Comments on: Reading Human Nature https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/26/reading-human-nature/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Joris https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/26/reading-human-nature/#comment-540547 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:03:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/26/reading-human-nature/#comment-540547 I really enjoy reading your blog, especially the Congo Memoirs (do write a book) and recently the posts on missionaries, and your posts about politics in the US have been quite an eye-opener for me.

Someone once told me that identical twins separated at birth and raised in very similar environments are likely to exhibit more similarities than when raised together. Could you comment on that?

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/26/reading-human-nature/#comment-540546 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:00:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/26/reading-human-nature/#comment-540546 Thanks ever so much – especially for not saying “A jerk and big blue meany, who regularly infests my blog asked…”

I am quite lucky to have taken my intro to cultural anthro class (at community college) with an instructor who has actually spent several summers with the Ju/’hoansi. We spent a great deal of discussion on the various bias issues that are inherent to participant observation and which of course, translate to the ehtnographs. Ultimately I don’t see how anyone could develop the relationships necessary to learn about a people, without certain biases cropping up.

I really appreciate this starting point…I will definitely harass you some more as I move along…

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