AnthroYogini: It Just Wasn’t Me, Was It?
In my previous post, I wrote about the diagnosis of Bipolar II that I’d had, and a few of the reasons I’d left a workplace that I’d loved, and the dreadful story of what unfolded last year. Now it’s...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "Significance", in 1885 and today
There's an ongoing argument about the interpretation of Katherine Baicker et al., "The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes", NEJM 5/2/2013, and one aspect of this debate has...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Misnegation of the week
From the 5/16/2013 decision of the Third Circuit, invalidating an NLRB decision based on the argument that the "recess appointment" of one of the board's members was invalid: The "main purpose" of the...
View Articletabsir.net: Less than Desirable Review of “Desiring Arabs”
Joseph Massad: an Occidentalist’s Other Subjects/Victims by S. Taha, The Arab Leftist Joseph Massad, an associate professor at Columbia University and a now prominent figure in the US academic field...
View ArticleHow to be an Anthropologist: Who wants my job? Digital Designer at...
Are you an anthropologist and a web designer? Well I have a job for you! I am going back to school and quitting my job. That means that my position as digital designer at Rowan-Cabarrus Community...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Verkiezingen in Pakistan: ‘revolutie’ bleef uit
Closer Blog: Amer Morgahi over de recente verkiezingen in Pakistan gewonnen door Sharif die mikt op economische vooruitgang in het instabiele Pakistan.Read more: Verkiezingen in Pakistan: ‘revolutie’...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Natural Language and the Social...
For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the...
The anthropology blog Savage Minds interviewed me last week on my career, the crisis in higher education and the role of anthropology in public life. An excerpt below, on grad students and the job...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Racist Park
Liwei Jiao sent in a selection of signs from a Chinese website that was originally part of a collection assembled in the Daily Mail. We've seen most of these Chinglish signs before, and have already...
View ArticleAnthroYogini: Bess Price’s Speech to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Go Bess Price Nungarrayi. In case you DON’T know who Bess is, she’s a Warlpiri woman from Yuendumu (in central Australia), who’s now been elected to our Legislative Assembly (that’s the NT’s...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Last but Not Least: Hacking the Academy–the Print and...
I am pleased to note that the University of Michigan Press has now published the print and ebook editions of Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities....
View ArticleLanguage Log: Rep. Gohmert's asparagus
Luke Johnson, "Louie Gohmert Goes Off On Eric Holder At House Hearing", Huffington Post 5/16/2013: A visibly infuriated Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tore into Attorney General Eric Holder after his...
View Articletabsir.net: Art not for art’s sake
Gérôme’s “The Slave Market,” left; response by Iraqi woman artist, right Before Edward Said revitalized the term “Orientalism” in his seminal 1978 book of the same title, the major use of the term was...
View ArticleGlossographia: Alice E. Kober papers
For those interested in a more in-depth look at the state of Minoan/Mycenean script decipherment in the late 1940s, or more generally in the life of Alice Kober, here is a link to a wonderful digital...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkish PM visits Silicon Valley… in the mean time...
Turkish media has not stood up enough against Bashar al-Assad: PM Erdoğan The Turkish print and visual media haven’t stood against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
View ArticleLanguage Log: A far-flung Nostratic colony in the Andes
In "The Inca Connection: A Quechua Word Game", 5/18/2013, Piotr Gąsiorowski compares "a 200-word Swadesh list for Southern Quechua and the Tower of Babel 'Eurasiatic' etymologies", and finds 22 clear...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: British Foreign Office under...
British Foreign Office to drunk Britons everywhere: No, we can’t translate that tattoo for you Here, in all its glory, is the full list: A man who required hospital treatment in Cambodia when a monkey...
View Articleanthropologyworks: GW event: Mobility, Precarity and Empowerment in African...
May 23, 2013, from 8:30am to 2pm Location: Room 651 Duques Hall, GW (corner of G and 22nd St, NW Washington, DC) Presentations and discussion will offer a creative re-thinking of African migration and...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: Open Rights Group Report:...
The Internet of Things: In action By 2015, six billion objects in the world will be connected to the internet. While it may seem tricky to grasp as a concept, the internet of things is nothing...
View Articleethnosnacker: More learnings from the world of mobile ethnography
Let me cut to the chase here with the briefest of backgrounds. A client is running their own explorations of current account holders. Tasks carefully designed and scheduled, segments generated and...
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