Ethno::log: CfP ASS Extended: Health, Body, and Consumption
ASS Extended: Health, Body, and Consumption CALL FOR PAPERS ASS – Anthropology Students’ Sessions was established in October 2010 as weekly self-organized activities ASS Extended: Health, Body, and...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Innovation, rules, and regulation
John McIntyre, "I said pound sand, sticklers", 12/27/2012: Yesterday I sent out this tweet: "Just waved through a singular 'they.' Pound sand, sticklers." The singular they was in a sentence on The...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Göktürk-2, Roboski, 3. Havaalanı
Göktürk-2 Göksel bir heyecan sardı ortalığı, öyle ki ahali zor zapt edilir oldu. 450 okkalık Göktürk-2 “dost” Çin diyarından fezaya yolcu edildi. Nevzuhur millî heyecana ve de meydan muharebelerine...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Neuroanthropology – 2012 in Review
Neuroanthropology had a banner year in 2012. The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology came out, as did the special issue on “Neuroanthropology and Its Applications.” The AAA session...
View Articletabsir.net: A Conversation with Marjorie Ransom
[The following online video interview with retired diplomat Marjorie Ransom was made by Sama’a al-Hamdani and can be seen here. The description of the interview provided by Ms. al-Hamdani is...
View ArticleDynamic Relations: (Un)Focus Groups
I held my first focus group this week in Tama. I've come to call this my "control village" because I'm hoping to be able to conduct a comparative study on the environmental knowledge of climate change...
View ArticleSomatosphere: 2012 in review by Eugene Raikhel
As 2012 draws to a close, we’d like to thank all of our editors, regular contributors and guests for their hard work on Somatosphere. We had a great year, and without all of your contributions, it...
View ArticleThe Blog: [Book Review] Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in...
My review of Nick Dines' Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples is available via the Open Anthropology Cooperative Press. You can read/download the full review here and discuss...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Human behavior is behind so much of what we do in our lives
I happened to catch this Q&A on the radio today, at the start of program segment about a course on "Shakespeare and Financial Markets": Q: All right, right away can you make the link for us...
View Articlehawgblawg: Marilyn Monroe & James Dean in kufiya
It makes sense that this t-shirt, of Marilyn in a kufiya, would be from a clothing line produced by Iranian designers living in New York City. Check out Nimany's other stuff, it's fantastic. Most of...
View ArticleC L O S E R: European Sexual Nationalisms: The Culturalization of Citizenship...
Closer Blog: In this contribution Paul Mepschen and Jan-Willem Duyvendak argue that representations of gay emancipation are mobilized to shape narratives in which Muslims are framed as non-modern...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Prestigious nonsense, tendentious frames
Kimmo Ericksson, "The nonsense math effect", Judgment and Decision Making 7(6) 2012: In those disciplines where most researchers do not master mathematics, the use of mathematics may be held in too...
View Articletabsir.net: Not Qualified: Exposing the Deception Behind America’s Top 25...
[Click here to download the recent publication of the Muslim Public Affairs Council exposing the lack of credentials of the [mis]leading Islam[ophobic] experts.] For the benefit of national security...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Serhatcan Yurdam’dan Roboski/Uludere anmaları...
#RoboskiBirYilOldu | Şişli’de Roboski Anması #RoboskiBirYilOldu | Taksim’de Roboski Anması #RoboskiBirYilOldu | Roboski’de Meşaleli Yürüyüş Foto-Makale: Katliamın Yıldönümünde Roboski
View Articlexirdalium: stan lee cameos
Two days ago, on 28 December 2012, ↑Stan Lee celebrated his 90th birthday: In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the...
View Articleanthrocharya - Anthropological Musings and Other Thoughts: Sexual Violence in...
Growing up in Delhi can be quite an experience. It’s big, loud, dirty, and noisy. Delhi must be learned. It must be negotiated. I grew up in Delhi. I navigated public transport, walked through dusty...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 56
Hello all!As the year is coming to its end, a special period of reflection for many of us seems to be setting in over the final stretch of 'the holidays'. So I started combing through my...
View ArticleArctic anthropology: Sámi herding, Utsjoki, Lemmenjoki Finland TV
For those interested in Sámi reindeer herding in northern Finland, and Utsjoki, and especially those who know German, you may be interested to watch a programme in the German second channel ZDF that...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Scott Zarrow (1958-2012)
I have lived in five cities. They all have their charms and I have a sense of connection to all of them, but Tulsa is special for lots of reasons. The internet means that I can listen to the Tulsa...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: 2012 In Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 42,000 views in 2012....
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