The book Limits of Language by Swedish linguist Mikael Parkvall is a sort of languages-only Guinness Book of Records, listing everything that’s large, small and otherwise interesting about the manifold manners of human speech and associated forms of communication. One item deals with the world’s most linguistically diverse countries, and is ( Read more... )

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A friend of mine recently sent me a link to a blog called strange maps and I thought others in the anthropologist community might enjoy checking it out. Obviously, not everything there is directly anthropology related, but you will find some very interesting maps including The Jireček Line, The Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, The Fro ( Read more... )

This is FASCINATING. It's a Flash piece that shows 5000 years of imperial history in the Middle East.

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