Approach to Comparative Anthropology - I

This blog's approach to comparative anthropology takes the following steps.

Data
1. Distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups and mtDNA haplogroups in diverse groups
2. The isolation of these groups in the historical past
3. The common cultural motifs among these diverse groups
Analysis
4. Application of "convergent evolution" or "common beginning" on (3) based on (1)

Guest Blogger: Ibra

I would like to welcome Ibra as a guest blogger. His core field is mathematics but has a varied interest in Anthropology and Linguistics. He is a Canadian of Caribbean Indian ancestry. He belongs to Y-Haplogroup R1a1 clan.

Lost in translation

"Do you want cream on your Mocha?"
"Ah! No."
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"You said, you don't want cream on your Mocha, right?"
"Oh! Yes."

How to fry without oil?

I don't know. I just want to check how many hits I get for this topic.

Help

I am looking for "Payyanur Pattu Pathavum Pathanavum". Author: Skaria Zacharia. Publication: Current Books, Kottayam (now part of DC Books, I suppose). Published only once. Not available in the stores.

Thanks.

Etruscan view on blogging

An alternate view to the Basque proverb can be found here.

I will admit it. There's a certain sense of unavoidable shame that comes with learning, particularly the kind of open day-to-day learning that a blog can convey. Blogs can be brutally personal, which explains no doubt why some people experience blogger burnout. It's taxing to the ego to make a booboo. We all want to be accepted in the beehive, not shunned as the town heretic. Communication, especially in our day and age is a double-edged sword that is both necessary to explore new answers and seek them out from others, and yet a potential source of embarassment if it should so happen that there's even a chance that you're horribly wrong. There's no such thing as a perfect learner that never makes mistakes. Errors are the very soul of learning. So when you're like me that puts himself out there for the world to see weekly, I too find it hard not to feel a sense of shame when I have to prove myself wrong because of that blasted thing called conscience. And yet, I would be more embarassed as a human being to pretend that I don't make mistakes.

A Basque Proverb

A blog is the appropriate space for those who only want to hear themselves.