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The article presents comments on the research paper which asks to renew the social and cultural anthropology through wholesale restructuring according to the templates of Darwinian evolution theory. According to the author, the paper does not address to the central concerns of social anthropology from within evolutionary biology. He states that evolutionary biology might be incapable for the understanding of human culture because of the knowledge that cultural evolution does not work in the same way as biological evolution. He discusses the problems to consider between the cultural and the biological evolution.

The article presents information on biennial conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) that was held in Vienna, Austria, during September 14-17, 2011. The main theme of the conference was cultural heritage, revitalization and the renaissance of the idea of culture. Many papers were presented at almost 50 workshops, on topics ranging from UNESCO cultural heritage policies to tourism, and indigenous rights to global commodity chains.

Highlights the topics discussed at the Fourth International Rhetoric Culture Conference held at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany from July 16 to 20, 2005. Presentation of papers on power, rhetoric, political culture and persuasion in economic life; Results of Francesca Merlan's study on rhetorics of indigeneity; Kwesi Yankah's representation of chiefly protocol as an eternal feature of Ghanaian culture.

Highlights the topics discussed at the "Animals and Science: Anthropological Approaches" conference held at the University of Manchester, England from June 24 to 26, 2005. Connection between animals and science; Different ways of knowing, across cultures and through history; Presentation of papers that drew on ethnographic fieldwork from the Andes, the Arctic, Australia, Central Asia, the United States and contemporary Europe.