Aidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 67
Hello all!Welcome to another great weekly link review! The 'development' section features some interesting material including whether the mistreatment of children in conflict zones is a perverse form...
View ArticleAAA blog: Help AAA Contribute to Huffington Post
Have you read Past President, Alan Goodman’s recent Huffington Post piece – Biophobia Not. Biology and Science in Anthropology? AAA has a contributing relationship with The Huffington Post. AAA...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Grandma! What Big Eyes You Have! Neanderthal...
Back out on the limb I go...It isn't often that I seek to disparage the work of people I know and of whom I'm fond [not necessarily, but frequently, mutually exclusive subsets of humanity]. So, I...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Chinese review of The Silent...
The English edition of Heriberto Araujo and Juan Pablo Cardenal’s The Silent Chinese Conquest, which was apparently published under the title China’s Silent Army, has been reviewed by Bristol...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Extending Panel Submission Deadline
Extending Panel Submission Deadline
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: My Apologies for the Papal Bull
Now What I Actually Meant to Say Was… My previous article has attracted intense disagreement, for many good reasons (and sometimes not). Apparently I was too careless in conveying the impression that...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Killer Pope
G.S. sent in this snapshot of a news-stand display: The sign juxtaposes teasers for two different stories, one the election of Pope Francis, and the other a multiple murder and suicide in Umbria. If...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Can Cultural Anthropology Scrogg Population Genetics?
James Mullooly invented the word Scrogg, meaning something along the line of “anthropologist who catch geneticists playing fast and loose with the data.” In my experience, Scrogging is fairly easy to...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Realising Difference as a Value
‘Batumbil and I drove food out to Rrorruwuy yesterday to visit Yethun. It was wonderful to see her. Unfortunately she has a terrible flu and little gaminyarr has a few boils. Nevertheless, they...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Water between
This photograph was taken at the northern train station in Changchun, China: The sign reads: kāishuǐ jiān 开水间 ("water between"). We recently encountered similar signs in "Opens the waterhouse; open...
View ArticleNineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea: Emergency Assistance to...
Nancy Sullivan & Associates Ltd. HELP FOR KARAWARI CAVE ARTS UNDER THREAT PRESS RELEASE 15/3/13 Dear Friends: We are appealing to the public for help in preventing Rimbunan Hikau and Pristine...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Fly. Meet Wall. Calico Hills Public...
What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall on March 23, 2013, when the Friends of the Big Bear, California Library host Adella Schroth, Curator of Anthropology at the San Bernardino County Museum,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A Slideshow: Media Life 2013 (103 Slides)
Media Life 2013 from Mark Deuze Related posts: Akademik Bilişim 2013 konferansı- 23-25 Ocak 2013 tarihlerinde Akdeniz Üniversitesi’nde EFD Rights Watch: Freedom House Report 2013 for Turkey...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: CFP: Pipes, People, and Politics: Dis/Unconnected Urban...
“Pipes, People, and Politics: Dis/Unconnected Urban Infrastructure and Community Responses” American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, 2013 Meeting theme: Future Publics, Current...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Use your words
I somehow missed this Bizarro comic when it first appeared:
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ask Language Log: There's cookies involved
T.L. writes: One of my wife's pet peeves is the use of "there's" instead of "there are," as in the last line here. What's up with this? It's very common. Is it simply easier to articulate? "Plural...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Max Weber for Geneticists: Why the UC Davis Department of...
I’m pretty happy about my post about Max Weber, and Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. Getting geneticists to at least acknowledge the existence of the patron saint of Sociology is big thing! From an academic...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: The Impending Social Sciences...
Remember Rick Scott? The Florida State Governor, Rick Scott? The Rick Scott who as much as said that anthropology is about as valuable to society as screen doors on a submarine? That Rick Scott?...
View ArticleIdeas Bazaar: A personal reflection on Veerbadhra Misha, Mahantji
Veerbadhra Mishra, at the Krishna Lila, Tulsi ghat, Varanasi, 1997. I was saddened to hear the news this week of the death of Mahantji’s, and it led me to dig out the picture of him at his beloved...
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