Erkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “beş general’ tartışması…
anayasa (Photo credit: sontilki) Yeni anayasada kritik viraj! HABERTURK Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu çalışmalarına devam ediyor. Şu ana kadar 59 madde üzerinde uzlaşma sağlandı. Komisyon çarşamba günü...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Did Feasting Promote Cooperation in the Ancient Andes?
post by Kasia Szremski Vanderbilt University Since 2008, I have been studying the relationship between intergroup interaction and agricultural production on the Western slopes of the Peruvian Andes....
View ArticleEthnography.com: Researching Around the Surveillance State
Last month in the New York Review of Books, historian Natalie Zemon Davis wrote a short essay about her experience with the FBI in late 1952. Upon returning from France, where she was conducting...
View ArticleCyber Anthropology: Fedora Research Citation
You can now cite my Fedora research using this APA citation Harrelson Hubbard, D. (2013, July). An Exploration of Fedora’s Online Open Source Development Community. Paper presented at the Free...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Shopping
Today's Six Chix strip, from Benita Epstein: Or, "Do you have any quotes that will fit my story line?"
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: A Manning verdict roundup- What is the point of...
Manning statement (now hyperlinked) worthy of Nobel laureate Bradley Manning’s post-sentence statement, issued by his lawyer, was the kind of statement you would expect to be given by a Nobel Peace...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Today is the day
… that Grigory Rasputin predicted the world would end. This has not gotten much coverage in the U.S., despite links to zombies, marijuana legalization and solar flares. I've discovered a remarkable...
View Articleanthropologyworks: New special journal issue on women, gender, and prison
A new special issue of the journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society focuses on “Women, Gender, and Prison: National and Global Perspectives,” and includes ethnographic perspectives. Read...
View ArticleAAA blog: ACLS Fellowship Competitions Are Now Open
Today’s post is an excerpt from the ACLS newsletter. Please direct any questions to Nicole A. Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs via e-mail at fellowships@acls.org. The American Council of...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Blocked on Weibo
This afternoon I received in the mail the following book: Jason Q. Ng. Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China's Version of Twitter (and Why). New York and London: The New Press, 2013. In this...
View ArticleIslam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist: Restarting from Anthropology Beyond...
My blog Islam, Muslims and an Anthropologist started in 2007 and since then 228,803 people (an average of 38,000 per year) have read my posts concerning various aspects of Muslim lives. During this...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "I feel like"
Katie J.M. Baker, "Ladies, What's Up With the 'I Feel Like' Verbal Tic?", Jezebel 8/23/2013 When I search my Gmail inbox for the phrase "I feel like," infinity results come up. "I feel like this...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Dış mihrak edebiyatı / Memur Sen/...
Dış mihrak edebiyatı 28 mayıstan bu yana iktidar bir dış mihraktır tutturdu mâlum. Şimdi aynı hain dış mihraklar Mısır’ı karıştırmış, sonbaharda burayı yine karıştırabilirlermiş. “Bugün Mısır, yarın...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: 108 soldiers commit suicide since...
108 soldiers commit suicide since 2012, Turkish defense minister says The Turkish defense minister said that 166 soldiers have committed suicide or been killed in accidents across the country in the...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Reizende zin – Al Fourqaan en het opmerkelijke fotobijschrift
Closer Blog: Gisteren verscheen een verhaal over een verstoring in de Eindhovense Al Fourqaan moskee tijdens de vrijdagpreek. Bij dit artikel staat een foto met een zeer opmerkelijk bijschrift. Hier...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Oh my, “Turkey has no plans for alternative UN,...
English: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey at Çanakkale Türkçe: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Turkey has no plans for alternative UN,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: As Gezi Park related witch hunt continues, Turkey’s...
Turkey’s ‘Standing Man’ wins German rights award Turkey’s “Standing Man”, a performance artist who became an icon of anti-government protests this year, will receive a major German human rights award...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Article Alert- Zombie Mines and the (Over)burden of History
By Max Liboiron Historian John Sandlos and Geographer Arn Keeling, both at Canada’s Memorial University, have re-framed mining operations as waste management systems in their open access article...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The message
This year's Penn Reading Project book is Adam Bradley's Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. In my discussion group yesterday afternoon, several participants complained that some important things...
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