Editor’s Selections: Last Names, Death and Remembrance, Puberty, and Stray Pottery
August 25th, 2011 Editor's Selections 6 Comments
Krystal D’Costa selects interesting and notable ResearchBlogging.org posts in the social sciences, including anthropology, research, and philosophy. She blogs about anthropology, technology, and urban life at Anthropology in Practice.
If you’ve been the path of earthquakes or the hurricanes this week, hope you’re safe!
- Should you or shouldn’t you take your husband’s last name after marriage? Though it seems a matter of personal preference, opinions are hotly divided. At The Jury Room Rita Handrich discusses a study that finds that women who take their husband’s last name are judged more harshly, and may make less money over their lifetime.
- Treatment of the dead varies from culture to culture. Kristina Killgrove of Powered By Osteons reviews the idea of the extended burial and asks whether there is a resurgence in the practice of prolonged mourning and memorial.
- Hormones can make you do all sorts of crazy things as a teen, but can they also increase your risk of death? At Inkfish, Elizabeth Preston discusses how the earlier onset of puberty coincides with risky behavior which can have dire consequences.
- Nath of Imprints of Philippine Science asks, how did a Visayan pot get to Luzon? This discussion of a sole Visayan pot found in Calatagan walks readers through the process of analysis in trying to determine the origin of unusual pottery.
PSA: If you enjoyed the first installment of The Roman Archaeology Carnival, you may want to take a look at the second edition.
