Erkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “Europe’s eastern future at...
Europe’s eastern future at stake at the EU Vilnius summit The aggressive attitude of Russia towards neighbour countries seeking closer EU integration indicates a new reality which the EU’s Eastern...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Can "[adjective]-ass" occur predicatively?
One of the highlights of this weekend's Saturday Night Live was a "Weekend Update" appearance by Taran Killam playing Jebidiah Atkinson, a 19th-century speech critic. (Apologies to those outside of...
View ArticleConstructing Amusement: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies -...
Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies - STS Conference Graz 2014
View ArticleLanguage Log: Fag station
Jimmy Callin sent in this photograph of a sign in Nanjing: The Chinese part of the sign says simply: xīyān chù 吸烟处 ("smoking area"). The translation of xīyān chù 吸烟处 ("smoking area") and xīyān zhàn...
View Article: Fieldwork Blues
You cannot be an anthropologist without doing fieldwork, going native and the like. But we seem to often forget the anxieties that devour him or her from inside. When going in the field, the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cultural Anthropology Special Focus on #OccupyGezi,...
Just heard that the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology has a special focus: Gezi Protests. That will definitely be a good scholarly and ethnographic source on the subject. But check out the...
View Articlethe Anthropologist in the Stacks: Playing with Cognitive Mapping
I am messing around with cognitive mapping instruments, stolen with Andrew Asher's blessing from the ERIAL toolkit (I know, I know, I don't need anyone's blessing because hey, that's what toolkits are...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Film & PhD – Moroccan Women Today: New Perspectives
Closer Blog:Aziza Ouguir will defend her doctoral dissertation on the history and contemporary reception of female saints in Morocco. Also a documentary will be launced.Read more: Film & PhD –...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Vinyl prayers
Cross-posted at Reverberations, a digital forum produced by the Social Science Research Council in conjunction with New Directions in the Study of Prayer, where this serves as the curatorial...
View ArticleIdeas Bazaar: The state of digital
A long but comprehensive ‘state of digital world’ presentation from Business Insider. The future of digital from Useful Ideas
View ArticleCulture and International Affairs: Understanding the Iranian Perspective in...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=Beeman&s_it=header_form_v1 Understanding the Iranian Perspective in Nuclear Negotiations Posted: 11/18/2013 4:22 pmWilliam O. Beeman Iran, Nuclear...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Our Taiwan
From Jason Cox (with additions and modifications by VHM): In Taiwan, one often comes across efforts at using zhùyīn 注音 ("phonetic annotation") to hint to readers that a Hoklo Taiwanese reading of the...
View ArticleGlossographia: AAA itinerary
For the next several days I will be at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in Chicago, Illinois. Unfortunately I am once again ridiculously over-committed with committee work and...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: biennale update
For those interested in the 2013 edition of the biennale, here’s the website. Alas, many of the pictures are distorted, but upside? Fat Bird’s Urban Village Fetish / Baishizhou is featured today!
View ArticleLanguage Log: No word for rape
Several people have sent me this entry for the "No word for X" files — "When is it rape?", The Economist 11/15/2013: In Urdu there is no word for rape. The closest direct translation is "looting my...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: 22-23 Kasım’da Özgür Web Teknolojileri Günler…
http://www.ozgurwebgunleri.org.tr/2013/ Php programming (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Özgür Web Teknolojileri Günleri 2013, 22-23 Kasım’da İstanbul Yeditepe Üniversitesi’nde. Etkinliği, Linux...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture agenda: “Copyright Law and Scholarly...
We’re TPP Activists: Reddit Asked Us Everything As another of round of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meetings began in Salt Lake City this week, EFF joined Knowledge Ecology International,...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Book Alert- Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic...
Shiloh R. Krupar's new book, Hot Spotter's Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste, with University of Minnesota Press, was released this summer. It is about the remaking of the world via the...
View ArticleAAA blog: Why Students Should Attend the AAA Careers Expo
Today’s guest blog post is by Kyle Simpson. Kyle is a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Memphis. When I tell people that I am working towards a Master’s Degree in Anthropology, the...
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