Shenzhen Noted: futian village
After several months, I return to my synopsis of The Great Transformation (沧海桑田：深圳村庄三十年). This episode is about Futian Village (富田村), which begins raising the counterintuitive question of why Walmart...
View Articletrinketization: Goldsmiths UCU and SU Rally against Austerity 15.5.2013
Goldsmiths UCU and SU Rally against Austerity – (THURSDAY) 6pm In the light of our 0.8% pay offer – well below the rate of inflation In the light of today’s story about the impact of tuition fee rises...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
Contagion, or the way disease, disgust and dirt circulates, how the effects of dirt transfer to bodies, and how harm is conceptualized, is central to discard studies. From miasma, through the germ...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Hurtles and hurdles
Nicholas Thompson, "Terrible News About Carbon and Climage Change", The New Yorker 5/12/2013: We’ve got more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any point since the Pliocene, when there were...
View ArticleAnthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing: "Community Policing" in the...
Reblogged from Kevin Karpiak's Blog: Just happened to be looking this up today in the OED: community policing n. policing at a local or community level; spec. a system of policing by officers who have...
View Articletrinketization: Docklands Cinema Club with CCS sun 26.5.2013
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) Sun 26 May, 2-4pm (15) Winner of the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at Cannes 2005, Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut follows the story of Pete...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Noh Mul Update: Belize Government Launches...
This story is everywhere on the news this morning. The latest: from the Jamaica Observer comes this report that, at the order of the government, Belizean Police have launched an investigation into the...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: What Apple is really working on
I sat down to wonder what Apple is working on. I came to the conclusion that it's not a watch or a TV. It's a version of telepresence so good it will be a little like teleportation, so good, that...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Marx's "XI"th Thesis on Feuerbach...
Marx's "XI"th Thesis on Feuerbach is Not Explicit Enough. " XIPhilosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways. What is crucial, however, is to change it."(Theses on Feuerbach by Karl...
View ArticleAAA blog: Calling All Shutterbugs – The 2013 AAA Photo Contest
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 ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Body parts, emotions and associated lovely things
I went to a brilliant seminar on the language of emotion in Dalabon by Maïa Ponsonnet yesterday. Dalabon is an endangered Gunwinyguan language spoken by less than twelve speakers in Arnhem Land....
View ArticleLanguage Log: Shanghainese
Just yesterday, in "The enigmatic language of the new Windows 8 ads", we saw how delicate and uncertain is the comprehension of forms of Chinese that one is not intimately familiar with. A significant...
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 Articleethnografix: A new site
Well, I think this site has just about run its course. I decided to go for something a little simpler and cleaner, so I am shifting to this site. But you can still find me on Savage Minds, and of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkey now finds the real culprit in Reyhanlı...
We won’t let Syria chaos spill into Turkey: President Gül Turkish President Abdullah Gül vows at the site of the the deadly May 11 attacks in Reyhanlı that Syria’s chaos will stop at the frontier with...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “Çocuk gelin”de ortak tavır,...
Yeni anayasa süreci Mayıs’ta yeni Anayasa’yı yazım süreci birinci yılını doldurmuş olacak. Bu yeni bir anayasa yazılması için uzun bir süre değil Muhalefet Anayasanın değişmesini istemiyor Haber 10...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Well, not much surprisingly Turkey, US agree...
Turkey, US agree ‘al-Assad should go for a free Syria’ Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and US President Obama say the boths sides have agreed Bashar al-Assad should leave his post for a transition in...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 76
Hello all,Quite a range of interesting links (as you would expect...)! My move to Sweden and co-authored research on the development blogosphere lead right into more interesting links on American food...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: Four LulzSec hackers jailed…....
Four LulzSec hackers have been jailed for up to 32 months each by a UK court Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced in London today following a number of high-profile...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Does PCA Have Politics?
This morning, armchair scientist and noted fan of this blog, Razib Khan, decided it would be prudent to write about race. It comes by way of Khan issuing a corrective, of sorts, to Ta-Nehisi Coates....
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