Ethnography.com: First Random Impressions of a Caribbean Country: Antigua
Another new country, and region of the world. This time it is the country of Antigua, in the Caribbean where I am on vacation for 10 days. Going new places assaults the senses, as you the old...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 3/25/13
• Genocide trial in Guatemala Map of Guatemala An extensive article in The New York Times described how Guatemala’s justice system is changing: ” In a show of political will, prosecutors are taking...
View Articletabsir.net: هل أمة العليم السوسوة نموذج للمرأة اليمنية ؟!
المساء برس- المساء برس التاريخ : 21-03-2013 أمة العليم السوسوة ظلت تبحث عن مكان للمرأة في الصفوف الأولى لمؤتمر الحوار الوطني فلم تجد أي مكان شاغر لها أو لغيرها حتى في منصة القاعة التي كانت مخصصة...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Kaz gelen yerden tavuk esirgenmez” Roundup up for...
Thanks to Syria, it seems that Turkey and Israel can finally alleviate tension… The EU’s non-negotiations with Turkey (Opinion) from EurActiv.com The EU’s negotiations, or rather non-negotiations with...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: The Chickens and Goats of Uganda’s Internet
Memes means, “unit of cultural transmission,” and that’s what designer and artist An Xiao Mina @anxiaostudio does in the Story to Action edition of Ethnography Matters. She moves from Ugandan chickens...
View ArticleAAA blog: Call for Papers for the 112th Annual Meeting – April 15 Deadline
The online abstract submission system is now open for all proposals! Visit the Meetings page for complete details and to submit your proposal. Click here for details and submission requirements. The...
View ArticlePodcasts from the SfAA: eFieldnotes: Makings of Anthropology in a Digital World
CHAIRS: SANJEK, Roger (Emeritus) and TRATNER, Susan (SUNY ESC) SANJEK, Roger (Emeritus) Introduction: From Fieldnotes to eFieldnotes BURRELL, Jenna (UCB) Reviving the Armchair Anthropologist (renamed...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Mathematical tradition in...
Anthropologist sees the world as a world of extreme complexity or as a series of Big Data ( NP hard ) problems , hence, some field complexities could be described as“ botanic rarities of the most...
View ArticleRecontextual: Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition "Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.", curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of post...
View ArticleAAA blog: AAA Reception Welcomes New Executive Director Dr. Liebow
Last evening, federal agency representatives, congressional staff and association affiliates welcomed AAA Executive Director Dr. Edward Liebow to his new position and to the Washington D.C. area. This...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Incidental Anthropology: Infant Waste, Tourists, The...
In this long overdue installment of Incidental Anthropology I bring you a few examples of anthropology interest incidentally found in the media. First, the vexing question of how to handle to infant...
View ArticleSam Grace: Gay marriage and homonationalism linkspam
The lefty chunk of my Facebook turned red this week in solidarity with those supporting marriage equality, as I’m sure it did for many of you. For those of you for who want more more more of this,...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 69
Hello all,This week's review is quite an eclectic mix - including cats and sex (in the blog-appropriate form of ethnographic research on Ugandan Internet memes and a 'sex strike' of Indonesian women...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Sampling Mongolia’s Soviet past
Boldoo ("DLOB") and DJ Munk. Photo by Lauren Knapp.[Read the rest of the article]: Sampling Mongolia’s Soviet pastAuthor informationLauren KnappResearch Fellow, Grinnell College at Fulbright -...
View ArticleSomatosphere: In the Journals: March 2013 (PART 1) by Thurka Sangaramoorthy
There were quite a number of interesting articles related to anthropology, science, and medicine in this month’s round up of journals including those from American Anthropologist, Social Science and...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Don't pee on this teapot
Over the years, we've often blogged about signs in China (and sometimes elsewhere) forbidding people to urinate where they're not supposed to, e.g., "Urination is inhuman", with references to earlier...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: If It Looks Like a Neanderthal, and It Smells...
Meet the Mezzena mandible, from five different directions. A is frontal. B is internal. C is right lateral, showing the mental foramen. D is superior. E is inferior. Credit PLOS ONE.Ka-ching! I got...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: “21 marttan sonra 23 mart…
21 marttan sonra 23 mart Geçen Nevruz’un barışın milâdı olduğu giderek kanıtlanıyor. Allah “özbeöz Türklerden”, MHP yönetimi ile CHP’nin şahin kanadı gibi sorumsuzlardan korusun. 23 martta da...
View Articletabsir.net: Can Atheists and Muslims Support Freedom of Conscience Together?
By Qasim Rashid and Chris Stedman, Religion & Politics, March 5, 2013 Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Advances in Cultural Neuroscience
A lot of good stuff coming out around cultural neuroscience right now. Here are the three main things up front, so people can have them. Then I’ll go over them in turn. And finally, a reflective...
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