top ten list 2013

ok, so it’s not really ten posts but a baker’s dozen — and it’s not even thirteen posts but thirteen “themes” — so sue me! (^_^)

this “top ten” list was determined solely by me. ymmv.

clannishness – difficult to define, but i know it when i see it:
– clannishness defined
– clannishness
– where do clans come from?
– where do emmanuel todd’s family types come from?
– mating patterns, family types, social structures, and selection pressures

individualism-collectivism – a curious paradox?:
– individualism-collectivism
– national individualism-collectivism scores
– kandahar vs. levittown
– universalism vs. particularism
– universalism vs. particularism again

what a few hundred years of outbreeding might get you?:
– renaissances
– archaic greek mating patterns and kinship terms

what a moderate amount of outbreeding (making you an in-betweener) might get you?:
– the radical reformation

inbreeding, outbreeding, and democracy:
– questions some of us thought to ask

inbreeding, outbreeding, and violence:
– kinship, the state, and violence

why inbreeding or outbreeding?:
– flatlanders vs. mountaineers revisited
– consanguineous marriage in afghanistan
– mating patterns in france and topography (and history)
– the turkana: mating patterns, family types, and social structures
– guess the population!

medieval germanic kindreds:
– medieval germanic kindreds…and the ditmarsians
– more on medieval germanic kindreds

the north sea populations – the anglo-saxons and the dutch:
– the anglo-saxons and america 3.0
– the saxons, the anglo-saxons, and america 3.0
– the importance of the kindred in anglo-saxon society
– the transition from shame to guilt in anglo-saxon england (and “core” europe)
– going dutch
– “core europe” and human accomplishment

the quakers:
– random notes: 07/30/13
– the myddle people
– geographical origin of the quakers
– on the topographical origins of the quakers
– quaker individualism

the irish:
– what’s this all about?
– early and late medieval irish mating practices
– clannish medieval ireland
– early modern and modern clannish ireland
– mating patterns, family types, and clannishness in twentieth century ireland

the arabs:
– historic mating patterns on the arabian peninsula
– hejazis vs. najdis (and vice versa)

on (political) witch-hunts and the nature of witch-hunting:
– “to disbelieve in witchcraft is the greatest of heresies”
– a loaded question
– why human biodiversity is true…and why jason richwine is right
– something’s rotten in the state of denmark
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– this was also the year of the hbd chick interview @the hoover hog! thanks, chip! (^_^)

– and the year that i got my very own (awesome!) Heroes of the Dark Enlightenment trading card from Radish Magazine!! awww, shucks. (*^_^*)

– and, finally, it was also the year that i asked: where are my DRAGONS?! (^_^)

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