Erkan in the Army now...: Berkin Elvan, who is in coma due to police...
[View the story "Berkin Elvan, who is in coma due to police brutality, is 15 today." on Storify] Related posts: EFD Rights Watch: Amnesty campaign for Berkin Elvan… This was an ordinary Taksim evening...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Erkan interviewed at Lettera 43.
Here is the link to the interview in English. Related posts: Erkan interviewed in Arte TV blog; 9th Chapter finished… "Nosemonkey interviewed: On EU blogs and Russia Erkan on Social Media usage in...
View Articletabsir.net: Islamophobia on the Internet
Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims On International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) have released a major new...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Meditation on culture
Here is a short essay written from me a couple months ago, originally in Albanian which is also my mother language, for a cultural magazine which kindly refused it’s publication due it’s...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Because syntax
Many people will be somewhat surprised that the American Dialect Society's "Word of the Year" choice was because in its use with an NP complement. It seems to be unprecedented for a word in a minor...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Why your trash is an archaeologist’s treasure
A ballerina pig invites conversation. Photo by Ralph Mills.[Read the rest of the article]: Why your trash is an archaeologist’s treasureAuthor informationRalph MillsPhD candidate, MIRIAD (Manchester...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Muslims of France: Colonials, Immigrants and Citizens
Closer Blog:Al Yazeera has a very interesting series Muslims of France: colonials, immigrants and citizens.Read more: Muslims of France: Colonials, Immigrants and Citizens
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: ‘Moral profiling’ of students’ private lives…...
Police units in southeastern city perform ‘moral profiling’ of students’ private lives Police followed students’ political and social activities as well as their relationships, a report said Islamic...
View ArticleAAA blog: Denver Museum to Return Totems to Kenyan Museum
Have you read the article featuring AAA members, Chip Colwell-Chanhaphonh (Denver Museum of Nature and Science), Linda Giles (Illinois Wesleyan U), Stephen Nash (Denver Museum of Nature and Science)...
View Articletabsir.net: Hawks before the War on Terror
“The Start: Arabs Setting out with Falcons to Course Gazelles. It is difficult to tell just when hawking began. The Arabs, perhaps as early as any other people, trained certain hawks to course the...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: CFP: Generative Justice: Value from the Bottom-up
We invite presentation and panel proposals on the theory and practice of generative justice. A conference at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, June 27-29 2014.
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere agenda: “Italian navy rescues over 1,000...
Italian navy rescues over 1,000 migrants in one day The Italian navy said on Friday (3 January) it had rescued more than 1,000 migrants from boats trying to reach Europe, as an immigration crisis that...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Pro-AKP circles today moved to discredit the...
Holiday bill of Turkish prosecutor allegedly paid by construction firm A prosecutor who supervised the recent corruption probe went for a holiday in Dubai last year that was paid for by a construction...
View ArticleAnthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life:...
Inequality has a huge impact on wellbeing, more so than even absolute income levels. A lot of what we feel about how we are doing, depends on how those around us are doing and our relative standing....
View Articleanthropology at home: Review of Planet Word
Waterman Planet Word Review Happy New Year! Sharing my review of J.P. Davidson’s Planet Word (above) from the November Issue of Babel: the language magazine [www.babelzine.com] . I’m thrilled to be...
View Articletabsir.net: Tabsir Redux: An Archic Sonnet
Sir Flinders Petrie, Egyptologist An Archic Sonnet To know what man was, ere he wrote his name, Inscribed the laws and precepts on the rock, And sacrificed the best lamb of the flock, We dig the...
View ArticleICCI Home: Joint PhD degree in the cognitive science of religion
A new Doctoral programme in the cognitive the science of religion has been established by Aarhus University (Graduate School of Arts/Religion, Cognition and Culture Research Unit--see ...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: New Article on New Media in the Arab Spring
A new article argues that most debates about the role of new media in political change are based on a false assumption–the notion that social media allows people to avoid authoritarian power...
View ArticleAnthropology.net: Ramidus Returns
Ardipithecus ramidus (Ardi) is back. In 2009, the skeleton discovered by Tim White’s team in the mid-90s was published in …Continue reading »
View ArticleLanguage Log: Bean crud
Arnold Zwicky kindly called the following choice Chinglish label to my attention: The metathesis was bound to happen sooner or later. In fact, it has definitely happened countless times, and not just...
View Article