Language Log: When intonation overrides tone
Practically everybody has heard of the fabled Grass Mud Horse (cǎonímǎ 草泥马), which is a pun for "f*ck your mother" (cào nǐ mā 肏你妈). China Digital Times, which pioneered research on "sensitive words",...
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Turkey Is Now Arresting Dozens for Using Twitter Turkey Is Now Arresting Dozens for Using Twitter Third person killed in Turkey protests Ethem Sarısülük, a Turkish activist who was wounded in the head...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Book review – Elizabeth Anne Davis’ Bad Souls by Erica Rockhold
Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece Elizabeth Anne Davis Duke University Press, 2012 344pp., US $25.95 paperback Psychiatric care seems to be ever marred by the problematic and...
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View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Human right and culture:...
The universal declaration of Human rights designed by the General Assembly of the United Nations organization is an ideal which men strive to attain. Nevertheless, when one looks keenly at some of its...
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Gezi Park set for religious ceremony, Quran reading As the 9th day of Gezi Park demonstrations coincided with the Lailat al–Mi’raj, protestors decided to mark this religious event through several...
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View ArticleGlossographia: Visualization of American English dialect data
Joshua Katz, a PhD student in statistics at NC State, has put together a great set of visualizations based on data from Bert Vaux’s Harvard Dialect Survey, and using an algorithm that weights...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: CAFA secondary research whiteboard
Today's lecture was disappointing as less than a third of the students showed up. Since I have no context for understanding how the selected the unit or what other courses they have, it just makes me...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: UBC’s Museum of Anthropology opened 37 years ago
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View Articleanthropologyworks: Upcoming: Machik Weekend 2013
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View ArticleLanguage Log: "Hard vowel sounds"
"Red-blue divisions start with newborns’ names; parents show partisan tendencies", Washington Times 6/5/2013: Names with the soft consonant “l” or that end in a long “a” — for example, President...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 78
Hello all,My first link review from Sweden includes two interesting events that will be happening in Scandinavia, including a conference on 'celebrities in development' next week! But there's more on...
View ArticleAnthropology.net: A 120,000 Year Old Neandertal from Krapina who had Fibrous...
The internets are buzzing about the news of the earliest known bone tumor on record, predating others by more than 100,000 …Continue reading »
View ArticleGlossographia: Revisiting some old favourites
For whatever reason, I have a fairly large number of newly arrived readers here at Glossographia. The blog has in fact been around for nearly five years; I started it when I was newly arrived on...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Wall Dogs
Writing for Biz Journals, Michael DeMasi reports on Albany, New York’s efforts to preserve advertisements on the sides of buildings. As part of Albany’s Sculpture in the Streets exhibit (sponsored by...
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In a thoughtful and provocative little essay, Emanuel Derman reads financial markets through the lens of Spinoza's moral geometry of the Good. In "Money, Desire, Pleasure, Pain," Derman (who is...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: #Altmetrics Coverage in the Chronicle of Higher Education
This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education includes extensive coverage of the topic of altmetrics by Jennifer Howard. There are two companion stories, but the main one is “Rise of ‘Altmetrics’ Revives...
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