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• The Cheapside Hoard Exhibition

  

  Some of the Cheapside Hoard. Photo: Museum of London.I have to say that 2013 has been an AMAZING year for exhibitions and it looks like this winning streak is... Read more

  The 25 September 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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• Dynamic San-Bushmen “Religion”

  

  Scholars have long been fascinated by the idea that something like the primordial or original “religion” existed until recently among various groups of... Read more

  The 02 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Siberian “Shaman” Ethnohistory

  

  In 1917, Berthold Laufter published an American Anthropologist article that traced the origins of the term “shaman” and concluded:There could never be a... Read more

  The 08 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Scientology Church Trap

  

  Germans are of course expert on the issue of mind control and institutional enthusiasms, which makes all the recent Anglo-American griping about Germany’s borin... Read more

  The 06 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Little Albert, the Neurocomic

  

  -Contributed by Cathy Faye.The CHP received a couple pretty great gems today from historian of psychology, Benjamin Harris. The first is a comic about John... Read more

  The 06 September 2013 by   Chp
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• Wallace Collection, September 2013

  

  I absolutely love the Wallace Collection in London and thought I’d share some of the photos I took there on Saturday morning with you all.Madame de Sérilly,... Read more

  The 23 September 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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• From Dusk ’til Dawn at Hampton Court Palace

  

  I can’t believe that it’s now the end of September! Where did the month go? I like to think though that I ended it on a high note with my trip to Hampton Court... Read more

  The 30 September 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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• Animism as Mode of Production

  

  Over the summer I belatedly got round to reading Robin Ridington’s Little Bit Know Something: Stories in a Language of Anthropology (1990). Read more

  The 25 September 2013 by   Cris
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• Mary, Queen of Scots -Portrait of the Week

  

  Mary Queen of Scots, Clouet, c1558. Photo: Bibliotheque nationale de France. On this day in 1543, the nine month old Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scotland i... Read more

  The 09 September 2013 by   Mmeguillotine
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• Antique Jewellery

  

  Pens, pissoirs - Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter has more to offer than jewellery alone. However, it would be a shame to miss out on the area's most famous... Read more

  The 20 September 2013 by   Carolineld
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