tabsir.net: On the beauty of late medieval florilegium
Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Le charmeur des serpentes, 1880 In 2007 I published Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid with the University of Washington Press. The build-up to its publishing is a story that...
View ArticleAnthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing: Special Issue of Anthropology...
Although there’s been quite a bit of rumbling over the AAA’s “open access” policies over the last several years, one positive development IMHO has been to move the association’s newsletter,...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Article Alert- Dispossession by Accumulation
Antipode has published Tom Perreault’s “Dispossession by Accumulation? Mining, Water and the Nature of Enclosure on the Bolivian Altiplano.” The article is noteworthy not only because it discusses...
View Articlexirdalium: poincaré on sts
Well, it’s not really ↑Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)—eminent mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science—talking about science and technology studies (STS) proper. Rather...
View Articlehawgblawg: Sunny Ali and the Kid - MUSLIM RAGE #drones
they're runnin but there's drones up aheaddrones in your beddrones in your homedrone give me headdrone give me domepreacher preacherleave them kids aloneMore on Sunny Ali and the Kid here.
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: New Beginnings: Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Today I had the privilege of beginning work as Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. I will surely write about the work of the museum extensively in the months ahead. Here I just want to...
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Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Descriptions of Thickness, Fabrics,...
At the moment I am grappling a bit with Clifford Geertz in an attempt to get a firmer background in classical anthropological texts, although of course that can be both a blessing in a curse. On the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Shooting dead people
M.P. sent in her collection of headlines about shooting dead people. I'm sure that the grammar is actually correct, when it comes to a person being shot dead and that person's life is thus ended....
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Mendilimin Yeşili
The song whose lyrics I published in my last blog post is this one, from a Turkish soap opera broadcast several years ago. [https:]
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: the passing of a handkerchief
two lovers separated during the nationalistic shifts of the balkan wars exchange a handkerchief....again, this follows on from my last post on fabric and ritual...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Hello Gregorian Calendrical New Year!
It reached forty degrees Celsius today. And then it rained, and rained and rained. And it was lovely.
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: It's Like a New Year Gift From the Archaeology...
As you know, I do not make fun of people. I make fun of their inferences. But even I couldn't have predicted that there'd be so many to poke fun at, and that they'd be so various, and that I'd have...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: *clears throat* Don't Look Now. But...
We--you and I--and I mean that, are closing in on a huge way marker in the Subversive Archaeologist's young life. Some time in the next hour or so the all-time page view counter down the right sidebar...
View ArticleLanguage Log: High-entropy speech recognition, automatic and otherwise
Regular readers of LL know that I've always been a partisan of automatic speech recognition technology, defending it against unfair attacks on its performance, as in the case of "ASR Elevator"...
View Articledecasia: critique of academic culture: Superficiality
As I was about to leave my fieldsite in April 2011 — almost two years ago now, I’m sorry to see — I have a conversation that goes like this: “I’ve had shallow relationships with people,” I lament to...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: This Is What's Known As Enlightened...
Hi, again. As some of you may know I'm what's known as an independent researcher [=unemployed, =broke, =intellectually starved, =begger on foot wishing for a horse]. That's why my eye was caught...
View Articlehawgblawg: In search of the origins of "pop-rai": Bellemou, Bouteldja,...
I'm currently at work writing a chapter on rai for my book (provisional title: Radio Interzone; who knows when it'll be done). One of the questions I've been trying to work out is the history of...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: C. Wright Mills – Taking It Big and Speaking Truth...
The last parts of Stanley Aronowitz‘s Taking It Big – C. Wright Mills and The Making of Political Intellectuals deal with The Sociological Imagination and Mills’s overall impact as a public...
View Articletabsir.net: George Nicolas El-Hage: If you were mine, 2
Sculpture by Chahine Raffoul [This is the second in a series of poems translated from the Arabic of George Nicolas El-Hage’s If You Were Mine. For the first installment, and information about the...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Living The Guns Dream
There are places in the world where there are lots of guns, and not just by bad guys. So what does a country awash with guns look like? According to the pro-gun hypothesis, it should be a crime-free...
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