Language Log: Rachel Jeantel on CNN
Following up on "Rachel Jeantel’s language in the Zimmerman trial", LLOG readers may welcome an opportunity to hear Rachel Jeantel in person, tonight on CNN — "Tonight at 9: Piers Morgan welcomes...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Aleppo University withdraws Turkish PM Erdoğan’s...
Aleppo University withdraws Turkish PM Erdoğan’s honorary doctorate The council of Aleppo University has announced the withdrawal of an honorary doctorate that the university awarded to Turkish PM in...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: The Automated Anthropologist (details here)
Today, Tuesday, July 16th, I will be in SF doing what every people tell me to do. It's an experiment, a culturematic. Starting at 9:00 West coast time, I will be in Union Square ready to act on...
View ArticleAnthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing: Using George Zimmerman as an...
Reblogged from Savage Minds Backup: (Savage Minds is pleased to run this guest column from Kevin Karpiak. Kevin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at...
View ArticleZERO ANTHROPOLOGY: What is the society you are dreaming of?
What is the society you are dreaming of? “A society where you are able to survive.” “To be able to survive, not only me, but everyone.” Survival, as a dream. Talk about being reduced to “bare life,”...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A Journalism roundup: Al Jazeera America and more…
Reinventing American cable news from Qatar: Why everyone’s talking about Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America will launch on August 20 and, according to increasingly contentious recent coverage, it’s...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Book review: Liah Greenfeld’s Mind, Modernity, Madness by...
Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience Liah Greenfeld Harvard University Press, 2013. 688pp., US $45.00, hardcover According to Liah Greenfeld, author of Mind,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Judgment leads to…
The latest xkcd explains: Mouseover message: "But the rules of writing are like magic spells. If you never acquire them, then not using them says nothing."
View ArticleAAA blog: Committee on Emerging Research Questions in the Artic Seeks Your...
Below is a guest post by Lauren Brown of the National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board. Please contact Ms. Brown directly with questions. Dear Colleagues, The Committee on Emerging Research...
View ArticleSomatosphere: A Conversation with Karen Nakamura by Karen A. Frenkel
[This article is being cross-posted at the blogs of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) and the FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, Development and Mental Health (CBDMH). Thanks to the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Anti-PRC sign in Syria
During the Arab Spring demonstrations, we saw many signs that attempted to reach a Chinese audience in Chinese: "Maybe Mubarak understands Chinese", 2/10/2011; "Chinese sign in Benghazi", 3/21/2011;...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Şenay Çınar: HEPİMİZ TURGUT UYAR’IN DİZELERİYİZ!
HEPİMİZ TURGUT UYAR’IN DİZELERİYİZ! Gezi Direnişi’nin 2. ayına yaklaştığımız şu günlerde geriye dönüp bir bakınca direniş içinde mizahın olduğu gibi edebiyatın da eksik olmadığını görüyoruz. Ki...
View ArticleAnthropologizing: Introducing User Experience
Reblogged from user experience: Introducing User Experience into the library setting has been an interesting process. About 4 or 5 years ago it struck me that while we had a lot of performance...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Egypt warns Turkey not to meddle in its affairs,...
Egypt voices ‘strong resentment’ at Turkey’s Morsi support Egypt’s interim government voiced “strong resentment” on Tuesday at comments by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan backing ousted...
View ArticleAAA blog: Grant Opportunity – USIEF
Below is a request for proposal for U.S.-India Institutional Partnership Grants. Please contact USIEF directly with questions: United States – India Educational Foundation ANNOUNCEMENT: Request for...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: PM Erdoğan’s lesson to nation today: Don’t have...
English: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Don’t have credit cards: Turkish PM Erdoğan Turkish Prime Minister has suggested not owing the credit cards Analysts...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Arizona State Museum Launches Databases to Share...
Arizona State Museum Launches Databases to Share Southwest Textiles with the World
View ArticleLanguage Log: Too many recent Japanese loanwords in English?
In "Chinese loans in English" and in "Too many English loanwords in Japanese?" we examined the propositions that Chinese borrowings into English in recent times have been very few, while English...
View ArticleGlossographia: Glossographic news of the week
Another busy week of news relevant to readers of this blog: A few months ago, the Times Literary Supplement reported on the curious case of A.D. Harvey, who was unmasked as a serial creator of false...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: The Dark Side of DIY in Photojournalism and Photographic...
Though DIY (do-it-yourself) is generally celebrated as empowering and democratizing, the recent layoff of the entire photojournalism staff at the Chicago Sun-Times is a potent indicator of the dark...
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