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May 26, 2013
6:07
“When I’m sitting with a man and he’s dying”
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The moral imperative – the obligation and responsibility – to ‘carry and holding one another,’ is culturally elaborated on many levels of Yolŋu socio-political life. (Hence, for example, the title of this clip from my wäwa’s funeral.) In ...

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Neuroanthropology on Brain Science Podcast
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Ginger Campbell, who runs the great Brain Science Podcast project, was kind enough to feature Greg and myself for her 97th episode. We discussed The Encultured Brain with Ginger for over an hour, and now the podcast is up: Neuroanthropology: ...

May 25, 2013
21:50
DiDD Presentation on Web Design
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This is a presentation I did online for the North Carolina Community College Digital Designers and Developers Association on Friday. Enjoy! P.S. This presentation was given as part of the awesome job that I am giving up to go back ...

20:05
From the American Association for the Advancement (?) of Science (?)
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The following is a guest post by Richard Sproat: Regular readers of Language Log will remember this piece discussing the various problems with a paper by Rajesh Rao and colleagues in their attempt to provide statistical evidence for the status of ...

19:51
EFD Rights Watch: Reporters Without Borders condemned Sevan Nişanyan’s conviction…
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“Nişanyan’s Sentence Contradicts Secularism” Reporters Without Borders condemned Sevan Nişanyan’s conviction to 13.5 months of prison for insulting Prophet Mohammed and urged a dismissal in the appeals trial. Reporters Without Borders condemns Turkish-Armenian writer’s blasphemy sentence RWB slammed the ruling ...

19:01
Graham Farmelo’s The strangest man
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I have been enjoying Garaham Farmelo’s The strangest man: The hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius. It is a very interesting book. There are things which come as a surprise: for example, Dirac’s encounter with Ehrenfest only months before ...

17:41
Utku Kali probably under torture for leaking Reyhanlı documents…
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Gendarmerie officer accused of leaking secret documents on Reyhanlı arrested A gendarmerie officer suspected of leaking secret documents on terrorist activities in the southern Hatay province bordering Syria to the hacker group RedHack was arrested. Related posts: #RedHack releases ...

17:11
Numerals in webcomics
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Over the past few years, I have been informally collecting and curating a set of comics (mostly online webcomics) relating to my main research interest in numerals, number systems, and numeracy. While I am led to understand that not everyone ...

16:50
Journaling On, but why?
» ‎ tabsir.net

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Recently I received news of three new journals with laudable goals: one is Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies, an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal; the second is The Sociology of Islam Journal, which will be published ...

16:27
Under increasing pressure, citizens to find innovative ways of protest… A gathering for kissing… A social fabric roundup:
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Ankara locals to protest against metro announcement calling for moral behavior Ankara residents have started a social media campaign against a “moral warning” in the local metro system ************************************** Turkish ministry’s booklet promotes foreplay The Family and Social Policies Ministry ...

16:00
Between Crisis and New Public Management
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A while ago I wrote a book review in LATISS of an interesting 2010 essay collection that appeared in France, Higher Education between New Public Management and Systemic Crisis (L’enseignement supérieur entre nouvelle gestion publique et crise systémique), edited by Annie ...

15:42
Erdoğan finally in Reyhanlı. The crowd transported from other cities…
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‘Those who seek to preserve their dictatorship disrupted our peace’, Turkish PM says in Reyhanlı During his Reyhanlı visit, Turkish PM Erdoğan accused al-Assad of being involved in the bombings ***************** Bumps on Erdoğan’s road to presidency It seems 2014 ...

15:32
Blend of the week
» ‎ Language Log

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Sharknado is apparently an actual movie, about to be released, about tornados made of sharks. The official synopsis: When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in ...

15:22
Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United States
» ‎ Anthropology Report

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An immigration reform bill has moved to the U.S. Senate. We’ve heard from political hacks masquerading as academics. We’ve heard from ideologues masquerading as law-makers. However, we could hear more from anthropologists studying immigration in the U.S. Anthropology combines statistics ...

15:04
Türkiye İslamcılığının yeni bir dip noktası… Fatih Camii’nde Protesto: “Katil İran, Katil Hizbullah”
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Haberi Haksöz‘de. Ben Friendfeed‘de dolanırken gördüm. Birçok İslami kuruluşun dâhil olduğu Suriye Halkıyla Dayanışma Platformunun çağrısıyla bugün Fatih Camii’nde toplanan Müslümanlar Banyas’ta Esed’e bağlı çeteler tarafından kadın-çocuk demeden gerçekleştirilen katliamı ve yine Hatay’a bağlı Reyhanlı ilçesinde meydana gelen bombalı saldırıları ...
14:35
Look how AKP MEPs worked on to legislate more alcohol restrictions…
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Q&A: On Turkey’s proposed alcohol restrictions ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A look at legislation passed in Turkey’s parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on the sale of such beverages, and how such a law ...

13:33
It depends on what "do not" means
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Departing from Canadian stereotypes: "Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies using crack cocaine", CBC News 5/24/2013 There has been a serious accusation from the Toronto Star that I use crack cocaine. I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an ...

12:05
Move along now, nothing to see here.
» ‎ trinketization

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This is on page 26. Cop killer Cregan getting roughed up in the back of the prison van. Article appeared on the same day we have detailed reports on page one of Drummer Lee Ryan’s killers being approached by MI5 ...

8:53
Wodehouse and Rilke
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Read Wodehouse’s Uncle dynamite and he is as entertaining as ever; also read Rilke’s Letter to a young poet — may be, worth reading once....

5:50
Indicrteurseus
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At the top of hundreds of webpages belonging to the Shenzhen Energy Corporation, a large power company in Guangdong Province, China, we find the following four main headings: shǒuyè 首页 ("Home") xīnwén zhōngxīn 新闻中心 ("News center") tóuzīzhě guānxì 投资者关系 ("Indicrteurseus") ...

May 24, 2013
23:15
Issue 18
» ‎ anthropologies - A Collaborative Online Project

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Confronting Race & RacismMay 2013Photo: "Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi." Marion Post Wolcott, circa 1939. From the Library of Congress, part of a larger collection of Farm Security Administration photographs ...
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Introduction: Racism, hidden away
» ‎ anthropologies - A Collaborative Online Project

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I think a lot of people in the US want to forget about racism. They don't want to talk about it, bring it up, deal with it, think about it. They want to tell themselves that racism was something that ...
23:07
Race matters and anthropology counts!
» ‎ anthropologies - A Collaborative Online Project

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In the USA we are confused about, and fascinated with, race. Let me give you two examples:#1- Much discussion about the recent terror attack in Boston circled around the race of the perpetrators, and once they were caught it got ...
23:06
Five questions with Jonathan Marks
» ‎ anthropologies - A Collaborative Online Project

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Ryan Anderson: You focus on race and racism in a lot of your work. Why?Jonathan Marks: Because it is the question that defined the field of physical anthropology for most of its existence, and we have learned a lot about ...
23:05
Not all White Men Are Rich:Being an Anthropologist and a Suitor in Ghana, West Africa
» ‎ anthropologies - A Collaborative Online Project

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IntroductionIdentity consists of a package of signifiers including such seemingly disparate components as ethnicity, gender, class, and religion. These components interact with each other in a way that makes their individual poignancies difficult to determine (Yelvington 1995). These components, however, ...
23:04
Cosmopolitan apartheid? The racial landscape of Contemporary Colombia
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The disproportionate marginality and victimization of Colombia’s ethnic minorities has its origins in what Cristina Rojas describes as its ‘regime of representation: a space of presences and absences [including] things that appear, that are visible, as well as those that ...
23:03
Medicine in black and white
» ‎ anthropologies - A Collaborative Online Project

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The woman was a refugee from Eritrea. Stated age: 26. Supposedly 6 months pregnant. The old doctor looked over her file. A few lost pregnancies. One birth. He began talking to us in English. He assumed she couldn’t possibly understand ...
23:02
Researching Race While Being Raced: Reflections on Race Politics in Anthropology
» ‎ anthropologies - A Collaborative Online Project

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Let’s have an honest discussion about Race in Anthropology. As a non-white anthropologist who conducts research on issues of race, racism, class, nationalism, citizenship, and belonging I find that frank discussions on race and racism within the discipline of anthropology, ...
23:00
Race and the public perception of anthropology
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Anthropologists have dedicated much time to deconstructing and denouncing racial myths (see, for example, the AAA's statement on race from 1998) and, as a result, the idea that "race does not exist" has been as strongly absorbed into the anthropological ...

22:25
Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: Kasım’da anayasa referandumu olabilir…
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English: An illustration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Erdoğan’ın ABD ziyareti ve Yeni Anayasa Sabah Başbakan Erdoğan’ın ABD ziyareti, kim ne derse desin, Türkiye’nin iftihar ettiği başarılı bir ziyaret olmuştur. Sadece karşılanışı, misafir edilişi, şahsına ve heyetine gösterilen ...

20:36
Border collie syntax?
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I have been unabashedly contemptuous of previous stories about dogs learning to understand human languages (for example, I hammered home the point that fetching named objects is not understanding language in this 2004 post, which Mark Liberman followed up here). ...
18:53
Sloppiness and its enemies
» ‎ Language Log

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Paul Krugman ("The Sloppiness Syndrome", NYT 5/22/2013): So what is it with New Republic alumni? First Michael Kinsley, then Charles Lane, weigh in with defenses of austerity that aren’t just wrong, but painfully ill-informed. Kinsley not only makes a really ...

16:58
Extended coverage!
» ‎ trinketization

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tf4eXbk7ME&feature=share Filed under: Pantomime Terror, Terror...

15:00
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
» ‎ AAA blog

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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for undesignated seat #7 ...

14:52
Barometer report: EUROPEAN YOUTH: PARTICIPATION IN DEMOCRATIC LIFE
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full report here. Countries using the Euro de jure Countries and territories using the Euro de facto Countries in the EU not using the Euro (Photo credit: Wikipedia) EUROPEAN YOUTH: PARTICIPATION IN DEMOCRATIC LIFE INTRODUCTION The primary objective of the ...

13:48
A Rich Look at the Kurds, #2
» ‎ tabsir.net

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Here we continue the thread on the British diplomat Claudius James Rich, whose travel account of Kurdistan is well worth looking at. Here is his description of a Kurdish house in 1820. (more…)...

13:47
Y. Lisans tezine destek atsak? “Sağlık Alanında Mobil Aplikasyonlar
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English: How to use MPME on mobile applications (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sağlık Alanında Mobil Aplikasyonlar Bu anket Galatasaray Üniversitesi ve İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi kapsamında yapılan bir araştırma için hazırlanmıştır. Bilgiler üçüncü şahıslarla paylaşılmayacaktır. Zaman ayırdığınız için teşekkür ederiz. Link burada ...
11:35
Cengiz Aktar: Demirören haberi/ Yargıtay 9. Daire/ Yardım Toplama Kanun Tasarısı
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Demirören haberi Sıradan bir vak’a değil. Haberdeki iddialarda sözü edilen işlerin benzerleri 20. yüzyıl başındaki ulus inşasıyla başlar. Gayrimüslim mallarının yağması vasıtasıyla gerçekleştirilen ulusal sermaye birikimidir bu. Matthias Bjørnlund The 1914 cleansing of Aegean Greeks as a case of violent ...
10:52
Murat IV era is back! The ruling party adopts more alcohol restrictions…
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English: Portrait of Murad IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623-1640). The portrait has been printed using the Giclée process. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ottoman Sultan Murat IV, restored the judicial regulations by very strict punishments, including execution. Halil İnalcık reports ...

10:33
In the Journals: May 2013 (Part 2/2) by Basak Can
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Here is the second part. American Ethnologist Feminine power or feminine weakness? North Indian girls’ struggles with aspirations, agency, and psychosomatic illness (Jocelyn Marrow) In Hindi-speaking northeastern India, mothers whose daughters are afflicted with a psychosomatic illness referred to locally ...

9:53
CfP: Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe: Consumption and Aesthetics
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Closer Blog: Call for Papers:Practices of everyday life are central to discover the subjectivity of Muslims. This workshop seeks to explain the daily life choices and preferences in the context of subjectivity and self, looking at the questions concerning the ...

8:09
Somatosphere May Journal Roundup 1/2 by Francis Mckay
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Hi all, here’s the first part of the journal roundup for this month. Enjoy. Science, Technology, & Human Values Theorizing the Bioeconomy: Biovalue, Biocapital, Bioeconomics or . . . What? (Kean Birch and David Tyfield) In the policy discourses ...

6:05
life lessons
» ‎ Shenzhen Noted

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Yesterday, my friend told me a story about how her sixth grade lost the role of Maria in a short skit based on The Sound of Music. The sixth grade is preparing a graduation celebration that includes skits, songs, speaches,...

May 23, 2013
23:38
RedHack statement after the arrest of soldiers over leaked documents. @RedHack_EN
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Turkish Government tries to hide their responsibility for the bombings in Reyhanli by arresting innocent soldiers Officer in custody over leaks on Reyhanlı attack A gendarmerie officer suspected of leaking secret documents to a Turkish hacker group has been ...

21:37
Links & Contents I Liked 77
» ‎ Aidnography - Development as anthropological object

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Hello all,Welcome to the final link review from Canada! We are getting ready for our move to Sweden next week and I just scheduled an interesting post for next Thursday to tie the link review over before it shall resume ...

20:36
News Round Up In-Brief
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U.S. News Although Border Patrol apprehensions have lessened in recent years, the deaths of migrants in the Arizona desert due to dehydration and heat exhaustion have remained high. Last fiscal year there were 463 deaths, a number rivaled only by ...

19:00
Lowrider Space
» ‎ American Ethnography Quasimonthly

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We take a special interest in scientific works on outlaw aesthetics here at American Ethnography Quasimonthly. And we also love us some writing on car customization. Thus, when we heard about Ben Chappell's Lowrider Space, a new publication from the ...

16:08
African Sci-Fi, Afrofuturismus und Queere Temporalität
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Vortrag von Henriette Gunel (Universität Bayreuth) über Science-Fiction und Futurismus in der afrikanischen Pop-Kultur im Zusammenhang mit Geschlecht, Sexualität und queerer Temporalität In der Populärkultur des afrikanischen Kontinents gab es in den letzten Jahren eine merkliche Zunahme von Anleihen an das ...

16:07
“Unholly alliance”: Saudi Arabia, Turkey solidify Syria policy… a FP roundup..
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Saudi Arabia, Turkey solidify Syria policy Turkey and Saudi Arabia reiterated their common understanding on the civil war in Syria… Turkey seals border crossing with Syria Turkey has closed a border gate with Syria following two deadly bomb ...
15:10
Hayri Kozakçıoğlu found dead. More secrets buried… Another blasphemy case… EFD Rights Watch
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Turkey’s former state of emergency region governor found dead Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, a former state of emergency regional governor in southeastern Turkey. ********** Turkish-Armenian scribe sentenced to 13 months for blasphemy in blog post An Istanbul court has sentenced Turkish-Armenian writer. ...

15:00
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for undesignated seat #5 ...

14:55
Web Roundup: Public and Private by Melanie Boeckmann
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Last month Matthew Dalstrom linked to web content on abortion and patent laws. The divide between public and private, and questions such as: Is what’s private really always political? inspire this month’s short web roundup. The Open Access movement has a vocal ...

14:44
Eurosphere roundup: “Stockholm riots spread around city…
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Stockholm riots spread around city A fourth night of unprecedented riots in Stockholm sees unrest spread around the city, with a restaurant and up to 40 cars burnt. Wait, there are riots in Sweden? You’ve read the stories about Sweden’s ...

14:11
A Rich Look at the Kurds, #1
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Old travel books never cease to delight me. While century-and-more books used to be available mainly in rare book collections of major libraries, the magic of archive.org brings digital life to the genre. Take, for example, the travel account of ...

14:03
Cyberculture roundup: Twitter’s Innovator Patent Agreement… Googe abandoning Open Standards for Instant Messaging
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Twitter builds internal guidelines for handling legal battles over patents Twitter officially patented its “pull-to-refresh” technology for streaming on its mobile app today, The Verge reports. But Twitter also has an original, internal approach to patent applications. Twitter ...

13:32
Squids in his (her, your) ink
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From Gabe Wyner come photos of a menu in Arcos de la Frontera, whose English version is full of the delightful consequences of someone's earnest reliance on a bilingual dictionary. For example: In the Spanish version of the menu, that ...

12:07
Being gay in the finance industry | Joris Luyendijk
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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A product control worker tells Joris he doesn't face real homophobia, but that he doesn't see gay people in front-office trading positions. Join him in the threadWhat's it like being gay in finance? It appears that investment banks hunger for ...
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Product controller: 'If you've been there for a while, it becomes harder to suddenly say: by the way, I am gay' | Joris Luyendijk
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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A product controller discusses being gay and working in finance, as well as his role in the 'middle office' of his firm• This monologue is part of a series in which people across the financial sector speak to Joris Luyendijk ...

11:58
Are vervet monkeys truly conformist? (and should we care?)
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A recent paper in Science allegedly showing conformist imitation in vervet monkeys is raising criticism. The study, by Érica van de Waal, Christelle Borgeaud, and Andrew Whiten, shows that vervet monkeys reproduce the arbitrary food preferences that are exhibited in ...
11:26
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognition and Culture
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The Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion at Masaryk University is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognition and Culture. The successful candidate will be employed to work under the supervision of Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas (Director) on ...

10:41
Erkan tweeting from NOCISTANBUL #nocistanbul
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official website: [www.nocistanbul.com] Twitter hashtag: #nocistanbul I will try to do my best in Turkish and in English to sum up the talks… from my own Twitter account. ‘Fatih Projesi 750 bin öğretmene ulaşacak’ İstanbul Bilgi ve Harvard ...

10:25
Intellectual influence (or grooming, if you feel paranoid)
» ‎ The Naked Anthropologist

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Recently I was accused of ‘academic grooming’ by someone disappointed that everyone who writes and talks about sex does not agree with her. The idea of grooming isn’t developed but interests me. It means preparing someone for a specific purpose, ...

9:57
‘Islam is not a monolith’ – Mohsin Hamid
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It is somewhat depressing to have to say this, but in the light of the reaction to the Woolwich attack (see this article, contains today’s Guardian frontpage), and the fact that the attackers were promptly tagged as Islamic terrorists, it ...

7:40
The Mining Advisory Council sends us a letter
» ‎ Nineteen years and counting in Papua New Guinea

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This is noncommittal, as you will note (and alittle snitty about my threat to embark on an international campaign---Done, by the way, MRA)---but it is very very good news in the end. We know that the MRA are meeting with ...

5:24
prefabricated, movable dormitories
» ‎ Shenzhen Noted

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One of the most common sights sites in Shenzhen — the prefabricated, movable dormitory. Of note, although almost half of sales are domestic, nevertheless the “Chinese standard” is being profitably exported throughout South America, Southeast Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the...

3:39
New Blog – The Cranky Sociologists
» ‎ The Global Sociology Blog

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And while I was busy setting up a new blog with Todd Krohn and Dave Mayeda – The Cranky Sociologists – I forgot to put a post here sending you all there if you feel so inclined. There is some ...

1:05
Jason Richwine, Scientist?
» ‎ Ethnography.com

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"We destroy people with the inappropriate tools we use to study them" – Ray Birdwhistell Jason Richwine has emerged to defend himself in a National Review editorial. As you might expect, Richwine contextualizes his dissertation as an exercise in scientific ...

0:52
Meta: Had to block all traffic from China
» ‎ Photoethnography.com Blog

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With deep regret, I've had to implement a filter that block all IP traffic originating from Chinese internet service providers. This affects all of the websites and blogs under my control. The reason for this was that I was getting ...

May 22, 2013
23:42
Sac and Fox: turning over Thorpe won't be costly
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Sac and Fox: turning over Thorpe won't be costly...

20:09
Q&A with a London derivatives trader | Joris Luyendijk
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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Joris spoke to this trader about the complex world of derivatives and the more relaxed culture in continental Europe. The trader then joined readers in the thread to answer questions'The culture is so different. We try to build relationships with ...

18:18
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
» ‎ AAA blog

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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for undesignated seat #4 ...

18:00
Derivatives trader: 'Trading can take over your life – but only if you let it' | Joris Luyendijk
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A migrant derivatives trader working in London talks of how he trades on volatility to buy himself financial security• This monologue is part of a series in which people across the financial sector speak to Joris Luyendijk about their working ...

17:16
One research I’d love to do
» ‎ Loomnie

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Ethnographic research with African traders and migrants in China. Research appetite adequately whetted by: Ghanaian merchant Ben Owusu-Achiaw said many of the African companies he works with have moved away from simple import-export operations because of competition from Chinese merchants. “Go to Makola Market,” ...

16:12
Heritage Distancing
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Have you read Douglas Reeser and Claire Novotny’s recent Anthropology News article on heritage distancing? The article, Destroying Nohmul, describes the destruction of an ancient Maya site in Belize. Read the entire article on the Anthropology News website, below is an ...

16:09
Yemen Chameleon
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No, this is not about politics, but the real thing. The Yemen chameleon, which is quite colorful, is Chamaeleo calyptratus. Enjoy the pictures. Source (more…)...

16:08
#RedHack releases secret military documents related to Reyhanlı Explosions…
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Here is the link in Turkish Secret Military Documents of Turkey’s Reyhanli explosion was hacked and Leaked online by RedHack Related posts: RedHack hacks Turkish Higher Education Council servers, releases corruption documents related to universities…. [updated continously] Wikileaks releases Iraq ...

15:52
old man Wagner, on deinem geburtstag (200th)
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‘Wagner became involved in revolutionary activities against the royal family of Saxony. On Oct. 5, 1848 he was dismissed from the Dresden Hoftheater and he was imprisoned May 7-8, 1849 after taking part in an insurrection on the market square ...

15:48
A FP roundup: Turkish Defense Ministry denies claims used army uniforms given to Syrian rebels…
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Colonel Riyad al-Asad and others announcing the FSA’s formation in an online video statement (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Turkish Defense Ministry denies claims used army uniforms given to Syrian rebels Turkish Defense Ministry officials have denied a claim by the main ...

15:35
Multimediale Ethnographie
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Am Dienstag, den 28. Mai um 20 Uhr in Raum L155 stellen die Studenten aus dem Seminar "Multimediale Ethnographie" von Matthias Eberl im Rahmen der Film-AG ihre Forschungsarbeiten vor. Ziel des zweisemestrigen Seminars war es, eine textbasierte Form der Ethnographie zu ...

14:30
“Three University Projects Use Twitter to Understand Happiness, Hate and Other Emotions in America…and an Academic roundup…
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Three University Projects Use Twitter to Understand Happiness, Hate and Other Emotions in America It turns out that the fleeting pronouncements we post on Twitter are catnip for academics and others eager to find the allusive pulse of American society. ...

13:38
Ngram morality
» ‎ Language Log

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David Brooks has found a congenial story in Google ngrams — or rather, in three papers about ngrammatical history, which he interprets to show that virtue, discipline, and concern for the common good have been declining, while subjectivity and concern ...
13:30
Protesting too much
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A guest post from Tony Kroch: The line "The Lady doth protest too much, me thinks" from Hamlet that Mark Liberman blogged about at the end of last month struck me because it encapsulates in one sentence several significant changes ...

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Video: [Taksim'de] Güneşli Günler Dileriz…
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Related posts: Michael Jackson Tribute in Taksim Square and more to watch; a video selection About the curious Taksim project, Mavi Boncuk has some Taksim square photos.. and an Istanbul roundup… Explosion in Taksim Square. 32 wounded… Bilgi Halkla İlişkiler ...
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One step further in Turkish conservatives’ war against Society: “‘alcohol ban’ bill passes commission… EFD Rights Watch…
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Controversial ‘alcohol ban’ bill passes commission A draft bill restricting the sale and consumption of alcohol is set to pass. **************** Military rejects claims of Alevi discrimination The claim of a main opposition party figure that Alevi military personnel. Cameras ...

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Tabudish and the origins of Mandarin
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In the comments to "Shanghainese", a lively discussion on the relationship between the Wu branch of Sinitic languages and early Mandarin has ensued. Quoting South Coblin, This reminds me … of something Jerry Norman was wont to say, i.e., that ...

May 21, 2013
23:18
Pew Report: Teens still use Facebook and know about privacy settings… A Cyberculture roundup…
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Teens, Social Media, and Privacy: New Survey Findings from Pew and the Berkman Center Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical ...

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Technology And Knowledge: Joined At The Hip---Robin Ridington's Contribution To Archaeological Practise
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This will be a bit like the old Touchstone Thursdays, in which yours truly draws your attention to a gem of a paper---one that really advances the discipline of archaeology. This time it's from an ethnologist, Robin Ridington (Professor Emeritus, University ...

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Eurosphere roundup: “Candidates for President of the European Council…”EU poised to blacklist Hizbollah army
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The legislative triangle of the European Union (Photo credit: Wikipedia) EU poised to blacklist Hizbollah army Hope that a formal request by UK, ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting in late June, will open way for sanctions of Hizbollah’s European ...

20:38
David Brooks is a Cultural Problem
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Culture has become a cultural problem. I’m finishing up my Introduction to Anthropology course, getting the books ready for Cultural Anthropology, and then along comes David Brooks with What Our Words Tell Us, which spent two days at the top ...

18:35
SAVE OUR FIRE STATIONS
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SAVE OUR FIRE STATIONS Here is a list of public consultation meetings across London to discuss the proposed fire station closures, and the subsequent job loses. Please try to attend your local meeting to make sure your concerns are heard. ...
16:51
What’s on this week – via CCS!
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Wednesday 22 May Brazil: A Landscape in Motion Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, 10am – 6pm Day workshop on Brazil with various guest speakers, -plus book launch. (more details…) ___________________________________________________________________ Thursday 23 May Ken Wark 137, Richard Hoggart Building. [wp.me] ...

16:51
The Egyptian Blue Lotus
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Few names are more revered in the early history of botany than Linnaeus, whose taxonomic system systematized the effective ordering of plants and animals according to sexual reproduction. Although he himself did not doubt that certain genera were created by ...

16:32
Journalism roundup: 5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy.. Gawker’s “Crackstarter”…algorithmic objectivity…
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Image via CrunchBase 5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter) into one of ...

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It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for undesignated seat #4 ...

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Jews in Bukhara
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Alanna E. Cooper, an anthropologist and a Jewish cultural historian began her research on an old Central Asian Jewish community because of a small and curious dictionary: I don’t remember the name of the man who sold the dictionary to ...

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Ritual Drama – Dramatic Ritual: Anthropology, Theatre and Performance Practices (Berlin)
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A 900 euro summer course in Berlin on theatre and Performance ritual with formed CCS prof Klaus Peter Koepping. Might be of interest to people. Ritual Drama – Dramatic Ritual: Anthropology, Theatre and Performance Practices wie versprochen: hier der Link ...

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Massive tornado in Oklahoma… Photos collected from Reddit…
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Teachers Carrying Elementary Students out of School Leveled by Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma My brother’s friend after the tornado standing in front of his former house. A teacher finds one of his students among the rubble caused ...

12:39
Misnegation or term of art?
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Roni Caryn Rabin, "No Easy Choices on Breast Reconstruction", NYT Blogs 5/20/2013: A syndrome called upper quarter dysfunction — its symptoms include pain, restricted immobility and impaired sensation and strength — has been reported in over half of breast cancer ...

11:49
Privatisation of the Intellect
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So, are comments on student work also notes to self? I wonder if there is a not a deeper impasse here in the idea that university ideal might still be construed as an institutionalised vehicle for more or less organised ...

11:35
Grammar vs. style: ignorance in The Times
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Articles about English grammar in UK newspapers tend to exhibit an almost incredible degree of stupidity. In no other subject could such self-contradictory idiocy be accepted, or subjected to so little fact-checking. Today's exhibit is an article headed "English like ...

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Osscyclopedia
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Announcing the immanent launch of a new free Osscyclopedia, written from the other end – no longer referring to the DDR as Former East without remembering the BRD is the Former West; no longer lauding Captain Cook as anything other ...

9:38
Defining and Understanding Islamophobia in Europe – A Review
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Closer Blog: Islamophobia as a concept, and as a social phenomenon, is difficult to grasp. In writing Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe, Raymond Taras joins a growing number of writers who are making interesting contributions to this topic. My review ...

9:35
Cengiz Aktar: Suriye Politikası
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Suriye Politikası Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Dec. 7, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Suriye’deki içsavaştan, içsavaşın bölgesel ve küresel etkilerinden kimse azade değil. Ön cephede veya daha beride ...
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“Initial agreement for third airport of Istanbul inked …. Istanbul news roundup…
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Initial agreement for third airport of Istanbul inked The consortium of five Turkish companies that won the third airport tender with Velonotte event gathers bikers in old Istanbul Drawing attention to the decreasing number of bike routes in Istanbul, as ...

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Announcement: VAOJ Student Photo Exhibition, May 22-25
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VAOJ students have been working all semester on their ethnographic visual projects and their resulting photos will be exhibited from Wednesday, May 22 to Saturday, May 25. This time the photo exhibition will be included with the Asian Studies Program ...

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Biden at Penn: did the Vice President insult the Chinese nation?
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The Tea Leaf Nation online magazine posted this article on May 19, 2013: "VP Biden’s Penn Commencement Speech Inspires Viral Rant by ‘Disappointed’ Chinese Student." The article, by Xiaoying Zhou, offers an excellent account of this tempest in a teapot ...

3:43
Links: From The Golden Bough to Digital Public Anthropology
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Practical Training for the Digitally Il/literate Anthropologist. Good advice from guest blogger Taz Kerim at Savage Minds. Public Anthropology Conference 2013 – A Decade of Resistance. Deadline 1 August 2013. “In 2003 graduate students of the anthropology department at American ...

May 20, 2013
23:38
Oklahoma Senate unveils $80M plan for 2 new museums
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Oklahoma Senate unveils $80M plan for 2 new museums...

23:27
CFP: Devouring Japan
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The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites paper proposals for “Devouring Japan,” a 2-day interdisciplinary conference on Japanese food and food cultures, to be held in Austin on February 21-22, 2014. Building on ...

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Yeni Anayasa gündemi: Anayasa referandumu seneye olabilir…
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Burhan Kuzu’dan Anayasa Değerlendirmesi: Çıkmamış Canda Ümit Vardır Haberler AK Parti İstanbul Milletvekili ve TBMM Anayasa Komisyonu Başkanı Burhan Kuzu, Milli Türk Talebi Birliği’nin davetlisi olarak ‘başkanlık sistemi’ konulu konferans vermek üzere Elazığ‘a geldi. Havalimanında açıklama yapan Kuzu, “Buraya geliş ...

21:44
An intermediary notation: driving with music playing very loudly in one’s ears
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It’s that time of thesis writing where I need to put in 10am-10pm hours to submit. I have my swag rolled up under my desk and have just returned from a weekend visit to Kyneton where my brother, his ...

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This slightly looks like a police state: The Turkish government will hire 10,000 to form a special security force for stadiums and universities!
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Minister Güler says." alt="A new unit will protect stadiums and universities, Minister Güler says." src="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/news/201305/n_47270_4.jpg" /> A new unit will protect stadiums and universities, Minister Güler says. Government to form new guard unit for protection of universities, stadiums: Minister The ...

18:20
“1 + 1”: More than an Equation
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by Amina Tawasil Schooling is supposed to either spark or augment IQ/cognitive ability which is then exhibited as ‘skills’. Thus, it only follows that schooling increases the chances of upward mobility for girls, women and people of color. And, for ...

18:00
Anthro in the news 5/20/13
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• Too soon to celebrate in Guatemala Victoria Sanford, professor of cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, published an op-ed in The New York Times arguing that it is too soon to declare victory in Guatemala given the evidence ...

17:10
2013 Blizzard Challenge
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From Simon King: I am pleased to announce that the English section of this year's Blizzard Challenge listening test is now live. Please help us out by taking part, and encouraging your colleagues, students, friends, contacts, etc. to take part ...

17:00
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for undesignated seat #2 ...

16:22
GW event: Multilingual Proficiency and Employment Opportunities for Tibetans
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Case Study of Rebgong Monday, May 20, 2013 4:00-5:30PM Mickey East Conference room, suite 501, 5th floor Elliott School of International Affairs 1957 E Street NW Yumkyi Dolma is a graduate student at the Central Minzu University in Beijing who ...

15:41
Hezbollah and Bashar: Another Unholy Alliance
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; Photograph by Wael Hamzeh/European Pressphoto Agency My friend Omar Safi has created a provocative blog entitled What Would Muhammad do? Today I would like to ratchet up the commentary game to an approach which may, at ...

15:19
“Marissa Mayer’s first 300 days as Yahoo’s CEO… A cyberculture roundup…
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Turnaround: Marissa Mayer’s first 300 days as Yahoo’s CEO Yahoo has been plagued by leadership changes among its C-level positions for years. Many of its CEOs have been struggling to find ways to either cut down on cost or innovate ...

15:18
Cyndi Boste’s new album appeal
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Hi John I was wondering if you would mind if I posted a link on your page to promote my crowd funding project. www.pozible.com/project/22454 to raise funds for my new album ‘Nowadays’ Thought it was manners to ask! If you ...

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Call for papers: 2013 RAI Postgraduate Conference on Tensions in Anthropology
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Photo courtesy of RAI Postgraduate Conference Ideas in Movement: Addressing Tensions in Anthropology, a conference for postgraduates in anthropology, will be held at the University of Aberdeen, October 28-29, 2013. The new deadline for proposals is May 31. The Scottish ...

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Heart at East: The Coalition for Equal Distribution of Cultural Funds in Israel
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On May 21, 2013, in Tel Aviv, I'm going to be awarded the Heart at East lifetime achievement plaque for my feminist-of-color activism, community leadership and academic scholarship. Heart at East is a coalition of 20 or so NGOs that ...

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Applying Pixar's rules to report writing and insight generation
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I stumbled across Pixar's 22 rules of story telling the other day and was struck by how similar they are to the way we (at EthOS) have to think in order to disentangle insights from everyday, sometimes mundane events.I have ...

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Turkey might have 3 polls in 2014…
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Turkish PM Erdoğan: We may have 3 polls in 2014 Turkish prime ministers vows to put ‘Plan C, introduce our own draft’ in action if Parliament’s Constitution-making process yields no result. 2014 may see charter referendum: Turkish PM Erdoğan ...
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Document: Ergenekon Defense Files | Full Text in Turkish
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Ergenekon Defense Files | Full Text in Turkish Ergenekon Defense Fies | Full Text in English for Balbay, Haberal and Ozkan All files here Related posts: Ceasefire call aftermath… Full Text in Turkish | İmralı Cezaevi 21 Mart 2013… CHP to ...

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