Ethnography Matters: September 2013: Ethnography, Speculative Fiction and Design
This month’s theme is about the relationships between ethnography and fiction. It is not necessarily something that we explored a lot here at Ethnography Matters, which is why it seemed an interesting...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Towards Fantastic Ethnography and Speculative Design
Editor’s Note: Anne Galloway (@annegalloway) is Senior Lecturer at the School of Design (Victoria University of Wellington,) and Principal Investigator at Design Culture Lab. Coming from a background...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Occupy Wall Street Anniversary. A video. How NY...
OWS Anniversary from paul sullivan on Vimeo. Related posts: AJ the Stream: What’s next for Occupy Wall Street? Towards 15th October… a roundup of protests from Occupy Wall Street to Greece… Posters of...
View ArticleAAA blog: Statement by AAU Executive Committee on Support for the Social and...
Following is a newly released statement by the Executive Committee of the Association of American Universities on the importance of the federal investment in research in the social and behavioral...
View ArticleLanguage Log: On Interdisciplinary Collaboration and "Latent Personas"
This is a guest post by David Bamman, in response to the post by Dan Garrette ("Computational linguistics and literary scholarship", 9/12/2013). The critique by Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Dan Garrette...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: Facebook, Twitter freedom in...
Technical glitch gives Iranians access to Facebook, Twitter, official says Iranians gained direct access to Facebook and Twitter for the first time in four years because of a technical fault In...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “İHH’nın Çözüm Süreci...
Mehmet Ali Şahin’den muhalefete yeni anayasa eleştirisi [www.iha.com.tr] Bu yıl ilk kez anayasanın ilgili maddesine göre başkomutanlık sıfatını taşıyan ve bu görevini de TBMM adına yapması gereken...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: domain name conflict?
Today I received the following email from a Chinese domain registration center: Dear Manager, (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks) This email is...
View Articletabsir.net: Up against a wall mural
Martyrdom is the inheritance of the Prophet and his family to their followers (translated title). Three-storey high mural located on Mudarris Freeway, Abbas-Abad, Tehran, Iran, Fotini Christia,...
View Articletrinketization: Go see Convoys Wharf on Saturday
Convoys Wharf Site to Participate in Open House 2013 Hutchison Whampoa are delighted to announce they will be opening the Convoys Wharf site to the public on Saturday 21st September 2013, as part of...
View Articletrinketization: MA Asian Cultural Studies starts September 2014
apply here MA Asian Cultural Studies (Recruiting for September 2014) Combining critical theoretical perspectives with an in-depth regional focus, this unique programme provides you with the tools to...
View ArticleSociety for Linguistic Anthropology: Newest issue of the Journal of...
August 2013 Volume 23, Issue 2 [onlinelibrary.wiley.com] Table of Contents: Articles Thoroughly Mixed Yet Thoroughly Ethnic: Indexing Class with Ethnonyms (pages E1–E22) Andrea L. Smith and Anna...
View ArticleSociety for Linguistic Anthropology: Newest issue of the Journal of...
August 2013 Volume 23, Issue 2 [onlinelibrary.wiley.com] Table of Contents: Articles Thoroughly Mixed Yet Thoroughly Ethnic: Indexing Class with Ethnonyms (pages E1–E22) Andrea L. Smith and Anna...
View ArticleAAA blog: AAA Director of Meetings Named National Top 40 Under 40
Jason G. Watkins, Director of Meetings and Conferences has been honored in the nation’s Top Forty under 40 by the Association Forum of Chicagoland and USAE weekly newspaper. In this inaugural award,...
View ArticleSomatosphere: In the Journals, September (Part 1) by Anna Zogas
For September, here is a selection of recently published articles that may be of interest. Of particular note in the journals this month are three special collections (in Current Anthropology on...
View ArticleGlossographia: Cyberlinguistics and cyberetymology
The students in my undergraduate course are moving into questions related to changes in language including semantic shifting, so it seems appropriate to mention this fascinating article over at io9,...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: mooncake festival!
It’s the Mid-Autumn Festival. Depending on your historical inclinations, you’re either remembering ancient moon worship and sacrifice, recounting the story of moon goddess Chang’e, or going...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Public and private ghosts
Public and private ghosts A while ago I was intimated by someone that you should not play with ghosts in some countries. Pop fiction teaches that there are ghosts creeping out of houses, possessing...
View ArticleLanguage Log: English prosodic phrasing
We can read a 10-digit sequence in the style of an American telephone number, 3+3+4 — e.g. 752-955-0354: Or we could read the same sequence in a 3+2+3+2 pattern, 752-95-503-54: It won't surprise you...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Syria updates. “the Jihadi Group That’s Declared...
Meet the Jihadi Group That’s Declared War on Syria’s Moderate Rebels BEIRUT, Lebanon — Just a few months ago, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) didn’t officially exist. Now, the al Qaeda...
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