Shenzhen Noted: what is the price of a human life?
If my friends are to be believed, doctors occupy the same hated position in China that lawyers occupy in the United States; they are the white-collar workers who represent all that is wrong… Read More →
View ArticleLanguage Log: English in China #2
Whenever there's a major gathering in Beijing, such as the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress National Committee that has been going on these days, some top figure (politician,...
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Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Selling the Sea, fishing for Power:...
Dear all, I would like to share my book, Selling the Sea, fishing for Power: A Study of Conflict over Marine Tenure in Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia. It has just came out from ANU E-Press in...
View Articlehawgblawg: Madrid demonstrators, Wednesday March 13, 2013
Madrid demonstrators, Wednesday March 13, 2013, a photo by tsweden on Flickr.on the plane from Paris to Beirut on March 15, I got the IHT and spotted this. I'll be talking about kufiyas at AUB on...
View Articletabsir.net: Mind your manures…
A villager makes cow dung cakes used as cooking fuel at Maloya village on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on January 31, 2011; photograph by Ajay Verma / Reuters [Webshaykh’s...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Closing the week 11 – Sectarianism, Syria, Europe, Dutch
Closer Blog: A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Teppanyaki
If you like Japanese food, you are undoubtedly familiar with "teppanyaki", so you probably wouldn't be surprised to see a sign like this in your neighborhood, as did Jim Breen near his home in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Doubtful Uludere massacre report…...
Doubts about report on Uludere massacre from Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about by Fréderike Geerdink ISTANBUL – A commission in the Turkish parliament has finalized its...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: The Moths, by anthropologist Michael Jackson
I often carry a thin poetry volume around with me, tucked in between draft chapters I am currently editing. I’ve been carrying Michael Jackson’s, Duty Free: Selected Poems 1965-1988, around for a...
View Articletabsir.net: Yemen’s National Dialogue
Yemen’s President Rabu Mansour Hadi has issued decree No. (12) for 2013 on Sunday, March 17, forming the presidium of the Comprehensive National Dialogue Conference, which starts today. The officers...
View ArticleC L O S E R: European foreign fighters in Syria
Closer Blog: In the last months there have been numerous reports of Europeans going to Syria to fight against the Al-Assad regime. In this post I will monitor the main news reports and analysis on...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: The...
Two charity sector workers speak about the difficulty of leaving the City, and the untapped potential of those they left behindImagine you work for a multinational corporation or global bank and one...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Peace negotiations behind the doors continue…PKK...
PKK head proposes withdrawal from Turkey from Yahoo news ANKARA, Turkey , March 16 (UPI) — The head of a Kurdish separatist party has proposed completing a withdrawal of its fighters from Turkey this...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Performing Success: When mythologies about a technology...
Editor’s Note: We are lucky to have Morgan Ames @morgangames back from her fieldwork in South America to contribute a post to March edition of Stories to Action. Morgan gives us an insider’s view of...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News In a New York Times editorial, Wayne Cornelius argued that no further border enforcement will play a role in deterring potential migrants to the U.S., aiming to nullify claims that “border...
View ArticleEthno::log: Ethno:Log - Stammtisch
Kommenden Donnerstag (21.3.) 20:00 Schall & Rauch Ethno::Log-Stammtisch Getränke frei!
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool
Sharing below information on the 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool. … The 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool introduces students to the tools and methods required to...
View Articlehawgblawg: Relative calm هدوء نسبي
This song, the title track to Ziad al Rahbani's 1985 album, Houdou Nisbi (relative calm), speaks to the situation in Lebanon right now. Deadly civil war right next door in Syria. Hundreds of thousands...
View Articlehawgblawg: more kufiyas from Kanye and Hova
I never got around to posting about Jay Z & Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild" video from May 2012.It is full of kufiyas. The video is all street confrontations between police and a mixed-race,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Heterogulation
In a Library and Archives Canada presentation on "Values and Ethics", heterogulation might be a neologism: But it's probably a typo for "heteroregulation", which is used to label an elaborated form of...
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