CultureBy - Grant McCracken: Should Portlandia satirize Subaru?
Portlandia (Fridays, 10:00, IFC) has started its third season. Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) continue to search the city for satiric targets. And because...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ask Language Log: "build out", "build-out", or "buildout"?
MDS wrote: I have been frustrated in trying to figure out how to use verbal phrases consisting of a verb plus a preposition/adverb in an adjectival or noun context. I'm sure I didn't use the right...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Final Call for Abstracts: 2nd International HIV Social Sciences...
FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS REMINDER: Closing date for abstract submission is on the 01 February 2013, please remember to go online and submit your abstract to meet the deadline. HOW to SUBMIT...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: American Horror Story – Feminist Show
Seriously. Think about it. I was half-convinced of it at the end of the first season (“Murder House”). I’m even more convinced now. I hope they keep it that way into the next seasons. I may have more...
View ArticleLiving Anthropologically: Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History –...
Eric Wolf’s Europe and the People Without History (1982) is a foundational work for anthropology, history, and global studies. I read parts of Europe and the People Without History my first year of...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Homosexuality among the Ancient...
Here is an essay on this topic. I would be interested in your comments, responses, reactions, etc.
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: New battle lines… Facebook...
Facebook Blocks Yandex, the Google of Russia from Wired Top Stories by Ryan Tate Facebook has locked out a mobile app from Russian internet powerhouse Yandex. It’s the latest examples of how social...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: A Black Spot on Palaeolithic Archaeology: The...
I very much hope that my absence from your 'puter or mobile from time to time means that my unconscious is cooking something up of which I'm not aware until it pops into my head. O' course, I've...
View ArticleAnthropology Attacks!: Health For All...Eventually
Here, I present my first infographic. I think it speaks for itself. What do you think? (Click here for the full size.)
View Articleanthropologyworks: Shaking the political kaleidoscope in Mauritius
by Sean Carey The London-based Africa Report recently provided a brief but excellent analysis of Mauritius’s three main political dynasties –- those of Ramgoolam, Jugnauth and Duval, whose family...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A roundup: “Aaron Swartz didn’t face prison until...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb0tCgNzbjk Dan Bull song tribute to Aaron Swartz Hacker group Anonymous downs US government site from Hurriyet Daily News Hacker group Anonymous said it disabled the US...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Cfp: Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global...
Call for Papers Disability and the Global South: An International Journal www.dgsjournal.org Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global South? Mapping the Ethics, Theory and Practice of...
View Articlexirdalium: who is calling?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #57 The public phone is ringing. Who is calling? And a scene from which book is cited thereby? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Google Translate Chinese inputting
Google Translate is so incredibly good — especially for typing Chinese and producing Pinyin (Romanization) with tones — that I rely on it a lot and am always afraid that, like so many software...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: Virtual Solitary Confinement of Local Hearts and Minds
The album’s first track begins with a voice bearing clear pronunciation, tonal and inflectional marks of my stereotypic twenty-something, northern USan, college-educated, working class, urban, black...
View Articlehawgblawg: Big Freedia on NPR's All Things Considered Weekend
very exciting, another blow for anti-homophobic rap.--even if New Orleans' bounce music (a.k.a. sissy bounce) was not presented as a kin to rap--check out the interview with Big Freedia here.and be...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: the yaopi float glass factory
The Yaopi float glass factory hovers at memory’s edge, abandoned to ideology and chance encounters. In 1987, the Shekou factory represented the highest level of technology and float glass production...
View Articletabsir.net: Growth of the Zaatari Refugee Camp
Syrian Woman at Zaatari Camp in August, 2012; Photograph by Rick Westhead/Toronto Star On Sunday, The New York Times a series of satellite photographs showing the increase in Syrian refugees at the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: What "the" means
According to Article 2, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions...
View Articlexirdalium: wallace letters online
The ↑Natural History Museum has put online ↑over 4,000 letters written or received by ↑Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). via ↑entry at ↑slashdot share this post
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