Neuroanthropology: Funny Depictions of Reactions to Peer Review
Today I was speaking with my graduate students on the basic format of a peer-reviewed paper, and how following that format will help with the inevitable criticisms that come from peer review. I...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Some Istanbulites did not like PSY’s Istanbul...
PSY shared the photo above while he was in Istanbul. Some did not like this “ugly” photo that represents Istanbul. Well but isn’t it one of the ways to represent Istanbul? Gangnam Style craze takes...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: The Sweetness trend
Recently I was thinking on the possibility of a new trend. And I wrote it up here. Have a look. You will see that I rush the conclusion. These are early days and at the moment we have little more...
View Articlehawgblawg: drone life: swarms of insect sized MAVs by 2030
Please read Charlie Booker writing in The Guardian on February 24 on the US Air Force plans to develop bird- and insect-sized micro-drones with flapping wings, known as micro air vehicle or MAV. They...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Fish and Ships: Exploring Seascapes and Engagements in...
Organizers: Shingo Hamada (Indiana University) and Lillian Brown (Indiana University) This session explores the interplay of humans and the sea through seafood production, circulation, and...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: shenzhen good samaritan law passed
Inquiring minds want to know: what is Shenzhen’s Samaritan Law? Well, it’s actually its being referred to as “the good person law (好人法)” and ims to protect good Samaritans from being sued by… Read...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Muslims in Alsace – A ‘French’ Model?
Closer Blog: The French region of Alsace-Moselle, near the German border, has its own specific legislation concerning religions. For historical reasons, local authorities are allowed to finance...
View Articletabsir.net: The high social price of humanitarian dissimulation
By Estella Carpi A few months ago, while conducting my PhD fieldwork in North Lebanon, I shared my ideas on the current humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees with a journalist working in Lebanon....
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Sex changes and changing rooms
Changing attitudes or just a practical measure? Unisex toilets are becoming more common in many countries A few months ago, I was about to walk into the women’s changing rooms at the local swimming...
View Articletrinketization: The Communist Horizon: Talk by author Jodi Dean 7pm 19.3.2013
A book talk by Jodi Dean, author. The Communist Horizon charts the re-emergence of communism as a magnet for political energy following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the stalling of the Occupy...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Universal alphabet
Not that I think this is any sort of panacea, but our good friends at BBC have seen fit to ask: "Could a new phonetic alphabet promote world peace?" Although backers of this supposed universal...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: this day in history…
The Shenzhen Archive Information Web (深圳档案信息网) has been uploading monthly records of important Shenzhen matters (深圳大事记). Years 2002 through 2009 have been uploaded and it is possible to learn that ten...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Unknown Language #7
The attached materials came to me from the UN refugee office in Damak city, Jhapa district, in the far southeast of Nepal. There is a sound recording of a female refugee and a sample of her writing in...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Web Roundup: Reading Literature as Medical Anthropologists by...
This month’s Web Round-up gathers reviews of recent works of fiction that engage medical anthropological themes. You’ll also find some links to writings about anthropology and fiction from around the...
View Articlehawgblawg: Maurice El Medioni channel
The Jewish-Algerian pianist from Oran, Maurice El Medioni, has a Youtube channel that I just discovered. There are many gems here: Maurice in concert, Maurice backing Lili Boniche, Blond-Blond, Line...
View Articletabsir.net: 7000 Manuscripts in Zabid
Zabid mosque interior; Photograph by Eric Lafforgue مدير مرگز المخطوطات في زبيلـ هناك سبعة آلاف مخطوطة في زبيد! الجمعة 25 يناير-كانون الثاني 2013 الساعة 01 صباحاً / الجمهورية نت - توفيق حسن أغا لم...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Three calls for papers about the indeterminacy of waste and...
Two calls for papers and one workshop are all due March 1, and they all have something in common: the indeterminacy of waste and pollution, and the struggle to make the effects determinant. The CFP...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Italy election results, still...
Frattini: A Bersani-Berlusconi coalition can give Italy stability (Interview) from EurActiv.com Italian elections: And now for the warnings from around Europe – stay the course, or else… by Open...
View ArticleICCI Home: International Society for Philosophy, History and Soicial Sciences...
The International Society for Philosophy, History and Soicial Sciences of Biology holds its 2013 conference in Montpellier, July 7-12. Proposals for sessions and contributions from biologists,...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: A Very Remote Period and A Gigantic Fail:...
I've been watching the media coverage of a paper by Julien Riel-Salvatore and Claudine Gravel-Miguel, which is to appear in the soon-to-be-published Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and...
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