ethnografix: anthropologies: The neoliberal university
The Neoliberalized, Debt-plagued,Low Wage, Corporatized UniversityJanuary 2013 ~ Contents ~Introduction: Speaking of the neoliberal universityRyan AndersonFear and loathing in academia Francine...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: Do We Need Sociology Binders Full of Women?
Based on Urban Demographics’s post, it would appear so: The diversity, it is grossly lacking. Also, how many of them are still alive? It may be related to this (also from Urban Demographics): At the...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Anthropology, Gun Reform, American Anthropological...
The U.S. hangs in legislative limbo about gun reform: national reforms proposed but with uncertain legislative chances. Some states enact gun reform laws, others increase militarization. Many people...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Book review: Tanya Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back by Rebecca J....
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God by T. M. Luhrmann Random House, 2012 464 pp, US$28.95 hardcover, US$15.95 paperback How does God become and remain...
View ArticleThe Global Sociology Blog: The Anti-Gay Marriage Crowd Makes a Category...
1. Apologies to real philosophers for my butchering of Gilbert Ryle‘s concept. 2. Yay! Pierre Maura is blogging again! (He had better not raise our hopes only to crush them with a one-time thing)....
View Articletabsir.net: Tabsir Redux: Syrian Cuisine, Two Centuries Ago
[Note: The following account is by the English traveler William Wittman, who commented on the foods and crops he saw while passing through the Levant in what was then Syria. The spelling is that of...
View ArticleThe Naked Anthropologist: HIV and Sex Work: The View from 2012
Sexual-health outreach, Machala, Ecuador, Photo Rosa Manzo Research for Sex Work #13 is out, and as its editor this year I am happy with it. This journal was first published by Vrije Universiteit...
View ArticleEthno::log: Indigenous Cinema auf der Berlinale
Auf der diesjährigen Berlinale (7.-17. Februar 2013) wird erstmals die Sonderreihe "Native - A Journey into Indigenous Cinema" zu sehen sein. Eröffnungsfilm ist der Spielfilm "Atanarjuat - The Fast...
View ArticleLanguage Log: NACLO 2013
The first round of the 2013 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad will take place on January 31, 2013, at 45 sites around the U.S. and Canada. As the NACLO web site explains, it … is a...
View Articletabsir.net: The School of Mamlūk Studies
The School of Mamlūk Studies (SMS) is administered by the Universities of Chicago (Ill., USA), Liège (Belgium), and Venice (Italy), respectively represented by Marlis Saleh, Frédéric Bauden, and...
View ArticleEthno::log: TA45 – GDAT#1 neoliberalism
This Talking Anthropology Podcast episode is another non regular one and comes from the University of Manchester Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT). The motion to be debated is: The...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: January is a month of loss… R.I.P Mehmet Ali...
During my pilot study for my PhD fieldwork, I happened to attend daily editorial meetings at CNN Turk chaired by him. He was also a notable journalist in EU-Turkey relations… Birand at Wikipedia...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: For Hrant Dink. Photos from today’s commemoration…
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View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: January is a month of loss… R.I.P Prof. Toktamış Ateş
We have lost Toktamış Ateş this morning. Prof. Ateş was a professor of economics but he was mostly known with his pro-Atatürk standing and arguments. Unlike many other pro-Atatürk scholars or...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Linguistics and related areas at AAAS 2013
The 2013 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will be held 2/14/2013 to 2/18/2013 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Section Z (Linguistics) is sponsoring...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: A view of İdil Cultural Center...
A gentle manner of search done by police as members of left wing band and many lawyers are arrested yesterday for some reasons ordinary citizens having difficulties to believe… Left-wing band Grup...
View ArticleDynamic Relations: The Bribe
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View ArticleLanguage Log: "I have a theory about what it means!!"
Conversations among linguists may sometimes be interesting to non-linguists for reasons that are not entirely the same as those that appeal to insiders. As an example, I present without further...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Connection, Content, Action! – A View on the Internet
I was struck by Alexis Madrigal’s description of how the Internet functions – a human phenomenon, recreated every day, mediated by material machines and generative algorithms. It’s an evocative image,...
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