anthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 3/18/13
• Going green for St. Patrick’s Day and more The Pyramids and Sphinx on St. Patrick’s Day. (Courtesy of The Embassy of Ireland and Daily News Egypt) Anthropologyworks’ Sean Carey published an article...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: A letter from the editors of a fellow AAA journal...
A letter from the editors of a fellow AAA journal publication, Cultural Anthropology
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Jordan’s King criticizes Turkish PM, Turkey...
Turkish PM views democracy as ‘bus ride,’ says Jordanian King Abdullah from Hurriyet Daily News Jordanian King Abdullah II has criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Jordan’s King...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Longing for Sleep: Assessing the Place of Sleep in the 21st...
Sleep has been in the news for the past decade or so as a matter of growing concern. Along with this popular, medical and scientific attention, social scientists have been increasingly interested in...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: An Atlas of Urban Waste- New Syllabus
The newest addition to our syllabus collection is Mariana Mogilevich’s An Atlas of Urban Waste from New York University. The course introduction: From nineteenth-century neighborhoods built on...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: CFP: Ethnographies of Exposure: Rethinking the...
CALL FOR PAPERS American Anthropological Association Meetings. Chicago, November 20-24, 2013. Ethnographies of Exposure: Rethinking the Body-Environment Relation A slew of contemporary phenomenon...
View ArticleAAA blog: Economic Anthropologists Join World’s Largest Professional...
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) has merged with the AAA. The merger of the two groups became official on March 13...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Best laid plans and all. Another stake is needed.
Promise. I'll be back soon.SA announces new posts on the Subversive Archaeologist's facebook page (mirrored on Rob Gargett's news feed), on Robert H. Gargett's Academia.edu page, Rob Gargett's twitter...
View Articletabsir.net: What ails humanitarian aid in Lebanon
The high social price of media and humanitarian dissimulation in North Lebanon. by Estella Carpi In the aid provision sphere of North Lebanon, international media in close connection with humanitarian...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: more about oysters
Anyone who has crossed from Shekou to Tun Mun via the Shenzhen Bay Western Corridor Bridge has seen the clear line that demarcates the Shenzhen-Hong Kong borridor. South of the border are floating…...
View ArticleLanguage Log: David "Semi True" Brooks
David Brooks, "The Progressive Shift", NYT 3/18/2013: There is a statue outside the Federal Trade Commission of a powerful, rambunctious horse being reined in by an extremely muscular man. This used...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Meet our volunteers!
In the six months since PopAnth was launched, we’ve collected an amazing group of volunteers. In the beginning, there were just Gawain Lynch, John McCreery and myself developing the website. We hoped...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Delayed due to some reasons: annals of airport Chinglish, part 4
The latest collection of "lost in translation" signs from the Mail Online offers some doozies: But wait a minute! Though the English may sound strange, neither of these signs is mistranslated. That's...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: 25 Mart’ta Bilgi’de panel: e-Kitap Ne Olacak?
Tarih: 25 Mart 2013, Pazartesi Saat: 14.00-16.00 Yer: santralistanbul Kampüsü, Enerji Müzesi-Seminer Salonu 49. Kütüphane Haftası (25-31 Mart 2013) kapsamında İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi tarafaından...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Longing for Sleep: Assessing the Place of Sleep in the 21st...
Sleep has been in the news for the past decade or so as a matter of growing concern. Along with this popular, medical and scientific attention, social scientists have been increasingly interested in...
View ArticleErin B. Taylor - Material culture, mobile banking and socioeconomic...
María, Cristino and family in their Santo Domingo homeIn the Dominican Republic, el campo (the countryside) holds a positive value due to its important role in the cultural history of the nation. In...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: Haşim Kılıç da süreç hakkında...
Çiçek’ten Nevruz ve Anayasa açıklaması netGazete Bir gecede anayasa yazılmaz. Ama ucu açık bir zamanda da anayasa yapılmaz. Biraz daha fazla gayret göstermek bu işi belli bir zaman dilimi içerisinde...
View ArticleLanguage Log: This is not me
Paolo Lucchesi, "AQ’s Matt Semmelhack and Mark Liberman to open Bon Marché in Market Square", Inside Scoop SF 2/22/2013: Matt Semmelhack and Mark Liberman — the team behind the celebrated AQ in SoMa —...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Annals of with
In the comments section of the London (Ontario) Free Press, there was a frank exchange of views on the grammaticality of the headline "Man wandering in traffic arrested with gun" (3/20/2013). A small...
View Articletabsir.net: Keeping track of camels
In 2010 I had the privilege of participating in an international conference in Vienna on camels (not on camelback, of course). A book from this conference has now appeared. This is: Eva-Maria KNOLL –...
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