The Subversive Archaeologist: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Dear Friend,Whether you're a world-renowned archaeologist, one who's hoping to be, or, like most, keen and happy to imbibe the past for its own sake, we here at world headquarters ['kay, it's just me]...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: And While We’re On The Subject of The Power Elite…
This: Social capital, strength of weak ties and all that stuff.
View ArticleLanguage Log: Misnegation mailbag
Here are some items sent in by readers over the past few weeks, to add to our list of misnegations. Larry Horn, on ADS-L: "We'll see the fate of the coaching staff of Dallas…This cannot be...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Let’s Make 2013 The Year We Tell The Patriarchy To...
Because, seriously, last November: “Pressure mounted Thursday for the Irish government to draft a law spelling out when life-saving abortions can be performed – a demand that came after a pregnant...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: When did innovation get so cool?
I live in Rowayton, Connecticut. It’s a tiny town, around 4,500 people, that sits on Long Island Sound roughly 50 miles up from New York City. Rowayton is famous for… well, it’s not famous really....
View ArticleDori's Moblog: New Year's Reconciliations
Being a super nerd, I looked up the definition for resolutions before I thought of writing them. The definitions emphasized the notion of "strong will and determination" (American Heritage Dictionary...
View Articletrinketization: Course Guide for lectures on Marx’s Capital 2013
Lecture course on Marx’s “Capital” at Goldsmiths: everybody is welcome Capitalism and Cultural Studies – Prof John Hutnyk: tuesday evenings from january 8, 2013 – 5pm-8pm Goldsmiths Room RHB 309....
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Archaeology Insider Humour
Dear Reader,Feel free to jump in with any other silliness you can think of. We all need something to laugh about right now. Let's see what you've got!~ Like so many other Acheulean bifaces that don't...
View ArticleLiving Anthropologically: New Guns for a New Year: American Anthropology and...
Lynyrd Skynyrd had gun violence figured out in 1975: Hand guns are made for killin’ Ain’t no good for nothin’ else And if you like your whiskey You might even shoot yourself So why don’t we dump ‘em...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: Top Posts of 2012
#1 Bibliography of the Egyptian Uprisings The single most viewed post of 2012 is my bibliography of books and articles on the Egyptian uprising. I posted this when I realized that I had over 150...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Artık gündem başkanlık
Artık gündem başkanlık “Gelinen noktada takıldıkları yer Başkanlık Sistemi… Herkes bir tez ileri sürüyor, bizim de böyle bir tezimiz var. Kabul edilir veya edilmez. Zaten bu komisyon karar mercii...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Charlie Hebdo on Prophet...
French magazine illustrates the Prophet Muhammad’s life Charlie Hebdo publishes a “halal” comic biography of the Muslim Prophet. How the dominance of English kills the European debate from Ideas on...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Kromzwaard Trofee: Winnaars & Verliezers van 2012
Closer Blog: Wie zijn de winnaars en verliezers van 2012? Hier de uitslag van de Dr. Kromzwaard Trofee. Alle goeds voor 2013 toegewenst en bedankt voor het stemmen, de belangstelling en de...
View Articletabsir.net: Buried Christian Empire Casts New Light on Early Islam
The “crowned man” relief found in Zafar, Yemen is seen as evidence that there was a Christian empire in the region before Islam took hold. by Matthias Schulz, Der Spiegel, December 21, 2012 The...
View ArticleFolklore Forum: 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South
John Minton, 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. (American Made Music Series), 2008. x+288 pp. (ISBN: 9781934110195) (cloth). Yves...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Let’s Make 2013 The Year We Bury The Concept of...
Because it’s not a concept. It has never been a cultural and historical reality. It is an ideological construct, like any claimed “tradition”. There is no objectivity to it. Family structures are...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Historical sociolinguistics in the movies
From reader JM: My son Chris (age 26) e-mailed me to ask which was correct: “younger than me” or “younger than I”. He had been watching “The Patriot” (the movie with Mel Gibson), and noted the use of...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Great Laud for Rexford Winery's 2009 Pinot...
Here followeth an unsolicited plug for a great winemaker and his wines.Yesterday I visited my favourite winemaker's cellar. It's the Rexford Winery, in Santa Cruz's west-side wine enclave. The vintner...
View ArticleEthnographer | Ecographer: Sand in My Syllabus; Teaching Anthropology ‘Way...
In December 2012, I was invited to Oslo to give a presentation on pedagogy. This is what I said: I’ve taught anthropology in university classrooms; a lot. Many have been multicultural, and...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "The data are": How fetishism makes us stupid
Pedantry, Dr. Johnson said in the Rambler, is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. And learning is never so unseasonable as when its display impedes the workaday business of making sense. Take...
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