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May 22, 2013
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. Join him from 7pm in the thread'The culture is so different. We try to build relationships with clients who invest money ...

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
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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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
» ‎ AAA blog

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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
» ‎ tabsir.net

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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…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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 ...
15:48
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
» ‎ Ethno::log

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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…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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
» ‎ Language Log

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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 ...

13:07
Video: [Taksim'de] Güneşli Günler Dileriz…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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 ...
11:11
One step further in Turkish conservatives’ war against Society: “‘alcohol ban’ bill passes commission… EFD Rights Watch…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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 ...

3:38
Tabudish and the origins of Mandarin
» ‎ Language Log

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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…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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 ...

23:02
Technology And Knowledge: Joined At The Hip---Robin Ridington's Contribution To Archaeological Practise
» ‎ The Subversive Archaeologist

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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 ...

21:21
Eurosphere roundup: “Candidates for President of the European Council…”EU poised to blacklist Hizbollah army
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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
» ‎ Living Anthropologically

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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 has now spent two days at ...

18:35
SAVE OUR FIRE STATIONS
» ‎ trinketization

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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!
» ‎ trinketization

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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
» ‎ tabsir.net

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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…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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 ...

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 #4 ...

14:18
Jews in Bukhara
» ‎ Anthropology Now

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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 ...

14:13
Ritual Drama – Dramatic Ritual: Anthropology, Theatre and Performance Practices (Berlin)
» ‎ trinketization

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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 ...

12:45
Massive tornado in Oklahoma… Photos collected from Reddit…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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?
» ‎ Language Log

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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
» ‎ trinketization

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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
» ‎ Language Log

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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 ...

10:36
Osscyclopedia
» ‎ trinketization

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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
» ‎ C L O S E R

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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 ...
7:52
“Initial agreement for third airport of Istanbul inked …. Istanbul news roundup…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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 ...

6:58
Announcement: VAOJ Student Photo Exhibition, May 22-25
» ‎ Visual Anthropology of Japan

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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 ...

3:53
Biden at Penn: did the Vice President insult the Chinese nation?
» ‎ Language Log

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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
» ‎ Anthropology Report

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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
» ‎ Museum Anthropology

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Oklahoma Senate unveils $80M plan for 2 new museums...

23:27
CFP: Devouring Japan
» ‎ FoodAnthropology

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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 ...

22:34
Yeni Anayasa gündemi: Anayasa referandumu seneye olabilir…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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
» ‎ Fieldnotes & Footnotes

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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 ...

20:13
This slightly looks like a police state: The Turkish government will hire 10,000 to form a special security force for stadiums and universities!
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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
» ‎ Ethnography.com

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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
» ‎ anthropologyworks

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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
» ‎ Language Log

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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
» ‎ 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 #2 ...

16:22
GW event: Multilingual Proficiency and Employment Opportunities for Tibetans
» ‎ anthropologyworks

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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
» ‎ tabsir.net

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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…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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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
» ‎ trinketization

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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 ...

15:15
Call for papers: 2013 RAI Postgraduate Conference on Tensions in Anthropology
» ‎ anthropologyworks

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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 ...

15:00
Heart at East: The Coalition for Equal Distribution of Cultural Funds in Israel
» ‎ Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts

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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 ...

13:33
Applying Pixar's rules to report writing and insight generation
» ‎ ethnosnacker

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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 ...

12:27
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 ...
11:10
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 ...

1:56
spizzwinks in shenzhen
» ‎ Shenzhen Noted

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Just spent the past 2 and a half days tagging along with the Spizzwinks. They are all that. Energetic, generous with their smiles and attention, respectful, and talented. And yes, the Spizzwinks charmed and amazed three very different audiences at...

May 19, 2013
20:49
More learnings from the world of mobile ethnography
» ‎ ethnosnacker

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Let me cut to the chase here with the briefest of backgrounds. A client is running their own explorations of current account holders. Tasks carefully designed and scheduled, segments generated and tags finalised.Entries started to rain down on us; video ...

20:27
Cyberculture roundup: Open Rights Group Report: “Digital Surveillance” and more…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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The Internet of Things: In action By 2015, six billion objects in the world will be connected to the internet. While it may seem tricky to grasp as a concept, the internet of things is nothing simpler, and more ...

19:43
GW event: Mobility, Precarity and Empowerment in African Migration
» ‎ anthropologyworks

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May 23, 2013, from 8:30am to 2pm Location: Room 651 Duques Hall, GW (corner of G and 22nd St, NW Washington, DC) Presentations and discussion will offer a creative re-thinking of African migration and displacement in which movement is typically ...

18:53
Eurosphere roundup: British Foreign Office under pressure with drunk Britons…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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British Foreign Office to drunk Britons everywhere: No, we can’t translate that tattoo for you Here, in all its glory, is the full list: A man who required hospital treatment in Cambodia when a monkey dislodged a stone that hit ...

17:47
A far-flung Nostratic colony in the Andes
» ‎ Language Log

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In "The Inca Connection: A Quechua Word Game", 5/18/2013, Piotr Gąsiorowski compares "a 200-word Swadesh list for Southern Quechua and the Tower of Babel 'Eurasiatic' etymologies", and finds 22 clear matches. He notes that "There are only twenty-two matches because I ...

17:46
Turkish PM visits Silicon Valley… in the mean time accuses Turkish media for not standing up against al-Assad…
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Turkish media has not stood up enough against Bashar al-Assad: PM Erdoğan The Turkish print and visual media haven’t stood against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said. Turkish PM visits Silicon Valley Turkish Prime Minister Recep ...

17:29
Alice E. Kober papers
» ‎ Glossographia

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For those interested in a more in-depth look at the state of Minoan/Mycenean script decipherment in the late 1940s, or more generally in the life of Alice Kober, here is a link to a wonderful digital collection of her papers, ...

16:16
Art not for art’s sake
» ‎ tabsir.net

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Gérôme’s “The Slave Market,” left; response by Iraqi woman artist, right Before Edward Said revitalized the term “Orientalism” in his seminal 1978 book of the same title, the major use of the term was for a genre of Western art, ...

14:16
Rep. Gohmert's asparagus
» ‎ Language Log

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Luke Johnson, "Louie Gohmert Goes Off On Eric Holder At House Hearing", Huffington Post 5/16/2013: A visibly infuriated Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tore into Attorney General Eric Holder after his time expired in a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. […] ...

10:39
Video of Sex Work as Work: some ideas on labour policy and organising
» ‎ The Naked Anthropologist

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Last month I spoke at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, held in Liberty Tower on the Liffey. There was some resistance to my insistence on sticking to the programme from a couple of audience members during the Q&A, but I was ...

9:30
After the disaster (but before Krugman endorsed Klein's shock doctrine)
» ‎ Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts

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Nate Roberts posted a link on Facebook to a recent piece by Paul Krugman essentially saying that he once thought Naomi Klein's views on neoliberalism were extreme, but now he thinks she could be right. This led me to look up ...

3:04
Are There Human Races? The Evolutionary Biology---Or Not---Of Race
» ‎ The Subversive Archaeologist

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Foreword: I ran a series on "race" and racism that began on October 7, 2011, which was the SA's third day in cyberspace. I'll be putting it up again in its several parts, beginning today [revised and expanded, as the ...

1:33
Rohingya: A Hidden Genocide in a ‘racially tolerant’ country?
» ‎ C L O S E R

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Closer Blog: In a racial tolerance map of the Washington Post Burma / Myanmar appears to be more 'racially tolerant' then India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. Let's consider the genocide of the Rohingya Muslims.Read more: Rohingya: A Hidden Genocide in ...

May 18, 2013
21:19
EFD Rights Watch: “Officials fail to secure Reyhanlı bombing site…..Number of Women on Police Protection Skyrockets in Turkey…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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Officials fail to secure Reyhanlı bombing site Security at the site of the deadly terrorist attack in Reyhanlı remained lax hours after the event, while officials confess to incompetence and negligence. Number of Women on Police Protection Skyrockets in ...

21:08
Mahragan in Beirut (Sadat and DJ Amr 7a7a)
» ‎ hawgblawg

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(The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban)Sadat and Amr 7a7a made a "surprise" appearance at the Home Works 6 forum on May 15 in Beirut. "Unassailably cool," writes Jim Quilty in The Daily Star.Read more about Home Works and mahragan here....

20:22
Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): İstanbul’da Dünya Nehirler Konferansı
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İstanbul’da bugün Dünya Nehirler Konferansı yapıldı. Green New Media ekibinin tweetleriyle hazırladığım Dünya Nehirler Konferansı derlemesine buradan ulaşabilirsiniz. [View the story "Dünya Nehirler Konferansı" on Storify] Related posts: Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Dersim katliamı İstanbul’da ve Dersim’de anıldı Serhatcan Yurdam: ...
18:17
Bulgarian truck drivers block traffic at the Turkey-Bulgaria border, Depeche Mode fans devastated in Istanbul…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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Headlines you don’t see every day: Disgruntled Bulgarian truckers keep British band from performing in Turkey Reuters brings us today’s reminder that the world is a confusing, intricately interconnected place: Disgruntled Bulgarian truck drivers blocked traffic at two major border ...

17:39
Ken Wark at Goldsmiths 23.5.2013
» ‎ trinketization

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Ken Wark - A (Post) Situationist, (Pre) Situationist Aesthetics A talk by Professor McKenzie Wark of the New School for Social Research, NYC McKenzie Wark The New School for Social Research There can of course be no such thing as a ...

17:18
Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Türkiye’de ilk Vegan Onur Yürüyüşü
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Türkiye‘de ilk Vegan Onur Yürüyüşü İstanbul, Kadıköy‘de bugün yapılan Türkiye’deki ilk Vegan Onur Yürüyüşü’nün derlemesi… via [View the story "Türkiye'deki ilk vegan yürüyüşü" on Storify] Related posts: Serhatcan Yurdam: LGBT Onur Yürüyüşü Serhatcan Yurdam: Cihan Kırmızıgül’e ...
15:57
A roundup academicus: “Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions, Elite Journals, SOPA’s daddy…
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Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions Source: National Foundation for Educational Research (UK) From Press Release: The role of video games in teaching and learning is a source of debate among many educators, researchers and in the popular press. ...

14:59
Postcards from Ghadames, Libya
» ‎ tabsir.net

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Danza Caratteristica Above and below are postcards of scenes in Ghadames, Libya from the 1950s, when it was still a kingdom. Ingresso alla Citt`a Coperta...

14:55
MA Thesis: DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ACTIONS AND THE CHALLENGE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ON THE INTERNET
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DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ACTIONS AND THE CHALLENGE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ON THE INTERNET by Molly Sauter Related posts: and an act of civil disobedience start in Diyarbakır… Cablegate global roundup continues. WikiLeaks Distributed Data Graphic etc… A social roundup: ...
14:09
Reyhanlı’da göstericilere müdahale…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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[View the story "Reyhanlı'da müdahale... " on Storify] Related posts: Hatay’da göstericilere polis müdahalesi.. [Police violence against anti-war demonstrators in Hatay] #HatayAyakta Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): “6 Mayıs: Denizlerin anmasına gazlı müdahale” Geçen haftaki KESK eylemlerinden… [KESK demonstrations and police ...

13:01
The 'gratitude trap' where Hungarian patients keep falling
» ‎ ICCI Home

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As Rothstein argued at length in his book about the problem of social trust, institutions come in many different flavors: explicitly codified law systems, implicitly taken-for-granted exchange arrangements, and so on. Broadly speaking, they all constitute arrangements of some sort ...

9:26
The All-Time Stupidest Question to Ask a Language Learner: Did You Understand what He/She said????!!!!” (Repeated loudly)
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I’ve been living in Germany for the last nine months. One of my goals is to improve my German skills, and guess what, I am getting better. But still my German is still far from perfect. Occasionally I will ...

5:06
Last but Not Least: Hacking the Academy–the Print and Ebook Editions
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I am pleased to note that the University of Michigan Press has now published the print and ebook editions of Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities. This volume was organized and edited by Daniel ...

2:48
Bess Price’s Speech to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
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Go Bess Price Nungarrayi. In case you DON’T know who Bess is, she’s a Warlpiri woman from Yuendumu (in central Australia), who’s now been elected to our Legislative Assembly (that’s the NT’s parliament, in case you’re not sure). For many ...

0:33
Racist Park
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Liwei Jiao sent in a selection of signs from a Chinese website that was originally part of a collection assembled in the Daily Mail. We've seen most of these Chinglish signs before, and have already discussed several of them over ...

May 17, 2013
20:28
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the Academic Jobs Wiki”
» ‎ Sarah Kendzior

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The anthropology blog Savage Minds interviewed me last week on my career, the crisis in higher education and the role of anthropology in public life. An excerpt below, on grad students and the job market: Graduate students live in constant ...

19:00
Natural Language and the Social Sciences
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For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile). Rather than discussing ...

18:39
Verkiezingen in Pakistan: ‘revolutie’ bleef uit
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Closer Blog: Amer Morgahi over de recente verkiezingen in Pakistan gewonnen door Sharif die mikt op economische vooruitgang in het instabiele Pakistan.Read more: Verkiezingen in Pakistan: ‘revolutie’ bleef uit...

16:08
Who wants my job? Digital Designer at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Job Posting
» ‎ How to be an Anthropologist

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Are you an anthropologist and a web designer? Well I have a job for you! I am going back to school and quitting my job. That means that my position as digital designer at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is up for ...

15:33
Less than Desirable Review of “Desiring Arabs”
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Joseph Massad: an Occidentalist’s Other Subjects/Victims by S. Taha, The Arab Leftist Joseph Massad, an associate professor at Columbia University and a now prominent figure in the US academic field of Middle Eastern studies, came to acquire his status through ...

15:08
Misnegation of the week
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From the 5/16/2013 decision of the Third Circuit, invalidating an NLRB decision based on the argument that the "recess appointment" of one of the board's members was invalid: The "main purpose" of the Recess Appointments Clause, therefore, is not—as the ...
14:42
"Significance", in 1885 and today
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There's an ongoing argument about the interpretation of Katherine Baicker et al., "The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes", NEJM 5/2/2013, and one aspect of this debate has focused on the technical meaning of the word significant. ...

13:24
After all, Obama is cautious on Syria, not as excited as Turkish leaders…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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Turkey, the US and the Syrian crisis The United States’ take on the Syrian crisis is not that different than its take on the Arab uprisings. Obama-Erdoğan meet U.S. President Barack Obama hosted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for ...

13:00
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 the undesignated seat ...

12:20
Anthro roundup: A good interview with Sarah Kendzior and more…
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Savage Minds Interview: Sarah Kendzior Sarah Kendzior is a writer for Al Jazeera English. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Washington University and researches the political effects of digital media in the former USSR. You can find her ...
10:55
Turkish State Television saved our morality again by not broadcasting this scene at Eurovision:
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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More news in Turkish here. Related posts: Metalhead Diaries; A look at Turkish metal scene (In Turkish) Turkish state is male-dominated, any surprise? Eurovision times- Turkey gets the second place Turkish infant deaths most in Europe..Turkish state apparatus saves Taksim ...
10:31
Cengiz Aktar: Takrir-i Sükûn/Nükleer/Kamu İhale Yasası
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Takrir-i Sükûn Reyhanlı saldırısı üzerine daha çok düşüneceğiz. Hükümetin kriz idaresinde tercih ettiği haber ve bilgi karartması üzerine de… Cumhurbaşkanı üzerine düşeni yaptı. Taraf da öyle. An attempt at showing world energy usage types with a bar graph. (Meant to replace ...

9:48
Innocent face
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This is the allegedly libelous remark on Twitter that might cost Sally Bercow tens of thousands in damages: Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent face* How (you might ask) could it possibly be libelous simply to ask a question about ...

8:49
Eurosphere roundup: The New Sick Man of Europe, Hollande’s offensive…
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union Source: Pew Research Center From Overview: The European Union is the new sick man of Europe. The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now ...

5:24
グレイス世菜
» ‎ Visual Anthropology of Japan

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幸せ!...

3:42
It Just Wasn’t Me, Was It?
» ‎ AnthroYogini

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In my previous post, I wrote about the diagnosis of Bipolar II that I’d had, and a few of the reasons I’d left a workplace that I’d loved, and the dreadful story of what unfolded last year. Now it’s time ...

May 16, 2013
23:58
Does PCA Have Politics?
» ‎ Ethnography.com

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This morning, armchair scientist and noted fan of this blog, Razib Khan, decided it would be prudent to write about race. It comes by way of Khan issuing a corrective, of sorts, to Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Coates article is wonderful. ...

22:55
Cyberculture roundup: Four LulzSec hackers jailed…. Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament… Google I/O Keynote
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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Four LulzSec hackers have been jailed for up to 32 months each by a UK court Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced in London today following a number of high-profile hacks and DDoS attacks affecting ...

21:11
Links & Contents I Liked 76
» ‎ Aidnography - Development as anthropological object

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Hello all,Quite a range of interesting links (as you would expect...)! My move to Sweden and co-authored research on the development blogosphere lead right into more interesting links on American food aid, Canadian ODA and Kenyan anti-corruption efforts. There's more ...

20:19
Well, not much surprisingly Turkey, US agree al-Assad should go… while Turkey’s main opposition in a strage row with EU socialists…
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Turkey, US agree ‘al-Assad should go for a free Syria’ Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and US President Obama say the boths sides have agreed Bashar al-Assad should leave his post for a transition in Syria. Obama and Turkish PM Erdogan ...
20:14
Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “Çocuk gelin”de ortak tavır, ‘anadil’ gerekçe notuyla…
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Yeni anayasa süreci Mayıs’ta yeni Anayasa’yı yazım süreci birinci yılını doldurmuş olacak. Bu yeni bir anayasa yazılması için uzun bir süre değil Muhalefet Anayasanın değişmesini istemiyor Haber 10 Sivil Dayanışma Platformu Başkanı ve Akil İnsanlar Heyeti Doğu Anadolu grubunda yer ...
18:58
Turkey now finds the real culprit in Reyhanlı bombings: World’s reaction to Syria limited to rhetoric….
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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We won’t let Syria chaos spill into Turkey: President Gül Turkish President Abdullah Gül vows at the site of the the deadly May 11 attacks in Reyhanlı that Syria’s chaos will stop at the frontier with Turkey Turkey’s Gul says ...

18:42
A new site
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Well, I think this site has just about run its course. I decided to go for something a little simpler and cleaner, so I am shifting to this site. But you can still find me on Savage Minds, and of ...

18:00
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 the linguistic seat ...

15:58
Shanghainese
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Just yesterday, in "The enigmatic language of the new Windows 8 ads", we saw how delicate and uncertain is the comprehension of forms of Chinese that one is not intimately familiar with. A significant part of the problem is the ...

15:15
Hope and Fear Documentary
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Hope and Fear: Egypt on the Tipping Point Kickstart the post-production of this Film! Go Deep: View Director’s Cut Trailer - HOPE & FEAR Long Trailer Get Deeper: HOPE & FEAR website - www.HOPEandFEARmovie.com HOPE & FEAR is unlike any ...

13:29
Social fabric roundup: AKP focuses on further alcohol restrictions while joblessness among young increases, child marriages remains to be high….
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Alcohol controversy mounts after Ottoman comparison The Parliament discussed a proposal that would further restrict alcohol sale. World alcoholic drinks leader Diageo concerned over sale restrictions Diageo has expressed concerns over planned alcohol restrictions in Turkey. ********************* Joblessness among young ...

13:28
Coach/therapist: 'What banks are offering people is an identity' | Joris Luyendijk
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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Karin Peeters, a life and executive coach working with bankers, talks about low self-esteem in the sector – and the problem with banker bashingMany readers have pointed out that the banking blog is inherently biased because it depends on volunteers. ...
13:27
Given how bankers appear to treat each other, should we be surprised they don't care for the rest of us? | Joris Luyendijk
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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That was what Joris Luyendijk asked, after hearing from Karin Peeters, who works with bankers. She was online to respond to your questionsWhat if it isn't coke-snorting hedonism or psychopathic sadism but rather deep emotional insecurity that drives many investment ...

13:15
And coming soon to a river frontage not so accessible to you…
» ‎ trinketization

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see the ‘welcome’ message: a huge amount of planning info is on the site: here is some from the recent consultation with you, the public. To view materials from previous consultations, please click on the links below: Exhibition materials February ...
13:01
The East India Company’s Deptford Shipyard
» ‎ trinketization

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The origins of many, although not all, of Britain’s Black and Asian population lie in British traders’ search for profit around the globe. Britain was responsible for uprooting millions of people from Africa and Asia and scattering them across the ...
12:58
Convoys Wharf
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For some time I’ve been collecting material on housing locally. Time to start sorting through it all. And as its been a while since I started a new topic/category on this blog, there is now one called ‘regeneration’. This is ...

10:29
Law against buying sex: Yawn, not even on the timeline
» ‎ The Naked Anthropologist

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Who cares about the law against buying sex? City, a free newspaper like Metro, ran a page recently on sex laws in Sweden. 17 steps to a softer vision of sex A lot has happened on the sex front in ...

9:33
Test Scores, Inequality, and “Goodnight Moon Time”
» ‎ Ethnography.com

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Here is a recent article about test scores from the New York Times, “No Rich Child Left Behind.” They got through the entire article without connecting cognitive abilities to inherited intelligence. Instead, the connection is made to wealth, poverty, and ...

8:11
Body parts, emotions and associated lovely things
» ‎ Fieldnotes & Footnotes

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I went to a brilliant seminar on the language of emotion in Dalabon by Maïa Ponsonnet yesterday. Dalabon is an endangered Gunwinyguan language spoken by less than twelve speakers in Arnhem Land. This is just a skip, hop, ...

2:00
Calling All Shutterbugs – The 2013 AAA Photo Contest
» ‎ AAA blog

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The AAA Photo Contest is designed to demonstrate the rich possibilities of anthropological work through photography. The impressive array of photos received in the past illustrates the diverse and exciting work anthropologists pursue, as well as the insights that AAA ...

May 15, 2013
21:46
Eurosphere roundup: Neo-Nazi trial, EU member states stand on bank bail-in plans, Cameron on EU exit…
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Neo-Nazi probe is a peerless failure: German report An interim parliamentary inquiry report called the National Socialist Underground (NSU) Neo-Nazi trial: Woman ‘part of kill squad’ German prosecutors May 14 charged that a woman at the center of a landmark ...
20:44
Document: Center for American Progress’ report on “Freedom of the Press and Expression in Turkey
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The issues of press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey have for several years attracted a great deal of attention and provoked extensive debate both in Turkey and in other Western countries. Dozens of journalists critical of the government ...
20:20
PEW Research: The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
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The complete file here Executive Summary A new Pew Research Center survey of Muslims around the globe finds that most adherents of the world’s second-largest religion are deeply committed to their faith and want its teachings to shape not only ...

19:18
Marx's "XI"th Thesis on Feuerbach is Not Explicit Enough.
» ‎ Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts

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Marx's "XI"th Thesis on Feuerbach is Not Explicit Enough. " XIPhilosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways. What is crucial, however, is to change it."(Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx, translated by Carl Manchester: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theses_on_Feuerbach ) The world ...

19:14
What Apple is really working on
» ‎ CultureBy - Grant McCracken

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I sat down to wonder what Apple is working on. I came to the conclusion that it's not a watch or a TV. It's a version of telepresence so good it will be a little like teleportation, so ...

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