Language Log: Aggressive periods and the popularity of linguistics
Ben Crair, "The Period Is Pissed: When did our plainest punctuation mark become so aggressive?", TNR 11/25/2013: The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s...
View Articleanthropologyworks: More than Just a Numbers Game: Bingo as a Tool against...
Thesis and guest post by Kaitlin Chiarelli Introduction My interview with Grace started out light-hearted, as she responded matter-of-factly when I asked her age, that she was exactly fifty-nine and...
View Articlethe Anthropologist in the Stacks: Liminality and Practicing Anthropology
The first session I attended at AAA2013 was the NAPA sponsored Liminality and Crossing Boundaries in Applied Anthropology. My primary motive to attend was to see Nancy Fried Foster's paper on...
View Articletabsir.net: Tabsir Redux: When the Fat Lady Sings
For those fortunate enough to own a MAC computer there is the digital blessing of ITunes. One of the stations listed under “Eclectic” is “The 1920’s Radio Network” which features jazz and vaudeville...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Oh boy, Turkish police chief says “Social media...
Social media prompts police suicides, says Turkish chief Turkey’s general police director has blamed social media for the rise in police officer suicides in the country ********************* Turkish...
View ArticleExporting China's Development to the World: Hungary wants to become regional...
Hungarian radio reported that the government’s spokesman said it was “not a secret” that Hungary wanted to become the regional hub for Chinese railway construction. Negotiations were underway with the...
View ArticleNineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea: Life with Bilbo Baggins:...
Last week a story in the international press finally blew the lid off anthropology. [freedomshammer.wordpress.com] Yes, we learned from one C. Michael Forsyth of Reykjavik, Iceland, that Kalena...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Ayşe Özer: Simit Sat, Onurlu Yaşa
SİMİT SAT, ONURLU YAŞA “Belki de asıl ustalık budur: her zaman acemi olmayı bilmek” der dizeleri olunası Turgut Uyar. Profesyonel olmanın, profesyonelleşmenin göklere çıkarıldığı pek moderen...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Stichting S.O.S houdt winterinzameling voor Syrië
Closer Blog:Stichting S.O.S houdt winterinzameling voor Syrië.Read more: Stichting S.O.S houdt winterinzameling voor Syrië
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: ‘Grand coalition’ in Germany…Stop the export of...
‘Grand coalition’ deal sealed in Germany German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) reached a deal early on Wednesday on forming a “grand coalition”...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Turkey fined 52,000 euros by ECHR...
European Court of Human Rights (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ECHR Convicts Turkey Due to “Halt Warning” ECHR found Turkey guilty of violating the right to life in Taydaş case, ordering Turkey to pay...
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Leiden Anthropology Blog: 14.8%
Research on gender equality in academia I vividly remember learning in my anthropology of gender class that the Netherlands had one of the lowest percentages of female full professors (in Dutch:...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Global Garbage Conference
Paris, June 12-13, 2014: Organized by the Cities Project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis in collaboration with SENAR, this interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Metal v. medal
Paul Krugman, "My Lawn Guyland Roots Are Showing", The Conscience of a Liberal, 11/24/2013: I see that some commentators were wondering why, in an earlier post, I wrote “pedal to the medal” instead of...
View Articletabsir.net: Sitt Marvel
Why can’t Spiderman convert to Islam? by Leon Moosavi, Al Jazeera, Nov. 27, 2013 [Editor’s Note: There are a number of hyperlinks in the original Al Jazeera article which are not reproduced here by a...
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Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Message Ceenom
The Most Important Message Ever Revealing Wisdom of supreme significance related to science and humanity communicated to all Heads of Nations, United Nations, universities, research centres,...
View ArticleOpen Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: Ethnographic Study
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View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Here comes… “Iraq warns Turkey-KRG oil deal would...
Iraq warns Turkey-KRG oil deal would harm ties ‘The Iraqi government informed the Turkish envoy in Baghdad of its strong opposition to signing the pipeline deal with KRG,’ PM Maliki‘s spokesman said...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere agenda: European Commission to restore...
European Commission outlines steps to restore faith in US-EU data sharing in a post-PRISM world The European Commission (EC) has drafted measures designed to restore faith in the flow of data between...
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