Museum Anthropology: Society for Applied Anthropology Call for Proposals (due...
Society for Applied Anthropology Call for Proposals (due Oct. 15)
View ArticleDisparate: Twenty Years Online
This month marks the 20th anniversary of my first Internet account. I don’t remember the exact date but I know it was in late summer 1993, right before what became known as “Eternal September”. The...
View Articletabsir.net: Yemeni Gangnam Style
For those who are still enthralled with parodies of Gangnam style, here is a sample of Yemeni selections over the past year from La Voix du Yémen.
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: Local Matsuri V: くわしく
References: Visual Anthropology of Japan, Local Matsuri I: The Mikoshi, posted July 30, 2013. Visual Anthropology of Japan, Local Matsuri II: Evening Activities, posted July 31, 2013. Visual...
View ArticleCulture and International Affairs: Video Shows Iran’s President-Elect Was...
Commentary by William O. Beeman: The fact that the New York Times jumped to print the incorrect information about Mr. Rouhani's comments is testament to the prejudicial reporting that has persisted in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Towards August 5, Ergenekon Verdict Hearing, Police...
No protesters allowed in Silivri during Ergenekon hearing, says governor Hurriyet Daily News No protesters will be allowed to demonstrate at the Silivri Courthouse during the Ergenekon trial hearing...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): [Dün yapılan]...
İstanbul, Taksim‘de toplanan eylemciler Rojava‘daki katliama tepki göstermek için oturma eylemi yaptı. “Antikapitalist Müslümanlar” topluluğundan İhsan Eliaçık , Rojava’da katledilenler için gıyabi...
View ArticleGopk: Women are heroes
The photo in the header is taken from the renowned documentary project Women are heroes. I am happy to spread the word about the project. I saw the movie in 2010 and I liked the idea of putting up...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Mitchell Museum to unveil updated gallery of notable...
Mitchell Museum to unveil updated gallery of notable American Indians
View ArticleDisparate: Internet and Privilege
Part of what was going through my mind, writing that Internet nostalgia post, was the notion that my being granted Internet access in August of ‘93 was a privilege. Quite literally. By backing up my...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: And There He Was. Gone!
I'm not happy about the amount of time I'm not getting to be subversive.But, at a minimum, I must get the kitchen up and running. For therein lies comfort and satiety.I hope that my Northern...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Chinese tattoos
We've often written about horrendous Chinese tattoo blunders on Language Log (with a general survey here), there is a whole website dedicated to them, and now BuzzFeed offers a generous assortment of...
View ArticleC L O S E R: White Privilege: People, Systems, and the Game of Monopoly
Closer Blog: An extended clip from a presentation by Allan G Johnson on race given at the University of Wisconsin, including using the the game of Monopoly to illustrate the relationship between...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Barbaros Şansal (@barbarossansal)...
Not worse than 1990s yet but Turkish police shows signs of increasing arbitrary arrests and undocumented acts. People have been wondering whereabouts of Barbaros since last night and finally he...
View ArticleLanguage Log: (Not) trusting data
Pete Warden, "Why you should never trust a data scientist", 7/18/2013: The wonderful thing about being a data scientist is that I get all of the credibility of genuine science, with none of the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Russell Crowe’s Istanbul… and an Istanbul news...
This is the photo he tweeted while he was in Istanbul… This is where I am pic.twitter.com/THqHRgk4DB — Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) July 31, 2013 ***************** Turkish PM Erdoğan favors ‘city...
View Articletabsir.net: Not so Fast
As the month of Ramadan draws to a close, the ethical dissonance that now overshadows just about everything else in the Middle East is evident in the daily news. Muslims are dying daily from suicide...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Allegations of Turkey’s support to Al-Nusra...
Syria’s al-Nusra Front – ruthless, organised and taking control The Guardian-Jul 31, 2013Share The al-Nusra Front, the principle jihadi rebel group in Syria, defies the cliche of Islamist fighters...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Holly Alliance”: MHP and AKP cooperate to keep the...
Government, MHP insist on keeping poll threshold clause Ruling party AKP and opposition MHP want to keep an article on election threshold in new charter, while the other opposition parties suggests...
View Articletabsir.net: Sex Education in Yemen
Photography by Boushra al-Moutawakel from Yemen Times, June 24, 2013 It’s a sensitive subject in this conservative and religiously observant country. Who is talking about safe sex? In a recent online...
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