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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: Gratitude and Wellbeing

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Monday, December 29, 2014. I heard psychologist Dacher Keltner, a founder of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. On the radio this morning calling for more gratitude as a counterweight to the materialism of the season.The work of Keltner and others has shown that gratitude is closely associated with health and overall wellbeing. There is a lot of subjective value in anticipation, as an article in the Atlantic highlights.

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: Downsides to Thrift: Germans Saving Too Much Water

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Downsides to Thrift: Germans Saving Too Much Water. Germans need to flush their toilets more often, says Hans-Jürgen Leist, a scientist at the Ecolog Institute in Hanover, as quoted in a Wall Street Journal article. In my new book, The Good Life. Posted by Ted Fischer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Big Think Interview on Love and Economics. Downsides to Thrift: Germans Saving Too Much Water.

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: Mani+: Fighting Malnutrition and Helping Farmers in Guatemala

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Monday, February 23, 2015. Mani : Fighting Malnutrition and Helping Farmers in Guatemala. Posted by Ted Fischer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Big Think Interview on Love and Economics. Mani : Fighting Malnutrition and Helping Farmers i.

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Around the Web Digest: Week of May 3 | Savage Minds

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Notes and Queries in Anthropology. Around the Web Digest: Week of May 3. May 9, 2015. Hola chicos y chicas! Next week instead of the weekly digest I’ll be sending you all a “Wish You Were Here” postcard from the Yucatán. As always, you can bring blogs to my attention at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com . I didn’t have the energy this week to try to find more four-field posts but here’s one on Cahokia at Anthropology.net: Megafloods and the Collapse of Cahokia. This Somatosphere post takes an interesting a...

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: The Good Life: Page 99 Test

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. The Good Life: Page 99 Test. The Page 99 Test blog takes its cue from Ford Madox Ford, who remarked "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.". I was asked to apply the Page 99 Test to my new book, The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing. Posted by Ted Fischer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: High-end Coffee and Maya Farmers in Guatemala

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Tuesday, May 14, 2013. High-end Coffee and Maya Farmers in Guatemala. The entire lot was only 8 pounds, but the benchmark New York commodity price at the time was just about $170 per hundredweight, meaning that the El Injerto mocha sold for almost 300 times the going rate for washed arabicas. Are his coffees worth $6.60 a cup wholesale (and FOB Huehuetenango, Guatemala)? At the same time the Coffee Rust fungus threatens large port...

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: Happiness Isn't (Just) a Personal Responsibility

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Friday, March 6, 2015. Happiness Isn't (Just) a Personal Responsibility. Posted by Ted Fischer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Big Think Interview on Love and Economics. The Happiness Paradox of Latin America. Third Wave Coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit a. Happiness Isnt (Just) a Personal Responsibility.

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: Third Wave Coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Friday, March 13, 2015. Third Wave Coffee: How your gourmet coffee habit affects the livelihoods of producers. Americans are drinking much less coffee than they did in the 1940s and 1950s — down by almost half from a peak in 1946. And such changing trends in Northern countries have profound impacts in the global South where coffee is produced. Posted by Ted Fischer. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: The Happiness Paradox of Latin America

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Monday, March 30, 2015. The Happiness Paradox of Latin America. Paraguay can't catch a break. It is where a 19th century war wiped out half the male population; one of the poorest and most unequal countries in the hemisphere; 60 years of military dictatorship and one party rule, a brief interlude from which ended (kangaroo court style) in 2012. And it is landlocked. This is partly explained through adaptation to circumstances - ou...

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life: Is Western civilization a bubble? What can we learn from the collapse of ancient societies?

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Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life. Thursday, January 8, 2015. Is Western civilization a bubble? What can we learn from the collapse of ancient societies? Arthur Demarest, professor of archaeology at Vanderbilt and a student of the collapse of civilizations, says that in looking at our own society: "we are in trouble.". World 'attitude'— seems to me to be the only way out of the 21st century giant and precarious 'bubble' that now is. Posted by Ted Fischer.