Cicilie among the Parisians: Wrapping it up, or new beginnings
I was reminded of my blog again recently when an editor from Popular Anthropology Magazine asked me to write a short article on my experience of blogging from fieldwork. Her questions made me miss the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Good morning Turkey. Videos from the untelevised...
to be updated during the day… Pro goverments thugs attack protestors in Tophane, İstanbul Police detaining an activist A Duman song made up of images. Activists pepper-gassed in İstiklal A good...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi öğretim elemanlarının...
İSTANBUL BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ ÖĞRETİM ELEMANLARININ TAKSİM GEZİ PARKI OLAYLARINA İLİŞKİN AÇIKLAMASI Taksim Gezi Parkı’nda günlerdir uygulanan şiddet, ‘şeffaf bir karar alma sürecinin yokluğu’, ‘yerel...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Citizens continue to resist here in Taksim and...
Police hold Taksim under siege, continue raid on 5th day of protests The Turkish police’s crackdown against Taksim Gezi Park protesters continued on June 1, as clashes broke out in Istanbul‘s symbolic...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Boing Boing, Mashable all support #OccupyTurkey,...
Turkish Spring: Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul (Estimated 40,000 people cross the Bosphorous Bridge to join the protests/OccupyGeziPics) WhiteHouse petition here. Occupy Turkey pics here in...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The Heart at East Ceremony, May 21,...
I am grateful to Dana Peleg for the translation from the Hebrew to the English, and to Ido Elkobi who prepared the powerpoint presentation for the Heart at East NGO coalition for cultural rights. It's...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Is this a book we should read and...
Over on Dead Voles, Carl points us to a discussion on another site called "The Long Eighteenth Century." There the topic being discussed is Simon Gikandi’s Slavery and the Culture of Taste, a book...
View Articletabsir.net: Tabsir Redux: Traveling Light in Arabia
[Note: the following list of items for light camping in Arabia is provided by G. Wyman Bury for the early part of the 20th century.] CAMP EQUIPMENT Try to do without a tent. Arabs hate pitching tents...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Fused relative clauses with who
While exploring the history of "hippie punching", I came across this passage: One day when I was but a young boy, I was walking down the street with my dad to the hardware store. He suddenly stopped,...
View ArticleGlossographia: It’s just ones and zeroes: the representational power of...
This recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip illustrates a ridiculous, but ultimately profound, issue around how we think about numbers and computers: Most of us who use computers, regardless...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Dear EFD readers, Due to practical reasons…
I might totally switch to my Twitter account during the next few hours… Erkan tweets at @sakaerka [twitter.com] Related posts: Dear readers, Turkey performs great in human rights reports, becomes...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Look who is resisting in #OccupyTurkey – Another...
I am interviewed here in Voice of Russia (English), Rusyanın Sesi (Turkish) by @omerurun 4 June Taksim Square. Occupiers caught in crime: Doing Yoga This is how barricades are made: A u-turn in...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Native American veterans memorial on the National mall...
Native American veterans memorial on the National mall gets legislative push
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Social Media and Global...
Daniel Esser and I are very happy that our journal article on social media, development rituals and the 2010 MDG Summit was published in Third World Quarterly last week! Social Media and Global...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: Advice to an aspiring anthropologist
This morning I got a note from someone who wanted to know whether a master degree's in anthropology would be useful to his career as a consulting anthropologist. Here's my reply: Jim, Thanks for...
View ArticleAAA blog: RACE Posters
RACE: Are We So Different? posters now available on the AAA Online Store. Order yours today at the special AAA member price of $4.99. Filed under: Advocacy, RACE: Are We So Different?
View ArticleC L O S E R: Not anymore: A Story of Revolution in Syria
Closer Blog: Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution is a documentary Matthew Vandyke that actually takes us back to the day "Day of Rage" on March 15, 2011 in Syria. Or how it begun. You watch the...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Walking in Beijing and the park
Yesterday morning I felt the need to venture off campus. CAFA is in the Chaoyang area of Beijing. This area is near the 4th ring road and boasts one of the highest real estate prices in the city. I...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Lunch at IKEA and dinner with Professor Xu and Zheng Tao
Lunch at IKEA was a crowded affair. I find Chinese queuing practices fascinating. They design of the cafe forces people to line up and follow a single queue to get the food. They serves Swedish and...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Morning Foggy Smog after rains
Last night it rained heavily in Beijing. This morning the city camouflages himself in a grey fog mixed with smog. I wonder what he conceals.
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