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**October 20th** Wow, this video has skyrocketed! If you leave a comment, especially if you've watched this in a class, I'd love to know where/wha...
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**October 20th** Wow, this video has skyrocketed! If you leave a comment, especially if you've watched this in a class, I'd love to know where/what school you're from. I'm so happy (and flattered!) to hear that so many people are enjoying and connecting with the song! **
**October 22nd ** Lorenz Khazaleh from antropologi.info requested a short interview - (kinda crazy!) which is now online at http://www.antropologi.info/blog/anth... **
** October 23rd ** Critical discussion about anthropology is healthy and awesome. Many thanks to all who have contributed. However, this is not a forum for personal attacks or abuse, so don't be offended if your comment is deleted on those grounds.
Also, I was just asked to play this song at the AAA meeting in December. Kinda incredible, eh? :) **
A song I wrote yesterday -- I think that I might be a little bit of an Anthropologist. Lyrics below.
The chords are super simple: Am, C, G, D. Feel free to learn it, play it, reappropriate it, share it, and add your own verses! And hey, if anyone wants to put up a video response of any anthros or students singing (or dancing to) any part of the song, (or singing any new verses), or anything else creative that you think might work, I was thinking about putting them together in a future collaborative music video project. That'd be wicked.
I graduated with a BA in Anthro and Religious Studies in May '09 from UBC - now doing a Masters in Anthro at U of Toronto, Canada.
Dedicated to all my wonderfully supportive profs at UBC (and UTor), to anthropology students (on paper and at heart) everywhere, and of course to my Mom & Dad.
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Lyrics:
Hey Mom & Dad, I've got to come out and say,
I've got to tell you, it's the only way
Something I've learned about myself since I was away (at college)
I really think that I might be a little bit -- of an Anthropologist
Mom & Dad, I've been led astray,
I've been experimenting with archaeolog(a)y
On an excavation, tried C-14 dating
And ground penetrating radar for the first time -- (if you know what I mean)
I see the visions in your head of me digging up dino bones
Or do I study insects in a laboratory all alone?
But I'm just looking for the story of our people as a whole
Wanting to learn about and understand all cultures as our own ...
[Chorus]
The World seems to increasingly need, Anthropology
Now we're exploring, asking Who Why and How we be People
The difference between us, is not so much
Tell me your story, your piece of what is Humanity.
Mom & Dad, I think you should know,
I do fieldwork, everywhere I go
I want to travel, see Peru and Vietnam
My heroes are Margaret Mead and Barack Obama's mom
-- (did you know she was an Anthropologist?)
If you think of natives on an island painted up singing war songs
It's misleading though historically you're not totally wrong
But you can do Anthropology reading graffitied bathroom stalls
Or in a war zone ... or a December shopping mall.
Then there's Linguistics -- I think that's how we use our tongues;
Physical Anthro says what body parts we all have in common,
You can even study monkeys, I hear that part's really fun
All these fields tell us part of what it means to be human ...
[Chorus]
Hey Mom & Dad, it wasn't how you raised me.
Anthro professors, they're all kinda crazy
Got their agendas, trying to recruit our P-O-Vs
Deep down inside they're all in love with -- Malinowski
At the same time, I think it's what my heart has always known
Do you remember Hallowe'en when I was Indiana Jones?
The other kids they stopped coming around, I had to play alone
I guess they didn't like my kinship charts, of all their homes.
Some cross-cultural connexions might just help us all relate
Misunderstanding's at the root of so much global hate
How many wars, metaphors or literally,
Could be avoided if the world was "us", instead of "you" and "me"?
[Chorus] x2
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stellardust favorited a video
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"If War and Peace had a baby with The Breakfast Club and then left the baby to be raised by wolves, this book would be the result. I loved it....
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"If War and Peace had a baby with The Breakfast Club and then left the baby to be raised by wolves, this book would be the result. I loved it." - Jon Stewart
"Josh Lieb is on one of the great brave journeys in American literature. Or maybe he just signed my name to a blurb he wrote. Either way, you have to admit hes brave. And the book is hilarious." - Judd Apatow
Oliver Watson is basically your average twelve-year-old kid. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska. His favorite after-school snack is a grilled cheese sandwich. His best friend is his pit bull mix, Lollipop. And...oh yeah. He's an evil genius on his way to total world domination.
Nobody can stop Oliver from getting what he wants. Not Jordie Moscowitz, the seventh grade bully. Not his moronic English teacher, Mr. Moorhead. Not even his father and arch nemesis, "Daddy." (He hates being called that.)
Until now. Because Oliver Watson is running for class president. And it turns out that overthrowing cranky foreign dictators is actually a lot easier than getting the other kids to vote for you.
Even for a genius of unspeakable evil.
JOSH LIEB is the Emmy-winning Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and has worked on such shows as The Simpsons and Newsradio. This is his first novel. He lives in New York City.
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stellardust favorited a video
(2 months ago)
Jupiter rotates once every 8 or so hours, and some of its moons hammer round too!
The Earth rotates every 24 hrs, and its possible to get 8+ hrs of ...
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Jupiter rotates once every 8 or so hours, and some of its moons hammer round too!
The Earth rotates every 24 hrs, and its possible to get 8+ hrs of darkness.
It is possible, under favorable conditions (now (Summer 2009) is not a bad time) to see an entire rotation of Jupiter in one night!
This is a time lapse of me trying to get a timelapse of an entire rotation of Jupiter.
Few people realize just how visible the planets are, with Jupiter appearing as a bright star. Similarly Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are all easily visible to the naked eye. Indeed the angular size of Venus (at its largest) and Jupiter is such that they are only just not visible as disks with the naked eye.
This video hopefully not only shows how accessible things like Jupiter are in even modest instruments (almost everything will show Jupiter as a banded disk, and the four main moons), but also links the timescales on which things happen on Earth to whats happening (the planet spinning and the moons orbiting) on Jupiter.
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