trinketization: Things that won’t be in the book part 213 – Robinson Crusoe...
Reading around for Panto stuff again, and remembering Marx’s fascination with Robinsonades: Robinson Crusoe crops up a number of times, either as a title or as a character. Of course Steve Shaw’s...
View Articletrinketization: Things that won’t be in the book 223 – Roy Orbison’s song...
“Pantomime” Well thanks a lot thank you Now I’m the talk of the town Of all the fools they drink to I am the king of the clowns I play the lonely joker I take what fun I can find I laugh when things...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off! You Say...
Heeeeeee's Baaaaaaaaack. [Apologies to MGM.]But he feels a little like he's been dragged by rope through death and back to life in the context of a cult horror classic film. [Why is he writing in the...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: the view from the top, circa 1997
The 69th floor observatory of the Diwang Building remains an important tourist destination, albeit something of a time capsule. The Diwang building was completed in time to celebrate the Return of...
View Articlehawgblawg: "Inverted worlds" - Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region
I haven't had a chance to watch/listen to the papers yet, but I wanted to call this event to readers' attention. In October 2012, the Orient Institut Beirut sponsored a very interesting conference on...
View Articlehawgblawg: Old Port Said, New Port Said
National Geographic, as part of its very recent effort to look at the news through its archive, just published this photo of Port Said's "Arab Quarter" in the 1920s, along with an account of recent...
View Articletabsir.net: Karim Ben Khelifa: “The World is Changing, Change With It”
Karim Ben Khelifa Photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa is interviewed about his work in war zones with a collage of his photographs on Vimeo. This is a short video; check it out for an excellent insight...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: "100 Years in Tokyo"
From Japan Today, 2/24/13: “100 years in Tokyo” is a series of 202 portraits, photographed in Tokyo in 2009-2012. The book contains portraits of men and women for each year of age from 0 to 100. The...
View ArticleThe Naked Anthropologist: Sex on Sunday: Sleaze and survival, taxi-dancing in...
The increase in coverage of anti-trafficking operations and Rescue Industry rhetoric is such that I only blog about a tiny fraction of it. I post much much more on facebook, short commentary on media...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "All of we"
At a recent memorial service for Aaron Swartz, Alan Grayson (U.S. Congressman from Florida) gave an eloquent eulogy, which began like this: Aaron worked in my office as an intern, and had a quality...
View Articlehawgblawg: PBS on hipster hating
yes, it's gone that far: commentary on hipsters that tries to make some sense of the oh-so-popular hipster-hating bloodsport and that also gives us a lesson on Bourdieu and cultural capital. what was...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: Thoughtful, Respectful, and Progressive: Regarding the...
Some of this has already been raised, in my recent interview with Phil Taylor, plus in an excellent article by Ken Stone, “UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay: ‘Pretext-maker’ for Western...
View ArticleRecontextual: Brass band fixations
The first episode of the Norwegian documentary series Korpsfiksert (Band fixated) was shown on NRK TV a few days ago, and is now available on NRK net-tv. The 8 episodes follow members of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Merkel in Turkey as Majority of Germans opposed to...
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd L), accompanied by Turkey’s Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz (L), speaks as she meets with troops from a German NATO Patriot missile battery at a Turkish military...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "All but" = "nothing but"
From JF, here's one for the misnegation files, undernegation department: According to the Sun Sport Live Match Centre: With all but a monumental collapse now standing between Manchester United and a...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “Muay Thai’ Federasyonu Yeni...
TBMM Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu Çiçek Başkanlığında Toplandı Haberler Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ile Anayasa çalışmalarının ele alındığı yemekli görüşmenin ardından TBMM Genel Sekreterlik binasına...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A seemingly awful anti-piracy system hits US...
New Anti-Piracy System to Hit U.S. Internet Users on Monday from Mashable! by The Daily Dot Starting Monday, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could...
View ArticleThe Age of Intuition: Enchanted America, Enchanted Archaeology
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View ArticleShenzhen Noted: cancer village map
On May 6, 2009, Deng Fei (邓飞) published the “Cancer Village Map” which documented reports on villages where cancer rates were significantly higher than elsewhere in the country. Three days ago, the...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Are journals hindering...
tl;dr (for those who find blog posts on academic publishing too long) The focus on ‘open access publishing’ and ‘better academic writing’ may be overrated when it comes to fostering creative writing,...
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