Language Log: The "-bag" of "slutbag"
In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Barbara Morgan, spokeswoman for New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, called former Weiner intern Olivia Nuzzi all sorts of names after Nuzzi...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Ekşi Sözlük is the target of...
As recently stated Ekşi Sözlük is one of the major internet sites that harbored an internet user culture in Turkey. From time to time, it has been targeted by conservative or Islamist citizens who are...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: 57 maddede uzlaşı… Anayasa...
Yeni Anayasa için 27 maddede uzlaşı Star Gündem TBMM Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu çalışmalarında 48 maddede sağlanan mutabakatın yanı sıra 3 partinin uzlaştığı madde sayısı 27 oldu Başbakan...
View Articlehawgblawg: Cheikha Rimitti record jacket
This is from toukadime's instagram account, which is fabulous. This of course is not a photo of the Cheikha. It was common for recording companies in Algeria to put photos of European-looking models...
View ArticleJason Baird Jackson: The MMWC Newsletter and Other Infrastructure: Building...
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures (MMWC) has a new newsletter. The cover for MMWC #1 is shown above. Clicking on it should take you to the whole issue as it appears on the online publishing...
View ArticleRecontextual: Transcribing Ottoman music
Until the19th century, music in the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on oral tradition. Compositions and playing styles were handed from generation to generation through a master-apprentice system...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Understanding across varieties of English
Yesterday, I posted on Speakout/Truthout about Rachel Jeantel's African American Vernacular English use in the Zimmerman trial/verdict: "Race, Credibility, Communication and Evidence in the Zimmerman...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 85
Hello all,Welcome to this week's 'field edition' of the link review, including German reality TV in Africa, taking children on field research and my own reflection on 'the field' as a site/place/space...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers…...
The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) Since 2009, the organization VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts has sought to bring balance to the representation of female authors...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: 'The top...
How can you make a bank safe when staff can run up gigantic losses while having seemingly zero loyalty towards it?"In the end the bank is like a shell. You need a place to trade from, this is how we...
View ArticleComment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: 'The most...
A former trader speaks about the 'mesmerising' trading floor and the sense of competition that pervaded everything• This monologue is part of a series in which people across the financial sector speak...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: US representatives criticize PM Erdoğan in letter...
US representatives criticize PM Erdoğan’s ‘anti-semitic’ statements in letter to President Gül Forty-six U.S. representatives have written a letter to Turkish President Gül criticizing some of PM...
View Articletabsir.net: Muslim Journeys
The National Endowment for the Humanities has a fantastic website on Islam with a variety of resources, especially valuable for teaching about Islam, but also just for browsing. The outreach part of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Öcalan’ın sağlığıyla...
PKK lideri Abdullah Öcalan‘ın sağık koşullarıyla ilgili taleplere dikkat çekmek için Amed’de (Diyarbakır) yürüyüş yapıldı. Öcalan’ın bağımsız bir sağlık heyeti tarafından ziyaret edilmesi talep...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: “MIT in Aaron Swartz...
MIT in Aaron Swartz Case: Not Neutral, Not Leading, Not Standing Up for Technologists In January, our friend Aaron Swartz killed himself. Aaron was unable to carry on against an overzealous...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: Full Disclosure at The Economist (an open...
The Economist is a pleasure to read for many reasons but what it gives with one hand, it sometimes withholds with the other. Who, we wonder, is the author of this wonderful laugh-out-loud bit of...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Why Anthropology Still Matters: Paul Stoller
Upon receiving the Anders Retzius gold medal for his significant scientific contribution to anthropology, Paul Stoller reflects on the meanings of the discipline and ponders over its value in this...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Call for papers on women, marginalization, and vulnerability
Read more about the call for papers from Genus on the global.gender.current blog.
View ArticleEthnography.com: Fiction Article by Sociologist Lt. Colonel Horace Miner Most...
There is a report fro AAA that Horace/Harold Miner’s 1956 article “Body Image Among the Nacirema” is the most downloaded from the AAA journals for 2012. It was downloaded over 11,000 times in 2012....
View ArticleAnthropologizing: Retail Exploration: CityTarget Portland
CityTarget Portland “puts a bird on it“… Clever or cliche? With the opening of CityTarget in downtown Portland last week, I was anxious to see how the new urban concept store would be different from...
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