Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Get used to it. Anthropology will...
Let's face it. For all of the intense moralizing and half-baked political commentary that now passes for anthropological "theory," when it comes to political action anthropologists suck. Why aren't we...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: Turning the Tide: The Fight to Reduce Suicide...
Announcement from SSJ-Forum: "Saving 10,000 - Winning a War on Suicide in Japan" is a 52-minute documentary directed by TUJ ICAS Adjunct Fellow Dr. Rene Duignan. At this event, Rene will discuss the...
View Articlehawgblawg: mahragan (electro cha3bi) mixtape
Courtesy Cairo Liberation Front, who call the genre Electro Cha3bi. If I could read Dutch I could figure out more about who these folks are. Generation Bass says they are "two dudes from Tillburg."...
View Articlehawgblawg: Ded Prez: new vid, same kufiyas
New one from the verrry political rap group Ded Prez. It's very "positive." A bit too much on the positive tip for me, really. But it does have the requisite kufiyas, worn by M-1. Who has been spotted...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Catching up part 2
Okay, I am using my 12 hour layover to post the late blogs from India. So here it goes.
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Ahmedabad: Day 03 (Heritage Walk)
Sudhir, Ira, and I met early at the business lounge as Ira had to get to school and we had to be at the Heritage Walk site by 7:30-8:00am. It was lovely to watch the sun rise over the river as well...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Ahmedabad: Day 03 (National Institute of Design)
In planning for the trip to India, one of my main objectives was to go to the National Institute of Design. Every Indian designer I know and respect has a direct connection to NID as an alumni,...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Jaipur 01.5 (Rani Mahal, Hawa Mahal, Rajasthani food, and the...
It was dark when I arrived in Jaipur. Like Pune and Ahmedabad, it had a new airport as well. The prepaid taxi drove me to the Rani Mahal hotel, the heritage hotel that I had booked online. The concept...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Jaipur 02.5 Sick Day
Today, I took a sick and tired day. This was half-way through the trip and I was feeling on the verge of catching a cold. When I plan intense trips like this, I always require a down time day in which...
View Articlethe Anthropologist in the Stacks: New Learning Spaces and the role of Ongoing...
This is going to be one in a series of posts, because I've got fun maps to share, and if I share them all at once, the post will be entirely tl;dr (if it isn't already...)Atkins Library recently...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Vildan Orancı’dan Brugge fotoğrafları: “Brugge:...
Diğer fotolar burada. Related posts: Vildan Orancı’dan İtalya fotoları… Vildan Orancı’dan İstanbul Tarihi Yarımada foto galerisi Vildan Orancı’dan film kritiği: Margin Call, 2011 by J.C. Chandor...
View Articleanthropologyworks: The Value of Cultural Anthropology
Guest post by Nick Bluhm I was recently asked during an interview what value my anthropology degree added to my candidacy for a corporate attorney position. Without hesitating, I answered that it...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: The Guardian piece on...
How Hackers Changed the World and Meet the Izzards – TV review The Guardian Anonymous famously deployed its collective muscle in the cause of WikiLeaks and the Arab spring, but since then affiliated...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Getting more women into political office: What works?
An upcoming event… When: Thursday, February 28, 2013, Where: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Lindner Family Commons, Room 602 1957 E Street NW The Elliott School of International Affairs Washington, DC 20052 Open to...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Part Three of Three: New York City
New York has long been a city of immigrants, and as a result of waves of immigration, language experts describe it as the most linguistically dense city on earth. Mark Turin travels to the Big Apple...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: EU Google Probe, Italy Elections…
Everything You Need to Know About the EU Google Probe from Mashable! by Todd Wasserman MAIN FOCUS: Berlusconi unsettles Europe | 19/02/2013 from euro|topics Leading German politicians have voiced...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Visual Du Jour – Where The Catholics Are
Not exactly where they were a century ago: The European decline is striking. It is based on these data that calls for a non-Italian, non-European Pope are based. There were about 1.1 billion Catholics...
View Articledecasia: critique of academic culture: Traditional Marxism and intellectual...
(A continuation of part 1.) If we look only at recent Marxist research on intellectuals, we essentially find two bodies of theory, neither of which is entirely satisfactory. On one hand, we have...
View Articlehawgblawg: Port Said: general strike & dancing to simsimiyya music
As of today, Friday February 22, Port Said is in its 5th day of a general strike. As James Dorsey tells us, the leading forces in the strike are organized labor and soccer fans, in an unprecedented...
View ArticleICCI Home: Did human language first emerge as songs?
A thought-provoking new paper on the evolutionary emergence of language by Shigeru Miyagawa, Robert C. Berwick, and Kazuo Okanoya: "The emergence of hierarchical structure in human language." Freely...
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