Erkan in the Army now...: “Turkey left with no obvious regional ally… A FP...
Turkey left with no obvious regional ally Relations with the Middle East and the EU are in a parlous state as Erdogan faces many problems not of his own making and apparently without solutions Fitch...
View Articletabsir.net: The Boon in Yemen’s Bun
Men smoke shisha water pipes in a cafe in Sanaa, Oct. 1, 2011. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah) Yemen’s Modern Coffee Shops: Progressive, Yet Exclusive by Farea al-Muslimi, Al-Monitor, September 5...
View ArticleSomatosphere: (Dis)harmonious Socialities: Deaf multi-level marketing...
In this post, I want to think about what the popularity of multi-level marketing businesses among Indian Sign Language-using deaf Indians means for how anthropologists and other social scientists...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Post-Gezi Revenge politics. Today’s agenda: Koç...
Istanbul police detain fans in dawn operation over eventful derby Istanbul police have carried out a dawn operation against fans of three major football team Police Detains Soccer Fans Police raided...
View Articleanthropology at home: Dancing in the Margins: roles, equality, and the...
This post is first of a series on my ethnography of the culture of ballroom dancing, and also constitutes a debriefing exercise after my recent weekend of fieldwork at Boston Open DanceSport, the...
View Articleanthropology at home: Dancing in the Margins: roles, equality, and the...
Dancing in the Margins: roles, equality, and the meaning of a “safe space” in same-sex ballroom dancing.
View Articlehawgblawg: drone life 4: Seymour Hersh
"Like killing people, how does [Obama] get away with the drone programme, why aren't we doing more? How does he justify it? What's the intelligence? Why don't we find out how good or bad this policy...
View Articlehawgblawg: Dub Snakker Does the Bendaly Family's "Do You Love Me?"
In 2007 I asked here whether the video of Lebanon's Bendaly Family's "Do You Love Me?" (1978) was the best video clip of Arabic music ever. Now Dub Snakker has done a re-fix of the song, which he...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Drifting tables
In response to "A fair-use victory for Google in these United States", 8/14/2013, JM writes: I’ve always wondered when this change took place, so was delighted to see this post. Here’s a harder one...
View Articletabsir.net: Hailing Hellfires
A destroyed building as a result of fighting between AQAP and the Yemeni government in 2012, taken in June 2013. (Photo: Fatima Abo Alasrar) by Fatima Abo Alasrar, Atlantic Council, October 30, 2013...
View ArticleLanguage Log: A letter from the future
This arrived in my snail-mailbox a few days ago: I wish they'd send me some stock-exchange listings and sports scores from late July 2014 — the early re-subscription fees would be well repaid.
View Articlehawgblawg: 10 taboo Arabic songs: Habiba Msika
The very fine on-line publication Ma'azef (in Arabic, and because I read Arabic very very slowly I haven't explored nearly enough) recently published a piece called 10 taboo songs: ١٠ أغاني محرّمة.I...
View Articlehawgblawg: Muhammad Assaf, Raise The Kufiya
Clearly I'm behind on my kufiyaspotting blogs. Just so no one who reads this and is trying to keep track thinks I've missed anything, it's important to note that Muhammad Assaf, the Arab Idol winner,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Peace for the moment, now comes the AKP’s Kurdish...
Turkey‘s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani (R) attend a ceremony with Erdogan’s wife Emine Erdogan in Diyarbakir November 16, 2013. The president of Iraqi...
View ArticleErin B. Taylor - Material culture, mobile banking and socioeconomic...
Reptiles such as this yellow-banded poison dart frog circulate on the black market. Photo by Adrian Pingstone via Wikimedia Commons.What do murder, microfinance, and black markets in reptiles have in...
View ArticleHow to be an Anthropologist: AAA Conference Fashion Post!
Clothes for the AAA Conference I have gotten a lot of traffic over the years from people searching for what to wear to conferences, particular anthropology conferences. So, I decided to post my AAA...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: AAS paper 2013: Affect, emotion and Yolŋu...
- paper presented at the Australian Anthropological Society conference in Canberra (2013). Downloadable dhuwala. What do emotion terms matter to the study of Aboriginal sociality and exchange?...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Cherokee Nation, Gilcrease Museum partner to preserve...
Cherokee Nation, Gilcrease Museum partner to preserve ‘John Ross Papers’
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Barzani added to Peace Process probably to weaken...
Erdoğan adds Barzani to Turkey’s Kurdish bid Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan was aiming at hitting a few birds with one stone Turkish PM hints at general amnesty, calls for support to Kurdish...
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