Language Log: Tooth and Throat Singing
"Corrections: April 19, 2013″, NYT 4/18/2013: An article on Thursday about Caroline Shaw, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music this week, referred incorrectly to a vocal technique explored by a group...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Job Opening: Curator of Anthropology at DMNS
Job Opening: Curator of Anthropology at DMNS
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: How to follow all these social media account...
Image via CrunchBase I do my best but I am overwhelmed with the timelines I would love to follow… I am looking for a killer application. Otherwise, for instance for Twitter, we have several tools...
View ArticleAAA blog: Anthropologists and Ecological Research
Last fall a group of anthropologists participated in the 2012 All Scientists Meeting (ASM) of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network in Estes Park, Colorado. They were there to make a case...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Anthropology Links: MOOCs, Caucasians, Debt, Reproduction
Doing some revamping here in an effort to keep Anthropology Report spare, current, and frequent–lessons learned from Black Swan Anthropology. Will now feature more frequent but more briefly described...
View ArticleAAA blog: Is Earth Day a Nice Thing?
Today’s guest post is by the Chair of the Global Climate Change Task Force, Shirley Fiske. A nice thing. Except for the reality. Earth Day is a nice thing, today celebrated in the District at Union...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: click this
The internet confuses us into thinking that everything we need to know can be found in one place, such as the Shenzhen Life Net (深圳生活王), where all sorts of information and experiences are just a click...
View ArticleFolklore Forum: The Life and Times of Ray Hicks: The Keeper of the Jack Tales
Salsi, Lynn. The Life and Times of Ray Hicks: Keeper of the Jack Tales. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2008. $34.95. Print. Daniel Allar Indiana University Lynn Salsi’s The Life and Times of Ray...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Mutiny: Imprisonment, Deaths in Custody and the...
This month is the 7th anniversary of Mutiny Zine! Mutiny are an anarchist collective based in Sydney. The zine that they produce explores ideas about anarchist thought and practice, as well as...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Anthropology Links: Golub, Clancy, Mullins, Fuentes, Weiss
Featured book is The Archaeology of Consumer Culture by Paul Mullins. Alex Golub’s full review–Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday–is up and well worth a read. Added to...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Anatomy of a spambot
We've often had occasion to wonder how spammy blog comments are linguistically constructed. (See, most recently, Mark Liberman's post, "Numerous upon the written content material," in which he refers...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: To the organisers of the 2013 Sydney Historical...
“Some of us were invited to speak, others have already prepared abstracts and papers for panels, and we had all been planning to attend the conference. We have since learned that Solidarity, an...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkey, Israel content with the first round of...
English: Protesters pray before the demonstration against Gaza flotilla raid, Istanbul, May 31, 2010 Русский: Протестующие молятся перед демонстрацией против атаки израильтян на турецкую флотилию...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: PKK’s withdrawal to start as of April 25… a...
PKK’s withdrawal to start as of April 25, following statement from senior figures in Kandil: BDP deputy from Hurriyet Daily News The withdrawal of PKK militants from Turkish soil will start April 25.....
View Articleantropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog: Now I am a truly engaged...
I wanted to write this post long time ago. As you might have noticed, there haven’t been any new posts on this blog since the 24th of October last year. So what has happened? Well, at about the same...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Progress on cultural rights but...
US human rights report criticizes Turkey’s judicial system, notes progress on cultural rights from Hurriyet Daily News The U.S. State Department has expressed criticism on the human rights situation...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Top Ten Most Challenged Books for 2012 according to...
ALA Announces Top Ten Most Challenged Books for 2012 from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has released a list of the most banned...
View ArticleAAA blog: Searching for a Career in Anthropology
Today’s guest blog post is by anthropology student Ennis Barbery. When Elizabeth Van Dolah and I became the student representatives for the Washington Area Professional Anthropologists (WAPA), we...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD’ye bir yazar daha! Dilara Kılıç...
CAMERA OBSCURA CAMERA LOMOGRAPHY Fotoğraf´ın kelime anlamı ışık yardımı ile iz bırakmak demek. Peki ya olanı yansıtma biçimi bazıları için yalnızca kuralsızlık ise o zaman ne yapacağız yine ışık...
View ArticleLanguage Log: NPR: oyez.org finishes Supreme Court oral arguments project
"Once Under Wraps, Supreme Court Audio Trove Now Online", NPR All Things Considered 4/24/2013: The court has been releasing audio during the same week as arguments only since 2010. Before that, audio...
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