were a lot of theorists and pioneers in ethnology who were anthropologists I read.

I did the same thing when I began this degree program, researched famous anthropologists and the career paths that i could take.

Great video

I love all of the same things which is why I’m majoring in anthropology, I’m going to watch all of your videos before classes start October 28th!

Very helpful

I'm sure leftist are tying to destroy Anthropology these days. They want to pretend 3rd world Islamic cultures are compatible in modern Europe. It's not, it's a incompatible culture. Yes culture exist and they aren't all compatible or equal.

While I do concur with 95% of your video. I do have to disagree with not being trained for the "real world applications" portion. As an archaeology student I had vast amount of field study and opportunity to study abroad to further that study.

Since I was a teenager my dream major was biological anthropology, but unfortunately we don’t have it here in my country. I first started studying biomedical sciences when I just finished highschool, then I changed my major and now I’m studying social sciences, idk… I feel like I’m not being honest with myself, though I understand that there’s only one graduate course in Bioanthropoly in Brazil so not a possibility for now. Thank you for the video and for enlightening us on the subject! 😊

you didnt really come with any solid evidence to prove other wise to hancocks findings, you mostly commented about his delivery.

Great video, thank you for making this. It is very helpful for entry level and even mid-point career professionals in the Museum field.

Great video on Margaret Mead. I'm 68 years old and have been looking for books she wrote. Sadly, the library system where I live has none of her books. Do you know which of her books would have her poem "In Manus?" None of the librarians in my area can point me to that book. If you know, please help me.

I read Sapiens about 5yrs ago and I've got to say it's 1 of the most interesting/informative books I've ever read and I read it in about 2wks and I actually thought it was better for not taking a religious view and for not incorporating religious views as if it was fact 💯💯😉

Hi, can you please make a video on Key Concepts in Ethnography.

What are the titles of those textbooks?