Visual Anthropology of Japan: New Year 2013 Hozanji Pilgrimage
明けましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。Happy New Year 2013 from VAOJ! For the last few years my hatsumode (first visit to a shrine or temple at new year's time) has been to my local shinto shrine - New Year's...
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Ulrich Demmer im Gespräch mit dem Deutschlandfunk (MP3, 25min).
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Professor Caton at the Harvard conference Videos of the presentations at the Harvard conference “Yemen in Transition: Challenges & Opportunities”, organized by Professor Steven C. Caton last...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Language change across the lifespan
One theory, anyhow: This is an old SMBC comic, now available as a poster. There are other developmental trajectories, several of which were discussed in Gillian Sankoff's plenary lecture at the recent...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: CFP: Slum Clearance, Progressive Era (deadline 1 Feb.)
From: John McCarthy I’m in the process of creating a panel for the SACRPH meeting this fall 2013 that treats major downtown rebuilding projects (such as City Beautiful civic projects, union stations,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Dramatic reading of ASR voicemail transcription
Following up on the recent post about ASR error rates, here's Mary Robinette Kowal doing a dramatic reading of the Google Voice transcript of three phone calls (voicemail messages?) from John Scalzi:...
View ArticleDynamic Relations: Tick-tock
I posted on my Facebook page that my New Year's resolution is to complete my data collection within the scheduled timeframe. I have until November. And I was only half joking.In one week I'll hit the...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Traditional, African, religious, freedom?
Having returned from Uganda within the last few months, it might be expected that I would address the internationally infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill that has reared its head again, supported more...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: Rethinking Sexual Politics in Egypt
In 2011 Paul Amer published an article entitled “Turning the Gendered Politics of the Security State Inside Out: Charging the Police With Sexual Harassment in Egypt” in the International Feminist...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 1/7/13
• On gang rape in the U.S. Peggy R. Sanday, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, published an article on CNN about gang rape in the U.S. with reference to the gang...
View Articletabsir.net: Arab Constitutions and American Freedoms
Virginia Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom; source, Library of Congress By Anouar Majid, Tingis Redux, January 8th, 2013 The deeply contentious referendum on Egypt’s new constitution last...
View ArticleArctic anthropology: New intern at the Anthropology Research Team
My name is Berit Wahlers and this is the first day of my internship at the Arctic Center in Rovaniemi. I will be spending two month at the Anthropology research team and during this period I will...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Sinan Kızılkaya (@sinankizilkaya): Müzakere Süreci...
Müzakere Süreci Karşısında İyimser ve İhtiyatlı Yazar Tipleri Yeniden ön-müzakere sürecine şahit olduğumuz bugünlerde bir grup gazete yazarı arasında ilginç bir damgalama yarışı göze çarpıyor. Buna...
View Articletrinketization: Cotton For My Shroud – screening with the directors, 6pm...
Screening with the filmmakers Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl - 6pm Lauri Grove Baths, Council Room, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths As Multinational Corporations that produced poisons for...
View ArticleAAA blog: New AAA Anthropology in Public Policy Award
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Committee on Public Policy (CoPP) has established a biennial award, the AAA Anthropology in Public Policy Award, to honor anthropologists whose work has...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: Spain’s Partido X: a new political party steeped in...
via Spanish Wikipedia (Google translation) Jump to: navigation , search The X Party, Party of the Future Founded December 17, 2012 Country Spain Website [partidodelfuturo.net] , [partidox.org] The X...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: border theory
End of last semester, I attended the review for MArch 1 studio: Inbetweeners taught by Joshua Bolchover, The Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. Six teams offered analysis …...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: On Teaching Social Media to Undergraduates [Syllabus As...
Editor’s Note: We are very happy to feature Ethnography Matter’s first Syllabus as Essay post for 2013 from Alice Marwick, a researcher who conducted pioneering ethnographic fieldwork on the world of...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: I Have A *cough* Bone To Pick with the...
Since the Very Serious Anthropologists and Geneticists don't seem to get it, let me try another way. Those estimable scientists believe that they have more-or-less irrefutable evidence that people...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: more evidence that china and the usa really are the same country
Back in the day — and a good fifteen years ago it was — Shenzhen University gave me toilet paper and toothpaste, economy sized bottles of shampoo and other necessities … Continue reading →
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