Erkan in the Army now...: Turkey is just fine but “worried about ‘rising...
Turkey worried about ‘rising xenophobia’ in Europe Turkey’s foreign minister voiced concern Sunday about rising anti-foreigner sentiment in crisis-hit Europe, on a visit to Germany where a neo-Nazi...
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Bunları kaçırmışım…. Geçen yıl bir takım hazırlıklar yapılmış:) bir de bu var: Şanlıurfa’da, çevik kuvvet ekipleri toplumsal olaylara müdahale konusunda zabıta personeline uygulamalı eğitim verdi…....
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 ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: Twitter, Facebook to pay tax...
Twitter, Facebook to pay tax in Turkey The Turkish Finance Ministry has sped up its work to collect taxes from the online advertising market. ‘Geography of Hate’ Maps Racist, Homophobic, Ableist...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Big Data Needs Thick Data
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View ArticleDiscard Studies: Don’t save the contradictory seals
“In the end, the biggest problem with green consumerism may be that it acts as a smokescreen, creating the impression that people are taking environmental issues seriously while allowing them to...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 5/13/13
• Go directly to jail: Prison sentence for Guatemalan dictator Official site. Many major news media covered the sentencing of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt to a landmark 80 years in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Burak Yıldırım, latest victim in fan violence… A...
Burak Yıldırım One killed, 122 detained in football tensions, title celebrations delayed A supporter was stabbed to death and more than 100 fans were detained on May 12 as the violence....
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Dijital Kültürler (#PUB204) dersinin final projesi:...
Sınıfça bir günlük bir Web TV kuralım dedik. Herşey kurgu… reklamından, haberlerine, envai çeşit programına- kamu spotu dahil- kadar Mayıs ayının sonuna kadar projeler bitecek. Haziran başında daha...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “Six years requested for...
Six years requested for Berlusconi Italian prosecutors seek a six-year sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for paying for sex with an underage girl. Cameron struggles to contain...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Thesis Excerpt: Introduction to Chapter 7
In previous chapters I have explored how concepts of affect play out in everyday social relations; how they shape the way people consider issues of morality, and motivate certain culturally...
View Articletabsir.net: Pew Survey on World’s Muslims
The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, April 30, 2013 Executive Summary A new Pew Research Center survey of Muslims around the globe finds that...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Aidnography will be...
I am very, very excited about joining Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication as a Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development! I am joining a fantastic and truly multi-disciplinary...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Reyhanlı bombings. Conspiracies abound. Media...
Head of accused group denies responsibility, blames Israel for Reyhanlı bomb attack Former leader of the the organization that was accused for the recent twin blasts that killed ********************...
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 ArticleGlossographia: Alice Kober’s belated obituary
Yesterday’s New York Times features a much-belated obituary of Alice Kober, a professor of classics at Brooklyn College who in the late 1940s played a central preliminary role in the decipherment of...
View ArticleAnthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life:...
As with fine wine, provenance and terroir have become key elements of value in the world of high-end coffee. Like wine, coffee’s complex flavor profile is especially sensitive to climate, moisture,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Newt Gingrich, Whorfian theorist
Barbara Scholz died exactly two years ago today. Had she lived, I would have been drawing her attention to Newt Gingrich's latest YouTube video "We're Really Puzzled". Not because she would have liked...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Avrupa Günü’nde Flag...
9 Mayıs Avrupa Günü kapsamında yapılan Taksim’deki etkinliklere İtalyan gösteri grubu Flag Wavers katıldı. Flag Wavers, Taksim Meydanı’nda bayraklarla dans gösterisi yaptı. Gösteride çektiğim...
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