hawgblawg: kufiyas and corporate spying on activists (reprise)
Reading the London Review of Books (January 3, 2013), I came upon this:Five years ago, I helped to unmask a corporate spy. Climate activism was at its peak: the second ‘climate camp’ had spent a week...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Book Review – Going Clear
You might think you already know a lot about Scientology, what with the amount of celebrities that are part of the church. Trust me, you know nothing unless you read Lawrence Wright‘s Going Clear –...
View Articletabsir.net: A Bulgarian in 19th century Yemen
Photo of R. V. Radev with signature: “For these who love to travel, i devote my travel notes.” The blogger Ruslan Trad has sent along an interesting piece regarding a Bulgarian traveler to Yemen, R....
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Happy snaps: A photo essay on photography
Photographing tourists taking photos at Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Photo by David Thompson.The Salar de Uyuni tour in Bolivia is one of the obligatory stops in the South American tourist trail. A trip...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: digital soul: the 2013 independent animation biennale
Actually it’s called The World of the Soul: A Virtual Art Engineering Project (心灵世界：作为虚拟艺术工程) and it’s the first Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale. Interestingly, in addition to the usual OCAT...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Devlet koruma refleksi
Devlet koruma refleksi Kabine değişikliği sonrasında AK Parti sözcüsü Hüseyin Çelik : “Kiminle ilgili inceleme ve soruşturma izni istenmişse, Muammer Bey vermiştir, yargı bunu reddetmiş, iptal...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Religion in the Netherlands – The Rough Data
Closer Blog: Dutch sociologists R. Eising, G. Kraaykamp, P. Scheepers and P. Thijs, have now published a data guide: Religion in Dutch Society - Documentation of a national survey on religious and...
View ArticleGopk: Urban camps. A conference session
After having reflected so much on the conditions and history of camps for Roma in Italy (and France...), I decided to expand my reflections globally and comparatively. 'URBAN CAMPS FROM A GLOBAL...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Dumpster Diving
Reblogged from our friends at the fantastic Material World Blog. Aliine Lotman (Anthro Dept, EHI, Tallinn University) “Until the 19th century, the term ‘to consume’ was used mainly in its negative...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Wade Davis, The Wayfinders, and more from anthropology...
Thank you to reader and archaeologist Hugh McKenzie for highlighting the Wade Davis book The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. The audio portion of the lectures is archived...
View Articlehawgblawg: turban/fez alert: The Turbans
Thanks to Jerry Zolten, the author of "'I Ain't Lyin'!: The Unexpurgated Truth about Rudy Ray Moore" (Living Blues, May-June 2001), who I quoted in an earlier post about turbans and Rudy Ray Moore....
View ArticleLoomnie: Why we have no idea whether Africa is rising or not
Finally, something that I can agree with. If we want to fetishise numbers we should at least try to get them right. Morten Jerven at FP: Today, due to the uneven application of methods and poor...
View Articletrinketization: Silvia Federici at Goldsmiths
from the dextrous camera trigger/edit digits of Kevin Molin and NyX: a Nocturnal in the Centre for Cultural Studies, this: Filed under: cultural studies, politics
View Articletabsir.net: Iranian Studies Directory Online
Putting the world’s scholars and organisations at your fingertips, the Iranian Studies Directory (ISD) is a pioneering initiative to develop a comprehensive reference and research facility that will...
View ArticlePhilbu's Blog: Word cloud on identity, sociality, communality & digital media...
Word cloud of the student projects in the seminar "Identity, sociality & communality in times of digital media technologies" at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: According to tabsir.net “the winner is …...
And the winner is … Islamophobia from tabsir.net by tabsir The moral ambiguity of Homeland or Argo is a fitting tribute to the reality of US Middle East policy by Rachel Shabi, The Guardian, Monday 14...
View Articleculture evolves!: Phyloseminar: Testing hypotheses about cultural evolution
I’m giving a Phyloseminar next Tuesday at 17:00 GMT. “Testing hypotheses about cultural evolution” Anthropologists had a name for the non-independence-of-species-problem way back in the 1880s. Solving...
View ArticleAAA blog: Last Chance to Nominate for the new AAA Anthropology in Public...
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Committee on Public Policy (CoPP) has established a biennial award, the AAA Anthropology in Public Policy Award, to honor anthropologists whose work has...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Web roundup: by Branwyn Poleykett
The Guardian began the year with a series of articles on innovation in global health. Devices such as “nanopatches” for pain free vaccinations that can be self administered are striking examples of...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: 'People...
A banker from Africa has a revolutionary idea about how to reform high finance – ask him a question in the thread below, or tell us your views on how to reconnect the City with realityThe gap between...
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