Ethnography Matters: Technology and Fieldwork: Ethnographic quandries
John McManus studies Turkish football fans in the diaspora at Oxford University’s Center on Migration, Policy and Society (Compas). Editor’s note: This event report is the final post in the ‘Being a...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Side Effect by Joseph Masco
Environmental researchers have recently documented that American rivers and lakes are filled with highly medicated fish – doped on a wide spectrum of antidepressants. It turns out that Americans are...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: Sacred Items Returned to Menominee Indian Tribe
Sacred Items Returned to Menominee Indian Tribe
View ArticleSam Grace: Grant Tip #14: Take notes on your awesomeness
Today’s post is brought to you by my frankly tepid Intellectual Merit section in my current NSF application. As it turns out, intellectual merit is pretty much my thing. Interest in how the...
View ArticleAAA blog: Call for Papers: IUAES 2014 with JASCA
The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) invites anthropologists from around the world to our 50th Anniversary Conference to be held jointly with IUAES Inter-Congress 2014. The conference...
View ArticleCONNECTED in CAIRO: New Review of Connected In Cairo
I knew I was going to be a writer long before I knew I what kind of stuff I was going to write. In spite of a couple of plays that got produced, two lousy novels, a handful of even lousier short...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Substituting Pinyin for unknown Chinese characters
On September 25, I posted on "Character amnesia and the emergence of digraphia", which occasioned a vigorous debate. A few of the commenters thought the essay in question wasn't actually written by a...
View ArticleICCI Home: PhD studentships in Cognitive Science at CEU
The Department of Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU) invites applications for doctoral student positions starting in September 2014. This is a research-based training program in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: Peki, o sandık demokratik mi?
Peki, o sandık demokratik mi? thumb|The PNG source of this image Results of the 2009 local election in Turkey. AKP yellow, CHP red, MHP dark red, Other parties in purple, DTP in green, SP in...
View ArticleVisual Anthropology of Japan: "NHK ordered to pay damages to indigenous...
From Japan Today, 11/30/13: A Japanese court has ordered public broadcaster NHK to pay damages to an indigenous Taiwanese woman for defaming her by using the term “human zoo” in a program, officials...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Fulya Yıldırımer (@Fu7y4): “Masumiyet Yargılanamaz!”
Gerçeklerin halktan saklandığı medyanın egemenlere hizmet ettiği ülke ortamında 97 yılından bu yana halk için var olan RedHack (Kızıl Hackerlar) hakkı ve “bilginin şeffaflığını” savunuyor. 12 kişilik...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Nieuw in Nederland: #Happylines Dawah
Closer Blog:Metro en Sp!ts houden dagelijks ruimte vrij op de voorpagina voor #happylines. Hier kunnen lezers mooie, zelfgeschreven gedachtes, wensen, lieve woorden of een tekening achterlaten voor de...
View ArticleAAA blog: Society for Economic Anthropology Call for Papers
SEA 2014 “Energy & Economy” April 24 – 26, 2014 Austin, TX ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15 Please visit the SEA webpage to read the CFP and submit an abstract. Anthropologists have a...
View ArticleSomatosphere: Why I Make Ethnographic Films (Instead of Writing a Monograph…)...
This post is largely unaltered from its original form on the new blog Psychocultural Cinema, which focuses on the intersection of medical and psychological anthropology with ethnographic and...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: Job Announcement: Tenure-track position in the Anthropology of...
AccessDenied readers may be interested in the following position announcement: The University of Connecticut has initiated a search for a tenure-track assistant professor of anthropology specializing...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yandex data compares Istanbul’s traffic – 17 % more...
Data provided in Turkish here. A comparison between October 2012 to October 2013 states that 17 % more time spent in mornings and 12 % more time spent in evenings in Istanbul traffic since last year…...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The long get longer
Al Filreis's Modern and Contemporary American Poetry is one of the most successful MOOCs. In particular, participants' involvement is sustained over time to an unusual extent — here's the daily volume...
View ArticleSomatosphere: War Death and Epidemiological Imagination by Emily Sogn
During the recent government shutdown, denial of the “death gratuity” to families of recently deceased veterans of the war in Afghanistan allowed people on both sides of a glaring political divide to...
View ArticleAAA blog: AAA Encourages U.S. House Representative to Terminate Human Terrain...
In a letter, AAA’s new President, Dr. Monica Heller encourages and supports the efforts by U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter to terminate the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS). AAA has been a...
View Articletabsir.net: “Thinking About Religion, Secularism and Politics” with Talal Asad
This video interview with Talal Asad (Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York), recorded in 2008, is well worth watching. Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Talal...
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