Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: You are what you throw away
Whether we like it or not, our trash defines us. So stop filling in complicated personality tests and take a quick look inside your own bin : the rest will follow. Ever since last year, I’ve become...
View Articlexirdalium: the differential gear
The above is the most clear-cut explanation of ‘how a ↑differential gear works’ I’ve ever seen. The video below is complementary—↑Richard Feynman explains why a train car stays on its tracks when...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Moral work and Social order: A note from Chapter 7
Apologies for the relative silence of late, I have been working day and night on Chapter revisions. Anyhow, dhuwala ŋayi brief note from Chapter 7. * yes, the last line is a nod to Graeber.
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: A Massacre for a Moral Martyr: ‘Person’ versus...
Massacred by “Good Intentions”? On April 7, 2013, the BBC reported this awful story, one of a long string of such NATO airstrikes on areas with civilian populations in Afghanistan: “Eleven children...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: Nicolás Maduro: Under My Presidency, Chávez’s Revolution...
Today is election day in Venezuela, and to help mark the event ZA is reproducing this article from Chávez’s political successor, Nicolás Maduro, as he leads the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The idea of the informal economy: a...
I'm working on a series of studies concerned with the intellectual history of the 'informal economy', and its relevance to current concerns in Papua New Guinea (PNG; the eastern half of the island of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: Insult over Twitter as...
Turkish court recognizes insult over Twitter as criminal offense from Hurriyet Daily News An Istanbul court has judged a Twitter user’s insult toward a Turkish model to be a criminal offense....
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Politics roundup. Most parties full support to...
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the media before his flight to Denmark for an official visit at Esenboga Airport in Ankara March 19, 2013. REUTERS/Umit Bektas Turkey’s leading...
View ArticleRecontextual: A cultural icon
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music "what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel." But having a career spanning five decades...
View Articlexirdalium: futuristic user interfaces
An interface from ‘Prometheus’ (Scott 2012) The head-up display (↑HUD) of ‘The Terminator’ (Cameron 1984) VisualPunker has amassed a ↑nice collection [containing a lot of animated gifs] of futuristic...
View Articlexirdalium: academia’s indentured servants
Outspoken anthropologist ↑Sarah Kendzior [ has an opinon piece published at Al Jazeera, called ‘↑Academia’s indentured servants.’ Very worthwhile—here are some snippets from the beginning and the end:...
View ArticleHow to be an Anthropologist: This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World
Chief Raoni Metuktire of Brazil’s Kayapó Why is Chief Raoni Metuktire of Brazil’s Kayapó tribe crying? According to a popular meme, it is because he received devastating news about the Belo Monte...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: Getting It Right: Hugo Chávez and the “Arab Spring”
Some opening vignettes might set the right tone for properly appreciating the question of “who was right” about the so-called Arab Spring. (The notion of there having been an “Arab Spring,” a term...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Readers of Museum Anthropology Review might be ...
Readers of Museum Anthropology Review might be interested in knowing which contributions to the journal were most intensively consulted during 2012. Only today did I study the statistics closely. Here...
View ArticleGlossographia: Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 5 (2013)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2013 edition of my course, Language and Societies, and presented at the course blog of the same name. The authors are...
View ArticleThe Naked Anthropologist: The prohibition of things: Deterrence, Punishment...
The idea of a government outlawing activities accomplishes only one thing clearly: It tells citizens that government has decided something is Wrong and now outlaws doing it. Sending A Message is the...
View Articletabsir.net: Fatima’s Head
By Ziad Majed, al-Jadid It is hard to imagine what happened to Fatima,* and it is hard to describe the silence that engulfed the witnesses of her death. I think the artistic works on Facebook that...
View Articleanthropologyworks: “Half-baked” doctors better than none for rural India?
An editorial in the Economic and Political Weekly asks: Is the opposition to a proposed new BSc degree in community health course in the interest of the rural population? “A Parliamentary Committee on...
View ArticleAAA blog: Call for Papers for the 112th Annual Meeting – deadline extension
AAA experienced technical problems associated with the annual meeting registration system on April 15, 2013. Those technical issues have been resolved. AAA has extended the submission deadline to 5pm...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Realpolitik ve yeni ahlâk
Realpolitik ve yeni ahlâk Max Weber (Photo credit: Wikipedia) İddia ve ikaz mealen şu: İstikbal, “aydınların kafasındaki” kanaat ve taleplerle, makul de olsalar, şekillenmeyecek. Onlar temsiliyeti...
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