Discard Studies: Plastic Bag Ban Report Call for Papers
Plastic Bag Ban Report is looking for research articles and studies about plastic bags, disposable bags, paper bags, plastic bag bans, and plastic ocean debris. Our intent is to be a more informative...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The dormitive virtue of root-power quantities
One of the concepts that comes up in the Introduction to Phonetics course that I'm teaching this semester — first meeting yesterday — is SNR ("Signal to Noise Ratio"). This is the ratio between the...
View ArticleAidnography - Development as anthropological object: Links & Contents I Liked 89
Hello all,This week's link review has turned into a compilation of really good critical material on how to challenge conventional development assumptions: Why awards do harm, why travel doesn't...
View Articletabsir.net: Making Music in Yemen
Photograph by Ali Abulohoom The Yemeni Turbi by Ali Abulohoom, Yemen Times, August 22, 2013 When he was 8 years old, Fuad Al-Qotari found a piece of wood lying around while playing with some...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkish justice: “Court releases ‘man with machete’...
Court releases ‘man with machete’ who attacked Gezi protesters An Istanbul court today released S.Ç., dubbed the “machete man” after video surfaced showing him allegedly attacking protester...
View ArticleGlossographia: Up and at them!
Well, here we are again at the first day of classes (for me) at Wayne State. This year my Language and Culture undergraduate class will be following and reading my blog posts here as part of our...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: #BarışİçinElele Massive Human Chain for Peace...
I will let you know of details as I get them. I might attend the event in Adana… Let’s see… Related posts: Human chain for Ceylan, this evening in Taksim Turkey and human rights – Some progress and...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Syria roundup: Strike delayed, Turkish Foreign...
Obama not ready to order Syria strike but gives up on UN U.S. President Barack Obama said he had not yet signed off on a plan to strike Syria Turkey: Willing for the coalition The chemical weapon...
View ArticleAAA blog: Have You Met Donna A. Auston?
Meet Donna. She is the third anthropologist to be interviewed in AAA’s newest podcast series – Anthropologists in the Field. Donna A. Auston is a graduate student in the cultural anthropology program...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Contious warnings about the peace process: “PKK...
PKK retreat to ‘end Sept 1’ unless ruling AKP takes steps A senior PKK leader has said that they will continue to withdraw until Sept. 1 Turkish gov’t urges PKK to keep commitments in peace process A...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Spoken Hong Kong Cantonese and written Cantonese
[This is a guest post by Robert S. Bauer, with some comments on "dialect" vs. "language" by me (VHM) at the bottom.] 1. After 1949 over the last few decades of British colonial rule, Cantonese was...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: An exchange platform for “trash”: Stories from the...
Editors’ note: In this final post of our Ethnographies of Objects edition, we talk to Max Liboiron, Founding Member & Project Leader of the Object Ethnography Project (OEP). The OEP is a project...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: Thesis submission countdown: Nine sleeps (ten days)
Abstract† Drawing on the key body of terms and concepts associated with affect and emotion in Yolŋu-matha, this thesis explores the way Yolŋu people of North-East Arnhem Land consider morality...
View ArticleLanguage Log: "Clutter" in (writing about) science writing
Paul Jump, "Cut the Clutter", Times Higher Education: Is there something unforgivably, infuriatingly obfuscatory about the unrestrained use of adjectives and adverbs? In a word, no. But Mr. Jump is...
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Why Anthropology Still Matters (Part II): Arlene Torres
Arlene Torres has recently been awarded a grant by the National Park Service to conduct an ethnographic study of community formations in Paterson, New Jersey, where over 50 different ethnic groups...
View ArticleAAA blog: Vote for your Favorite Photo
Voting in the 2013 AAA Photo Contest is now open to current AAA members through September 30, 2013.The voting system displays thumbnails of each photo. To review galleries with larger images of the...
View Articleanthropologyworks: The Global Call for Climate Action fellowship
The Global Call for Climate Action is awarding Adopt a Negotiator (AaN) Fellowships to exceptional young people that we think possess the ability to effectively push their countries toward unlocking...
View ArticleFoodAnthropology: Do you know if your seafood is “sustainable”? (Don’t worry,...
Post by Lillian Brown, PhD student in Anthropology and Food Studies at Indiana University I recently started a crowd-funding campaign for my dissertation research on sustainability in the seafood...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon Classics
China Digital Times (CDT) Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is the premier place to go for Chinese netizen language designed to avoid the censors and to poke fun at the political system. Over the years, CDT has...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Seminar: “Funding Strategies and Stabilization for...
Seminar: “Funding Strategies and Stabilization for Tribal Museums," Sept 16-17, 2013
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