tabsir.net: An American Tabari, #1
There was a time when it was possible to write universal histories. In geological time scale the writing of history is a mere second in the millions of years life has been evolving on this planet. In...
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A few hours ago two ISPs, Turknet and Uydunet announced blockage. Not other ISPs yet apply the court rule. A few days ago Vimeo was blocked first, then unblocked. But particular videos could be...
View ArticleArctic anthropology: The Mining Situation in Sweden from an Environmental...
Foreign, as well as Swedish based mining companies, prospect and exploit – as in drilling – for stones and minerals like never before in Sweden. The country is in at least the local newspapers...
View ArticleAAA blog: AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
The American Anthropological Association invites minority doctoral candidates in anthropology to apply for a dissertation writing fellowship of $10,000. The annual AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: Egypt: It’s Jan 14. Do You Know Where Your Voters Are?
Today and tomorrow, Egyptians go to the polls to vote on a referendum approving the newly-drafted constitution. This will be the third constitutional referendum since protests forced Mubarak to step...
View ArticleErin B. Taylor - Material culture, mobile banking and socioeconomic...
A street market in Port-au-Prince. Photo taken by Erin Taylor.Crisis is often linked to reductions in circulation of one sort or another. Economic crisis, such as the GFC, involves the slowing down of...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: On the New Volume of Museum Anthropology Review
Museum Anthropology Review (MAR) has just published a new double issue—its first themed collection. Volume 7, number 1-2 of MAR collects papers originally presented at a January 2012 workshop titled...
View Articletabsir.net: On Dar al-Kutub in Cairo
A review of the manuscript collections viewable at the Bab al-Khalq branch of Dar al-Kutub wa-al-Wathaʾiq al-Qawmiyya (Egyptian National Library and Archives), Cairo, Egypt. by Noah Gardner,...
View ArticleAAA blog: Office of Science and Technology Policy is now accepting Summer...
The Office of Science and Technology Policy is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2014 Internship Program. The application deadline is 11:59pm Friday, March 7. Students who are U.S....
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 1/13/14
UN Headquarters Haiti after 2010 Earthquake. UN Photo. Wikicommons. Where did the money for Haiti go? A Montreal group is blasting Ottawa’s earthquake relief in Haiti for its lack of transparency and...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Why go to an ethnography conference?: Notes from the...
Most ethnography conferences are largely academic affairs and have been ongoing for years. The American Anthropological Association is in its 113th year; the Ethnography in Education Research Forum,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Zhou Youguang, Father of Pinyin
Zhou Youguang, the main architect and early advocate of Hanyu Pinyin (the official romanized orthography for Modern Standard Mandarin), had his 108th birthday yesterday. Although I've been a close...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Seçim Günlüğü- Sarıgül’den ücretsiz internet...
Çare Sarıgül (Photo credit: Onur T.) seçim günlüğü Adaylar CHP’li aday, adaylıktan çekildi Objektif Haber CHP Antalya Kaş Belediye Başkan adayı Ali İhsan Benli, sağlık sorunlarını gerekçe göstererek...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: 40 thousand websites are blocked in Turkey as of...
A civil initiative has been listing blocked sites in Turkey and has just announced it has gone beyond 40 thousand… Pity for Turkey… Related posts: More than 10 thousand websites banned in Turkey....
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Denver Museum to Return Totems to Kenyan Museum
Denver Museum to Return Totems to Kenyan Museum
View ArticlePhilbu's Blog: Paper: Von „Cyber Anthropologie“ zu „Digitaler Anthropologie“:...
Budka. P. 2014. Von „Cyber Anthropologie“ zu „Digitaler Anthropologie“: kultur- und sozialanthropologische Beiträge zur Erforschung digitaler Medientechnologien. Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung:...
View Articletabsir.net: Free Reads from U. California Press
Brinkley Messick’s 1992 book on Yemeni legal reasoning, one of the many books available to read online at the U. of California Press website The University of California Press is offering online...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere agenda: “Hollande in double...
MAIN FOCUS: Hollande in double trouble | 14/01/2014 France’s President François Holland is under considerable pressure as he prepares for his third major press conference today, Tuesday. He plans...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Conflation as Insult (On the Gold Open Access World I...
On Savage Minds, Alex Golub very generously celebrates the recent publication of a large quantity of open access journal articles in anthropology and neighboring fields. I wish to add one point. I am...
View ArticleSomatosphere: A reader’s guide to the “ontology turn” – Part 1 by Judith...
Editor’s note: In the wake of the discussion about the ‘ontological turn’ at this year’s American Anthropological Association conference, we asked several scholars, “which texts or resources would you...
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