48,49, particularly because employment is both an economic and a social relationship50. Labour participation in the market economies of WEIRD cultures is said to be enacted in an impersonal and transactional ma
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You may knowweirdas a generalized term describing something unusual, but this word also has older meanings that are more specific.Weirdderives from the Old English nounwyrd, essentially meaning "fate." By the 8th century, the pluralwyrdehad begun to appear in texts as a gloss forParcae, the...
2.1 Messiness in Ethnography Ethnography involves immersion in the daily lives and cultures of the people or communities being studied. This often leads to a lot of ambiguity, unpredictability, and 'messiness' as the ethnographer encounters complex social realities that do not conform to clear ...
World population has reached 7.5 billion and among of this ton of people there are very strange cultures! BizarreCultural Bizarre eyes around the world January 2, 2018 World Oddities Today speak about of bizarre ayes around the world! The life is always full of bizarre stories in many pa...
In the US we do hundreds of things every day we believe to be universal. These actions seem so natural it's hard to think someone in another part of the world would consider them weird Western customs. But people in other cultures and societies are mystified by some of the ritua...
Floating in pockets of fluid, the microbes are likely new to science and may be up to 50,000 years old, a NASA researcher says.
The Greeks and Egyptians, as did all cultures throughout history, grappled with the nature of time in their various myths and religious lore. Perhaps it is a short step from their ancient beliefs to our present-day exploration of time through the lens of quantum physics and such portals as...
[Book Review: Quantum Evolution: How Physics' Weirdest Theory Explains Life's Biggest Mystery] Explaining why experimental behavior varies across cultures: a missing step in "the weirdest people in the world?".