FoodAnthropology: Anarchist Table Manners
David Sutton Department of Anthropology Southern Illinois University So you’re seated at a table with a dozen strangers. Hungry, you’ve got a bowl of some sort of stew in front of you, and a...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Council for Museum Anthropology is on Facebook and Twitter!
Council for Museum Anthropology is on Facebook and Twitter!
View ArticleCulture and International Affairs: The War Bill--Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act...
Commentary from William O. Beeman: This excellent article points up the danger of letting ignorant legislators try to micromanage diplomacy. I use the word ignorant in three senses. First, for the...
View ArticleCulture and International Affairs: Sign Petition opposing additional...
The United States has opened the first serious talks with Iran in 34 years. Some members of Congress are attempting to sabotage this diplomatic effort by calling for increased sanctions against Iran....
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: traveling impressions/ hong kong international airport
Marc Augé famously suggested that airports are non-places because they are too transient to have an identity. Other non-places include highways, hotel rooms, and waiting rooms. Augé used the idea of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Activists take stage for Internet Freedom this...
I will probably be around in Taksim and will switch to my Twitter account for immediate reporting. Internet freedom marches are have always been colorful events but I expect police brutality this time...
View Articletabsir.net: Syrian Crisis Blog
For anyone interested in following the rapidly situation on the ground in Syria, check out the blog “Syria in Crisis” by Aron Lund at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Towards dictatorship: No emergency medical aid...
The president Abdullah Gül by approving this bill and many similar bills proves himself to be the good cop of a very corrupt regime… Abdullah Gül (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Turkey: Contentious Medical...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Death Nail
IT sent in a link to a web forum post that includes the following (emphasis added): However as I have mentioned a few days ago, data could well be the death nail for Ovivo, as I am sure Vodafone will...
View ArticleThe Superorganic: The Chicken and Egg problem: Culture vs Strategy
In Business Anthropology it is important that we speak in simple language to our clients and seek to inform through clarity rather than impress through obfuscation. "Corporate Culture" and its...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Debt and Graduate Admissions
From the end of Matthew Pratt Guterl’s essay “Debt“: There are many major issues with higher education, but the solutions to most of them are well beyond the reach of tenure-stream faculty. Chairs...
View ArticleCultural Commentary: Scientists have an obligation to speak out
If You See Something, Say Something: By Michael E. Mann, Jan. 17, 2014"If scientists choose not to engage in the public debate, we leave a vacuum that will be filled by those whose agenda is one of...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "People mountain, people sea" and "let's play"
Stephan Stiller says that my post on "Good good study; day day up" reminds him of "people mountain, people sea" (rénshānrénhǎi 人山人海), i.e., "crowded; packed; a sea of people". This is another fairly...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFF Scoreboard for Obama’s NSA reform plan… An...
Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained Earlier today, President Obama announced a series of reforms to address abuses by the National Security Agency. We were heartened to see Obama...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A GitHub project (!): tyyp:// An application level...
Giıthub page here. tyyp:// TYYP is an application level networking protocol for government controlled information systems, named after the notable 21st century villain Recep Tayyip Erdogan. TYYP...
View Articletabsir.net: An American Tabari, #2
In a previous post I introduced the universal history of John Clark Ridpath. In a section on the origins of Islam Ridpath includes several illustrations. The Orientalist trope of depicting the Prophet...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Essentialist beliefs about essentialist beliefs
Most people don't understand statistical ideas like distribution, correlation, and regression. And even if they understand these concepts, they often find them too complicated for everyday thinking,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture agenda: Follow #Sundance Film Festival...
Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality This time of year is always the worst of times and best of times for internet freedom. And on this second annual Internet Freedom Day...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkey has the most humanitarian intelligence...
it is announced that the trucks belong to Turkish intelligence (MIT) and they carry humanitarian material… A Foreign policy roundup: Turkish gendarmerie seize weapons in trucks near Syrian border:...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Clashes in Kiev after protest ban… Eurosphere agenda…
Clashes in Kiev after protest ban Violence breaks out as tens of thousands of people gather in the Ukrainian capital Kiev in defiance of new curbs on protests. Füle calls new Ukrainian laws...
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