This channel represents the work of Michael Kilman and Loridian's Laboratory. Here you will find documentaries (both short form and long form), videos of events surrounding social justice issues, some work I have done for clients and of course the show Anthropology in 10 or Less and Anthropological Inquiries
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Those are both excellent things to debunk and while those individuals aren't addressed in Episode 3, I do cover some of this type of thinking. Honestly, it would take hours and hours to unpack all of it. And I always meant these videos as a beginning to exploring these concepts. Really all RU-vid videos are a starting point.
Hi! You mentioned an author but I dont understand his name. Nasha Abdul Farah or somelike this but I couldnt find him and his book. Can you help me pleae? Who is he and what is the name of his book. Thank you.
You can basically sum this up as evolution weighing the cost of some people getting sickle-cell against the benefit of saving many more people from malaria. It's a trade-off, and the pros ultimately outweigh the cons. Sickle-cell is essentially the thorn of the rose that is malaria resistance.
I believe different types of albinism causes light skin. I’m not sure about the vitamin D thing, because people of color have stronger denser bones, and are less prone to osteoporosis. Also, it’s usually pigmented people who are lactose intolerant and don’t even drink milk.
The ability to digest milk has no correlation with skin color. It has much more to do with the development of Animal husbandry. Albinism definitely causes light skin but has little to do with the reginal selection I discussed in this video, and is also pretty rare. People of color do not have denser bones. There is zero evidence for that. Bone density has no correlation with skin color. It has to do with regional variation, diet, level of exercise and a host of other factors. If you're going to make that claim, you would have to provide evidence from someone who specifically studies bones like a paleoanthropologist. I know there are a lot of bad medical textbooks that make this claim out there, but those claims are debunked.
There was peace on earth in the ediacaran era. Ever since Anomolocaris hit the scene there has been nothing but bloodshed and violence. Humans just use language to justify it. I don't care about humans. Humans should go extinct.
At the time of airing this, they did not accept debit cards. Technically they still don't. Most simply have an atm at their facility, or treat their card readers like an ATM and give you cash back after rounding up to the nearest $20. So yes, it has changed, but the legality of using cards really hasn't.
Any discussion about the origins of racism should include not only Bacon's Rebellion but the "limpieza de sangre" policy of the Spanish Inquisition. It was under "limpieza de sangre" that people who practiced different religions were first identified with different "races," and this logic was stretched to the point that Muslims and Jews who became Christians were still "racially" Muslims and Jews.
There are many instances of discrimination throughout history and plenty of xenophobia or techniques of power used to target specific groups. But, this is significantly different from the concept of race created during Bacon's Rebellion that put skin color front and center. The Limpieza de Sangre model, didn't last, and while it's a classic example of discrimination, the point of this video is to highlight the modern system, how we came by it, and what the reason for it was. But absolutely, we should have discussions of the different forms discrimination has taken throughout history, it's just that this video has a different focus than that system.
Love that I found your channel brother. Where are you based? As anthropologists and Park Rangers, we love the people and channels that share culture, history, and nature. Nice to make your acquaintance and I hope you might like our channel too. Looking forward to more of your stuff. - Turtle
Nice to meet you too, I am currently out of Denver, CO. I do my best to get new content up, unfortunately I don't make any money from these videos so they kind of get put on the back burner until I have more time. Glad to hear you are also sharing content on culture!
@@MichaelKilmanAuthor I feel you. We will have probably $30k into ours before we start to get things free, but we have accepted that in order to spread the word about what we are trying to do and teach.
Thank you for the kind words. My goal is to bring some sanity to that discourse but showing that because we created these ideas, we can uncreate them. But it takes understanding of history to do so.
@@MichaelKilmanAuthor I really appreciate your work, I've watched several of your videos, and they are invaluable. There is a lot of food for thought. Thanks!
let me debunk this by scripture in the Quran that tells all through the history of Yakub the big headed scientist and how he created the white devil and the superiority of the black race
Black and white social classification can be traced back to older societies as well who used it to represent rich and poor I believe I read that some where.
Even people who still believe in the scientifically debunked concept of race can't agree on how many races there are, what those races are and how to decide which race category to put individuals in to. Even the USA government constantly changes which people are categorized as white. Every time there is a Federal census the race categories are changed- this changes the race of millions of Americans. Which means when you compare race statistics from one census to another you are comparing apples to oranges. No one agrees on who is white or why they are or are not.
Can you agree on exactly how many colours there are? Can you decide exactly which category to put every single one of them in? Does this mean that red or blue are not real any more? Can you define exactly where the desert stops and the greenland starts? How many blades of grass per square meter are required before it officially becomes greenland? I’m sorry but this kind of argument does nothing to take yours or anybody else’s knowledge to higher places, it just seems like a rant by an anti-racist activist.
@@dirtyharold7164 As I said: science has already proven there is no such thing as biologically distinct races. If you think you know more about genetics and anthropology than the people who teach it you should take it up with those scientists. Everyone is welcome to their opinion but science only cares about provable facts.
Thanks this was really helpful. I want to go to college soon and get out of the welding game. I was curious about anthropology, but was having a hard time finding a good explanation of it.
Many on HTS were lacking knowing about the daily lives of Iraqis. I appreciate your feedback Dr Price. In many ways in got in the way of tactical civil affairs teams. The team I connected with had a PhD type who claimed to be a religious scholar but did not understand Shia holidays well. They were paying 200-300000.00 for 9 month gigs. I saw uneducated contractors get more non kinetic human information under the umbrella of "atmospherics". I think real anthropologists teaching HTS members in the US would have been more effective instead of deploying anthropologists as hybrid combatants. Truth about Patreaus! We just paid them off and the HTS teams did not make much of a difference in both Surges, in my opinion. Would love to have you folks on my podcast Veteran Et Cetera. Thanks again!
Thanks for taking the time to watch and engage! Appreciate your contribution. I remember hearing how much money they were paying as a grad student in anthropology.
@Hayder Al-Mohammad So you seem to be confusing the approach here. Looking at the impact of what anthropologists do when they work in the military is important, especially given the fact that the discipline originally began as a tool of colonial oppression. We have to examine that stuff. That doesn't mean we should ignore the real costs of what the invasions have done to the Iraqi people. But it does mean we, as anthropologists have to ask lots of different questions. Certainly Dr. Price isn't ignoring the pain and suffering that was caused by American foreign policy. What he is asking is, how does anthropology make the situation worse? Because if you're working for the American military and the military uses an anthropologists research to create more harm, that's really important too. We have to be able to address all the questions. We have to critique power on all levels. The lived experience of people on the ground is never simple. As I replied above, I have worked with the military as an anthropologist along side a number of Native American Tribes. It's important for anthropologists to consider positionally. If we don't do that, we risk doing a lot of damage. We have to reflect on who we are, where we came from, the kinds of projects we do. If you yourself are an anthropologist working with the American military and you have a different experience, it's important to share that experience (if you can) because more narratives always help us to better understand the on the ground situation. But it is a bit overly simplistic to say that Price is ignoring something when what he is attempting to do is shed light on something people aren't necessarily considering. How could we as a discipline, fail to look at ourselves when we too, like anyone else, have the potential to cause culture change?
@Hayder Al-Mohammad Also, in my college classrooms, we talk about what our country has done to places like Iraq and Afghanistan all the time. We talk about colonialism all the time. These things are never ignored. What the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan has done is completely disgusting and 1991 to Present is really only the tip of the iceberg as you well know. All of the cold war was nothing but treating the middle east as pawns on a chess board for both the Russians and Americans. If you didn't know thousands of American academics wrote an open letter to then President Bush and Congress to try and stop the invasion of Iraq. I was barely out of high school myself then but I can tell you that we do very much care what our military and government has done to the people of Iraq.
Unfortunately people will be angry to hear that race is just a social construct. Although there were ancient writings about different tribes, those tribes weren’t races but instead cultural or linguistic affiliations.
I think the only thing people should be upset about is the fact that the whole creation of this particular concept was to divide and conquer the poor so that the rich and powerful could stay rich and powerful.
