Sarah Kendzior: Speaking about Uzbekistan in Seattle
Next weekend I’ll be talking about Uzbekistan at a conference organized by Awareness Projects International, an organization committed to raising awareness of social and political issues among Uzbek...
View ArticleEthnography.com: This Week in Ethnography: Blog, “LivingEthnography”
This Week in Ethnography I found an interesting blog entitled, LIVING ETHNOGRAPHY: Research and Conversations on Ethnography, Writing and Folklore As personal blogs go, it’s more productive than most...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Walking Dead – Feral Season
I did not watch the new half season of the Walking Dead at the time it aired because (1) I can’t stand commercial breaks, and (2) I was saving it for the Holiday season and an 8-hour transatlantic...
View ArticleNineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea: Ok Tedi, BHP and the gift...
I’m confused by this Post Courier caption and photo last week. Didn’t the Trust beneficiaries/landowners pay for the Fly Warrior themselves? Why is this touted as charity from OTDF? I suggest...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: bao tong analyzes the southern weekend incident
Zhao Ziyang’s former secretary, Bao Tong has weighed in on the Southern Weekend Incident. And once again, his quirky take sheds all sorts of light into the dark corners of … Continue reading →
View ArticleFolklore Forum: The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales
Balázs, Béla. The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales. Trans. Jack Zipes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. ix+177. Illus., two appendices, bibliography. $24.95 hardcover. Brittany...
View Articletabsir.net: Have Muslims Misunderstood Evolution
The importance of Evolution and Islam debate in London by Salman Hameed, Irtiqa’, January 7, 2013 I’m now back in US and I’m glad that I had a chance to attend the London debate, Have Muslims...
View Articleanthropologyworks: IGIS faculty affiliate Bob Maguire discusses Haiti on NPR
Bob Maguire, professor of the practice of international affairs and director of the International Development Studies (IDS) Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, discussed Haiti...
View Articleanthropologyworks: New book of interest on post-earthquake aid
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind A Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz. Palgrave Macmillan. 320 pages. $26.
View ArticleNineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea: We Remember Dr Tingay's Ok...
OTDF and PNGSDP have embarked on a campaign to resuscitate their image. Before we talk describe the years of benevolence, world class health care, sterling infrastructure and educational facilities...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: CFP: Landscape Across the Disciplines
Many of our readers are interested in the relationships between waste and space. This is for you: Landscape Across the Disciplines: A Symposium April 5-6, 2013 Sponsored by SUNY Conversations in the...
View ArticleICCI Home: Patterns of Biological and Sociocultural Evolution
International Conference on Evolutionary Patterns: Horizontal and Vertical Transmission and Micro- and Macroevolutionary Patterns of Biological and Sociocultural Evolution.May 27-29th, 2013,Calouste...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: CFP: Waste and indeterminacy
Call for Papers: Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, August 11-15, 2013 Special Session: Waste and indeterminacy Waste foments a lively conversation in geography, the social sciences,...
View Articletrinketization: Where’s Friday?
I have started to gather my notes for the next lecture on Marx tomorrow. Here is what I had last year on Robinson. To which I hope to add some more this evening… Spivak uses the occasion of Derrida...
View Articletabsir.net: Mud brick building in Yemen
People work near a kiln at a traditional brick-manufacturing site in San’a, Yemen, Nov. 20; photograph by Mohamed Al-Sayaghi / Reuters
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Alternatif Bilişim’den Aaron Swartz açıklaması…
Amerikalı yazılımcı, yazar, politik organizatör ve internet aktivisti Aaron Swartz, 11 Ocak 2013’de, Brooklyn, New York’taki evinde intihar etti. 26 yaşındaydı. RSS standardının kurulumundan Creative...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 1/14/13
• The Paul Farmer effect in Haiti three years after the earthquake Paul Farmer and Partners in Health are making a difference, according to an article in The Tampa Bay Times. Paul Farmer before the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Remembering Aaron Swartz (and Infogami)
There have been many online remembrances of Aaron Swartz, the brilliant young programmer and Internet activist who killed himself on Friday at the age of 26. (See, for instance, Caleb Crain's piece...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Visual Du Jour- Les Misérables (NOT Les Mis)...
This awesome timeline of character distribution of Les Misérables (click on the image for ginormous view):
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