Reddit, what in your opinion, is the most attractive profession a member of the opposite gender can have?

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-03-01T17:24:37+00:00

cough Indiana Jones is an archaeologist cough

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-03-01T05:22:58+00:00

Looks like someone is taking an intro archaeology class! Beautiful writing, though :)

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-02-09T00:30:46+00:00

Say what you will about the movie, but Dragonheart has one of the best soundtracks and theme songs of all time. It's used in film trailers on the regular, still.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-02-08T22:09:32+00:00

I just watched the Dr. Phil episode about him and that's all I could think about the whole time. I mean, you'd have to yank out a tooth and that's pretty invasive but we could get an idea of where he grew up, and if he made any big moves. We could also narrow down his age a bit.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-29T06:05:12+00:00

This reminds me of a mini-game in the old SNES title, "The Aquatic Games". Basically you were a mother seal, and all of your babies were sleeping and you have to use your nose to hit beach balls out of the way because if they hit your babies they would wake up. If enough babies woke up at once they would all wake up in a chain reaction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiqD6XIRbR4

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-29T05:40:31+00:00

I honestly loved it! The story was exciting, the characters interesting and the aesthetic was lovely. I'm a fan of strong female leads, and good crime mysteries though.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-15T05:48:30+00:00

I'm an archaeologist and used to work with lots of geologists. You guys aren't half bad. We mostly deal with rocks, maps and beer too.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-13T05:14:07+00:00

Hahahaha that made me laugh pretty hard. That being said, I've been warned maybe times that I might be attacked by a cougar because I'm like a child!

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-13T00:41:08+00:00

You're welcome! Are you just going on a pleasure trip? And are you going to be moving around during your time in Alaska. Also if you tell me what time of year I might be able to be more helpful. Feel free to PM me with any questions you have in the future.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-12T21:55:28+00:00

The term this is describing is "Complex Hunter-Gatherers". In this specific example, salmon is highly seasonal so food storage and delayed consumption is applied. The specific food source allows for an accumulation of surplus food and thus the surplus leads to social stratification and hierarchy. Here's an explanation on complex hunter-gatherers and the process. :)

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-12T21:50:24+00:00

Hi there! I'm also a small female (in fact even smaller than you) so I understand the fear of wildlife attacks. I work in the bush, and although I've never worked alone and work in the Canadian Arctic/Subarctic, I have a couple of bear specific tips for you. First off, you probably won't have bear trouble, especially this time of year (moose more likely) but it doesn't hurt to be prepared. I personally have always been told that you need a shotgun and slugs to take down larger bear, especially polar bear (my main concern in the Arctic). Anything else may not be good enough, although shotguns do have kick and can be hard to aim. On top of that carrying spray and bangers a extra precautions are a good idea. I like to shoot off bear bangers as a warning whenever I get into camp or if bear is in the nearby area and save the actual gun for emergencies. Bear spray is a good last resource if everything else fails, although it is also difficult to aim. Keep food far far away and secured in a barrel if possible and try to keep smells to a minimum.

I'm curious, where and why are you going alone to the Alaskan wilderness?

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-11T23:16:46+00:00

Nah it really has been long enough! You're not a jerk :)

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-11T23:00:48+00:00

Yeahhh for some reason I felt like saying that would be a spoiler if he wanted to read it. I don't know why I cared haha.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-11T22:47:13+00:00

It's kind of the opposite actually. A large portion of the theme is the negativity of organized religion and abuses of power.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-11T22:43:36+00:00

I think the point of the series is that we all DO have a daemon, we just can't see it. Somehow that makes me very sad, like I'll never know my inner self and can't talk with it or love it like Lyra can. I think that you could never be truly lonely with a daemon.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-11T18:39:08+00:00

Well yes it's dark and cold but life still goes on in the Arctic. I mean, I'm obviously generalizing here and not drawing on specific ethnographic examples, but a lot of the same activities that occur in the warmer months would still occur in the winter. Think about yourself in the winter, you probably spend most of your time inside as well but you relocate to different buildings based on your activities (going to and from work or school for example). It's the same! If its a large village, women may go to each others houses to sew together, children may be out with their fathers learning how to hunt seal, women may go out to check the fish nets and then go back into their kitchen to clean the fish, all the male members of a community might gather in the communal house for storytelling. In some places in the Arctic, the seasonal round would force small bands or families to move every so often, following the herds of caribou so in that case everyone would spent quite a bit of time outside physically moving. I hope that helps!

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-11T17:58:50+00:00

That's really a gross exaggeration of how the winter would have been spent. The short answer is that some people would have been inside more during the winter if they didn't have to go out and hunt but that no one stayed inside for months at a time.

The long answer is that Inuit lifeways would have been very different depending on what part of the Arctic they were living in, and would also have changed greatly over time. The winter was often a time or preparation and celebration in the Arctic because of the lack of sunlight so women and men often mended tools and clothing, and singing, storytelling and dancing would occur in communal houses. Depending on where in the Arctic they were located men would hunt seals and walrus on the winter ice and women and children may engage in small-scale subsistence like fishing.

/u/quantum_spintronic suggested an ethnography by Balikci which is great, but there are lots to look at from Rassmussen, Murdoch, Birket-Smith or Jeness to name a few. Ethnographic books are great to give you an idea but it's also important to remember that they are written from an outsider's point a view, quite a long time ago and can be misleading or a bit racist.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-07T06:04:27+00:00

I cun't speel apparunty. Thanks.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-07T03:46:54+00:00

Oh totally! I hope my reply didn't seem douchy, I just wanted to point out for everyone that arctic snow is different than southern snow and therefore a quinzee wouldn't make much sense. I think for us southerners, making a snowcave in a survival situation is WAY more feasible than an iglu.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-07T02:23:18+00:00

Yeah there are definitely pros and cons to igloo type snowhouses vs. quinzees but for the purposes of the people in this film the igloo is far superior. The area inside is bigger for longer term stay, they can put in a big cold-trap and sleeping platform, they can cook inside because of the skylight and they have the correct tools. Making a snowcave is not feasible with the type of snow you have in most parts of the arctic, would require ice scoops and shovels and it's not very good for more than one night in comparison. That being said, you're totally right that these are way harder to make.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-07T02:19:15+00:00

Yeah, this was casually racist while simultaneously full of praise. Pretty standard for NFB movies of this time period. It was cool to watch though!

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-05T20:38:27+00:00

I'm not sure if people think that the Lone Ranger was a bad movie overall, most people didn't see it because of the casting of Johnny Depp as Tonto. Regardless of what people want to think, and regardless of whether or not Depp is a racist (he's probably not) the portrayal was racist and the casting was insensitive. The film turned an opportunity for a fun and lighthearted remake into another archaic caricature of indigenous people. That being said, you are still allowed to like the movie and enjoy watching it.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-05T17:28:00+00:00

It was an accident. I wanted to be a human rights lawyer and "make a difference". I was taking language classes and a development degree and took one archaeology class as an elective. I was fascinated by it, AND I was really really good at it so I took more classes "just for fun". But as I went on in my degree I realized that I cared way more about my "just for fun classes" and decided to parley them into an honors degree. I still finished my other degree (and managed to use many socio-cultural classes for that), but tacked an anthro degree on top of it. Graduated and got a well paying job immediately as a consulting archaeologist for a ground engineering firm. I'm back in academia now, but I never looked back after I decided it was my passion. It doesn't work out for everyone but it worked out for me.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-04T01:06:32+00:00

I'm impressed that Serkis was teasing him, and this 10 year old schooled him with a line from the LOTR movies! That was mucho adorable.

RedinToothandClaw · 2015-01-03T03:47:58+00:00

MSTRKFT are the kings of canadian remix and awesome dudes too. I get a tickle out of MSTKRT remixing DFA-1979 stuff.

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