Lol, yeah, I was planning on sticking with just archaeology, but then once I started learning about the other three subfields, I added cultural anthropology to my interest. I hope I’ll be able to make my post about linguistics just as fun and interesting!
In alot of ways, even though they’re considered seperate areas of study, I’ve always found it interesting that each subfield still pulls from each other so in some ways I personally don’t see them as seperate subfields, just different aspects of each other.
It’ll be interesting to see how the field as a whole developes more in the coming the years/decades and to see how they branch out!
This is so interesting. It is great to get POV's from other professions/fields of study. Best of luck as you launch your career and thanks for reaching out here. Best, Maureen Murphy "Moe"
P.S. re branch of Linguistic Anthropology. First I ever heard of the term! In the winter and spring of 2022, my life became for a while rather grim, and to cling to some raft in a random and cruel ocean of events, I READ the entire Black's Law Dictionary. I am still digesting the experience! I come from a background of several decades of law practice and also legal administrative work and as I near Social Security, this project was quite enjoyable to weave into my many memories.
I finished my quest in a bit over a year (including Latin maxims and appendices) and just looked up text of an old tweet early in process:
"Hey, fellow Word Nerds! Please see Deluxe 11th Edition of Black's Law Dictionary, the pages of which I am currently 'journeying' through! Rooted in thousands of years of Greek, Latin, Medieval French, Law Latin, Anglo Saxon, and more with a draught of Scots Law for flavour! Deceptively chaotic with a veneer of rationality."
Yes, I have pretensions to write a book about my experiences. As my energy is very finite with a clear expiration date, I make try to build a clone of Me to at least do some preliminary work, which will butally fact check.
Oh, thank you. You are sweet. I am just fine. I am an older person and have been through the ups and downs of life before. I am happilt working again. Thank you.. I mentioned the year more in the context of "lemonades from lemons." Ironically, I have been creative in good times AND bad, and sometimes more so in the latter. Cheers and best wishes to you in your studies! "Moe"
You're such a lovely and personable reader. All this was quite fascinating and informative. I took a class of Cultural Anthropology in college. Ooof so long ago. It was so insightful and fun for me.
Thank you! I’m so glad that you had fun reading this post! Yeah, my first cultural anthropology class was about 11 years and it was the class that made me decide what my future bachelor degree would be!
This was a very informative post. I was baffled to find out that archaeology is a subfield of anthropology. And I didn’t actually think this subject would grab me, but it did. It was a very interesting read. Once again, I await your next post!
Thank you so much for you feedback! Yeah, I completely understand why it's thought that archaeology isn't part of anthropology! I also didn't realize that archaeology was part of anthropology...until I took my first anthro class. My proverbial jaw dropped when I first heard that, lol! In my archaeology post (once it gets written) I'll explain how I think that it ties in with the other three sub-fields and hopefully it'll make sense!
I also related to your post - I’m not an anthropology student, but I was a philosophy student and whenever people found out that that was my major they would always say the same thing: “ohh what type of job can you get out of a philosophy degree?” which always made me giggle. I actually wrote a post about the experience on my substack.
Thank you so much for reading this post! I’m so glad that you enjoyed it😄I also recently released another post called Cultural Anthropology, and will be releasing a few more introductory articles soon before diving into various topics!
That’s awesome that you majored in philosophy! I took a philosophy class years ago and ended up dropping it in the middle of the semester, haha. I liked the course, but I guess I couldn’t wrap my head around the material? Or maybe it was the guy teaching the class? Can’t remember at this point, lol. But I’ll be sure to go look for your post!
Yeah sometimes philosophy’s material can be a bit hard to wrap your head around - it does help to have good professors, I got pretty lucky there I think.
I love the graph. It made me laugh. I study the Maya culture. It's gained a bit more steam since I first took an interest but it usually lands w/ the same amount of interest as your graph denotes ):
Hi Jeanine, thank you so much for reading this and I’m glad that you liked the graph! When I first saw it, it also made me laugh as well because it was so on point! I first heard about the Maya in an introduction class about archaeology, and then years later (in 2020) I took a class about Maya archaeology. It was truly fascinating! I believe the professor I took the class from also specializes in the ancient Maya culture.
I agree with you, it’s a fascinating culture, and that it should be given more attention. I think it would a good comparative study with Ancient Egypt, especially considering how both ancient cultures used what we perceive to be propaganda (unless one has already been done? I admit to not looking up to see if one has been done, lol).
I hope your study of the Maya culture continues to go well! I read your first few adventurous articles and now I’m a hooked subscriber, lol. I’m curious-there’s alot of fascinating things about the Maya and their culture, what aspect led you to start studying their culture?
Ohh, so good to find someone who speaks my speak! haha. Puerto Morelos, a fishing village in southern Mexico on the Caribbean where we chose to build a house and open our bookstore, sits 100 miles from 4 MAJOR pyramid sites! We knew we were moving to the Yucatán shortly after we went to Isla Mujeres way back when. One reason was the beautiful ocean and another was the proximity to pyramids, of which I've always been a fan. I started reading everything I could long before we moved there, and then once we opened the bookstore, Alma Libre Libros, I of course ordered any and every Maya book I could find. But before the Maya culture, I was a fan of the Egyptian pyramids and culture, and really antiquity in general. Where did you take your class and who was the instructor? It's so fascinating and the pyramids are so so SO fabulous. Love that we connected! I subscribed! xo jeanine
Oh wow! Pyramids, ocean-view, and a BOOKSTORE…all on the Caribbean!?! That is true paradise right there, and I am in awe with a slight hint of admirational jealousy, haha! I just sent you an email about where I’m at and my professor. I’m still in school, currently getting my bachelors in anthropology. While I’m a current student at said school, I prefer to keep location of where I’m going off of Substack😊
Oh certainly! Well, it sounds like you are well on your way. Yes, the pyramids were such a draw. We saw Tulum first bc it's in Quintana Roo, the state Puerto Morelos (our town) and Cancun are in. Very beautiful, on the ocean. Then we saw Chichen Itza and I was TRULY smitten. It was simply fantastic. Coba is close, about 50 miles, and a great drive (well, used to be--times have changed) and no one was ever there. We'd go on Sundays, free to the public, bring a picnic lunch and stay over night at this great little hotel called Villas Arceologicos. If there was one other taken room, it was unusual. It was right on one of the 4 Coba lakes, beautiful. Have a photo somewhere and will send by email eventually. Then Ek Balam, barely discovered when we first started going, is only about 70 miles east of Cancun. Fantastic too. Lots going on on this old coast!
This is so so good!!! Learning lots and re-reading my favourite sections. Well done you 😊💕👌🏽
Agree! : )
I’m so glad you enjoyed reaading it! Thank you so much for your support and encouragement this past week😄What are your favorite sections?
Hey no worries, thank you for including me in your first post! Loved the sections Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology.
Lol, yeah, I was planning on sticking with just archaeology, but then once I started learning about the other three subfields, I added cultural anthropology to my interest. I hope I’ll be able to make my post about linguistics just as fun and interesting!
In alot of ways, even though they’re considered seperate areas of study, I’ve always found it interesting that each subfield still pulls from each other so in some ways I personally don’t see them as seperate subfields, just different aspects of each other.
It’ll be interesting to see how the field as a whole developes more in the coming the years/decades and to see how they branch out!
Really glad you added it in, it’s something I want to learn much more about. You’ve really aced your first post!
Hello, Kimber Prewit!
This is so interesting. It is great to get POV's from other professions/fields of study. Best of luck as you launch your career and thanks for reaching out here. Best, Maureen Murphy "Moe"
Thaank you, Moe! I’m so glad that you enjoyed reading my post! Thank you also for being one of my first subscribers😄
P.S. re branch of Linguistic Anthropology. First I ever heard of the term! In the winter and spring of 2022, my life became for a while rather grim, and to cling to some raft in a random and cruel ocean of events, I READ the entire Black's Law Dictionary. I am still digesting the experience! I come from a background of several decades of law practice and also legal administrative work and as I near Social Security, this project was quite enjoyable to weave into my many memories.
I finished my quest in a bit over a year (including Latin maxims and appendices) and just looked up text of an old tweet early in process:
"Hey, fellow Word Nerds! Please see Deluxe 11th Edition of Black's Law Dictionary, the pages of which I am currently 'journeying' through! Rooted in thousands of years of Greek, Latin, Medieval French, Law Latin, Anglo Saxon, and more with a draught of Scots Law for flavour! Deceptively chaotic with a veneer of rationality."
Yes, I have pretensions to write a book about my experiences. As my energy is very finite with a clear expiration date, I make try to build a clone of Me to at least do some preliminary work, which will butally fact check.
Firstly, I’m so sorry that 2022 was a bad year for you! Hugs!!! I hope you’re doing better nowadays?
I’ve never heard of Black’s Law Dictionary, but I’m glad it brought you some comfort! You should definetly clone yourself and write the book💯%
Oh, thank you. You are sweet. I am just fine. I am an older person and have been through the ups and downs of life before. I am happilt working again. Thank you.. I mentioned the year more in the context of "lemonades from lemons." Ironically, I have been creative in good times AND bad, and sometimes more so in the latter. Cheers and best wishes to you in your studies! "Moe"
You're such a lovely and personable reader. All this was quite fascinating and informative. I took a class of Cultural Anthropology in college. Ooof so long ago. It was so insightful and fun for me.
Thank you! I’m so glad that you had fun reading this post! Yeah, my first cultural anthropology class was about 11 years and it was the class that made me decide what my future bachelor degree would be!
How awesome that is! Haha.
This was a very informative post. I was baffled to find out that archaeology is a subfield of anthropology. And I didn’t actually think this subject would grab me, but it did. It was a very interesting read. Once again, I await your next post!
Thank you so much for you feedback! Yeah, I completely understand why it's thought that archaeology isn't part of anthropology! I also didn't realize that archaeology was part of anthropology...until I took my first anthro class. My proverbial jaw dropped when I first heard that, lol! In my archaeology post (once it gets written) I'll explain how I think that it ties in with the other three sub-fields and hopefully it'll make sense!
Great post!
Your writing is really fun and engaging.
You made me laugh several times.
I also related to your post - I’m not an anthropology student, but I was a philosophy student and whenever people found out that that was my major they would always say the same thing: “ohh what type of job can you get out of a philosophy degree?” which always made me giggle. I actually wrote a post about the experience on my substack.
Anyways, great piece - thanks
Thank you so much for reading this post! I’m so glad that you enjoyed it😄I also recently released another post called Cultural Anthropology, and will be releasing a few more introductory articles soon before diving into various topics!
That’s awesome that you majored in philosophy! I took a philosophy class years ago and ended up dropping it in the middle of the semester, haha. I liked the course, but I guess I couldn’t wrap my head around the material? Or maybe it was the guy teaching the class? Can’t remember at this point, lol. But I’ll be sure to go look for your post!
Thanks again for reading!
Cool, I look forward to checking them out.
Yeah sometimes philosophy’s material can be a bit hard to wrap your head around - it does help to have good professors, I got pretty lucky there I think.
Welcome to Substack!
Thank you!😊
I love the graph. It made me laugh. I study the Maya culture. It's gained a bit more steam since I first took an interest but it usually lands w/ the same amount of interest as your graph denotes ):
Hi Jeanine, thank you so much for reading this and I’m glad that you liked the graph! When I first saw it, it also made me laugh as well because it was so on point! I first heard about the Maya in an introduction class about archaeology, and then years later (in 2020) I took a class about Maya archaeology. It was truly fascinating! I believe the professor I took the class from also specializes in the ancient Maya culture.
I agree with you, it’s a fascinating culture, and that it should be given more attention. I think it would a good comparative study with Ancient Egypt, especially considering how both ancient cultures used what we perceive to be propaganda (unless one has already been done? I admit to not looking up to see if one has been done, lol).
I hope your study of the Maya culture continues to go well! I read your first few adventurous articles and now I’m a hooked subscriber, lol. I’m curious-there’s alot of fascinating things about the Maya and their culture, what aspect led you to start studying their culture?
Ohh, so good to find someone who speaks my speak! haha. Puerto Morelos, a fishing village in southern Mexico on the Caribbean where we chose to build a house and open our bookstore, sits 100 miles from 4 MAJOR pyramid sites! We knew we were moving to the Yucatán shortly after we went to Isla Mujeres way back when. One reason was the beautiful ocean and another was the proximity to pyramids, of which I've always been a fan. I started reading everything I could long before we moved there, and then once we opened the bookstore, Alma Libre Libros, I of course ordered any and every Maya book I could find. But before the Maya culture, I was a fan of the Egyptian pyramids and culture, and really antiquity in general. Where did you take your class and who was the instructor? It's so fascinating and the pyramids are so so SO fabulous. Love that we connected! I subscribed! xo jeanine
Oh wow! Pyramids, ocean-view, and a BOOKSTORE…all on the Caribbean!?! That is true paradise right there, and I am in awe with a slight hint of admirational jealousy, haha! I just sent you an email about where I’m at and my professor. I’m still in school, currently getting my bachelors in anthropology. While I’m a current student at said school, I prefer to keep location of where I’m going off of Substack😊
Oh certainly! Well, it sounds like you are well on your way. Yes, the pyramids were such a draw. We saw Tulum first bc it's in Quintana Roo, the state Puerto Morelos (our town) and Cancun are in. Very beautiful, on the ocean. Then we saw Chichen Itza and I was TRULY smitten. It was simply fantastic. Coba is close, about 50 miles, and a great drive (well, used to be--times have changed) and no one was ever there. We'd go on Sundays, free to the public, bring a picnic lunch and stay over night at this great little hotel called Villas Arceologicos. If there was one other taken room, it was unusual. It was right on one of the 4 Coba lakes, beautiful. Have a photo somewhere and will send by email eventually. Then Ek Balam, barely discovered when we first started going, is only about 70 miles east of Cancun. Fantastic too. Lots going on on this old coast!
Damn, definetly sounds like a fun place to be!
Yes, the Yucatán has a lot to love. You will see it some day. Of this I am sure.