AAA blog: AAA’s Society for Cultural Anthropology Paves New Way For...
In its latest efforts to respond to today’s evolving publishing climate the American Anthropological Association (AAA) celebrates the decision by one of its most influential sections to undertake...
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The following sign was posted on Weibo (China's Twitter clone): As it appears on the sign, the translator must have parsed the three characters 签到处 as qiān dàochù, though the correct grammatical order...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Gene Promoters 4: Attack of The Armchair Scientist
The reason I post about cultural anthropology now and then isn’t that I want to argue or discuss with cultural anthropologists. Rather, I want to aid in spreading the message the discipline should be...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Bilgi’de Kurumsal İletişim Sohbetleri devam ediyor....
BİLGİ PRCC Kurumsal İletişim Sohbetleri No:3′te konuğumuz Sabancı Holding Kurumsal İletişim Direktörü ve Kurumsal İletişimciler Derneği Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Suat Özyaprak olacak…. Facebook...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Joi Ito's Nine Principles
Just stumbled across these thoughts from Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, on Boing-Boing. There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this: 1. Resilience instead of strength, which...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Everyday xenogarbology: Space Dust
One of the central tensions in discard studies is the othering and externalizing of waste that originates in often intimate and everyday spaces and processes. This tension is maintained via material...
View Articletabsir.net: Islam: The Arab Religion
By Anouar Majid, Tingis Redux, February 22nd A few months ago, I immersed myself in a kind of reading that I wish was available to me and my teachers when I was in high school in Tangier (Morocco)...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: #PUB204 öğrencileri açıklıyor...
via [www.famousbloggers.net] // _ // ]]> [View the story "#PUB204 öğrencileri açıklıyor #TwitterKullanıyorumÇünkü " on Storify] Related posts: #pub204 sınavının ardından… Pinleyen, anayasa yazan,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül in historic Sweden...
Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul (C) shakes hands with Sweden’s Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (R) at the Royal Palace in Stockholm March 11, 2013, in this picture provided by Scanpix. REUTERS/Jonas...
View Articletabsir.net: Passport Blues
Yemenis seeking American citizenship pay exorbitant dowries in lucrative marriages of convenience by Nadia Haddash, Yemen Times, March 7, 2013 Getting a visa from the American embassy in Sana’a is not...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: PKK releases captives… PM Erdoğan staying at home...
I will rest at home for a few days, Turkish PM says after leaving hospital from Hurriyet Daily News Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would rest at home Delegation reaches Iraq to...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Providence talks
Emily Badger, "Providence Wins Mayors Challenge Prize for Early Childhood Project", The Atlantic Cities, 3/13/2013: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg likes to say that cities are the new...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Isolated vs overlapping narratives: the story of an AFD
Editor’s Note: This month’s Stories to Action edition starts off with Heather Ford’s @hfordsa’s story on her experience of watching a story unfold on Wikipedia and in person. While working as an...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: 4 reasons why MOOCs...
I have been following the debate around Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for a while now. In my own imaginary Wordle cloud, the word ‘disruptive’ probably features most prominently, but this post...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Max Weber, Cavalli-Sforza, Ethnicity, and Population Genetics
Ok, below is a complicate and attenuated definition of ethnicity by the classical sociologist Max Weber. Variations of this definition are found in many anthropology and sociological textbooks,...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: A Pope for a New World: On the Significance of the Choice...
“The manifestations of so many men and women of Venezuela, of the whole world, and the presence of the heads of states are worthy expressions of appreciation from those of us today who say goodbye and...
View Articlexirdalium: billy and michael
This is completely off topic, but just way too beautiful for not reblogging [and somewhat more entertaining than the papal election]. In January this year—2013—↑Billy Joel was at Vanderbilt...
View ArticleNineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea: Open letter from Anton Lutz...
Dear Sirs, My name is Anton Lutz. I am a development worker with the Lutheran Church. We have been involved with the Andai people, also known as the Penale people, for close to twenty years now....
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Museum Ethnography Conference: Brave New Worlds
Museum Ethnography Conference: Brave New Worlds
View Articlexirdalium: democracy’s fourth wave?
In 2011, the international community watched as a shockingly unlikely community of citizens toppled three of the world’s most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in...
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