Language Log: Condensation and displacement in word aversion
Matthew J.X. Malady summarizes readers' comments on his Slate "word aversion" piece — "Which Words Do Slate Readers Hate?", 4/2/2013: Hundreds of commenters chimed in to report aversions keyed to...
View Articletabsir.net: Farid Esack in New York
Farid Esack The Academic Study of Islam and/in/for the Wounded Empire A Lecture by Dr. Farid Esack Fri, 5 Apr, 2013 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Union Theological Seminary 3041 Broadway at 121st Street New York,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Boiling / boiled water
Hiroshi Kumamoto (a specialist in Middle Iranian, especially Khotanese) sent in the following photograph of the sign on a water boiler in the Department of Linguistics at Tokyo University: Since I...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Haha right
Apparently awakened early this morning by a stray cosmic ray, a mainframe somewhere in the depths of the University of Pennsylvania Health System sent me this email: Subject: Required Training...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: It's About Time! El Sidrón Neanderthals are 49...
I truly believe that Tom Higham can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Well. Maybe not. But he has served notice to the palaeoanthropological community that there's a new sheriff in Temporal...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Resiliency, Risk, and a...
I recently came across an interview in Wired magazine from mid-2012 with MIT Media Lab ‘guru’ Joi Ito on Resiliency, Risk, and a Good Compass: Tools for the Coming Chaos. He concluded the interview...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: What’s in a name? AP shifts the discourse by eschewing the...
On April 2, the Associated Press made the bold and surprising announcement that the AP stylebook will no longer sanction the term “illegal immigrant.” According to the AP’s new standards, “‘illegal’...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Critical Development in the History of Hoarding
By Zoltana Domotor, from If I was a Hoarder: On December 1, 2012 the board of trustees of the American Psychiatric Association approved the final diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Depopularization in the limit
George Orwell, in his hugely overrated essay "Politics and the English language", famously insists you should "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in...
View Articletabsir.net: Arabic Papyri Online in Utah
Arabic Papyrus #1564: Receipt for agricultural tax (1/3 of a dinar: from Ushmunayn in Middle Egypt. Compete scroll with seal in fine quality light brown papyrus. 9.3 x 8.3 cm written in black ink....
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: laying siege to the villages: baishizhou
A FIVE-PART ESSAY, “LAYING SIEGE TO THE VILLAGES” HAS BEEN PUBLISHED ONLINE AT OPEN DEMOCRACY. HERE’S PART FIVE, WHICH DISCUSSES INFORMAL URBANIZATION AND THE CREATION OF NEIGHBORHOODS FOR AND BY THE...
View ArticleSomatosphere: CfP: The social lives of biomedical technologies in global...
AAA Chicago 2013 Call for Papers: The social lives of biomedical technologies in global health development Global health development policy and practice has made a noticeable return in recent years...
View ArticleSomatosphere: On the pragmatics and politics of collaborative work between...
For scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, it sometimes seems like hardly a day goes by without some kind of exhortation towards ‘interdisciplinarity’ – a trend that has only...
View ArticleSam Grace: Comps Strategies: Write fragments, take naps
As careful readers of this blog may have already surmised, I rely heavily on structure for writing. I organize my note-taking with a rubric, each entry carefully tagged and labelled in Evernote, I...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 70
Hello all,The post-holiday week link review features some unspectacular, but very readable development related policy-issues from inequality to the conflict in the Central African Republic, new...
View ArticleAAA blog: Fulbright Fellowship Opportunity in India
Today’s guest blog post by Adam Grotsky shares a fellowship opportunity in India. Please direct your inquiries to USIEF. Greetings from New Delhi! I am writing to alert you about the Fulbright-Nehru...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “Attacks on punks and goths are...
Attacks on punks and goths are now hate crimes in Manchester from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Europe in figures: Eurostat yearbook 2012 from Docuticker Source: Eurostat Europe in figures – Eurostat...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Bobs’da oylama başladı!
Bobs’da oylama başladı! Rüşvet vermek, sürü psikolojisi, kartpostal, örgü örmek, sağır-dilsiz alfabesi… Birbirleriyle ne ilgisi mi var? Bunlar, Bobs’un bu yılki toplam 364 finalistinden sadece...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Quoting: Sahlins on Mauss
As fellow anthropologist Jamie Coates remarked today, you need to be writer – not just an ethnographer – to write good ethnography. And gracious me, does Sahlins write beautifully sometimes....
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