Language Log: No less indisputably not going to not work
Two Guys and Guy for 5/29/2013 offers a rare case of litotes with the classical motivation of modesty: But most examples have some other motivation. And whatever the motivation, the litotic impulse...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Article Alert- Reckoning with ruins
Progress in Human Geography has just published a great overview of the academic study of ruins by Caitlin DeSilvey and Tim Edensor called “Reckoning with ruins.” Abstract: Scholarly interest in ruins...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Impactful
Anne Curzan, "What to do about 'impactful'?", Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/19/2013: If I were asked to rate new words on a scale from 1-10 based on their aesthetic appeal (note: words’ aesthetic...
View Articleanthropologyworks: To explore some caves, one needs to dial the technology down
Replica Lascaux caves at “Scenes from the Stone Age”/photo Jean Lachat, Field Museum In many ways, an exhibit at Chicago’s Field Museum which seeks to replicate the Stone Age paintings of bulls and...
View Articletabsir.net: Postcards from old Aden #1
There are quite a few old postcards of Aden circulating on the internet. Here are a few for those who have never seen Aden or at least never saw this Aden.
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Almost Done - The Cleveland Museum of Art
Almost Done - The Cleveland Museum of Art
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The Legacy of Edward Snowden
For Al Jazeera English, I wrote about Snowden and political paranoia: On June 23, 2013, Edward Snowden left China, a repressive state with a vast surveillance system, to fly to Russia, a repressive...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News Despite controversy, the humanitarian group, “No More Deaths,” continues to leave gallon jugs of water in the desert for migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico. In recent...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: İki gündür düşmeyen TT: #ZAMANgazetesiKendineGel
centre (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Zaman’dan arkadaşlar Gezi Direnişi’ne karşı nasıl bir haksızlık yapıldığını belki bu saldırganlık içinde anlayabilirler. Çok ümidim yok ama yine de içi nefretle dolu...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Words, letters, and an unusual Scrabble turn
Last month, I taught a short course on "Corpus-based Linguistic Research" at the LSA Institute in Ann Arbor, in which the participants were asked to do individual projects. One of the undergraduates...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Daggy
Today's Bad Machinery, in which Charlotte and Mildred explore a wormhole into the past (?) under the fume hood in their school's chemistry lab, includes these panels: The word dag(gy) was previously...
View ArticleAAA blog: The African Diaspora: Integrating Culture Genomics and History...
The African Diaspora: Integrating Culture Genomics and History Symposium will be held at Baird auditorium, National Museum of Natural History on Thursday September 12, 2013, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm....
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Hong Kong's art museum aims to rival Tate and MoMA
Hong Kong's art museum aims to rival Tate and MoMA
View ArticleSarah Kendzior: The myth of “opting out”
Earlier today I wrote a popular series of tweets on the cost of motherhood in America, inspired by the recent New York Times article on moms who “opted out”. You can follow me on twitter at...
View ArticleSomatosphere: In the Journals…July by Jason Alley
For those of you eager to squeeze in a few more weeks of summer reading before the demands of the academic year fully take over, a survey of the journals in July revealed some excellent writing in key...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: “Turkish President Gül ‘sad’ over...
Turkish President Gül ‘sad’ over former top commander’s conviction Turkey’s President has expressed sadness over the conviction of a former top commander in a coup plot court case Turkish Judicial...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Assembly in Turkey may open earlier for Kurdish...
Assembly may open earlier for Kurdish bid: Turkish PM Erdoğan Vowing to work and finalize his government’s self-proclaimed ‘democracy package,’ Prime Minister Erdoğan says New faces, old ways: the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: The Guardian commentary: “Turkey has only itself to...
Turkey has only itself to blame if it is shunned by the EU | Robert Ellis The vandalism and looting of Cyprus’s cultural heritage that has occurred since 1974 is unworthy of any civilised nation...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: The World’s Most Linguistically Diverse...
Your ride to language diversity. Photo by Ad Meskens (own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsHome to around 800 different languages, New York is a delight for linguists. It also provides a...
View ArticleArctic anthropology: Finnish and local resettlers in the 1940s to the Lena Delta
Today I continue fieldwork reports from the ORHELIA fieldwork in the Lena Delta in cooperation with Yakutsk University (NEFU). During our first walk through the village of Bykov Mys we found out about...
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