Erkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Turkey frees Kurdish ex-mayors...
Turkey frees Kurdish ex-mayors, peace process edges forward from Yahoo news DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Ten Kurdish defendants, including six former mayors, were released from jail on Tuesday in a...
View ArticleAAA blog: Indiana Jones is to Anthropology as Fred Flintstone is to Neolithic...
Below is a copy of the Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Magazine by President Mullings in response to the recent article by Emily Eakin. To the Editor, While we recognize that the figure of...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: Documents: Investigations into the U.S. Army’s Human...
In line with the publication of this report in USA Today, “Army plows ahead with troubled war-zone program” by Tom Vanden Brook, February 18, 2013, we are offering readers copies of many of the...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: AAA 2013 Panel CFP: Politics of Public Food and Hospitality
Politics of Public Food and Hospitality: Diasporic and Transnational Tables Organizers: Maria Curtis and Christine Kovic, University of Houston Clear Lake. Following Psyche Williams-Forson and...
View ArticleLanguage Log: More on what "the" means
Neal Goldfarb, "The Recess Appointments Clause (Part 1)", LAWnLINGUISTICS 2/19/2013: The verdict: the Recess Appointments Clause is a lot less clear than the D.C. Circuit makes it out to be, and the...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Reconciliation and the pursuit of peace
Today, at the beginning of 2013, the world is confronted by a bewildering array of protracted and new armed conflicts: Syria, Gaza, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Myanmar, Mali,...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Understanding...
It may be a bit unusual to put a disclaimer at the beginning of a review, but I have the privilege to approach the review of Understanding Development as a bit more than just a reader: Not only do I...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Anthropology on Noble Savages, Napoleon Chagnon
Before you do anything else, if you’ve ever heard of anthropology, Noble Savages, or Napoleon Chagnon, take a moment to click and read these two articles: Meet Joe Science by Jonathan Marks...
View Articledecasia: critique of academic culture: Gratitude absolved of responsibility
Lately I’ve gotten interested in reading Clyde Barrow‘s Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate liberalism and the reconstruction of higher education, 1894-1928. It’s out of print, but I...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Harlem Shake. Nearly All Turkish versions (!)...
Harlem Shake – Utopic Farm Harlem Shake – Youtholding Turkish Office Harlem Shake Turkish by Netfork Office Harlem Shake METU version Harlem Shake METU (ODTÜ) HARLEM SHAKE METU DORM Middle East...
View Articlehawgblawg: and the greatest rapper of all time is...
Rakim, of course. So sez Charles Mudede (who I used to see reading at poetry slams, back in the day, in early nineties Seattle).(And don't forget that Rakim is a God.)
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Call for Practitioners for the Workshop “Experiments...
4S Conference October 9 – 12, 2013 San Diego, California Exploring the question of how to make environmental health hazards perceptible, we invite participation in an interdisciplinary hands-on,...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: CFP: Making Environmental Harm Manifest
4S Conference October 9 – 12, 2013 San Diego, California Some of the challenges of twenty-first century pollutants are 1) their imperceptibility to dominant scientific formations, 2) their ability to...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: İsmet Berkan: Yeni anayasa...
Yeni anayasa çıkmaza mı giriyor? – İsmet BERKAN from Hürriyet Yazarlar İLK işareti Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Aralık ayının sonunda TRT 1’de katıldığı Enine Boyuna programında verdi. Tüm partiler...
View ArticleAAA blog: National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy...
Mark your calendars! National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day March 17-19, 2013 Washington, D.C. Connect with a growing network of humanities leaders Communicate the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: PP attachment is hard
Alex Williams, "Creating Hipsturbia", NYT 2/15/2013: “When we checked towns out,” Ms. Miziolek recalled, “I saw some moms out in Hastings with their kids with tattoos. A little glimmer of...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: (Non)violence and the anti-corporate globalisation movements
Brief notes on Juris, J.S. 2008. Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. p. 91 ‘Militant anticapitalists… [adopt] more aggressive...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: the shape of space: buji village #1
In the urban villages around the Old Buji Market (布吉墟), alleys and narrow roads wind upward, accomodating dense settlement and inadvertant public spaces. The most notable feature of the space is the...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: Whatever Happened to Egypt’s “Popular Committees”?
Remember the popular committees? Those ad-hoc groups of citizens that started as neighborhood watch teams and maintained security and organized neighborhood life when the state stopped services? In...
View ArticleKeywords: Inconvenient Ideas
Whenever Darwin encountered a “published fact” or “new observation” that contradicted one of his beliefs, he forced himself to “make a memorandum of it without fail and at once.” Why did Darwin do...
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