Erkan in the Army now...: 15 high schools kids are sued allegedly insulting...
“Lightbulb Tayyip” Slogan Sued Again 17 individuals including 15 high school students in the northwestern province of Bursa have been sued over shouting the slogan “Lightbulb Tayyip” to protest the...
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S.A. writes: I'm working with someone who writes sentences like these: "Past studies indicate teachers with high self-efficacy for providing nutrition instruction devote more classroom time to the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Protester to undergo surgery after morning police...
Protester to undergo surgery after morning police intervention at Taksim park A young university student is set to undergo surgery today Turkish activists resisting to Istanbul Taksim Square park...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Binge Watching
Grant McCracken discusses binge watching at wired.com Why do we binge watch? One way to answer this question is to say, well, we binge on TV for the same reason we binge on food. For a sense of...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "The saddest tweeters live in Texas"
That's not from the chorus of a postmodern country song — it's the title of a National Geographic piece discussing Morgan R. Frank, Kameron Decker Harris, Peter Sheridan Dodds, and Christopher M....
View Articletabsir.net: The Myth of the “Yemen Model”
Yemen’s Abdul Wahab al-Ansi (C), secretary-general of the party Islah, speaks during a session of the National Dialogue Conference in Sanaa, March 23, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi) by...
View ArticleAAA blog: It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
Voting ends tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm EST. 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 are taking a look...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: Ex...
Seth Freedman just can't wait to tell you whether his former life was like that of the monstrous City cliche we all love to hate"These aren't junkies huddles under railway bridges begging for loose...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Journalism roundup: “Five ways to protect...
Five ways to protect journalists and their anonymous sources Washington Post (blog) In a speech Thursday at National Defense University, President Obama discussed the Justice Department’s prosecution...
View ArticleAAA blog: The Hard Times Report – College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings
Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute published the Hard Times Report this month. The report notes that earning a college degree is still important; however, it is also important which...
View ArticleGlossographia: The Richwine affair and advisory responsibility
Over at Anthropology Now, Elizabeth Chin has written a devastating essay, “What Jason Richwine Should Have Heard from His PhD Committee” that utterly demolishes the scholarly pretentions of Jason...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Taksim pususu/ Mühendislik hataları/...
Cuma Notları Taksim pususu ve direnişi Kürt barışıyla birlikte siyasî şizofreninin tavan yaptığı bir memlekette yaşıyoruz. Salı günü polis eşliğinde Başbakan’ın “Kışla AVM”sine hazırlık için Gezi...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Occupy Gezi Parkı spreads to other cities. Here is...
Violent Crackdown On Turkey Park Protest | Stuff.co.nz by Uluslararası Af Örgütü Türkiye Şubesi [Amnesty Turkey] By Can Candan by Asli Narin Related posts: Turkey’s genuine Occupy movement....
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: The corporation and the future
This is a post I put up on the Harvard Business Review Blog. It's about an essential hostility between the corporation and the future. They are made of entirely different stuff, I argue. An...
View ArticleGlossographia: Back on track
As you may have surmised, it looks like I’m back on track here, posting regularly. My summer is looking pretty light (I’m not teaching this year, and I’ve just prepared my tenure file) and I have...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Hippie punching
"Hippie punching" is in the news around the world these days — Paul Krugman, "Macroeconomic Hippie-Punching", NYT 5/26/2013; "Gordon Campbell on the govt's latest bout of hippie punching", Scoop Media...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: As Taksim under curfew, all Twitter TTs in Turkey...
As of 31 May 2013 17:25 all TTs are political. 7 of them are pro-Occupy and 2 of them are pro-AKP, anti-Occupy, 1 Nationalist tending to be pro-Occupy Related posts: Deputy Önder injured, Roads to...
View ArticleSomatosphere: International Summer School in Medical Anthropology, Berlin,...
Dear all, We would like to cordially invite you to attend the public co-lectures that will be part of the international summer school “Well-being at the margins: Seeking health in stratified...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Call for nominations: 2013 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize by...
The Society for Medical Anthropology welcomes nominations for the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, awarded annually for a significant contribution to anthropological scholarship on gender and health by a...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Guest post: An Agricultural...
This is a guest post by Jiayi Zhou (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), who has done research on Chinese in the Republic of Georgia and is preparing to write a PhD dissertation on Chinese “land...
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