Niccolo Caldararo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niccolo Caldararo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niccolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Caldararo |
| SIGNATURE | CALDARARO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Mental Ethnography
This study explores how culture, context and social value influence the experiences of people who have taken psychedelic drugs.
Mental Ethnography
Probability, Populations, Phylogenetics, and Hominin Speciation
A number of recent articles have appeared on the hominin Denisova fossil remains. Many of them focus on attempts to produce DNA sequences from the extracted samples. Often these project mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from the fossils of a number of Neandertals and the Denisovans in an attempt to understand the evolution of Middle Pleistocene human ancestors. These articles introduce a number of problems in the interpretation of speciation in…
The theory of banking
Banks are generally considered by most people to be utilities that allow the transmission of value on a daily basis in modern society, but they also seem to create devastating events like credit crises by the manufacture of credit. How this power originated in human society is of interest. Most animals produce some degree of savings, either in caching from one season to the next or for later in one season. Often these savings are an intergenerati…
On the Use of Contemporary "Hunters and Gatherers" as Models for Prehistoric Patterns of Wealth Distribution
Primitive and Modern Economics
This paper investigates aspects of economics in the context of complex society and the nature of investment devices in cross-cultural comparison, placing special attention on the new global issues of money, hedge fund contracts, derivatives and other risk-spreading concepts and practices. The function of these are compared to the behavior of the inventors and practitioners in other cultures. Similarities are noted with religious formulators and t…
Ethical Concerns of Camp Anthropologists
The finding of proconsul
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life Niccolo Caldararo and James Quesada The use of terms of race or ethnicity can be precise or general given the social context of conversation. In recent years, the use of the term "Latino" has exploded into a racial, political and ethnic category that covers such a vast number of contradictory traits and elements of group membership that it enrages some as much as it emboldens others. The p…
Suicide Bombers, Terror, History, and Religion
Suicide Bombers, Terror, History, and Religion Niccolo Caldararo There is a tendency to overlook many examples from the West when we discuss suicide and terrorism and to emphasize some examples from the Near East. This is true both in the academic and popular press. I will give examples from each. Very little in recent years has appeared in print concerning the theory of suicide bombing or past research in suicide. Even Durkheim or more recent co…
Hair, Human Evolution, and the Idea of Human Uniqueness
Suicide Bombing and Terror Are Not New
Japan and the concept of sustainability
This article describes a sustainable human social adaptation. It provides an example of how a human population responds to environmental stresses and modulates its population given technological abilities for food production and population control. The example used is Japan over the past 500 years. The concept of “sustainability” has become a popular concept used in a variety of conflicting and contradictory contexts and with resulting confusion.…
War, Mead and Nature of Criticism in Anthropology
Herbert S. Lewis (1998) has described in detail problems with criticism in anthropology with a focus on the period after the 1960s. His comments clearly demonstrate how subjective these criticisms were and it is important for us to understand the social context in which criticism arises in any field as Kuhn (1970) established. Geertz (1973) reminds us that the "clash of ideologists" may bring a problem to attention, but so charge it with emotion …
Evolving health
The Concept of the Sustainable Economy and the Promise of Japan's Transformation
In recent years the concept of a sustainable economy has become a popular theme. Lester Brown's 1981 book, Building a Sustainable Society, called for a sustainable society based on conservation and population stability. While in the present economic situation this may seem absurd to some, the present dilemma is actually an appropriate context in which to discuss the concept. Human environmental exploitation has considerable effects on the ecology…
Comment on Brewis et al
Pesticide Contamination of Native American Objects
Education and the Importation of Foreign Workers
The evolution of HIV
The evolution of HIV
Education by Entertainment
Romancing Tibet
Storage Conditions and Physical Treatments Relating to the Dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been analyzed by paleographic, non-destructive and destructive testing. The dates of their creation have been in dispute since their discovery. Research has established their authenticity, but a variety of conditions including the methods of skin preparation, variation in storage conditions and post-discovery restoration treatments could have introduced changes now affecting dating efforts. Comprehensive analyses were no…
A Way of Not Looking at the World
Some Effects of the Use of Ultrasonic Devices in Conservation and the Question of Standards for Cleaning Objects
This article discusses the implications of sonochemical research for the treatment of antiquities composed of organic or inorganic materials. It provides a review of some of the present uses of ultrasonic devices and contrasts these empirical applications with the scientific data on how the observed effects are interpreted as cleaning versus damage
On the Use of Contemporary "Hunters and Gatherers" as Models for Prehistoric Patterns of Wealth Distribution
Storage Conditions and Physical Treatments Relating to the Dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been analyzed by paleographic, non-destructive and destructive testing. The dates of their creation have been in dispute since their discovery. Research has established their authenticity, but a variety of conditions including the methods of skin preparation, variation in storage conditions and post-discovery restoration treatments could have introduced changes now affecting dating efforts. Comprehensive analyses were no…
A Note on the Archaeological Report
Archaeological reports provide a record of what is excavated as well as the context in which the remains are found. I have often read archaeological reports for information on the conservation practices and materials used by archaeologists and to find data bearing on the identification and exhibition of artifacts. I have studied them to discover the nature of the published literature on writing archaeological reports, and have found them exceedin…
The theory of banking
Banks are generally considered by most people to be utilities that allow the transmission of value on a daily basis in modern society, but they also seem to create devastating events like credit crises by the manufacture of credit. How this power originated in human society is of interest. Most animals produce some degree of savings, either in caching from one season to the next or for later in one season. Often these savings are an intergenerati…
Primitive and Modern Economics
This paper investigates aspects of economics in the context of complex society and the nature of investment devices in cross-cultural comparison, placing special attention on the new global issues of money, hedge fund contracts, derivatives and other risk-spreading concepts and practices. The function of these are compared to the behavior of the inventors and practitioners in other cultures. Similarities are noted with religious formulators and t…
Ethical Concerns of Camp Anthropologists
War, Mead and Nature of Criticism in Anthropology
Herbert S. Lewis (1998) has described in detail problems with criticism in anthropology with a focus on the period after the 1960s. His comments clearly demonstrate how subjective these criticisms were and it is important for us to understand the social context in which criticism arises in any field as Kuhn (1970) established. Geertz (1973) reminds us that the "clash of ideologists" may bring a problem to attention, but so charge it with emotion …
A Way of Not Looking at the World
A Note on the Archaeological Report
Archaeological reports provide a record of what is excavated as well as the context in which the remains are found. I have often read archaeological reports for information on the conservation practices and materials used by archaeologists and to find data bearing on the identification and exhibition of artifacts. I have studied them to discover the nature of the published literature on writing archaeological reports, and have found them exceedin…
The solander box
Some Effects of the Use of Ultrasonic Devices in Conservation and the Question of Standards for Cleaning Objects
This article discusses the implications of sonochemical research for the treatment of antiquities composed of organic or inorganic materials. It provides a review of some of the present uses of ultrasonic devices and contrasts these empirical applications with the scientific data on how the observed effects are interpreted as cleaning versus damage
Storage Conditions and Physical Treatments Relating to the Dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been analyzed by paleographic, non-destructive and destructive testing. The dates of their creation have been in dispute since their discovery. Research has established their authenticity, but a variety of conditions including the methods of skin preparation, variation in storage conditions and post-discovery restoration treatments could have introduced changes now affecting dating efforts. Comprehensive analyses were no…
A Way of Not Looking at the World
Romancing Tibet
Education by Entertainment
The evolution of HIV
The evolution of HIV
Comment on Brewis et al
Pesticide Contamination of Native American Objects
Education and the Importation of Foreign Workers
Evolving health
The Concept of the Sustainable Economy and the Promise of Japan's Transformation
In recent years the concept of a sustainable economy has become a popular theme. Lester Brown's 1981 book, Building a Sustainable Society, called for a sustainable society based on conservation and population stability. While in the present economic situation this may seem absurd to some, the present dilemma is actually an appropriate context in which to discuss the concept. Human environmental exploitation has considerable effects on the ecology…
Japan and the concept of sustainability
This article describes a sustainable human social adaptation. It provides an example of how a human population responds to environmental stresses and modulates its population given technological abilities for food production and population control. The example used is Japan over the past 500 years. The concept of “sustainability” has become a popular concept used in a variety of conflicting and contradictory contexts and with resulting confusion.…
War, Mead and Nature of Criticism in Anthropology
Herbert S. Lewis (1998) has described in detail problems with criticism in anthropology with a focus on the period after the 1960s. His comments clearly demonstrate how subjective these criticisms were and it is important for us to understand the social context in which criticism arises in any field as Kuhn (1970) established. Geertz (1973) reminds us that the "clash of ideologists" may bring a problem to attention, but so charge it with emotion …
Hair, Human Evolution, and the Idea of Human Uniqueness
Suicide Bombing and Terror Are Not New
The finding of proconsul
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life
A Note on The Political Idea of "Latino" in American Life Niccolo Caldararo and James Quesada The use of terms of race or ethnicity can be precise or general given the social context of conversation. In recent years, the use of the term "Latino" has exploded into a racial, political and ethnic category that covers such a vast number of contradictory traits and elements of group membership that it enrages some as much as it emboldens others. The p…
Suicide Bombers, Terror, History, and Religion
Suicide Bombers, Terror, History, and Religion Niccolo Caldararo There is a tendency to overlook many examples from the West when we discuss suicide and terrorism and to emphasize some examples from the Near East. This is true both in the academic and popular press. I will give examples from each. Very little in recent years has appeared in print concerning the theory of suicide bombing or past research in suicide. Even Durkheim or more recent co…
Primitive and Modern Economics
This paper investigates aspects of economics in the context of complex society and the nature of investment devices in cross-cultural comparison, placing special attention on the new global issues of money, hedge fund contracts, derivatives and other risk-spreading concepts and practices. The function of these are compared to the behavior of the inventors and practitioners in other cultures. Similarities are noted with religious formulators and t…
Ethical Concerns of Camp Anthropologists
On the Use of Contemporary "Hunters and Gatherers" as Models for Prehistoric Patterns of Wealth Distribution
The theory of banking
Banks are generally considered by most people to be utilities that allow the transmission of value on a daily basis in modern society, but they also seem to create devastating events like credit crises by the manufacture of credit. How this power originated in human society is of interest. Most animals produce some degree of savings, either in caching from one season to the next or for later in one season. Often these savings are an intergenerati…
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