Erkan in the Army now...: Social fabric roundup: “In Hrant Dink March, There...
> In Dink March, There Was The Audacity Of Hope Thousands gathered in Istanbul to mark the seventh anniversary of the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink today. Huge demonstrations...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Food, Identity and Social Change, Copenhagen
2014 ToRS International Food Workshop on Food, Identity and Social Change 25 to 26 September 2014 Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Food draws people...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture agenda: “‘The Internet’s Own Boy’ Is a...
Around the World, Net Neutrality Is Not a Reality In much of the world, the concept of “net neutrality” generates less public debate, given there’s no affordable Net in the first place. Snowden...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: A Psychologist Among Ethnographers: an Interview with...
Beatriz Arantes (@beatriz_wsf) is a psychologist and senior researcher based in Paris for Steelcase’s global research and foresight group WorkSpace Futures, providing expertise on human emotion,...
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Leiden Anthropology Blog: A fictive birthday with real debts
Celebrating It is Sunday afternoon in Khayelitsha, the largest African township of Cape Town, South Africa, when the women of Zolani Club get together. They are celebrating the birthday of Nosipho. It...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Swype and Voice Recognition for mobile device inputting
In late 2012, while visiting my son Tom in Dallas, I noticed that he was doing something very odd with his cell phone. Most people enter text into their cell phone by pressing their thumbs (or their...
View ArticleAnthropology.net: News on South Africa’s Hominins: Berger’s Rising Star...
This November, a team funded by National Geographic and led by Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg …Continue reading »
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: When the mainstream media attacks
I took a couple of weeks off to recover from surgery, but I’m back with a new article at Al Jazeera English on how the mainstream media is really the fringe: The terms of public debate are rarely set...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Anaphoric iguana
Peter Hamby, "Crist controversy resurfaces in new Netflix film", CNN 1/21/2014: These days, Crist is considered persona non grata within the GOP. From top party officials on down to grassroots...
View ArticleSomatosphere: In the Journals, December (Part 2) by Elizabeth Lewis
December welcomed a wide array of articles of interest to Somatosphere readers. Key themes included disability, mental health, medical infrastructures, reproduction, care, and the globalization of...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Toronto Jamaican
Tristin Hopper, "Rob Ford’s drunken, Jamaican English-laced rant translated", National Post 1/21/2014: On Monday, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was videotaped in a bizarre exchange at a Toronto fast food...
View ArticleDisparate: Body and Tech: My Year in Quantified Self
Though I’m a qual, I started quantifying my self a year ago. Not Even Started Yet This post is long. You’ve been warned. This post is about my experience with the Quantified Self (QuantSelf). As such,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Noun pile of the week
Well, almost: Mark Kinver, "Citizen science charts horse chestnut tree pest spread", BBC News 1/24/2014. Though charts might have been a plural noun, it's clearly a verb in this case, alas. The...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The pending demise of Facebook (and Princeton)
John Cannarella & Joshua A. Spechler, "Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics", posted on arXiv.org 1/17/2014: The last decade has seen the rise of immense online social...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Killing Istanbul softly: Turkey’s housing agency...
Turkey’s housing agency opens Istanbul’s coastal area to building without permission TOKİ allows construction on a historic and green area on an Istanbul coast in violation of the Coastal Law and...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Wise choice: French president to meet widow of...
French president to meet widow of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink Hollande will conduct a visit to Turkey next week during which he will sit down with Rakel Dink Brussels unimpressed with...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture agenda: Pew’s Social Media Update...
Social Media Update 2013 As of September 2013: 71% of online adults use Facebook 18% of online adults use Twitter 17% use Instagram 21% use Pinterest 22% use LinkedIn Some 73% of online adults now...
View ArticleAAA blog: New American Ethnologist Virtual Issue on “In/Visibility: Projects,...
NEW! American Ethnologist virtual issue on “In/Visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2012-2013″ – FREE articles for 2 months. Guest edited by Samuel Martínez, organizer of our 2014 AES spring...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Beyhes Evren (@beyhesevren): Mutlu bir Noel mi...
Mutlu bir Noel mi Yoksa Ateşkes mi? : Bu sıra sinema dünyasında politik filmler veyahut gerçek bir hikâyeden alınma filmler yine moda olmuş durumda. Geçenlerde 2005 yapımı İstanbul Film Festivalinde...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Epic software rant
From Dave Noon, "Christ, I hate Blackboard", Lawyers, Guns & Money 1/24/2014: Hundreds of years from now, after disease and fire and famine have thinned the human herd to a shrunken patchwork of...
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