Arctic anthropology: Anthropology of polar bears
“Polar bear, polar bear what do you see? I see an anthropologist fearing of me.” The city map of Longyearbyen is colored according to the secure areas without polar bear protection – the darker the...
View Articletabsir.net: The Gezi Occupation: for a democracy of public spaces
Occupied Taksim, June 10 by Nilufer Gole, Open Democracy, June 11, 2013 “Respect” has become a new slogan tagged on walls all over the cities, and expressing the need for a return to civility and call...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Gene/culture co-evolution
Recommended reading: Simon Fisher and Matt Ridley, "Culture, Genes, and the Human Revolution", Science 24 May 2013. (Another version is here.) A common assumption is that the emergence of behaviorally...
View ArticleLanguage Log: U.K. vs. U.S. usage in Lee Child
From Bert Vaux: I was just preparing a facebook post on the use of "luck out" when I came across your nice entry on the very same passage on the Language Log! ["Lucking out", 10/8/2011; "More lucking...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Because it’s never always academic
I’ve not been able to play the guitar for a long time now. And I am quite enjoying it muchly.
View ArticleGlossographia: A serendipitous Benedict-ion on scientific humanism
Every once in a while, I read something serendipitously that I have no idea why I’m reading. The proximate cause of my reading Ruth Benedict’s 1948 article, “Anthropology and the Humanities” was that...
View ArticleLoomnie: Links I find interesting (Reboot)
Been quite busy these past few months. Which does not mean that I haven’t been reading a lot of great articles that are worthy of sharing, or even that I haven’t been sharing quite a bit of them....
View ArticleGlossographia: AAA presidents red-linked
In my brief research for the previous post, I happened upon the Wikipedia page for the American Anthropological Association and its list of presidents, and was shocked to see the number and importance...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: General Carter Ham’s Case for Dismantling AFRICOM
There is enough evidence that the US Africa Command has increased resource exploitation and imperial expansion, instigated more violence, intensified regional conflicts and undermined the authority of...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Disappearing Wetlands - a Found Poem.
Wetlands are good. Wetlands are great. Swamps and marshes both. That’s what we used to call them, ‘Swamps and marshes’. Just now, wetlands. I’ve been hunting and fishing As long as I remember, And...
View ArticleGlossographia: Martin Bernal (1937-2013)
I heard the sad news today that Martin Bernal, the political scientist/historian/classicist and ‘humanist’ in every relevant sense of the word, passed away on Monday at the age of 76. At the time of...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Linguistics Goes to Hollywood
On April 19, the Linguistics Department at UC San Diego (aka the Extreme Southwest Wing of Language Log Plaza) hosted a special event as part of our celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the founding...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Tap water water
From a friend who is travelling in Japan: JAPANESE inryousui to shite mo goriyou itadakemasu 飲料水としてもご利用頂けま す ("Can also be used as drinking water") ENGLISH: Tap water can be used for drinking water...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Quoth the maven…
From Jeff DeMarco: Don't know if you saw this, but it seems appropriate. I don't seem to be able to access the original, though. This one is from a Facebook posting. It seems to come from here, though...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Nanotechnology and Religion
Chris Toumey, a cultural anthropologist at the University of South Carolina, studies relations between nanotechnology and faith: Until now, religions have been remarkably silent on nanotechnology,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: One more from Bert
From Bert Vaux, following up on "U.K. vs. U.S. usage in Lee Child", 6/13/2013: I just finished "The Affair" (quite good) and only noticed one more feature that I think may be a clear Britishism, "in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Video: Russian Journalists detained in Taksim Square…
Related posts: Video: 11 June 2013 evening. Pepper gas thrown at protesters in Taksim Square. #OccupyTurkey Michael Jackson Tribute in Taksim Square and more to watch; a video selection About the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A video: Violent inverventions over citizens in...
İzmir de Katlı Otoparkta İşkence ile egeninsesi853 Related posts: Video: “İstanbul/İzmir/Ankara Occupy Gezi-The Police Violence #OccupyTurkey An infographic: 10 days of resistance. A video: Istanbul...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: The 19th Day in #OccupyTurkey After government...
However, AKP is organizing two major rallies in Ankara and İstanbul this weekend. In this evening’s Ankara rally, PM Erdoğan repeated the same lies about the Occupiers,already debunked accusations and...
View ArticleGlossographia: Screws, hammers, and Roman numerals: An allegorical complaint
Let’s imagine that you have a toolbox in your garage, full of all sorts of different useful things, and I’m your annoying neighbor. One day I drop by while you’re working. I rummage around, pick up...
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