: A Reflexion on Money-Debt
I would like here to give a brief and personal thought on the notion of money-debt. According to the Longman dictionary debt is “a sum of money that a person or organization owes”. If so, the act of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: As Turkey blasts Egypt ‘coup’ as enemy of...
Turkey PM blasts Egypt ‘coup’ as enemy of democracy Turkey’s prime minister on Friday condemned the military intervention that toppled Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamed Morsi as an enemy of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Snowden’s statement on seeking asylum in Russia, as...
Snowden’s yet-unleaked leaks could be America’s ‘worst nightmare,’ says Greenwald Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who was first to publish the documents that former NSA contractor Edward...
View ArticleLanguage Log: To save Germany
To save Germany Cheng Fangyi sent in the following photograph of a sign in China: What this actually says is: Néng chī shì fú, jiéyuē shì dé 能吃是福，節約是德。 ("To eat is a blessing, economizing is a...
View ArticleThe Memory Bank: The human economy: a means in the struggle for happiness
An earlier essay, ‘Manifesto for a human economy‘, deals explicitly with the object, theory and methods of a human economy approach. Here I examine some of the precedents for such an approach in the...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The human economy: an aid in the...
An earlier essay, ‘Manifesto for a human economy‘, deals explicitly with the object, theory and methods of a human economy approach. Here I examine some of the precedents for such an approach in the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Building barricades in Armutlu, Antakya, Turkey…
On the night of 13 July 2013… a washing machine and… … an armchair added to protesters’ building of barricades… A few days ago Armutlu protesters destroyed 3 police water cannons, one of which was...
View ArticleGlossographia: Conservative skewing in Google N-gram frequencies
Google Ngram Viewer is a great tool, especially for rough-and-ready searching and visualization of linguistic trends, and as a teaching tool to introduce students to lots of interesting questions we...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Vive La France!
ANY TIME IS A GOOD TIME TO GET GOOD STUFF AT THE SUBVERSIVE ARCHAEOLOGIST'S OWN, EXCLUSIVE "A DRINK IS LIKE A HUG" ONLINE BOUTIQUESA announces new posts on the Subversive Archaeologist's facebook page...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Americana roundup: The Zimmerman trial…
Timeline: The Zimmerman trial Al Jazeera looks back at 15 key events of the Trayvon Martin saga. With new “news media” guidelines, White House ever-closer to instituting an Official Press Emptywheel...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Sum Ting Wong
In case you haven't already seen it, here's a news story that KTVU-TV in San Francisco ran on Friday, purporting to give the names of the four pilots of the Asiana plane that crashed at SFO on July 6:...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 7/15/13
• A bold target for the World Bank The Globe and Mail (Canada) carried an article based on a lunch conversation with Jim Yong Kim, medical doctor, medical anthropologist, and former university...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A list of a few recent mistakes made by Turkish...
Turkish wrestler may face IOC probe for racist tweets Turkey’s Olympic medalist wrestler Rıza Kayaalp could face probes from the International Olympic Committee Controversy over third Bosphorus...
View ArticleLanguage Log: No justice, no peace
J.P. Villanueva writes: I've been seeing the old "No justice, no peace" chant lately after the Zimmerman trial. It seems like people are lamenting that "there is no justice and there is no peace."...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: SosyalKafa’da Vedat Özdemiroğlu’yla Gezi Mizahını,...
Vedat Özdemiroğlu’yla Gezi Direnişi sürecinde ortaya çıkan mizahı konuştuk. Ceren Sözeri ile ise geleneksel medya ve sosyal medya ilişkilerini tartıştık. Ceren geleneksel medya tarafından baktı bu...
View ArticleAnthropologizing: Anthropologists in Practice: An Interview with Christin...
Anthropologists in Practice is an ongoing series of interviews featuring anthropologists (and professionals with anthropology training) who work outside of the academy. The goal of the series is to...
View ArticleAAA blog: Mark Your Calendar! Seminario Virtual: an international...
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) teams up with anthropological associations around the world to host an international pilot project – Seminario Virtual. AAA, in collaboration with the...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Paradoxurus, or the best cup of joe
I have nothing to add to this one. Published in the pages of Foodservice Director Magazine (July 15, 2013). Filed under: Food, Human/Bodily, Waste
View ArticleC L O S E R: Oproep Ontvoerde Nederlandse Journaliste en haar man in Jemen
Closer Blog: Een indringende oproep van ontvoerde Nederlandse journaliste Judith Spiegel en haar man Boudewijn Berendsen uit Jemen.Read more: Oproep Ontvoerde Nederlandse Journaliste en haar man in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Sea of lies… CNN denies apology over Turkey...
CNN denies apology over Turkey coverage CNN International took it to Twitter to respond to debates around a caption error regarding a ruling party rally in Turkey. Suspect in Gezi protester’s death...
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