PopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: No rock art here!
Used by kind permission of Jack Murray / rappersdelight532@yahoo.co.uk.Humans have been expressing themselves on stone for over 30,000 years [1], but while Palaeolithic rock art is held in awe, and...
View Articletabsir.net: On War: A Sociologist’s Take
Sociologist William Graham Sumner was an outspoken critical of American imperialism in the Spanish American War by William Graham Sumner (1903) Can peace be universal? There is no reason to believe...
View ArticleMimi Ito - Weblog: New Research Report on Connected Learning
Reblogged from the Connected Learning Research Network It has been almost a year since the release of the connected learning principles in March 2012 on connectedlearning.tv. For those of us who are...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News In the early months of his second term, President Obama plans to swiftly seek a path to citizenship for most of the country’s undocumented population as part of a comprehensive bill...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Evangelicals who have left the right
Post-election reporting that 79 percent of white evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney got little attention in the news because most journalists thought it wasn’t news. Evangelical support for the GOP...
View ArticleCyber Anthropology: A life lost, a legacy remembered…
I do not have many words to add to the multiple that are already out there. What I do have to say is that about a year ago I was protesting SOPA with the rest of you. It was one of those things those...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: Surprises, DNA style
This came in yesterday and took me by surprise. Though I have to say I always suspected that I might have some connection to the Uncertain people. Then again, I thought, maybe not. But here's the...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: New syllabi: “Wastelands”
Many thanks to Caitlin DeSilvey at the University of Exeter in the UK for submitting her syllabus “Wastelands.” Wastelands is an upper level course taught via the geography department. The course, or...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Once Bookstore
This beautiful establishment in Amoy (Xiamen) 厦门 (facing Taiwan across the strait that separates the PRC from the ROC) is perhaps the only pro-democracy (private) bookstore in the People's Republic of...
View ArticleThe Memory Bank: The limits of Karl Polanyi’s anti-market approach in the...
I am a fully paid-up member of the Karl Polanyi fan club. In the past few years I have published, with my collaborators, a collection of essays on the significance of The Great Transformation for...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The limits of Karl Polanyi's...
I am a fully paid-up member of the Karl Polanyi fan club. In the past few years I have published, with my collaborators, a collection of essays on the significance of The Great Transformation for...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Rituals, risk,...
Owen Barder just wrote a very interesting post on Aaron Swartz’ legacy and how his work is linked to international development and future debates especially in the area of ICT4D (Development and the...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Rethinking that word “evangelical”
Professor Marcia Pally aptly describes the evangelical polyphony of our time. Despite the dreadful habit of newspapers of using the term “evangelical” to mean “white social conservative bloc of the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Japanese postcard puzzle
In "Postcard language puzzle", Mark Liberman enlisted the aid of Language Log readers in deciphering the writing on two old postcards mailed from Mallorca in 1912-1913. The result was a swift and...
View ArticleAAA blog: ‘Doomsday Preppers’: Our New Threat?
Today’s guest post is written by AAA member, Chad Huddleston. He is a cultural anthropologist currently studying preppers. Dr. Huddleston is an Instructor at SIUE in the Anthropology department and an...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: A return to the original agenda of Christ
I am one of those evangelicals who, in Professor Marcia Pally’s words, have “left the right.” As a former President-elect of the Christian Coalition of America, I resigned that position and all other...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: The Irrational Consumer: Why...
What this Atlantic piece is talking about, anthropologists and regular folk have known practically and intuitively for a long, long time. But to argue with the Master these days, you must address him...
View ArticleSociety for Linguistic Anthropology: Arana: Good sociolinguistic conclusion...
Gabriel Arana, web editor of The American Prospect, recently published a defense of creaky voice at The Atlantic. Arana notes that recent criticism of young women’s use of creaky voice, or “vocal...
View ArticleSociety for Linguistic Anthropology: Arana: Good sociolinguistic conclusion...
Gabriel Arana, web editor of The American Prospect, recently published a defense of creaky voice at The Atlantic. Arana notes that recent criticism of young women’s use of creaky voice, or “vocal...
View ArticleNineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea: You were great in 'Lincoln'...
[www.colbertnation.com] I generally get all heated up by a Diamond book---all the campaigning, the accolades, the use of other peoples' material to suggest he has spent fifty years studying...
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