Anthropology Now: A Challenge for Visual Journalism: Rendering The Labor...
The Chicago Sun-Times’ decision to shut down its photography department to satisfy audiences “consistently seeking more video content with their news” is sad but not surprising. As an anthropologist...
View ArticleC L O S E R: VOC mentaliteit: Leusden of de grootste massamoord uitgevoerd...
Closer Blog: De dood van 664 Afrikaanse mannen, vrouwen en kinderen is de grootste massamoord ooit uitgevoerd door Nederlanders. Die geschiedenis is niet dood, maar leeft.Read more: VOC mentaliteit:...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Call for proposals from Wellcome Trust on “sustaining health”
From the Wellcome Trust website: Sustaining Health Humanity faces profound questions about how our planet can sustain nine billion people by 2050. With the trend of urbanisation, the majority of the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Wedding at the Gezi Park #OccupyGezi
via @140Journos Today two persons who met during the Occupy Gezi, got married. As far as I understand, police did not let people enter the Park again but as of 10:30 married couple can be seen at the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Metaphors
Prospero, "The World's Worst Sentence", The Economist 7/17/2013: FINANCIAL books are not renowned for their literary merits. Neverthless, the reader is still entitled to expect something better than...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: “MIT blocking release of...
A code of conduct for young hackers r00tz is the amazing kid-track of programming at DEFCON, the giant hacker conference held annually in Las Vegas. The organizers have created a “code of conduct” for...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The Fuselage
It went like a firecracker, a real sharp blast, and before I knew, I was up from sleep to behold the skies, gaping through the roof of the Boeing. It was wide open above my head. I could feel the...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: Excellent Symposium Concludes 2013 Summer Institute in...
Many things have been happening lately–so many that keeping up with them here has been difficult. Many good things have gone unreported and some bad current events (global and national, not personal)...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: The Textile Museum | Out of Southeast Asia: Art that...
While in Washington, I had a chance to visit The Textile Museum in its historical location amid the city’s embassies. I say historical because the museum is now preparing to move to the George...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Best Introduction to Anthropology Syllabus – Four Fields...
With the 2013 fall semester on the way, people have been visiting the 2012 Best Introduction to Anthropology Syllabus – Four Fields. I’ve re-visited that post and updated the links. The material there...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Mapping Stereotypes
Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetkov has been traveling around Europe and creating maps in which the names of countries are replaced with stereotypes other Europeans have about them. I want to ask my...
View ArticleGlossographia: How do you pronounce Detroit?
As you may know, I work at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit’s been in the news a lot lately, regarding its bankruptcy and a whole lot of other things that, if I were to start...
View ArticleAnthropologizing: Memories of scarcity: victory gardens, rationing, and...
Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons I was going through some posts at my old blog yesterday and came upon short excerpt from an interview I did in 2007 for my undergraduate thesis on the history of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Destruction of Istanbul’s Yedikule Gardens,...
Archeologists issue warning on destruction of Istanbul’s Yedikule Gardens The Istanbul branch of the Association of Archaeologists has warned that excavations within the historical Yedikule gardens...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yavuz Baydar: Media Bosses [n Turkey] Are...
In Turkey, Media Bosses Are Undermining Democracy New York Times By YAVUZ BAYDAR. Published: July 19, 2013. ISTANBUL — THE protests that convulsed Istanbuland other Turkish cities last month exposed,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “EU nears terror ruling on...
Banners with the text “Our blood has won” in the aftermath of the 2006 war in South Lebanon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) EU nears terror ruling on Hizbollah armed wing A declaration of Hizbollah’s...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Americana roundup: Detroit Bankruptcy, Zimmerman...
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy The city of Detroit, Mich., has filed for bankruptcy, becoming the largest city in the history of the United States to do so. If Detroit Were a Country, Would It Be a...
View ArticleDynamic Relations: Taking Stock
I've posted fairly frequently about the ever fleeting passage of time as I conduct my research. This is my biggest fear: running out of time. It's not coming down with malaria or wrecking in a...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: A Shell That Is But A Shell Of Its Former Self
I'm shocked, shocked to find that mythopoeic archaeology is going on in Italy! [Apologies to Captain Renault.]Location of Fumane Cave and two palaeontological localities mentioned in Peresani et...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Recent Japanese loanwords in Chinese
For the last couple of weeks we've been focusing on loans from Chinese and Japanese into English and from English into Chinese and Japanese. In this post, I'd like to demonstrate the intricate...
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