Greg Downey

May 10, 2024 | anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Greg Downey

INTRODUCTION In 2017, during a short course on freediving, I joined a half dozen other students in a sheltered cove off Sydney Harbour. Our instructor, a one-time world record-holder in freediving, chose our location, and we waded in wearing wetsuits, carrying oversized diving fins, weighed down by ballast plates. The course prepared us to dive in competitions or as part of another activity, like spearfishing, surfing, or underwater exploration.

Sep 22, 2023 | anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Greg Downey

From my perspective as a neuroanthropologist, some of the best things about anthropology are thrown into high relief by comparing it to related disciplines, especially the human sciences. This commentary discusses developments in psychology since 2010, especially a series of high-profile scandals and the field's broader replication crisis. I do this to better assess what anthropology offers as a discipline.

Sep 22, 2023 | anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Greg Downey

REFERENCES , , and . 2020. “Beyond WEIRD: A Review of the Last Decade and a Look Ahead to the Global Laboratory of the Future.” Evolution and Human Behavior 41(5): 319–329. 2008. “The Neglected 95%: Why American Psychology Needs to Become Less American.” American Psychologist 63(7): 602–614. 1988. Rethinking Psychological Anthropology. New York: W. F. Freeman. 2013. “Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Intellectual Thought in Anthropology.” Transforming Anthropology 21(1): 57–71.

May 10, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Greg Downey |Alexander J. Gillett

Commentary This article is part of the topic “Grounded Cognition Entails Linguistic Relativity,” Asifa Majid (Topic Editor). Abstract Kemmerer's discussion of links between semantic typology and embodied cognition is welcome, especially his survey of available evidence.