Discard Studies: Litterati: A Digital Landfill of Good-Looking Trash
By Max Liboiron. I suspect, that like me, urban followers of the Discard Studies blog spend a lot of time looking down. There is a lot of interesting trash on sidewalks, roads, and gutters, and now...
View ArticleLanguage Log: More on Juola's stylometry
Worth reading if you were interested in the computational stylometric analysis by Patrick Juola that helped to unmask J. K. Rowling as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling: an article in The Chronicle...
View ArticleCulture and International Affairs: Online Shopping For Mobile In India
24x7shoponline.com is one of Lowest Price Online Mobile shop in India where you can do Online Shopping for your mobile with trusted online payment. On 24x7shoponline.com you can buy Mobiles Phone,...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Clipping McDonald's
Commenters on a recent post ("Australian hypocoristics") discussed the vowel quality of the first syllable of McDonald's in detail and at length. The issues involved are interesting enough to deserve...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Anthro in the news 7/29/13
• Female genital cutting: a practice in decline Several mainstream media sources discussed the findings of a comprehensive new assessment led by UNICEF about the practice of female genital cutting in...
View Articletabsir.net: Biladi … Biladi
Note to the Reader: This commentary is written on behalf of youth in the Arab region who are struggling to find a new place under the sun. In my lengthy interaction with the young population, be it in...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Brave New World Curator: Curating the Americas...
Brave New World Curator: Curating the Americas collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
View ArticleLanguage Log: Reaching a crescendo?
There was a language-peeve Op-Ed piece in the NYT yesterday called "A crescendo of errors", written by a violist who hates the expression "reach a crescendo". In music, a crescendo is a gradual...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The idea of a rural informal economy
In two previous posts I have reported on my evolving study of the idea of an informal economy. This third post ruminates about the extension of the idea to rural life. Keith Hart's original work in...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: 'The sort...
A group financial reporting manager gives her perspective on banker-bashing, the 'too big to manage' question and external auditorsIs banker-bashing actually counterproductive?Here's an interesting...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: Group...
An accountant who compiles annual financial reports for a bank talks about being tarred with the same brush as bankers• This monologue is part of a series in which people across the financial sector...
View Articleethnosnacker: Makeup Journeys - email me to join
Here is clip from a journey we started a few months ago. To test a few ideas which I won't go into with this post. This particular clip is called, 'My Dermalogica Journey'. If you'd like to follow...
View ArticleCulture and International Affairs: Ex-Envoy’s Account Clarifies Iran’s 2003...
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/ex-envoys-account-clarifies-irans-2003-nuclear-decision/Ex-Envoy’s Account Clarifies Iran’s 2003 Nuclear DecisionBy Gareth PorterReprint | | Print | Send by...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: The Manning Verdict: …convicted on lesser charges,...
Manning Verdict and the Dangerous “Hacker Madness” Prosecution Strategy Bradley Manning was convicted (PDF) on 19 counts today, including charges under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Increase in homophobic murders…...
Turkish newspaper watchdog punished for baring teeth The sacking of Yavuz Baydar from his role as ombudsman of Sabah demonstrates the extent of the PM’s influence Milliyet appoints Ankara...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “JavaScript journalism”… a Journalism roundup…
Arguing for a new genre: “JavaScript journalism” Ray Daly of The Washington Post has been writing JavaScript since the 1990s. In May, hespoke at JSConf about “JavaScript journalism” — the idea that...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Anthropologists as Spies… RIP: Prof. George...
George Stocking Jr., ‘Anthropology’s Anthropologist,’ Dies at 84 New York Times George W. Stocking Jr., a historian of science who chronicled the norms, customs and tribal beliefs of modern...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eylül korkusu… Toplum korkusu
Gezi direnişindeki sosyolojik motifleri inkar etmek/yok saymak üzerine kurulu iktidar söylemi şimdi de Eylül’de olabilecekler üzerinden yeni bir endişe dalgası yaratmaya çalışıyor. İnsanların niye...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: A review of The Perfect Food and the Filth Disease: Milk,...
Discard Studies has created a new resource page for dissertations and thesis related to the field. The partial review below is taken from Dissertation Reviews, a relatively new online publishing venue...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “European data protection under...
Who’s accountable for Britain’s Internet censorwall? Jim from the UK Open Rights Group sez, “It seems Cameron and Perry have ignored official government policy, invented their own policy and forced it...
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