Seen Elsewhere

John Hawks has a post on the Neanderthal Genome Project. I thought this was in the “because it’s there” category of research, but there could answer some questions, rather than be an answer in search of questions.

The guys at Stanford posting thoughts. Archaeolog has Deprivation through ‘dialectics’: Why some archaeologist’s are hamstrung by things and why things are hamstrung by some archaeologists. It’s a review and commentary on Rethinking materiality: The engagement of mind with the material world by Christopher Witmore. It’s interesting to read the view from Stanford, because I get the impression that they’re been reading entirely different editions of books by the same authors as I’ve read. For instance when I read that “The problem with dialectics is that it doesn’t allow for the mixture…” I can’t help thinking that I have a book on Hegel somewhere that tackles that. But then I find Latour a turn-off.

At Philolog Patrick Hunt has Pallas Athene of Gustav Klimt. Both the Stanford entries are well referenced which makes them so much more helpful for serious work than a comment like: “I can’t help thinking that I have a book on Hegel somewhere…”

If you click on the link to Rethinking materiality: The engagement of mind with the material world shortly after I post this, you’ll notice the link goes nowhere. This is because the wonderful LibraryThing has upgraded again. You can now link to books by guessing their title, in this case the link is http://www.librarything.com/title/Rethinking+materiality which means should I read it and enter it into the system, or anyone else, then the link will work without me updating this post. LibraryThing just gets better and better.