tabsir.net: The Vanishing Christians of Islam
Mosaic depiction of Mary holding an Arabic text, Convent of Our Lady, Greek Orthodox Church, Sednaya, Syria. by Anouar Majid, Tingis Redux, April 14, 2013 Recently, Tawadros II, the Coptic pope of...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: Unpaid Internships and the Politics of Privilege
At Al Jazeera English, I have a new article about the alleged auction of a UN internship for $22,000, and on unpaid internships in general. An excerpt: UN internships may not be up for auction, but...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Dersim katliamı...
Dersim katliamı, 75. yıl dönümünde, bugün İstanbul ve Dersim’deki anma etkinlikleriyle anıldı. Dersim’deki anmaya Demokratik Toplum Kongresi eş başkanları Aysel Tuğluk ve Ahmet Türk de katıldı....
View ArticleAnthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life:...
Noted economist Daniel McFadden makes a radical call for his field to pay more attention to the insights of anthropology and other disciplines in his NBER Working Paper "The New Science of Pleasure."...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: “Herkes için daha fazla özgürlük”
“Herkes için daha fazla özgürlük” Hükümetin demokratik açılım tanımı ve İçişleri Bakanı’nın “her yurttaş için daha fazla özgürlük” açıklaması hem hedefi doğru koyuyor, hem önümüzdeki...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Offensive crash blossom
Steve Kleinedler spotted this crash blossom on the home page of the New York Times today: "G.O.P. Critics of Immigration Bill Plan Offensive." Screenshotted for posterity: The article itself has the...
View ArticleCyber Anthropology: On Getting a PhD
Since becoming a PhD candidate* mid-April (hence the long hiatus on this blog) I have been asked multiple times why is it that I am not specifically going into an academic career. I would like to take...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: The Real Mystery of Bates Motel
I am watching Bates Motel (Monday nights, A&E). It's engaging and scary. Tune in if only for the performance by Vera Farmiga which really is astoundingly good. I came away from last night's...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Perception Experiment
Here are a dozen short audio clips from a lecture, stripped from YouTube, and re-encoded after editing as mp3 files. Despite being handicapped by this marginal sound quality, and even more by the lack...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News The Associated Press published the results of its review of “medical repatriation” cases, concluding that a lack of regulations on hospitals regarding the care of non-citizens has led to 600...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: U.S. Financial Regulator onto Bitcoin…Megaupload...
U.S. Financial Regulator Considering Setting Rules for Bitcoin from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai U.S. Govt. Attack on Megaupload Bears Hallmarks of ‘Digital Gitmo’ from TorrentFreak by...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Dilara Kılıç (@dilarakilicc): İÇİMDEKİ BAHAR...
İÇİMDEKİ BAHAR HIDIRELLEZ’İ TANIYORMUŞ Robin Hood and Maid Marian (poster, ca. 1880) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hıdırellez her sene 5 mayıs gecesi ‘sen hoşgeldin bahar’ fikriyle...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Is Christmas next?
"Disney files to trademark Mexican holiday, Dia de Los Muertos", Stitchkingdom 5/6/2013; "Disney files to trademark 'Dia de Los Muertos' for movie-themed products", 89.3 KPCC 5/7/2013. Applications...
View ArticleAAA blog: It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the...
View Articletabsir.net: Qat, Cosmopolitanism, and Modernity in Sanaa, Yemen
Webshaykh’s Note: An article entitled “Qat, Cosmopolitanism, and Modernity in Sana’a, Yemen” has been written by Irene van Oorschot, and published inArabian Humanities, Vol. 1, 2013. Her ethnographic...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: Equity...
An employee at a global bank tells Joris that working in the City can challenge one's ability to be level-headed• This monologue is part of a series in which people across the financial sector speak...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ultraconserved words? Really??
On the web site of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in the "Early Edition" section, is an article by Mark Pagel, Quentin D. Atkinson, Andreea S. Calude, and Andrew Meade:...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: PKK withdrawal begins… Constitution commission...
PKK guerillas retreat. Photo by ANF Kurdish rebels begin withdrawal from Turkey from Yahoo news By Ayla Jean Yackley SEMDINLI, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants began their withdrawal from Turkey...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Job announcement: Curator of History position at...
Job announcement: Curator of History position at Michigan State University Museum
View ArticleLanguage Log: A reprieve for DARE
A month ago, I posted an "SOS for DARE," detailing the impending financial threat faced by the Dictionary of American Regional English, a national treasure of lexicography. At the time it appeared...
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