I talked with Rutgers University professor of anthropology R. Brian Ferguson about Steven Pinker, Napoleon Chagnon, Marvin Harris, anthropology, chimps and gangs of New York.
The interview happened in a diner in Manhattan so there is background noise.
The video has a transcript available and you can read it here too.
The interview happened in a diner in Manhattan so there is background noise.
The video has a transcript available and you can read it here too.
PLAYLIST
- Introduction: 00:00
- Brian Ferguson, Marvin Harris & Cultural Materialism 00:49
- Chimpanzees, War & History: Are Men Born to Kill? and arguments with Jane Goodall 04:27
- Evolutionary Psychology v Napoleon Chagnon 09:31
- Pinker's List 12:21
- How Jews Became Smart: Anti-'Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence' 18:44
- Origins of Gangsters in New York 23:09
Some links associated with this interview:
- Ferguson in the video "Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York"
- In June 2013 Ferguson was invited by Miramax to guest blog about historical gangs of New York
- How Jews Became Smart: Anti-"Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence"
- Pinker's List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality
- Materialist, cultural and biological theories on whyYanomami make war
- Infrastructural Determinism
- Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
- Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Culture
- The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
- Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture (my all-time fave)
- Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence (NHAI) by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, Henry Harpending
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
- by Steven Pinker
- Jews, Genes and Intelligence - a lecture by Steven Pinker posted on Youtube promoting the Ashkenazi intelligence hypothesis
- Did Warfare Among Ancestral Hunter-Gatherers Affect the Evolution of Human Social Behaviors? Samuel Bowles et al.
- Napoleon Chagnon documentary Ax Fight
