Erkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: CISPA Passes Committee but...
CISPA Passes Committee, Advances to House Vote from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai ACLU, White House Pan CISPA’s Return from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm Obama’s regressive record...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Connecting Students with Real Food and Real Farmers
By Kellen Gilbert, David Burley, Bonnie May, Timothy McCarthy, Sole Sanchez, Erica Dickerson, Danate Moses and Benny Milligan (Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana) Part One Last...
View ArticleNineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea: MCC's permissable...
Someone has slipped me a precis on the Ramu Niko Environmental Impact Assessment amended to permit chromite export from the mine. And it is a real eye opener. It would seem that all the noise local...
View Articlexirdalium: batman arkham origins
It’s scheduled for release in late October this year—‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ (Warner Bros. Games Montreal 2013), the prequel to ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ and ‘Batman: Arkham City’ (Rocksteady Studios...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Good News | Bad News
On the good news front, students, faculty, staff, and friends associated with the Mathers Museum of World Cultures continue to come together to do good work and illustrate why museums are good places...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Portugal and Slovenia are the...
Who’s next in line in the eurozone crisis? Portugal and Slovenia are the prime candidates by Open Europe blog team In anticipation of tomorrow’s eurozone finance ministers meeting (which will discuss...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: Is Muslim to England as Coptic is to Egypt?
“To Be Muslim in England” is a brilliant little essay by the Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany that appeared in al-Masri al-Yom 8 January 2013. The following translation comes from Oasis, a Roman...
View ArticleIn Harmonium: Back to the “good old days” of economic serfdom
A series of recent stories by CBC.ca’s Go Public is providing some intriguing detail on how Canadian banks are, one would assume inadvertently, supporting the practice of economic serfdom or debt...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Job Posting: Curator of Archaeology, University of...
Job Posting: Curator of Archaeology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
View Articleanthropologyworks: Awards for M.A. program on material culture at UCL
Two Mary Douglas awards are now available for the M.A. in Culture, Materials, and Design of £2,000 each. The M.A. is a one-year Masters course in anthropology & archaeology, at UCL University...
View Articlexirdalium: african telecom reach
From ↑ITU statistics intac made some interesting infomap posters. The above one shows the ↑Internet usage around the globe (click the picture for full-size). The lighter a nation state is rendered,...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Tweeter Arrested [#IUonStrike]
This is an update on the bad news side of my post from yesterday. The tweet that I described and then described as disappearing was made by a student who has now been arrested on a preliminary felony...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: UBIQUI-TEE: T-Shirts Design Culture
I was happy tonight to attend the opening for a great new exhibition organized by the Sage Collection and presented at the Indiana University Center for Art and Design Columbus (IUCA+D Columbus)....
View ArticleC L O S E R: Integratie en Superdiversiteit in Amsterdam
Closer Blog: Na 1990 is er een enorme versnippering in de achtergronden van migranten op etnisch, taalkundig, cultureel, religieus gebied. Deze ‘superdiversiteit’ heeft grote gevolgen voor...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: New website on Nonaka Kofun by the Osaka...
Announcement from EASIANTH: The Osaka University Department of Archaeology has created an English-language website in conjunction with its Project for the Preservation and Utilization of Artifacts...
View Articletabsir.net: Tabsir Redux: Sahara, My, My, but its Dry
Vaudeville loved Orientalism. By the time Valentino played The Sheik, images of Middle Eastern scenes were well represented on stage and in music. Some of the lyrics from this time period are very...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: I Have To Do Something To Get The Two Penises...
It's not just that my real life has been busy lately. There doesn't seem to have been a decent extraordinary and criticizable archaeological claim for... like... ever.Maybe it's because the past few...
View Articletrinketization: Diaspora and Hybridity translated, in oblique
How did they manage to translate Diaspora and Hybridity into Different and Promiscuous and then translate it back into English as Discrete and Mixed? Fantastic. Filed under: alt-publishing
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa gündemi: Anayasa’da Çatalhöyük –...
‘Kıpkırmızı anayasa görmedim’ Gerçek Gündem ANKARA (ANKA) – Meclis Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu’nun CHP’li üyesi Süheyl Batum, yeni anayasa çalışmasında tüm maddelerin kıpkırmızı yani üzerinde anlaşma...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The 'I like that you liked this'...
I've been walking around with this feeling for several days now; this need for something we haven't yet been provided with by facebook. From the depths of my emotional self there springs a neccesity...
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