Erkan in the Army now...: Ayşe Özer: ARAF NE GÜZELSE
ARAF NE GÜZELSE Bu koltuk hep burada mı duruyordu böyle mavi? Bu komşu çocukları hep mi böyle uçuk mavi sessizdiler? Ya bu köşe yastıkları neyle bir arada yıkandılar da böyle yeşil, yok yok petrol...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Health Workers’ Lives On The Line
In December, nine Pakistani health workers, most of them women, were murdered as they went door-to-door delivering polio vaccines to the children of their neighbors. Media attention to this event has...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Why is Twitter censoring terrorist groups?
For Al Jazeera English, I wrote about Twitter’s ad hoc deletion of accounts belonging to terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab and the Islamic Jihad Union. I touched on this briefly at Registan after the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Neo-Ottomanism” in alleged new Turkish Airlines...
New Turkish Airlines uniforms raise eyebrows from Hurriyet Daily News The new uniforms of Turkish Airlines (THY) hosts and hostesses have raised eyebrows in Turkey after the photos. Related posts: New...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Transit is departing
The electric train that runs between the different parts of Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport insists on referring to itself as a "transit". What's more, the remarkably annoying female voice...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Visual Du Jour – Foreign-Borns: Then and Now
Check out this great infographic from The Census Bureau on migration: [Source: U.S. Census Bureau] There is a lot that is interesting here. First of all, the percentage of US population that is...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Erdoğan makes a move towards the Army while using...
Deciphering Erdogan’s Olive Branch to the Military from The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya So, why did he visit him at an Istanbul hospital today? Erdoğan slams US envoy’s remarks, saying ‘Turkey is...
View Articleanthropologyworks: The 64 best cultural anthropology dissertations, 2012
See also the best cultural anthropology dissertations of 2011, 2010, and 2009. Again, this year, I did a key term search in Dissertation Abstracts International to find dissertations completed in 2012...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Delicious snakes
To celebrate the beginning of the Year of the Snake (shénián 蛇年), the following sign is presently on display in a Chinese hotel lobby: Although this photograph was posted on Engrish.com, we should not...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Tangled web of the month
Reader KP sent in this gem, apparently from an internal office memo: In order to accommodate the data merge, the Excel workbooks are locked down in various ways and utilize macros to keep the data in...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Journal issue on applied anthropology of tourism
The latest issue of Anthropology in Action includes the uses of tourism development projects in solving the problems of inter-communal violence, the politics of representation as well as...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Postdoctoral research fellowships in social anthropology...
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo is offering four-year postdoctoral research fellowships in the field of social anthropology. One scholarship is offered for Norwegian...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Applications invited for Summer Enrichment Program in Tibet
Machik is once again offering its Summer Enrichment Program (SEP). All volunteers must arrive on July 12th, and depart on August 10th. There will be a mandatory orientation for all volunteers on July...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Job Opening: Santa Ana Director of Tribal Historic...
Job Opening: Santa Ana Director of Tribal Historic Preservation Office
View Articletrinketization: Social Cinema Deep End + QMU 17.2.13
Social Cinema = screening + LIVE PERFORmance from FIGS IN WIGS at the People’s Palace, Mile End Road E1 4NS Sunday 17th February, 5.30-7.30 followed by after-party drinks reception Screening of the...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: nationalism despite the state
Steampunk + kung fu + colonialism + the Qing Dynasty = Tai Chi 1: Start At Zero (太极1：从零开始). The plot is simple and the pace full-throttled. There is a village, where kung fu… Read More →
View ArticleLiving Anthropologically: Meredith Small – Our Babies, Ourselves – Childcare,...
I use the Meredith Small article on “Our Babies, Ourselves” reprinted in Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader as a follow-up to Body Ritual among the Nacirema. For a modifiable PowerPoint...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: A New Project
I have just begun a new translation/writing project that may be of particular interest to people with an interest in Japan or Japanese advertising. It involves translating a little red book by one of...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: HIV/AIDS Increasing in Osaka
It's been a while since there has been an AIDS related post here at VAOJ - but that is not to say the situation has improved by any means. You might recall that the HIV/AIDS rate continues to increase...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Istanbul news roundup: Mavi Boncuk offers Squatter...
1970 | Squatter Towns of Istanbul from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M French director opens independent film fest from Hurriyet Daily News The 12th !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival...
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