Human niche construction encompasses both purely biological phenomena, such as the evolution of lactose tolerance, and dual inheritance theory, which investigates the transmission of cultural information. But does niche construction help to explain phenomena in which conscious intention also plays a role? The creation of the engineered landscape of Balinese rice terraces offers a test case. Pop...

The ancient Maya, like many other early cultures, developed a body of beliefs and myths on which they based their explanations for the origin and order of the cosmos. Everything that exists and happens was understood as the action of invisible and impalpable divine energies, beings or deities, who found representation through art and whose exploits were told in the sacred books. Some gods dealt...

SPECULATION ABOUT LIBRARIES’ FUTURES IS OFTEN SIMPLISTIC, relying on caricature rather than careful analysis. This article looks at bibliographers and collection development in terms of seven sometimes overlapping contexts in order to gauge how and why their roles have changed in the past and to speculate about what we might expect in the future. The dimensions examined here include the system ...

This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructio...

I show in the present work some artifacts from Roman Era up to 17th century related name of days a critical way. In each them there are 7 planetary Gods Mediterranean culture week, and discuss enigmatic question their order. Which rule do planets follow so that day Sun (Sunday) is followed by Moon (Monday) on? What did people know about planets? When was time unit week established? end, we expl...

Lore Olympus is a webtoon that uses color as sign for each of its characters. In interpreting symbols, this study applies Peirce’s semiotic theory related to representamen or signs, objects, and interpretants. This aims describe the meaning colors in six characters gods goddesses Olympus. research used qualitative methods. It was found had general specific were convey their personalities. The b...