Comments on: Don’t hate the player, hate the game http://savageminds.org/2006/07/19/dont-hate-the-player-hate-the-game/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: FJ http://savageminds.org/2006/07/19/dont-hate-the-player-hate-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-15114 FJ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:56:48 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/07/19/dont-hate-the-player-hate-the-game/#comment-15114 It's difficult, when doing population history research, to always remember that the public at large doesn't think about populations: shifting and changing groups of individuals who sometimes share languages/genes/cultural traits/geographic locations... but sometimes don't. The concept of a population doesn't translate so well to the popular press, because it inevitably ends up in the "race" box, with all its essentialist and erroneous misconceptions. Sigh. Anyhow, while Dr Thomas is a member of the <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cecd/home/" rel="nofollow">Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity</a> (as Ruth and I are), we're not in the CfGA. Different populations :) It’s difficult, when doing population history research, to always remember that the public at large doesn’t think about populations: shifting and changing groups of individuals who sometimes share languages/genes/cultural traits/geographic locations… but sometimes don’t. The concept of a population doesn’t translate so well to the popular press, because it inevitably ends up in the “race” box, with all its essentialist and erroneous misconceptions. Sigh.

Anyhow, while Dr Thomas is a member of the Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity (as Ruth and I are), we’re not in the CfGA. Different populations :)

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