An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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“It’s a pure joy to listen to these two humans, and old friends, explore the who’s, how’s and why’s of what it means to be Homo sapien, having thoughtful, well researched conversations which are never not hilarious and are often deeply ridiculous.  I can listen to these guys forever. There’s no era, subject or arena of knowledge that I don’t want explained to me by John and John." -- Carlos Jacott

Episodes

Monday Sep 18, 2023

If 50 is the new 40, is 120 the new 80? In this episode, The Two Humans stop wasting their lives and start talking about the past and future of aging.
Episode 14: Will You Still Love Me When I’m 164
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542
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Resources:
Arakelyan, Hayk S.
2020 Herostratus Complex. ResearchGate.net, August 21, 2020, www.researchgate.net/ profile/ Hayk-Arakelyan/3#:~:text=Herostratus%20complex%20was%20 named%20after%20the,of%20the%20city%20jointly%20decided%20t&text=Herostratus%20complex%20was%20named,city%20jointly%20decided%20t&text=was%20named%20after%20the,of%20the%20city%20jointly.
Auge, Marc
2016 Everyone Dies Young: Time without Age (Trans. Jody Gladding). Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
Beland, Daniel
2005 Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS.
Bloom, Dave E., David Canning, and Alyssa Lubet
2015 Global Population Aging: Facts, Challenges, Solutions & Perspectives. Daedelus, Vol. 144, No. 2 (Spring 2015), pp. 80-92.
Butler, Robert N.
1975 Why Survive? Being Old in America. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, NY.
Carnes, Bruce A. and S. Jay Olschansky
2007 A Realistic View of Aging, Mortality, and Future Longevity. Population and Development Review, Jun. 2007, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 2007), pp. 367-381.
Cole, Thomas R.
1992 The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Filipovic, Jill 2020 OK, Boomer: How My Generation Got Left Behind. One Signal Publishers, New York, NY.
Gawande, Atul
2014 Being Mortal. Metropolitan Books, New York, NY. Germain, Jacquelyn 2022 200 Frozen Heads and Bodies Await Revival at This Arizona Cryonics Facility. Smithsonian Magazine, October 21, 2022, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/200-frozen-heads-and-bodies-await-revival-at-this-arizona-cryonics-facility-180980981/.
Jarvis, Brooke
2021 The Good Years: Facing Death in a World That’s Living Longer. The New Yorker, May 17, 2021.
Johnson, Steven
2021 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer. Riverhead Books, New York, NY. Kleyman, Paul 2017 The Age of Anti-Aging. Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, Vol. 41, No. 2, The Summer of Love, the Baby Boomers, and Their Arc of Aging (Summer 2017), pp. 41-47.
Laderman, Gary
2000 The Disney Way of Death. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Mar., 2000, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 27-46.
Lanese, Nicoletta
2020 Gene Tweak Can Extend Life 500% (But You Have to Be a Worm). LiveScience, January 15, 2020, www.livescience.com/worm-life-extended-five-fold-aging.html.
Lewington, Lara
2023 The Tech Entrepreneur Betting He Can Get Younger. BBC.com, April 21, 2023, www.bbc.com/news/business-65238774. The Tech Entrepreneur Paying Millions to Reverse His Age. BBC.com, May 11, 2023, www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fmj7k2/the-tech-entrepreneur-paying-millions-to-reverse-his-age.
McDonald, Roger B.
2019 Biology of Aging, Second Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. NBC News 2023 Man Spends Millions to Reverse Aging. NBCNews.com, April 25, 2023. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/man-spends-millions-to-attempt-to-reverse-aging-171330117541.
Pearce, Michael and Adrian E. Raftery
2021 Probabilistic Forecasting of Maximum Human Lifespan by 2100 Using Bayesian Population Projections. Demographic Research, January – June 2021, Vol. 44 (January – June 2021), pp. 1271-1294.
Poulain, Michel
2013 The Blue Zones: Areas of Exceptional Longevity around the World. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2013, Vol. 11, Special Issue on Determinants of Unusual and Differential Longevity (2013), pp. 87-108.
Riddle, John M.
1992 Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Satava, Richard M. 2003 Biomedical, Ethical, and Moral Issues Being Forced by Advanced Medical Technologies. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Sep. 2003, Vol. 147, No. 3 (Sep., 2003), pp. 246-258.
Schneider, Edward L.
1992 Biological Theories of Aging. Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, Fall/Winter 1992, Vol. 16, No. 4, The Biology of Aging (Fall/Winter 1992), pp. 7-10.
Whittington, Frank J., Suzanne R. Kunkel, and Kate de Medeiros
2021 Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course, Second Edition. Springer Publishing Company: New York, NY. Wills, Matthew 2022 The National Vaccine Institute and Vaccines for All. JSTOR Daily, February 18, 2022, daily.jstor.org/the-national-vaccine-institute-and-vaccination-for-all/.
 

Monday Sep 11, 2023

You know what they say about people with big feet. In this episode, The Two Humans head to the woods to size up the legend of Bigfoot.
Episode 13: You Sasquatch My Back, I’ll Sasquatch Yours
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Anonymous
2003 Yeti Love. Publisher Anonymous, Coppell, TX.
Basso, Ellen B.
1978 The Enemy of Every Tribe: “Bushman” Images in Northern Athapaskan Narratives. American Ethnologist, Nov., 1978, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov., 1978), pp. 690-709.
Bennett, Matthew R., David Bustos, Daniel Odess, Tommy M. Urban, et al.
2020 Walking in Mud: Remarkable Pleistocene Human Trackways from White Sands National Park (New Mexico). Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 249, December 1, 2020, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379120305722? dgcid=author.
Bower, Bruce
2019 A Tooth Fossile Shows Gigantopithecus’ Close Ties to Modern Orangutans. ScienceNews, November 13, 2019, www.sciencenews.org/article/tooth-fossil-shows-gigantopithecus-close-ties-modern-orangutans.
Briggs, Helen
2019 Secrets of the Largest Ape That Ever Lived. BBC, November 13, 2019, www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50409541.
Buhs, Joshua Blu
2011 Tracking Bigfoot Through 1970s North American Children’s Culture: How Mass Media, Consumerism, and the Culture of Preadolescence Shaped Wildman Lore. Western Folklore, Spring 2011, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Spring 2011), pp. 195-218.
Bynum, Joyce
1992 Bigfoot—A Contemporary Belief System Legend. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Fall 1992, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Fall 1992), pp. 352-357.
Daegling, David
2004 Bigfoot Exposed! Archaeology, July/August 2004, Vol. 57, No. 4 (July/August 2004), p. 18.
Dendle, Peter
2006 Cryptozoology in the Medieval and Modern Worlds. Folklore, Aug., 2006, Vol. 117, No. 2 (Aug., 2006), pp. 190-206.
Feder, Kenneth L.
1984 Irrationality and Popular Archaeology. American Antiquity, Jul., 1984, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Jul., 1984), pp. 525-541.
1985 The Challenges of Pseudoscience. Journal of College Science Teaching, Dec. 1985/Jan 1986, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Dec 1985/Jan 1986), pp. 180-186.
Feder, Kenneth L. and Michael Alan Park
2007 Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Gershon, Livia
2020 Fossilized Footprints Found in New Mexico Track Travel with Toddler in Tow. Smithsonian Magazine, October 14, 2020, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/11000-year-old-new-mexico-footprints-track-adult-and-toddlers-trip-180976057/.
Herreid, Clyde Freeman
2016 Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense. Journal of College Science Teaching, May/June 2016, Vol. 45, No. 5 (May/June 2016), pp. 61-65. 
 

Monday Sep 04, 2023

Get ready to wash your ears out with soap as The Two Humans talk dirty to each other (about trash). This episode is filthy!
Episode 12 - Let's Get Trashed! Talking Dirty about Garbage.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Choat, Isabel
2023 Stop Dumping Your Cast-offs on Us, Ghanaian Clothes Traders Tell EU. The Guardian, May 31, 2023, www.theguardian.com/global-development/ 2023/ may/31/stop-dumping-your-cast-offs-on-us-ghanaian-clothes-traders-tell-eu.
Douglas, Mary
1966 Purity and Danger. Routledge Classics, London, UK.
Douglass, John G. and Nancy Gonlin
2012 The Household as Analytical Unit: Case Studies from the Americas. Ancient Households of the Americas (ed. John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin), pp. 1-44, University Press of Colorado, Denver, CO.
Englar, Mira
1997 Repulsive Matter: Landscapes of Waste in American Middle-Class Residential Domain. Landscape Journal, Spring 1997, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 60-79.
Feder, Kenneth L. and Michael Alan Park
2007 Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Greene, Kevin and Tom Moore
2010 Archaeology: An Introduction, Fifth Edition. Routledge, New York, NY.
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Nineth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
Humes, Edward
2012 Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash. Penguin Group, New York, NY. Jackson, J. B. 1980 The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics. The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA.
Kelly, Katie
1973 Garbage: The History and Future of Garbage in America. Saturday Review Press, New York, NY.
Kidder, Alfred Vincent
2000 An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
McVeigh, Karen
2023 Plastic Waste Puts Millions of Worlds Poorest at Higher Risk from Floods. The Guardian, May 24, 2023, www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/ plastic-waste-puts-millions-of-worlds-poorest-at-higher-risk-from-floods.
Megaw, J. V. S.
1984 The Archaeology of Rubbish or Rubbishing Archaeology: Backward Looks and Forward Glances. Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology, October 1984, Vol. 2 (October 1984), pp. 7-1
Melosi, Martin V.
1981 Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880-1980. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, TX.
Millar, Kathleen M.
2018 Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy
2001 Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
Reno, Joshua O.
2016 Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill. University of California Press, Oakland, CA.
Sanger, David
1981 Unscrambling Messages in the Midden. Archaeology of Eastern North America, Fall 1981, Vol. 9 (Fall 1981), pp. 37-42.
Schiffer, Michael B.
1987 Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT.
Spelman, Elizabeth
2011 Combing Through the Trash: Philosophy Goes Rummaging. The Massachusetts Review, Summer 2011, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 313-325.
Stanton, Travis W., M. Kathryn Brown, and Jonathan B. Pagliaro
2008 Garbage of the Gods? Squatters, Refuse Disposal, and Termination Rituals among the Ancient Maya. Latin American Antiquity, Sep. 2008, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sep., 2008), pp. 227-247.
Symonds, James
2004 Historical Archaeology and the Recent Urban Past. International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 33-48.
Ty, Michelle
2015 Trash and the End of Infrastructure. Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 2015, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Winter 2015), pp. 606-630.
Vaughn, Rachel
2018 The Politics of Clean: Representing Food Salvage and Dumpster Diners. American Studies, Vol. 57, No. 1/2 (2018), pp. 29-56.014
Walker, Lucy (Director)
2009 Wasteland [Film]. Arthouse Films. Winograd, Kathryn 2014 Middens. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 65-74.
 

Monday Aug 28, 2023

The Two Humans break their funny bones trying to figure out what's so damn funny about laughter.
Episode 11: What’s So Funny?! A Very, Very Serious Discussion about Laughter and Humor.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Beard, Mary
2014 Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up. University of California Press, Oakland, CA.
Berger, Peter L.
2014 Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 2nd Edition. De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany.
Bergson, Henri
1911 Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell, Trans.). The MacMillan Company, New York.
Cohen, Ted
1999 Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
Cousins, Norman
1979 Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY.
Darwin, Charles
1872 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Fourth Edition, 2009). Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
Freud, Sigmund
1960 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (James Strachey, Trans.). W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY
Gervais, Matthew and David Sloan Wilson
2005 The Evolution and Functions of Laughter and Humor: A Synthetic Approach. The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 80, No. 4 (December 2005), pp. 395-430.
Hellberg, Dustin
2018 Funny in the Bones: The Neural Interrelation of Humor, Irony, and Metaphor as Evolved Mental States. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2018), pp. 237-254.
Hsu. Elisabeth
2016 Humour as a Mode of Cognition. In Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life, edited by Lidia Dina Sciama, pp. 58-75, Bergahn Books, New York, NY.
Kline, L. W.
1907 The Psychology of Humor. The American Journal of Psychology, Oct., 1907, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Oct., 1907), pp. 421-441.
Lu, Donna
2023 The Science of Standup: Can You Train Someone to be Funny? The Guardian, April 29, 2023, www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/30/the-science-of- standup-can-you-train-someone-to-be-funny.
Martin, G. Neil
2022 The Psychology of Comedy. Routledge, New York, NY.
Mueller, Jennifer C.
2017 Producing Colorblindness. Social Problems, May 2017, Vol. 64, No. 2 (May 2017), pp. 219-238, 332.
Okely, Judith
2016 Learning from the Ludic: Anthropological Fieldwork. In Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life, edited by Lidia Dina Sciama, pp. 39-57, Bergahn Books, New York, NY.
Perez, Raul
2013 Learning to Make Racism Funny in the ‘Color-Blind’ Era: Stand-up Comedy Students, Performance Strategies, and the (Re)production of Racist Jokes in Public. Discourse & Society, July 2013, Vol. 24, No. 4 (July 2013), pp. 478-503.
2017 Racism without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of “Color-blindness.” Sociological Perspectives, October 2017, Vol. 60, No. 5, Special Issue: new Frontiers in the Study of Colorblind Racism (October 2017), pp. 956-974.
Provine, Robert R.
2000 Laughter. Penguin Books, New York, NY. 2004 Laughing, Tickling, and the Evolution of Speech and Self. Current Directions in Psychological Science, Dec., 2004, Vol. 13, No. 6 (Dec., 2004), pp. 215-218.
Sciama, Lidia Dina
2016 Introduction. In Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life, edited by Lidia Dina Sciama, pp. 1-26, Bergahn Books, New York, NY.
Storey, Robert
1996 Comedy, Its Theorists, and the Evolutionary Perspective. Criticism, Summer, 1996, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Summer, 1996), pp. 407-441.
Vettin, Julia and Dietmar Todt
2005 Human Laughter, Social Play, and Play Vocalizations of Non-Human Primates: An Evolutionary Approach. Behaviour, Feb. 2005, Vol. 142, No. 2 (Feb., 2005), pp. 217-240.
Wilkie, Ian and Matthew Saxton
2016 The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction. In Humour, Comedy and Laughter: Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life, edited by Lidia Dina Sciama, pp. 27-38, Bergahn Books, New York, NY.
Woodcock, Scott
2015 Comic Immoralism and Relatively Funny Jokes. Journal of Applied Philosophy, May 2015, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May 2015), pp. 203-216.
 

Monday Aug 21, 2023


Someone watch the door! In this episode The Two Humans sit you down and give you the sex talk your parents were too afraid to give!
Episode 10: Rubbers, Rhythm, and Rings
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources
Antelme, Ruth Schumann and Stephane Rossini
2001 Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt: The Erotic Secrets of the Forbidden Papyrus (Jon Graham, Trans.). Inner Traditions International, Rochester, VT.
Brodie, Janet Farrell
1994 Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
Coleman, Samuel
1981 The Cultural Context of Condom Use in Japan. Studies in Family Planning, Jan., 1981, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1981), pp. 28-39.
Collier, Aine
2007 The Humble Little Condom: A History. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY.
Cook, Hera
2007 Sexuality and Contraception in Modern England: Doing the History of Reproductive Sexuality. Journal of Social History, Summer, 2007, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Summer, 2007), pp. 915-932.
Fennell, Julie L.
2011 Men Bring Condoms, Women Take Pills: Men’s and Women’s Roles in Contraceptive Decision Making. Gender and Society, August 2011, Vol. 25, No. 4 (August 2011), pp. 496-521.
Ferraro, Gary and Susan Adreatta
2012 Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
Fisher, Will
2015 “Wantoning of the Thighs”: The Socialization of Thigh Sex in England, 1590— 1730. Journal of the History of Sexuality, January 2015, Vol. 24, No. 1 (January 2015), pp. 1-24.
Gillan, Joanna
2022 Tutankhamun Used Condoms Made from Oil-Soaked Linen. Ancient Origins, July 12, 2022, www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/tutankhamun-condom-0017004.
Grady, William R., Daniel H. Klepinger, John O. G. Billy, and Koray Tanfer
1993 Condom Characteristics: The Perceptions and Preferences of Men in the United States. Family Planning Perspectives, Mar. – Apr., 1993, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Mar. – Apr., 1993, pp. 67-73.
Grady, William R., Koray Tanfer, John O. G. Billy, and Jennifer Lincoln-Hanson
1996 Men’s Perceptions of Their Roles and Responsibilities Regarding Sex, Contraception and Childrearing. Family Planning Perspectives, Sep. – Oct., 1996, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Sep. – Oct., 1996), pp. 221-226.
Himes, Normal E.
1936 Medical History of Contraception. Schocken Books, New York, NY.
Hopkins, Keith
1965 Contraception in the Roman Empire. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Oct., 1965, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Oct., 1965), pp. 124-151.
Jarus, Owen
2022 King Tut’s Mummified Erect Penis May Point to Ancient Religious Struggle. Live Science, October 24, 2022, www.livescience.com/42290-king-tut-mummified- penis-explained.html. 
Johnson, John W.
2005 Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right to Privacy. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS.
Jutte, Robert
2008 Contraception: A History (Vicky Russell, Trans.). Polity Press, Cambridge, MA. Kozma, Liat 2013 “We, the Sexologists...”: Arabic Medical Writing on Sexuality, 1879—1943. Journal of the History of Sexuality, September 2013, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2013), pp. 426-445.
Lieberman, Janet J.
1973 A Short History of Contraception. The American Biology Teacher, Sep., 1973, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Sep., 1973), pp. 315-318+337.
McLaren, Angus
1976 Contraception and the Working Classes: The Social Ideology of the English Birth Control Movement in Its Early Years. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Apr., 1976, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr., 1976), pp. 236-251.
Nelson, Sarah E.
2009 Persephone’s Seeds: Abortifacients and Contraceptives in Ancient Greek Medicine and The Recent Scientific Appraisal. Pharmacy in History, 2009, Vol. 51, No. 2 (2009), pp. 57-69.
Noonan, John T.
1966 Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Pincus, Gregory
1965 The Control of Fertility. Academic Press, New York, NY. Riddle, John M. 1992 Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient Worlds to the Renaissance. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Tone, Andrea
2001 Devices and Desires: A History of Contraception in America. Hill and Wang, New York, NY.
Trumbach, Randolph
1991 The Condom in Modern and Postmodern Culture. Journal of the History of Sexuality, Jul., 1991, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jul., 1991), pp. 95-98.
Williams, A. R.
2014 King Tut’s Mummified Penis Hints at Political Struggle? National Geographic, January 11, 2014, www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/140110-king-tut- mummy-penis-osiris-archaeology-science.
 

Episode 9: Smell You Later

Monday Aug 14, 2023

Monday Aug 14, 2023

Pee-Yew!! Hold your nose and roll down the windows as The Two Humans get a whiff of our least appreciated sense. This episode really stinks!
Episode 9: Smell You Later
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Benignus, Vernon A. and James D. Prah
1982 Olfaction: Anatomy, Physiology and Behavior. Environmental Health Perspectives, Apr., 1982, Vol. 44 (Apr. 1982), pp. 15-21.
Brant, Clare
2004 Fume and Perfume: Some Eighteenth-Century Use of Smell, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October 2004), pp. 444-463.
Chiang, Connie Y.
2008 The Nose Knows: The Sense of Smell in American History. The Journal of American History, Sep. 2008, Vol. 95, No. 2 (Sep. 2008), pp. 405-416.
Classen, Constance
1992 The Odor of the Other: Olfactory Symbolism and Cultural Categories. Ethos, Jun., 1992, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 133-136.
Classen, Constance, David Howes, and Anthony Synnot
1994 Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell. Routledge, London, UK.
Cleveland Clinic
2022 What Is the Anatomy of the Olfactory Nerve? Cleveland Clinic, May 21, 2022, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23081-olfactory-nerve#:~:text=Your%20 olfactory%20nerve%20is%20one,referred%20to%20as%20your%20brainstem.
Cockayne, Emily
2007 Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench in England, 1600-1770. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Corbin, Alain
1986 The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination, (translated by Aubier Montaigne). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
De March, Claire A., Hiroaki Matsunami, Masahashi Abe, Matthew Cobb, and Kara C. Hoover.
2022 Genetic and Functional Odorant Receptor Variation in the Homo Lineage., iScience, December 28, 2022, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36691623/.
Gilbert, Avery
2014 What the Nose Knows: The Scient of Scent in Everyday Life. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 22, 2015).
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Nineth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
Herz, Rachel
2007 The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell. Harper Perennial, New York, NY.
Low, Kelvin E. Y.
2006 Presenting the Self, The Social Body, and The Olfactory: Managing Smells in Everyday Life Experiences. Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter 2006), pp. 607-631.
Reinarz, Jonathan
2014 Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL.
Rindisbacher, Hans J.
2015 What’s this Smell? Shifting Worlds of Olfactory Perception. KulturPoetik, 2015, B. 15, H. 1 (2015), pp. 70-104.
Roberts, Michelle
2023 Sniffing Body Odour Is Tested as an Anxiety Therapy. BBC, March 26, 2023, www.bbc.com/news/health-65049739.
Rodrigues, Nicole
2023 Lab-Grown Nose Gives Whiff of How Ancient Humans Used to Smell. DesignTaxi, February 2, 2023, designtaxi.com/news/422092/Lab-Grown-Nose-Gives-A-Whiff-Of-How-Ancient-Humans-Used-To-Smell/.
ScienceDaily
2021 Study Reveals How Smell Receptors Work. ScienceDaily, August 4, 2021, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210804123451.htm.
SciTechDaily
2023 What Did Ancient Noses Smell? New Study Provides Insight. SciTechDaily, March 6, 2023, scitechdaily.com/what-did-ancient-noses-smell-new-study-provides-insight/.
Sethi, Parizaad Khan
2021 The Secret to a Longer Lasting Fragrance? Take a Cue from This Arab Tradition. The Zoe Report, May 27, 2021, www.thezoereport.com/beauty/middle-eastern-fragrance-traditions.
Sherman, Carl
2019 The Senses: Smell and Taste. DanaFoundation, August 12, 2019, dana.org/ article/the-senses-smell-and-taste/.
Wedekind, Claus, Thomas Seebeck, Florence Bettens, and Alexander J. Paepke
1995 MHC-dependent Mate Preferences in Humans. Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Vol. 260, No. 1359 (Jun. 22, 1995), pp. 245-249.
 

Monday Aug 07, 2023

Break out the tissues as The Two Humans get vulnerable and ask the eternal question: will you be my friend? This episode is r-a-w!
Episode 8: “The Banshees of Kansas City, OR, Please Don’t ‘Banshee’ Me, Bro!”
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Video of John & John referenced in this ep: https://youtu.be/vxd0Xu8GWQ8
Anthony, Andrew
2022 Friends Are Good For Us...So Why Do Many Men Have None At All? The Guardian, October 29, 2022, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/29/ friends-are-good-for-us-so-why-do-many-men-have-none-banshees-of-inisherin.
Aristotle
2011 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: A New Translation (Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins, Trans.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
Baltzly, Dirk and Nick Eliopoulos
2009 The Classical Ideals of Friendship. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 1-64, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Bell, Robert R.
1981 Worlds of Friendship. Sage Publications, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA.
Brodie, Marc and Barbara Caine
2009 Class, Sex and Friendship: The Long Nineteenth Century. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 223-278, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Caine, Barbara
2009 Introduction. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. ix-xvi, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Caine, Barbara
2009 Taking up the Pen: Women and the Writing of Friendship. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 215-222, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Chrisafis, Angelique
2023 French Philosopher Urges People to Rebel – By Making Friends. The Guardian, March 6, 2023, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/06/french- philosopher-geoffroy-de-lagasnerie-friendships.
Cleveland Clinic
2023 Frontal Lobe: What Is It, Function, Location & Damage. Cleveland Clinic, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24501-frontal-lobe.
Denworth, Lydia
2020 Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.
Dunbar, Robin I. M.
2016 The Social Brain Hypothesis and Human Evolution. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, March 3, 2016, https://oxfordre.com/psychology/display/10.1093/ acrefore/ 9780190236557.001.0001 /acrefore-9780190236557-e-44;jsessionid =2E7301EFCFF2FFD53017F3F2E1ACD448.
Gowlett, John, Clive Gamble, and Robin Dunbar
2012 Human Evolution and the Archaeology of the Social Brain. Current Anthropology, Vol. 53, No. 6 (December 2012), pp. 693-722.
Irrera, Elena
2005 Between Advantage and Virtur: Aristotle’s Theory of Political Friendship. History of Political Thought, Winter 2005, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 565-585.
James, Carolyn and Bill Kent
2009 Renaissance Friendships: Traditional Truths, New and Dissenting Voices. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 111-164, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Klein, Jessica and Casey Noenickx
2023 Can Gen Z Make Friends in the Pandemic Era? BBC, February 2, 2023, www.bbc.com/ worklife/article/20230201-can-gen-z-make-friends-in-the- pandemic-era.
Lewis, C. S.
1960 The Four Loves. HarperOne, San Francisco, CA. Mac Donnell, Chloe 2023 Oscar-Tipped Banshees of Inisherin Starts a Trend with Irish Knitwear. The Guardian, March 12, 2023, www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/12/oscar-tipped- banshees-of-inisherin-starts-a-trend-with-irish-knitwear.
Mews, Constant J.
2009 Cicero on Friendship. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 65- 72, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Mews, Constant J. and Neville Chiavaroli
2009 The Latin West. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 73-110, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
O’Connell, Mark
2023 Blarney: The Banshees of Inisherin and the Put-On Irishness of Martin McDonagh. Slate, January 26, 2023, https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/martin- mcdonagh-irish-banshees-inisherin-blarney.html.
Peel, Mark
2009 New Worlds of Friendship: The Early Twentieth Century. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 279-316, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Peel, Mark, Liz Reed, and James Walter
2009 The Importance of Friends. In Friendship: A History, edited by Barbara Caine, pp. 317-356, Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
Rotondo, Anthony
1989 Romantic Friendship: Male Intimacy and Middle-Class Youth in the Northern United States, 1800-1900. Journal of Social History, Autumn, 1989, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 1-25.
Smuts, Barbara Boardman
1985 Sex and Friendship in Baboons. Aldine de Gruyter, New York, NY.
Strikwerda, Robert A. and Larry May
1992 Male Friendship and Intimacy. Hypatia, Summer, 1992, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 110-125.
Tognoli, Jerome
1980 Male Friendship and Intimacy across the Life Span. Family Relations, Jul., 1980, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul., 1980), pp. 273-279.
Yalom, Marilyn and Theresa Donovan Brown
2015 The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY.
 

Monday Jul 31, 2023

The Two Humans comb through the tangled history of hair. Walk-ins Welcome!
Episode 7: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Barlow, Ronald S.
1996 The Vanishing American Barbershop: An Illustrated History of Tonsorial Art, 1860-1890. William Marvy Company, Inc., St. Paul, MN.
Berg, Charles
1951 The Unconscious Significance of Hair. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Abingdon, UK.
Bradley, Megan
2022 What the Mullet Means Now. The New York Times Style Magazine, May 17, 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/t-magazine/mullets-hair-trend.html.
Bryer, Robin
2000 The History of Hair: Fashion and Fantasy Down the Ages. Philip Wilson Publishers, London, UK.
Byrd, Ayana D. and Lori L. Tharps
2001 Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY.
Bromberger, Christian
2008 Hair: From the West to the Middle East through the Mediterranean (The 2007 AFS Mediterranean Studies Section Address). The Journal of American Folklore, Fall, 2008, Vol. 121, No. 482 (Fall, 2008), pp. 379-399.
Fiell, Charlotte
2010 Hairstyles: Ancient to Present. Fiell Publishing Limited, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK.
George, Cassidy
2021 Thoroughly Modern Mullets: Style’s Unlikeliest Comeback. BBC, February 7, 2021, www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210205-thoroughly-modern-mullets-styles- unlikeliest-comeback.
Hallpike, C. R.
1969 Social Hair. Man, Jun., 1969, New Series, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun., 1969), pp. 256- 264.
Hansen, Karen Tranberg
2004 The World in Dress: Anthropological Perspectives on Clothing, Fashion, and Culture. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2004, Vol. 33 (2004), pp. 369-392.
Heffernan, Conor
2015 Head Shaving during Ireland’s War of Independence. Doing History in Public, December 3, 2015, https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2015/12/03/head-shaving- during-irelands-war-of-independence/.
Holbrook, Stewart
1944 The Beard of Joseph Palmer. The American Scholar, Autumn 1944, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn 1944), pp. 451-458.
Konstantinovsky, Michelle
2021 From Ancient Greece to ‘Tiger King’: The Hilarious History of the Mullet. How Stuff Works, February 12, 2021, lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/style/hairstyles/ history-mullet.htm.
Lacina, Linda
2018 The Mullet Wasn’t Just an ‘80s Thing: Rebels Have Rocked It for Centuries. History.com, August 29, 2018, www.history.com/news/mullet-hair-style-rebels- history-ancient-rome-ben-franklin.
Larson, Mark and Barney Hoskyns
1999 The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods. Bloomsbury Publishing, New York.
Leach, E. R.
1958 Magical Hair. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Jul. – Dec., 1958, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Jul. – Dec., 1958), pp. 147-164.
Matshego, Lebo
2020 A History of African Women’s Hairstyles. Africa.com, January 25, 2020, www.africa.com/history-african-womens-hairstyles/.
Montle, M. E.
2020 Debunking Eurocentric Ideals of Beauty and Stereotypes Against African Natural Hair(styles). Journal of African Foreign Affairs, April 2020, Vol. 7, No. 1 (April 2020), pp. 111-127.
Mouriquand, David
2022 Iran Protests: Why Is Cutting Hair an Act of Rebellion? Euronews.com, June 10, 2022, www.euronews.com/culture/2022/10/06/iran-protests-why-is-cutting-hair- an-act-of-rebellion.
Oldstone-Moore, Christopher
2011 Mustaches and Masculine Codes in Early Twentieth-Century America. Journal of Social History, Fall 2011, Vol. 45, No.1 (Fall 2011), pp. 47-60.
Payne, Jason.
2009 Hair and Makeup. Log, Fall 2009, No. 17 (Fall 2009), pp. 41-48.
Peiss, Kathy
1998 Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. Metropolitan Books, New York, NY.
Peterkin, Allan
2001 One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair. Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Robins, Gay
1999 Hair and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Egypt, c. 1480-1350 B.C. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1999, Vol. 36 (1999), pp. 55-69.
Rodd, Isabelle
2022 Mullets: Australia’s Love Affair with the Iconic Hairstyle. BBC, December 27, 2022, www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-64048499.
Sherrow, Victoria
2006 Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.
Synnott, Anthony
1987 Shame and Glory: A Sociology of Hair. The British Journal of Sociology, Sep. 1987, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 381-413.
Weitz, Rose
2001 Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power through Resistance and Accommodation. Gender and Society, Oct., 2001, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Oct., 2001), pp. 667-686.
White, Shane and Graham White
1995 Slave Hair and African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The Journal of Southern History, Feb., 1995, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 45-76.
Wortham, Jen, Abraham Miller, and Daniela Delvescovo
2018 Male and Female Hair Color Preferences. Florida Scientist, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Winter 2018), pp. 33-54.
  

Monday Jul 24, 2023

The Two Humans stand up for bipedal primates everywhere when they take an upright look at why we walk on two legs. You may need to sit down for this one
Episode 6: Standing on My Own Two Feet or Do Bipeds Really Have More Fun?!
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Begun, David R.
2010 Miocene Hominids and the Origins of the African Apes and Humans. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2010, Vol. 39 (2010), pp. 67-84.
Crompton, Robert Huw, William I. Sellers and Susannah K. S. Thorpe
2010 Arboreality, Terrestriality, and Bipedalism. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 365, No. 1556, The First Four Million Years of Human Evolution (27 October 2010), pp. 3301-3314.
Davis, Nicola
2022 Bipedalism in Humans May Have Come from Foraging in Treetops, Research Suggests. The Guardian, December 14, 2022, www.theguardian.com/science /2022/dec/14/bipedalism-foraging-research.
DeSilva, Jeremy
2021 First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY.
De Vos, John, Paul Y. Sondaar, and Jelle W. F. Reumer
1998 The Evolution of Hominid Bipedalism. Anthropologie (1962-), 1998, Vol. 36, No. 1/2 (1998), pp. 5-16.
Drummond-Clarke, Rhianna C., Tracy L. Kivell, Lauren Sarringhaus, Fiona A. Stewart, Tatyana Humle, and Alex K. Piel
2022 Wild Chimpanzees Behavior Suggests That a Savanna-Mosaic Habitat Did Not Support the Emergence of Hominin Terrestrial Bipedalism. Science Advances, December 14, 2022, Vol. 8, Issue 50, www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv. add9752.
Feder, Kenneth L. and Michael Alan Park
2007 Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Nineth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
Jablonski, Nina G. and George Chaplin
1992 The Origin of Hominid Bipedalism Re-Examined. Archaeology in Oceania, Oct. 1992, Vol. 27, No. 3, Evolution, Form and Geography: A Symposium on Human Biology (Oct., 1992), pp. 113-119.
Johanson, Donald C. and Kate Wong
2009 Lucy’s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. Three Rivers Press, New York, NY.
Kutza, Sarah
2022 Human Ancestors May Have Evolved to Walk Upright in Trees. Smithsonian Magazine, December 15, 2022, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human- ancestors-may-have-evolved-to-walk-upright-in-trees-180981300/ 
Landau, Misia
1984 Human Evolution as Narrative: Have Hero Myths and Folktales Influenced Our Interpretations of the Evolutionary Past? American Scientist, May-June 1984, Vol. 72, No. 3 (May-June 1984), pp. 262-268.
Liebenberg, Louis
2006 Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers. Current Anthropology, Vol. 47, No. 6 (December 2006), pp. 1017-1026.
Meredith, Martin
2011 Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life. PublicAffairs, New York, NY.
Roberts, Alice
2018 Evolution: The Human Story, Second Edition. Dorling Kindersley, New York, NY.
Ruxton, Graeme D. and David M. Wilkinson
2011 Avoidance of Overheating and Selection for Both Hair Loss and Bipedality in Hominins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 27, 2011, Vol. 108, No. 52 (December 27, 2011), pp. 20965-20969.
Simpson, George Gaylord
1961 Lamarck, Darwin and Butler: Three Approaches to Evolution. The American Scholar, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring 1961), pp. 238-249.
Tanner, Nancy Makepeace
1981 On Becoming Human. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Venkataraman, Vivek V., Thomas S. Kraft, and Nathaniel J. Dominy
2013 Tree Climbing and Human Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America, January 22, 2013, Vol. 110, No. 4 (January 22, 2013), pp. 1237-1242.
 

Monday Jul 17, 2023

Dogs may be humans' best friends, but rats may be our oldest roommates. In this episode, The Two Humans get squeamish when they have a heart-to-heart about the world's other ubiquitous mammal. And by the way, most rats won't sit on your head and make you French food.Episode 5 - It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Complicated Relationship between Rats and Humans
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
BBC
2015 The Countries Where Rats are on the Menu. BBC Future, December 7, 2015, www.bbc.com/future/article/20151207-the-countries-where-rats-are-on-the-menu.
Burns, Robert
1787 “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, 1785.” Poems, Chiefly Scottish, William Creech, Edinburgh, UK, modern English translation by Michael R. Burch.
Cole, Lucinda
2016 Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
Dell’Amore, Christine
2019 In Vietnam, Rats Are a Popular Food—Here’s Why. National Geographic, March 14, 2019, www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/vietnam-rats-eating-food- cuisine.
Evans, E. P.
1906 The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals. William Heinemann, London, UK.
Gibson, Kate
2022 NYC to Pay Up to $170,000 to Hire a Rat Czar with “Swashbuckling Attitude.” CBS News.com, December 1, 2022, www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-rat-czar- 170000-salary-swashbuckling-attitude/.
Hulme-Beaman, Ardern, David Orton, and Thomas Cucchi
2021 The Origins of the Domesticate Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) and Its Pathways to Domestication. Animal Frontiers, Volume 11, Issue 3, May 2021, pp. 78-86, https://academic.oup.com/af/article/11/3/78/6306454.
Kim, Elizabeth
2022 NYC Is Hiring a Rat Czar: “General Aura of Badassery” Required. Gothamist, November 30, 2022, gothamist.com/news/nyc-is-hiring-a-rat-czar-general-aura- of-badassery-required.
Marrin, Albert
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
2022 Spread of Black Rats Was Linked to Human Historical Events. Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, May 3, 2022, www.mpg.de/18595905/0503-evan- spread-of-black-rats-was-linked-to-human-historical-events-150495-x.
Mayhew, Henry
1985 London Labour and the London Poor. Penguin Books, London, UK. (Originally published in 1851)
2010 London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition. Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (Originally published in 1851)
Roach, Mary
2021 Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.
Senzamici, Peter
2022 Eric Adams Promised Us Hope through Boozy Rat Death Traps. Patch, September 25, 2002, patch.com/new-york/prospectheights/eric-adams-promised- us-hope-through-boozy-rat-death-traps.
Sullivan, Robert
2004 Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants. Bloomsbury, New York, NY.
Stolzenburg, William
2011 Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World’s Greatest Wildlife Rescue. Bloomsbury, New York, NY.
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1853 On Rhyming Rats to Death. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1836- 1869), 1850-1853, Vol. 5 (1850-1953), pp. 355-366.
Vatomsky, Sonya
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Zinser, Hans
2013 Rats, Lice & History. Read Books Ltd., Las Vegas, NV. (Originally published in 1935)
 

Monday Jul 10, 2023

Asked to name a famous archaeologist, most people will say Indiana Jones, even though he never existed. In this episode, The Two Humans look at the good, the bad, and the Indy of fictional anthropologists.
Episode 4: We Need to Talk About Indy
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Amsden, Charles Avery
1949 Prehistoric Southwesterners from Basketmaker to Pueblo. George Rice & Sons, Los Angeles.
Archaeological Institute of America
2008 Harrison Ford Elected to AIA Board. Archaeological Institute of America, May 15, 2008, www.archaeological.org/harrison-ford-elected-to-aia-board/.
Associated Press
2023 Treasure Hunters Dive for Mammoth Bones in New York’s East River, The Guardian, January 15, 2023, www.theguardian.com/us- news/2023/jan/15/treasure-hunters-dive-mammoth-bones-new-york-east-river- joe-rogan.
Biber, Katherine
1995 The Emperor’s New Clones: Indiana Jones and Masculinity in Reagan’s America. Australasian Journal of American Studies, December 1995, Vol. 14, No. 2 (December, 1995), pp. 67-86.
Binford, Lewis R.
1983 In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Burgh, Robert F.
1957 Earl Halstead Morris, 1889-1956. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Jun., 1957), pp. 521-523.
Fagan, Brian
2018 A Little History of Archaeology. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Greene, Kevin and Tom Moore
2010 Archaeology: An Introduction, Fifth Edition. Routledge, London, UK.
Hiscock, Peter
2012 Supernatural Archaeology, and the Hidden Human Past. Numen, 2012, Vol. 59, No. 2/3, Alternative Archaeology (2012), pp. 156-177.
Holthorf, Cornelius
2005 From Stonehenge to Las Vegas: Archaeology as Popular Culture. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA. 2007 Archaeology is a Brand! The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
Johnson, Matthew
1999 Archeological Theory: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA.
Khomami, Nadia
2023 Tom Felton Film Unearths ‘Epic Story’ of Female Archaeologist. The Guardian, January 15, 2023, www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/15/tom-felton-film-female- archaeologist-canyon-del-muerto-ann-axtell- morris 
Kidder, Alfred
1957 Earl Halstead Morris, 1889-1956. American Antiquity, April 1957, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Apr., 1957), pp. 390-397.
Landau, Mislia
1984 Human Evolution as Narrative: Have Hero Myths and Folktales Influenced Our Interpretation of the Evolutionary Past? American Scientist, May-June 1984, Vol. 72, No. 3 (May-June 1984), pp. 262-268.
Lee, Benjamin
2023 Phoebe Waller-Bridge Reportedly Writing Tomb Raider TV Series. The Guardian, January 27, 2023, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/27/phoebe- waller-bridge-tomb-raider-tv-series-amazon.
Lister, Florence C. and Robert H. Lister
1968 Earl Morris & Southwestern Archaeology. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
Lister, Robert H. and Florence C. Lister
1993 Those Who Came Before. Western National Parks Association, Tucson, AZ. Madden, Caroline 2022 How Steven Spielberg’s Love of James Bond Led to Indiana Jones (and a Few Cinematic Easter Eggs). /Film, May 25, 2022, www.slashfilm.com/810804/how- steven-spielbergs-love-of-james-bond-led-to-indiana-jones-and-a-few-cinematic- easter-eggs/.
McGeough, Kevin
2006 Heroes, Mummies, and Treasure: Near Eastern Archaeology in the Movies. Near Eastern Archaeology, September – December, 2006, Vol. 69, No.3/4 (Sep. – Dec., 2006), pp. 174-185.
Miller, Peter N.
2017 History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture Since 1500. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. Mohow, James A. 1999 Why Archaeology? Central States Archaeological Journal, January 1999, Vol. 46, No. 1 (January 1999), pp. 39-40.
Moshenka, Gabriel
2017 Archaeologists in Popular Culture. In Key Concepts in Public Archaeology, edited by Gabriel Moshenka, pp. 151-165, UCL Press, London, UK.
Stolworthy, Jack
2016 Steven Spielberg Reveals He Was Rejected as Bond Director Twice. Independent, July 18, 2016, www.independent.co.uk/arts- entertainment/films/news/steven-spielberg-james-bond-the-bfg-moonraker- broccoli-007-jaws-close-encounters-a7142731.html.
  

Monday Jul 03, 2023

From Presidents to pop stars, it seems like everyone is falling for hoaxes these days! In this episode, The Two Humans take a deep dive into the most famous anthropological hoax of all time to find out why we're attracted to false information.
Episode 3: Piltdown Meltdown: Anthropological Hoaxes, Fakes, and Folderols
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
www.intro2anthro.podbean.com 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Resources:
Bacon, Francis
1902 Novum Organum. edited by Joseph Devey. P.F. Collier & Son, New York, NY. 2015 Francis Bacon: The Complete Works (Centaur Classics). Centaur Editions, Kindle edition.
BBC News
2021 Cerne Abbas Giant Age Revealed by Scientists. BBC News, May 12, 2021, www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-57076224.
Booher, Harold R.
1986 Science Fraud at Piltdown: The Amateur and the Priest. The Antioch Review. Autumn 1986, Vol. 44, No. 4, Tricks & Bones: The Piltdown Fraud (Autumn, 1986), pp. 389-407.
Duffy, Kathleen
2014 Teilhard’s Mysticism: Seeing the Inner Face of Evolution. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY.
Fox, Alex
2020 Snail Shells Date England’s Cerne Abbas Giant to Medieval, Not Prehistoric. Smithsonian Magazine, July 9, 2020, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart- news/snail-shells-reveal-englands-180-foot-cerne-abbas-giant-not-prehistoric- 180975274/.
Goodrum, Matthew R. and Cora Olson
2009 The Quest for an Absolute Chronology in Human Prehistory: Anthropologists, Chemists and Fluorine Dating Method in Paleoanthropology. The British Journal for the History of Science, March 2009, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Mar. 2009), pp. 95-114.
Hancock, Peter
2015 Hoax Springs Eternal: The Psychology of Cognitive Deception. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
King, Ursula
1996 Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY.
Langdon, John H.
1991 Interpreting Piltdown. Current Anthropology. December 1991, Vol. 32, No. 5 (Dec. 1991), pp. 627-631.
Mead, Rebecca
2021 A Giant Mystery: Is an enormous chalk outline of a naked man an ancient image—or a modern joke? The New Yorker, May 24, 2021, pp. 18-23.
Oakley, Kenneth P. and J. S. Weiner
1955 Piltdown Man. American Scientist. October 1955, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October 1955), pp. 573-583.
Popular Science
2015 100 Hoaxes & Mistakes That Fooled Science: Experts Expose the Worst Bloopers and Fakes—from Crop Circles to Miracle Cures and Beyond. Fog City Press, San Francisco, CA.
Spencer, Frank
1990 Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery. Oxford University Press, London.
Thomson, Keith Stewart
1991 Piltdown Man: The Great English Mystery. American Scientist, May-June 1991, Vol. 79, No. 3 (May-June 1991), pp. 194-201.
  

Monday Jun 26, 2023

Do harfoots really speak with Irish accents and wear sticks in their hair? Do dwarves really drink ale and shout in a Scottish burr? Why do elves speak in refined English accents? In this episode, the Two Humans travel to Middle Earth to confront the scourge of linguistic stereotyping.
Episode 2: It Don’t Mean A Ting If You Ain’t Got Dem Rings 
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
Blake, John
2022 When “Wokeness” Comes to Middle-earth: Why Some Say Diverse Casting Ruins the New “Lord of the Rings” Series. CNN, September 5, 2022, www.cnn.com/2022/09/03/entertainment/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-controversy- blake-cec/index.html 
Donnelly, Jerome
2018 Nazis in the Shire. Mythlore, Vol. 37, No. 1 (133) (Fall/Winter 2018), pp. 81-102.
Dragojevic, Marko, Dana Mastro, Howard Giles, and Alexander Sink
2016 Silencing Nonstandard Speakers: A Content Analysis of Accent Portrayal on American Primetime Television. Language in Society, Vol. 45, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 59-85.
Edwards, John
2013 Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
Grewell, Greg
2001 Colonizing the Universe: Science Fictions Then, Now, and in the (Imagined) Future. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 2001, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2001), pp. 25-47.
Haugen, Einar
1966 Dialect, Language, Nation. American Anthropologist, August 1966, New Series, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Aug. 1966), pp. 922-935.
Hiley, Margaret
2004 Stolen Language, Cosmic Models: Myth and Mythology in Tolkien. Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 2004, Vol. 50, No. 4, J. R. R. Tolkien Special Issue (Winter 2004), pp. 838-860.
Holmes, Janet and Nick Wilson
2017 An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fifth Edition. Routledge, New York, NY.
Hostetter, Carl F. and Arden R. Smith
1992 A Mythology for England. Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, No. 33, Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference: Keble College, Oxford, 1992 (1995), pp. 281-290.
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Lippi-Green, Rosina
2011 English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States, Second Edition. Routledge, New York, NY.
Meeks, Barbara A. 2006 And the Injun Goes “How!”: Representations of American Indian English in White Public Space. Language in Society, February 2006, Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 2006), pp. 93-128.
Metz, Mike
2018 Challenges of Confronting Dominant Language Ideologies in the High School English Classroom. Research in the Teaching of English, May 2018, Vol. 52, No.4 (May 2018), pp. 455-477.
Moore, Robert
2011 “If I Actually Talked Like That, I’d Pull a Gun on Myself”: Accent, Avoidance, and Moral Panic in Irish English. Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Winter 2011), pp. 41-64.
Power, Ed
2022 Rings of Power: The New Hobbits Are Filthy, Hungry Simpletons with Stage-Irish Accents. That’s $1bn Well Spent. The Irish Times, August 31, 2022, www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2022/08/31/rings-of-power-the-new-hobbits- are-filthy-hungry-simpletons-with-stage-irish-accents-thats-1bn-well-spent/.
Welch, Andy
2022 Irish People Have Faced Centuries of Discrimination: Why Are Lord of the Rings’ Accents So Offensively Bad? The Guardian, September 28, 2022, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/28/irish-people-have-faced- centuries-of-discrimination-why-are-lord-of-the-rings-accents-so-offensively-bad.
  

Wednesday May 10, 2023

The Two Humans begin their journey of self-discovery by exploring the illicit liaisons between our Homo sapien and Neanderthal ancestors. This episode is hot, hot, hot!!
Episode 1: Let’s Get It On! Hominin Hookups and Prehistoric Baby Daddies
An Intro to Anthro with two Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources
2022 Skull Research Sheds Light on Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding. Popular Science (Popsci.com), August 24, 2022, www.popsci.com/science/human- interbreeding-neanderthals-skulls/.
Churchill, S.E. and A.H. Ross
2022 Midfacial Morphology and Neandertal–Modern Human Interbreeding. Biology 2022, 11, 1163. https://doi.org/10.3390/ biology11081163.
Devlin, Hannah
2022 Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Copied Each Other’s Tools. The Guardian, October 13, 2022, www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/13/ neanderthals-and-modern-humans-may-have-copied-each-others-tools.
Gallagher, James
2022 Nobel Prize Goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal Work. BBC News (BBC.com), October 3, 2022, www.bbc.com/news/health-63116304.
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Nineth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Paabo, Svante
2018 A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins, lecture, 2018 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, https://youtu.be/RIR8yrEGAgw.
Roberts, Allice2018 Evolution: The Human Story, Second Edition. Dorling Kindersley, New York, NY.
  

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John McCray has a BA in French and an MA in Southwest Studies/Anthropology and Archaeology. He has taught college-level anthropology and his graduate thesis was titled "Mycotoxins, Maize and Site Abandonment in the American Southwest." Over the years he has worked cleaning chimneys, answering questions about Italian tourism, guarding artworks that look like vaginas at the O'Keeffe Museum, and helping veterans. He has written for stage and television, including projects for VH1, Fox Studios, and Lookingglass Theater. He co-created A Series of Comedic Lectures and Addiction 101 with John Lehr and was the historical consultant on Hulu's Quickdraw. John enjoys looking at petroglyphs and pottery sherds and hanging out with John Lehr.

John Lehr is the star/creator/writer for “10 Items or Less” (TBS), “JailBait” (Sony/Crackle) and “Quickdraw” (Hulu).  Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign.  Lehr’s critically acclaimed “Comedic Lectures”  solo performances, directed and co-created by John McCray, have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York. Lehr regularly performs stand-up comedy and MC/Hosts events around the country. www.johnlehr.com

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