Shenzhen Noted: edgy map
Ryoyu Kido sent me the link to Modeling the influences of land reclamation on groundwater systems: A case study in Shekou peninsula, Shenzhen, China, which includes a map of land reclamation around...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Links: Marriage and Other Arrangements – Critique du don
Featured book is Alain Testart’s Critique du don, as links go from the American Anthropological Association to Savage Minds to some off-the-beaten-path anthropology. Marriage and Other Arrangements....
View ArticleC L O S E R: Long live the king – Bahrain Under Occupation
Closer Blog: At this moment crown prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, son of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, king of Bahrain is in the Netherlands for queen Beatrix' abdication and the investiture...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Morphosyntactic variation: Hamlet, Gertrude, Marshall, Bachmann
Over the past few days, I've come across two attempts at antique English verb inflection in a modern political context. One of them is from Josh Marshall, "Godzilla vs. Mothra", TPM 4/29/2013: This is...
View ArticleICCI Home: Post-doctoral position in: human evolution, economics and politics
This two-year post-doctoral position is to work with Pascal Boyer as part of a new interdisciplinary project at the University of Lyons, France, starting September 2013. The goal of this project is to...
View ArticleICCI Home: Two doctoral fellowships in cognition and culture
These are offered to work with Pascal Boyer as part of a new interdisciplinary project at the University of Lyons, France, starting September 2013. Our new team of one PI and two postdocs will do...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Well, it might be hard to contain Labor Day...
No May Day rally permitted in Taksim, governor says from Hurriyet Daily News Istanbul Governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu confirmed today that this year’s May Day rally will not be allowed.. Istanbul public...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Obama's "is is" redux
Betty Ann Bardell tweets: .@bgzimmer For those who missed the score from today’s W.H. Press Conf.: “is, is” 5 - “as best as they can” 1. swampland.time.com/2013/04/30/bar… — Betty Ann Bardell...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The Power of Parts of Speech
Michael Yoshikami "JC Penney's Troubles: The Power of Adjectives", CNBC 4/30/2013: As you read news headlines and listen to and watch media reports on the market, it's important to recognize that...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Yolŋu languages and stories + digital media
The Mulka Project continue to produce beautiful and important art works. This is a stop motion animation about two young brothers who get lost in the bush for several days, directed and narrated by...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: The diffusion of protests (1)
Excerpts from Koopmans, Ruud (2004) ‘Protest in time and space: the evolution of waves of contention’, in David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Social...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: The diffusion of protests (2)
Excerpts from the paper “Diffusion Models of Cycles of Protest as a Theory of Social Movements” n.d. by Pamela E. Oliver (University of Wisconsin) and Daniel J. Myers (University of Notre Dame),...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Zucchini as a Gateway Drug: Cultivating food security in...
Elizabeth Danforth Richey, PhD, MPH and Angie Tagtow MS, LD, RD Iowa Food Systems Council, info@cultivateiowa.org Do more with less. This mantra has become virtually universal in public health and...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Development blogging,...
Last week I was invited to talk about development blogging, social media and research dissemination at an event in Manchester that the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Juvenile Peevery
…has been featured in the last three Big Nate strips, starting with this one: Then: And today: This may go on all week. Some past LL commentary on the specific issues involved: "Dictionary Daftness,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yiğit Kalafatoğlu (@yicit) 1 Mayıs 2013′ü...
[View the story "Mayıs 1 ileri, 2 Geri." on Storify] Related posts: 1 Mayıs 2012- Twitter’dan görüntüler… 1 Mayıs 2012 görselleri… Labor Day Imagery in Turkey Yarın 1 Mayıs- yeni görseller… Halil...
View ArticleAAA blog: Calling All Shutterbugs – The 2013 AAA Photo Contest Is Now Open
The AAA Photo Contest is designed to demonstrate the rich possibilities of anthropological work through photography. The impressive array of photos received in the past illustrates the diverse and...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Incidental Anthropology: American Parenting, Mendeley, and...
In this installment of the seriocomic series Incidental Anthropology, I bring you three more media stories which incidentally illustrate anthropological points. Given the recent back and forth on this...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: #RedHack sempatizanları da sokaktaydı bugün…...
[View the story "#RedHack sempatizanları da sokaktaydı bugün... @theRedHack" on Storify] Related posts: #OpIsrael Imagery Anonymous vs. Israel today. @theRedHack Just another fiasco at the Turkish...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: May Day 2013 victims: Dilan Alp (#direndilan), a...
All wounded seriously due to blows at their heads… Dilan Alp, 17 Police gas canister leaves student in severe condition at May Day from Hurriyet Daily News A 17-year-old student was heavily wounded...
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