Erkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere agenda: “Love, Politics and the...
On Love, Politics and the Francophone Culture Julie Gayet at the Deauville Film Festival via Wikipedia Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Ukraine uprisings: News coverage of events in...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Ritual, Liminality, and Social Facts
I have recently been engaged on LinkedIn with Jonathan Cook, who is writing a book about ritual in the advertising business. It has been a delightful conversation, with a lot of productive to and fro,...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Empire & Saving Muslim Women?
Closer Blog:In her recently published book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, she presents the result of her attempt to deconstruct the popular often stereotyped images about Muslim women coming about in...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: revising the classics, or confucius encounters neoliberalism
Shenzhen parents worry about education — it’s quality, content, methods, and test results. Indeed, I have yet to meet a parent unwilling to spend several hours discussing their child’s education,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Plebgate: an overdue apology
It is time for Language Log to set things straight about the Right Honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell MP. The story of what everyone thought had happened in London on 19 September 2012 was reported...
View ArticleCultural Commentary: More Comprehensive Assessments of Human Activity Needed
Royalty fee for sand from Kansas River would double under Francisco billI’m not aware of what long term economic/environmental & social/cultural impacts went into determining how much the royalty...
View ArticleLanguage Log: SOTU evolution
In preparation for Tuesday's State of the Union address, I thought I'd take a look at the language of these addresses over the years. Texts are available at UCSB's American Presidency Project – I...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Web censorship in Turkey is as...
Vagus.tv is a well visited online news site. It has a critical attitude, initiated by journalist Serdar Akinan. I just heard that it is banned today…. In other news: Child bride’s husband, family...
View ArticleIdeas Bazaar: Incommunicado
As J.B. Priestley noted – “The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” – a thought captured elegantly in this series of photos documenting our obsession with mobile...
View ArticleThe Human Family: Philippe Descola’s Ontological Grid
Philippe Descola’s Four Ontologies The task of anthropology is to account for how worlds are composed. – Philippe Descola From time to time over the past few years I have chipped away at a goal of...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: How would you rate the...
Yesterday, in a comment on the Lee Drummond forever thread, I posted the following quote from proctontologist.weebly.com: “Ontologicality is a proctology, but only if you allow for the proctological...
View ArticleLanguage Log: A stick tower by any other name
Today's xkcd: Mouseover title: "Stay warm, little flappers, and find lots of plant eggs!" An amusing reminder of a serious issue: most compounds and phrasal collocations are used in ways that are...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Gourmet Chinese cookshop
Bruce Balden sent in this photograph of a sign on a restaurant in the Vancouver area: In Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM), that would be pronounced gāo měi xiǎo càiguǎn 高美小菜館; in Cantonese, the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Washington Post piece on Laureate, the owner of...
Laureate, a for-profit education firm, finds international success (with a Clinton’s help) Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg - Douglas Becker, the chairman and chief executive officer of Laureate Education,...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: It Doesn’t Take a Fireman to Spot a Fire: Fighting Pollution...
In early 2010 LABB introduced the iWitness Pollution Map to help Louisiana residents track pollution and associated health effects in their communities. Today there are over 11,000 reports of...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Book Review: Food Policy in the United States
Wilde, Parke. 2013. Food Policy in the United States. An Introduction. Routledge, Earthscan Food & Agriculture series, New York and London. Ellen Messer Tufts University Parke Wilde has produced a...
View ArticleGopk: An Indefinite Marriage? Culture and/vs. Social Closure in a Romanian City
Those who work on power and its dimensional and disciplinary ramifications are the privileged audience of this post. Apologies to all others, but what I want to do here is to reflect on the study of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: FP roundup: Hollande in Turkey…
French president pays historic visit to Turkey after 22 years Twenty-two years after François Mitterrand came to Turkey, a French president will be in Ankara for official talks designed to right...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Idolizing Erdoğan, Hologram style… A politics roundup…
PM Erdoğan uses hologram to address İzmir party members for first time in Turkey 3D holographic beams reflected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s image as he addressed a party meeting in İzmir...
View ArticleAnthropology Attacks!: The Art of Kebetu: Challenges, Rewards, and Growing...
At the end of December, I had an article appear in Popular Anthropology Magazine. In the interest of supporting this fine publication, I'm going to link to the article here (PDF), rather than repost...
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