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urnbabyurn · 39分前

Yeah, I know. Just joshin around.

urnbabyurn · 2時間前

--he said, stroking his goatee, after emerging from a parallel universe in which that sub strictly enforced standards.

AutoModerator · 2時間前

Also, being an academic in 1901 would be awesome. "Hey guys what if Akhenaten was actually Moses and really wanted to impregnate his mom?" "Oh wow that's genius here's a book deal!" "Also Remus was actually a pre-Roman earth goddess and his murder by Romulus was a metaphor for the subjugation of the Etruscans by Rome." "Oh man this guy is brilliant what will he think of next?"

But yeah, honestly if I were sent back to 1901 I would probably immediately become an architectural ethnographer. I would love to wander through cities before the development of concrete tower blocks.

urnbabyurn · 2時間前

Wow, what a lot of great questions and answers!

Hey, you know what sub could really use a lot of great questions and answers?

/r/AskSocialScience!

You putzes!

Tiako · 3時間前

I do find the way that tankies have basically monopolized leftist discourse on the internet (eg, with CounterPunch, Dissent, etc) a bit troubling and I think it had might have a spillover effect in activism. That being said, I doubt leftist campus censorship approaches the reach of conservative campus censorship.

cordis_melum · 3時間前

I reversed the decision of your comments--there was a bit of a brigade going on and you got caught up in it.

You are generally correct--the modern descendants of slaves in the US do have generally high standards of living than are the norm within western Africa. But the low standards of living are are not an accident, they are due to historical pattern of exploitation and violence that the slave trade was part of.

To give an analogy, it is technically true that the children who were stolen by Pinochet's regime have higher standards of living than if they had been tossed out of a helicopter with their parents.

JustStayingThere · 3時間前

I like to say that without written evidence we would probably view the relationship between Greece and Rome a bit like we do between the Hallstatt and La Tene iron Age cultures. There would undoubtedly be endless debate about why the "Romanic" culture of 100 BCE-300 CE seemed to follow from a regional Italic variant of Iron Age Hellenic culture. That aside, uniformity in material culture and artistic norms would make positing some sort of political centralization from the first century CE quite justifiable.

Which is sort if my way of saying that there are a lot of very heated debates in many other fields of archaeology that you simply don't need to have with the classical world because of the written record.

AutoModerator · 3時間前

Somehow I suspect that, as a billionaire, I wouldn't be hurting for good food. And not to be a complete hippy but there are some downsides to the globalization of food supply. There is a lot of diversity in the world that has been lost--Today, all wine tastes pretty much the same.

Can you apply this test to Roman times? Was there a general improvement? Was 100ad better than 1ad for less wealth?

Complicated question, to be honest. There are some interesting pieces of data that suggest that there were general declines in standard of living due in large part to Malthusian pressures but more research is needed on this. That being said, things like fineware pottery were more widely available in 100 CE.

Interestingly though, in many respects material was actually more regionalized in 100 CE than 1 CE. For example, in 1 CE Italian samian ware was the ceramic dish of choice for those who wanted to dine fine but weren't using silverware. By 100 CE different regions of the empire had their own variants, what I like to think of as the "Inca Cola" of the ancient world.

AutoModerator · 4時間前

They are useful for different types of warfare: spears are good for massed infantry formations, swords for more dispersed combat. It's why the Greek phalanx used spears while the machete is the signature weapon of modern bush warfare.

AutoModerator · 4時間前

I would switch out for 1901 in a heartbeat. But then again I find fast communication and travel rather stressful.

Georgy_K_Zhukov · 4時間前

How did the heavily racialized portrayal of the Japanese in American propaganda affect the treatment of Japanese POWs? How did it effect the treatment of Japanese and Ryukuan civilians?

AutoModerator · 1日前

I've been meaning to mention this, but do you guys like conspiracy stories? Shakespearean tragedies? Buddy cop Shakespearean conspiracy stories?

Because the July 27 New Yorker had an article on the rise and fall of a pair of Russian anti-corruption police that ticks all those boxes. Great read, and while it is a bit crass to talk in these terms, it would make a fantastic film.

so--what · 1日前

You mean 💧💧💧❄❄❄💧

TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK · 1日前

What? You don't believe in my dancing skills? Do I need to prove it to you? Do I need to make your night magical? Is that what you want?

Tiako · 1日前

http://i.imgur.com/26C2cCI.png?1

TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK · 1日前

because there is a useful distinction to make between individual prejudice and institutionalized systems of racially justified social power and some people think the term "racist" should only apply to the latter which seems a little petty but then you see just how much glee people take in calling black people racist and start to suspect this is nothing more than a not so subtle way to try to equate the deep personal pain of being told my dancing skills are not up to snuff (totally false btw) due to one's race with the fact that having a name that merely evokes a particular race carries a significant disadvantage on the job market and then you start to think that maybe using the same term for when Equiano calls white people ghosts and for when said white people throw him in chains and ship him across the ocean to the carribean seems to miss a bit of the nuanced differences in said situations although admittedly both are based on prejudice

so--what · 1日前

Nonsense, we all know that material matters are made of 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Tiako · 1日前

Nobody can bellyache like the first world.

Incidentally, have you seen any breakdown comparing the number of Turkish sorties against the PKK and IS?

Tiako · 1日前

Modi and the largest Nagaland insurgency concluded an agreement last week. Plenty of well justified skepticism about whether it will last, but I think there is a real difference in this meeting compared to the last ones, as Modi has shown a real desire to engage with southeast Asia.

But in general, I often read that the European Union is the greatest political achievement of the post war period: I would argue that the creation and maintenance of India as a sovereign, unified state is much more impressive.

Tiako · 2日前

I probably wouldn't go quiiite as far as you with the concept of a social construct, but yeah there were a lot of unexamined ideas there. Hilariously, anybody questioning them gets branded an "edgy teenager" which is a pretty clear cut example of a social construct.

Anyway, flip around the thread and there is plenty more bad anthropological explanations, particularly of the sort that universalizes the experience of cannibalism.

Tiako · 2日前

Cultural relativism, etc. Essentially assuming that anything that doesn't conform to their narrow set of cultural taboos is BAD BAD BAD.

The SRD thread is, in its own way, quite a bit worse, giving a bunch of half baked functionalist explanations for cannibalism taboos.

Quouar · 2日前

Ehhhhhh, I think this gets taken too far. His fame is overplayed but his reign represents a fulcrum point between the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties. And it has some of the most juicy palace intrigued in Egyptian history.

Also oh em gee Ben Kingsley would make an amazing Ay.

Tiako · 2日前

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