Jason Baird Jackson: Mary Douglas Awards Available for Masters Work in...
Good news from the museums/material culture community at University College London: The Anthropology department at UCL (University College London) is pleased to announce the Mary Douglas Awards, to...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Visual Du Jour – More Leeches!
Surely, at some point, this austerity thing… somewhere… in the future… for sure, it’s going to work: Making a large number of people poorer is guaranteed to boost demand. More leeches! Like Atrios...
View Articlehawgblawg: Levantine vs. Mandatory
I thought Avishai Margalit's review of Hadara Lazar's Out of Palestine: The Making of Modern Israel in the NYRB was entirely too soft on the British mandate in Palestine. But I thought Margalit's...
View Articletabsir.net: Travels of Sir John Mandaville, 1
portrait of Sir John Mandeville, from 1459 [One of the most widely read Holy Land travel narratives of the 14th century was attributed to a certain Sir John Mandeville. Some scholars believed it was...
View ArticleThe Naked Anthropologist: Sex at the Margins reviewed in Gender &...
Academic publishing is dysfunctional. Even I, who spend a good bit of time online, never received notice of a review of Sex at the Margins published four years ago in a major journal. Had I known...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: CISPA is back, Vote for the...
CISPA is Back: FAQ on What it is and Why it’s Still Dangerous from EFF.org Updates by Mark M. Jaycox and Kurt Opsahl The privacy-invasive bill known as CISPA—the so-called “cybersecurity” bill—was...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: The Recycling of Building Materials in Late Antiquity:...
The Recycling of Building Materials in Late Antiquity: Practice and Ideology Saturday 9th March, 10.00-4.00 pm The Birley Room, D203, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK Schedule: 10.00...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Sex and FOXP2: Preservation of endangered stereotypes
Last week, when I discussed the return of the zombie meme about women talking three times more than men ("An invented statistic returns", 2/22/2013), I promised to come back to the real scientific...
View Articlehawgblawg: Leila Fade of NPR on mahragan
I missed it, she covered mahragan (which she calls electro shaabi), as well as rocker Ramy Essam and graffiti artist Ganzeer, on September 4, 2012. She mentions Alaa Fifty, Amr Haha (7a7a) and Ahmed...
View Articlehawgblawg: Gucci fur poncho kufiya
Seriously. 100% fox fur.Check it out here. Gucci describes it as a "GG pattern mini poncho with fur detail." Price? No idea.
View Articlehawgblawg: very adorable kufiyas
Source: img5.visualizeus.com via Danyelle on Pinterestsource here
View Articlehawgblawg: kufiya leggings
Source: mirari-pleases.com via Esther on Pinterestdescribed as "Lala Berlin inspired leggings with Keffiyeh print." Source is here.
View Articlehawgblawg: Kufiya Castro Hat
Source: milcentric.com via Julian on PinterestThe 'pin' describes it as "NSBQ Shemagh Houndstooth Military Cap Hat."NSBQ describes it as a CastroHat, and sells it for $80. NSBQ (NING SI BU QU) is a...
View Articlehawgblawg: more threeAsfour designer kufiya dresses
Source: kuffiyaclothing.tumblr.com via Kuffiya on PinterestI blogged about threeAsfour previously. But I didn't have these nice photos.
View ArticleLanguage Log: Dogs and Japanese not admitted
Sign in the window of a snack shop in Houhai district of Beijing called Beijing Snacks (Bǎinián lǔ zhě 百年卤者 [Century Braiser]): The sign reads: Běndiàn bù jiēdài Rìběnrén Fēilǜbīnrén Yuènánrén hé gǒu...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Opens the waterhouse; open water rooms
Yunong Zhou sent me the following signs from China: Before providing transcription and translation of these two signs, a little bit of cultural background is necessary. My experience, from living and...
View ArticleDesign Culture Lab: The Internet of Animals. Game on!
I’ve spent almost every day for three or four years thinking about, talking about, writing about, and working towards something I’ve come to call an internet of animals. This week, two things happened...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Rage in Kunming
We at Language Log are already quite familiar with Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province. That's where the completely fake Apple store was discovered by a blogger named BirdAbroad (see "Your...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Mesele kalkınmaysa tabiat teferruattır
Mesele kalkınmaysa tabiat teferruattır İtiraf edelim bizim kuşağın çevreye ilgisi yok denecek kadar azdır. Ya farkında değildir, ya umuru değildir, ya da çevrenin ilânihaye sürdürülebilir olduğu...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: “The Copyright Alert System...
The Copyright Alert System FAQ from EFF.org Updates by Daniel Nazer It’s been a long time coming, but the copyright surveillance machine known as the Copyright Alert System (CAS) — aka “Six Strikes” —...
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