Erkan in the Army now...: After Erdoğan’s yet another provocative speech this...
First moments of the intervention… Tayyipci et Apocu : Le tailleur d’Izmir qui aime Recep Tayyip Erdogan et le processus de paix Après la retraite à Rabat, voici le temps de la contre manifestation...
View Articletabsir.net: Tabsir Redux: Mocha Musings #4: Morocco to Afghanistan
Area: 219,000 sq. mi Population: 2,750,000 Government: Absolute Monarchy Scenes: Morocco Leather; City of Morocco; Street Scene in Morocco In a previous post I began a series on coffee advertising...
View ArticleLanguage Log: R.I.P. Ward Goodenough
Bonnie L. Cook, "Ward H. Goodenough, 94, Penn professor", Philadelphia Inquirer 6/15/2013: Ward H. Goodenough, 94, a longtime University of Pennsylvania professor whose work helped shape anthropology,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Çapuling
(Apologies for being slow in taking account of this important neologism.) Connor Adams Sheets, "What Is Capuling? 'Everyday I'm Çapuling' Turkish Protest Video Goes Viral", International Business...
View ArticleGlossographia: Ward Goodenough (1919-2013), RIP
Ward Goodenough, whose contributions to anthropological linguistics and cognitive anthropology influenced all of us who followed in his footsteps, died a week ago. You can read his obituary in the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ambiguously arthrous band names
Below is a query from Garrett Wollman, which I'm putting up as a guest post for LL readers to answer. For some background on the (an)arthrous terminology, see e.g. "Syntax under pressure", 8/28/2007...
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The Perils of the Prestige Economy
I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education,...
View ArticleCulture and International Affairs: Iranian and American Elections Have...
http://newamericamedia.org/2013/06/iranian-and-american-elections-have-similarities.phpIranian and American Elections Have Similarities New America Media, News Analysis, William O. Beeman, Posted: Jun...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: The 20th Day in #OccupyTurkey. After police...
Turkish police hitting an headscarved protester. 16 June 2013. Istanbul Police Terror! German TV ZDF 15.06.2013 English subtitles: Arrested protesters… Turkey: Erdoğan Evicts Protesters, Brings...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Naked protester talking to police. 15 June 2013...
Related posts: Video: 11 June 2013 evening. Pepper gas thrown at protesters in Taksim Square. #OccupyTurkey The 20th Day in #OccupyTurkey. After police invernetion at Gezi Park, many citizens are back...
View ArticleAnthropolaris: Gezi Park pt. 2
If anyone is interested, There is Power in the Blog, the official blog of the journal Political Theology, has published a piece I co-wrote with a colleague/friend of mine on the Taksim/Gezi Park...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 6/17/13
• Unexpected result in Iran’s presidential election Presidential Election Map of Iran/Wikimedia Commons, Nima Farid. For New America Media, William Beeman, professor of cultural and linguistic...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Panjiayuan: antique market
Yesterday, I went to the Panjiayuan antique market with Hang Hai, super guru of all things Chinese and antique, Hu Xiaomei and Zhang Rui, the super negotiators. I bought some amazing textiles. The...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: Google’s Balloons to Bring...
Google Launches Balloons to Bring the Internet to Remote Regions Google is launching huge balloons to bring the Internet to remote and difficult terrain — think mountain ranges, archipelagos and...
View ArticleFolklore Forum: Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali
Rovine, Victoria L. Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. $24.95 paper. Jessica Berndt Indiana University The second edition of...
View ArticleFolklore Forum: Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad
Peña, Manuel. Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 233 pages. $19.95 hardcover. Ginny Hosler Indiana University Where the Ox Does...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Medicine and Science, Unpredicted by Celina Callahan-Kapoor
It is somewhat predictable that at weekend-long workshop medical anthropologists and STS scholars would, first, talk a lot about bodies and, second, discuss the politics of their knowledge production....
View ArticleAAA blog: 2012 AAA Annual Report
The 2012 AAA Annual Report is now available online. Filed under: Association Business, Publications
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Mediterranean museum designed to give makeover to...
Mediterranean museum designed to give makeover to crime-hit Marseille
View ArticleGlossographia: Lexiculture redux: new adventures in teaching linguistic...
Just about three years ago, while teaching my undergraduate Language and Culture course, I ended up poking around the etymology of the word honk and turned up some neat things, leading to the germ of...
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