hawgblawg: Tomi Lapid (father of Yair) on Mizrahi music
Jacky Levi, Israeli columnist and radio and t.v. host, interviewed by Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, in her Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair (Palgrave...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Visual Du Jour – Global Nip/Tuck
A while back, I reviewed a book on the sociology of plastic surgery, Making The Cut. That book was prescient and the trends it discussed have not abated in the context of the cosmetic surgical...
View Article"You'll be late for the revolution!": In the secret capital
“Our village? If the revolution ever reaches our village, then there really is a revolution in Egypt.”These are the words of Mahrus, a supporter of the revolution from the village of Minyat al-Murshid...
View ArticleMedia and Social Change: Japanese in a changing world, 1970
Japanese in a changing world, 1970
View Articletabsir.net: Gangnam Gaza Style YouTube
I have tried to avoid the Gangnam Style onslaught, but this Youtube one from Gaza must be seen.
View ArticleLanguage Log: Word String frequency distributions
Several people have asked me about Alexander M. Petersen et al., "Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words", Nature Scientific Reports 12/10/2012. The...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: The Foraging Spectrum – and a spectrum of anthropology
In the last few anthropology report updates, have been featuring some anthropology books along with anthropology blogs, especially the books the bloggers are writing about and reviewing. I hope to...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Probably News to No One By Now. The Younger...
One rendition of the putative [and now forever debunked] Younger Dryas Impact theory.Kathleen Nicoll (U. Utah) alerted me to this yesterday when she sent a reprint. Tip o' the hat, Kathleen. She's...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Patriarchal Immunity
Against atrocities: “A Saudi cleric who raped his five-year-old daughter and tortured her to death has been sentenced to pay “blood money” to the mother after having served a short jail term,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Sea Bay Restaurant
Thomas Lumley sent in this nice multilingual pun from Sydney, Australia: The Chinese part of the sign reads: Xīběi fànzhuāng 西北飯莊 ("Northwest Restaurant"). While the quality of the sibilants is quite...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Visual Du Jour – Where The Girls Lead
Now these are interesting regional patterns in terms science education and gender: This visual is interactive so go click on the link above. It is interesting to see that the US is not the only...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: A Different (Visual) Perspective On Gun Deaths
I have been blogging a lot on guns lately, and there have been a lot of interesting visualizations offered on this topic. Yet, I had never seen anything like the visualization below (via Nathan Yau)....
View Articletabsir.net: Sex in the Muslim City
by Carlin Romano, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14, 2013 Is it possible all those young men clashing in the streets of Cairo and Damascus aren’t getting enough? Democracy? No, I mean that...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Shànghǎi Hézuò Zǔzhī
Shànghǎi Hézuò Zǔzhī Ya da Shankhayskaya Organizatsiya Sotrudnichestva. Evvelemirde bürokratlarımız hızlandırılmış Çince ve Rusça kurslarına… Zira Başbakanımızın 75 milyonun istikbali için...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: EFF suggests “Three Things...
Geeks Are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties from Mashable! by MIT Technology Review Now is a good time to re-set your Twitter password and disable Java in your browser from Boing Boing by Xeni...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: FBI at extra work in Turkey. Embassy attack in...
Embassy attack has drawn US, Turkey closer: Envoy from Hurriyet Daily News The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C).. US-Turkey Relations in The AK Party Decade by Acturca SETA...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Same sex marriage on the agenda...
MAIN FOCUS: Match-fixing scandal rocks football world | 05/02/2013 from euro|topics The European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol has announced that it has uncovered the biggest match-fixing...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Semantic gymnastics
Steve Butcher and Maris Beck, "Journalists appeal in bid to protect sources", The Age 2/5/2013: The grounds of appeal announced on Monday state Justice Sifris erred in not finding Mr Goldberg was...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Ethnography of Trolling: Workarounds, Discipline-Jumping...
Editor’s note: While ethnographers sometimes encounter resistance from their research subjects, it’s not everyday that these subjects threaten to harm or otherwise humiliate the researcher. In her...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: 2013 ICNC Conference on Cultural Neuroscience and Health
The International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium has put out a call for papers for their May 2013 conference. This year’s topic is “Cultural Neuroscience and Health: Closing the Gap in Population...
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