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Thousands of files containing cases of global paranormal phenomena have been "inadvertently preserved" in the basement on historic Prospect Street where the files were "accidentally found", according to researchers at the Human Relations Area Files.

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[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

@MungoManic @HRAF755 I don’t know about that I mean pretty much everyone who has written about aboriginal Australia has talked about “hyper-polygamy” as he termed it, although many of these things have declined so not unexpected they’d be emphasized less in current work

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

Literally hundreds of 20th century anthropologists wrote about all of those topics in detail, there is a massive collection of ethnohistorical documents covering all of these things around the world @HRAF755.

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In these tumultuous times, HRAF's commitment to understanding cultural diversity remains as steadfast as ever. Read our full #GivingTuesday message and learn how to become a Friend of HRAF here:

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Exciting news!

[Graeme Warren @GraemeMWarren]

Exciting news! Our new online/distance learning *Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology & Anthropology* approved in principle.

1 year PT. 3x10 cr module (1 per term), inc. research project. Virtual w/ option for campus visit. Sept '25 start.

Details to follow!

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

It’s surprising, but my impression is economists have shown a greater willingness to draw on ethnohistorical data than evo psychologists have, in least in last decade or so. Definitely seen more papers from economists using the Ethnographic Atlas than psychologists, for example. This wasn’t always true though, Daly and Wilson had multiple papers in early 90s making using of HRAF database.

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

@DavidMurrayd11 The EA codes have problems but I maintain that a review of ethnographic materials in HRAF is far more informative about ‘human nature’ than the sort of datasets psychologists are regularly working with today

[Ryan Hauser @r__hauser]

The HRAF Ethnographic Atlas (@HRAF755) is underrated.

[Timothy Bates @timothycbates]

I'm proud of this paper out this week (d/l below)
Ever wonder what virtue-signalling is?
Or what motivates victim-signalling?
Or what the rewards of “virtuous-victim signalling” are?

The answer that “virtuous-victim signalling” is the resource transfer strategy people high on Narcissism & Machiavellianism.

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

"Although all the rest of the Bushman tribe had been annihilated, the old man and his wife still clung to their ancestral haunts. When Stow showed them copies he had made of Bushman paintings, the woman started to sing the old songs that the paintings recalled. Her husband besought her: "Don't! Don't sing those old songs. I can't bear it. It makes my heart too sad."

[Oliver Scott Curry @Oliver_S_Curry]

Is there any good research (preferably reviews or meta-analyses) on how/why/whether 'doing bad feels good'?

[Human Relations Area Files @hraf755.bsky.social @HRAF755]

@Evolving_Moloch Ethnography has entered the chat.

Sounds like someone needs a free trial ...

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[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

It's actually an incredibly common theme in ethnographic accounts from societies all over the world, see my posts on wife capture https://t.co/xSQly1MBB1, warfare among the Mountain Arapesh https://t.co/5RAyTSKIm8 and Napoleon Chagnon's work https://t.co/iExk1ns4bX

[Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @padillaccc]

Really interesting new paper on how post marital residence impacts the spread of selectively neutral cultural traits!

[Human Relations Area Files @hraf755.bsky.social @HRAF755]

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[University of Toronto Press @utpress]

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[University of California Press (is on Bluesky) @ucpress]

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Anthropologists, are you staying on this platform or moving somewhere else?

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Anthropologists, are you staying on this platform or moving somewhere else?

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[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

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