On Dec.12, 1985, a military charter DC-8 crashed shortly after takeoff at Gander, Nfld., Canada. All 256 aboard were killed, making this the deadliest U.S. military aircraft accident in history. The investigation team (consisting of forensic pathologists, odontologists, radiologists, anthropologists, graves registration personnel, and systems engineers) succeeded in identifying the remains of a...

In his article “Creolized Chinese Societies in Southeast Asia,” the anthropologist William Skinner developed the idea of the overseas Chinese diaspora as “the creation through ‘fusion’ of a new sociocultural system that achieved autonomy and stability despite continued contact with both parent societies.” In an anthropological view, Skinner saw Java as one of the examples in which the Chinese c...

Empirically, culture is that complex whole which results from the interaction of a multitude of ideas, individuals, behaviors, groups, artifacts, workplaces and architectures, each distributed uniquely and differentially in space and time. Artificial culture is the program of describing, understanding and explaining such human complex systems in computer simulations. Several recent conferences ...

What dreams may come is a piece of ethnofiction that tells the story young girl and her grandmother, displaced by climate crisis conflict. The centres on strong, abiding relationship between grandmother. Their anchor point for their survival in new unhappy world they find themselves in. As an anthropologist displacement, this short attempt to tell crisis, displacement conflict through fictional...