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Die weltpolitischen Aspekte der deutschen Wiedervereinigung
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 3:25pm CET by toni tamerra
Heute um 19:00 findet im Vouml;lkerkundemuseum folgender Vortrag statt: br /#10;br /#10;Die weltpolitischen Aspekte der deutschen Wiedervereinigungbr /#10;br /#10;Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Horst Teltschik, ehem. Organisator der Muuml;nchner Sicherheitskonferenzbr /#10;br /#10;Veranstalter: Gesellschaft fuuml;r Auszlig;enpolitik br /#10;br /#10;br /#10;Entschuldigt die spauml;te ... -
6. Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 3:23pm CET by toni tamerra
Das Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung ist mit insgesamt ca. 450 Beteiligten die grouml;szlig;te Jahresveranstaltung zu qualitativen Forschungsmethoden im deutschsprachigen Raum. Erstmals 2005 ausgerichtet, hat sich das Berliner Methodentreffen schnell im Spektrum der Angebote zu qualitativer Forschung etabliert. Das Berliner Methodentreffen ...
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We have another ban: No “insemination trips
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:46pm CET by admin
Turkey ban on insemination trips from BBC News | Europe | World Edition A new law in Turkey makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination. LGBT Association Sues State Minister ... -
EU enlargement chief was in town…
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:46am CET by admin
EU enlargement chief presses Turkey on Cyprus, Armenia (AFP via Yahoo! News) Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (C) and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (R) talk to the media after their meeting in Saariselka Inari, in the Finnish Lapland March ... -
Looks like Sarkozy has a problem
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 2:20am CET by admin
French voters deliver blow to Sarkozy from FT.com – World, Europe French voters deliver a rebuke to the government of Nicolas Sarkozy with opposition parties winning an unprecedented share of the vote in the first round of regional elections Far-right ...
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IslamOnline – Strike, Stream and Twitter Activism
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:01am CET by martijn
IslamOnline is on strike since today. Employees of the Arabic-English news website Islam Online are demanding their voices be heard by the new administration. The original plan was to have a short strike but after security forces were called in ...
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Anthro in the news 3/15/10
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 10:11pm CET by admin
• Yo-Yo Ma’s anthropological soul Classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma is, according to an article in the Washington Post, “one of the most recognizable classical musicians on the planet.” Besides being a star of the musical world, he is also a ...
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Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 11 – Niet op zn plaats: een vuil stukje
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 7:33pm CET by martijn
Uit de burgerschapskalender: “Hou zelf toezicht op de publieke ruimte”, zei iemand in Almere. “Niet de gemeente bellen van: hé, er ligt hier een oude fiets voor de deur, maar zelf even die fiets opruimen.” Dat zou inderdaad helpen. De ...
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The Politicization of Everything (that the other side is doing)
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:37pm CET
Frank Rich wrote a NYT op-ed this weekend that began by criticizing former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for their ideological readings of 9/11. Giuliani was appearing on ABC's Good Morning America in ...
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Anthropology in the Headlines
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:13pm CET by Sean
Recently, Anthropology and some AAA members have been featured in the public eye! Dr. Harriet Ottenheimer of Kansas State University helped debunk the myth that those responsible for the “Nigerian 419″ scam were actually from Nigeria, according to this article. ...
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Journalists working for Intelligence
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:08pm CET by admin
Well-known journalist-interviewer Neşe Düzel interviews former chief editor of Sabah, Ergun Babahan. It is in Turkish. Many notable journalists/columnists voluntarily or professionally worked with military and civil intelligence institutions in Turkey. Now some defend them in the name of press ...
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Cultural differences and linguistic justice
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:53pm CET
Franz de Waal just wrote an interesting post at 3 Quarks Daily. He is currently in Japan to promote his latest book The Age of Empathy and he writes about cultural differences among scientists: Although Japanese scientists were, he says, ...
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Reading Bytes for Mar 15
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:30pm CET by Dina
Daily updates on what I’m reading All This ChittahChattah | I Need You to Need Me – Needs vs Wants – which is the better research question?<br /> CLIPs: "The need statement (“People need… blah blah”) is a cornerstone of ...
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EU-Digest’s list of TV news reports…
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 2:56pm CET by admin
Alternative TV News Reports from EU-DIGEST: Listed below are a few of these alternative TV news stations, which in streaming video and right on your own lap – or desktop can provide you with a different perspective of what is ...
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EPIC 2010 Tokyo Paper abstract submissions are due by March 21st
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 1:20pm CET by mark
A reminder that EPIC 2010 Tokyo Paper abstract submissions are due by end of day this coming Sunday, March 21st. You’ll find full details about how to submit proposals for the Paper sessions in the attached pdf, or at: ...
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Cartoonists DRAW for children who are in prison due to Law on Struggle Against Terrorism in Turkey
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:11am CET by admin
All the world’s cartoonists DRAW for children from KARAKOK OTONOMU TR/CH by Karakök I have received 62 cartoons from 22 cartoonists so far for the project to support children victimised by Law on Struggle Against Terrorism. The event is still ...
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podcasts
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:23am CET
Hello all,br /br /I was wondering what podcasts all of the anthropologists and budding anthropologists here listen to. Ive got a great selection of science, religion and skeptical podcasts, as well as the podcast by the American Anthropological Association, but ...
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Campbell’s Law, Planned Social Change, Vietnam War Deaths, and Condom Distributions in Refugee Camps
Posted: March 14th, 2010, 11:42pm CET by Tony
Donald T. Campbell was a psychologist in the heyday of the 1970s. During this time, the belief emerged that society was a social engineering project that could be planned and evaluated. The general idea was that if you collected ...
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Coal Country the movie
Posted: March 14th, 2010, 8:15pm CET by seapixy
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xwd3DCeIGe4/S504FJ-sKPI/AAAAAAAAACY/dfOLJG-nMYc/s1600-h/Strip_coal_mining.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xwd3DCeIGe4/S504FJ-sKPI/AAAAAAAAACY/dfOLJG-nMYc/s320/Strip_coal_mining.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448572785417529586" //aI just finished watching a href="http://www.coalcountrythemovie.com/"Coal Country/a a documentary about the devastating affects of strip coal mining in a ...
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Sunday Morning @ SXSW
Posted: March 14th, 2010, 7:33pm CET by Diana
It’s a beautiful day in Austin Texas. I have always said that if I were to ever live anywhere else in Texas it would be in Austin. I simply love this city. Now, I’ll admit that I might be spoiled ...
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Do only humans share with non-kin?
Posted: March 14th, 2010, 6:31pm CET
"Comparisons between chimpanzees and humans have led to the hypothesis that only humans voluntarily share their own food with others. However, it is hard to draw conclusions because the food-sharing preferences of our more tolerant relative, the bonobo (Pan paniscus), ...
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An “uneventful” week for Erkan
Posted: March 14th, 2010, 1:26pm CET by admin
Playing chess with my students. Yes, I won:) Since I came back from the service, I have been meaning to have some peace of mind but unfortunately life is not fair, which I had learnt several times before, and things ...
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Ming Pao Weekly cover story “Chinese in Africa, Africans in China”
Posted: March 14th, 2010, 12:36pm CET by Third Tone Devil
Ming Pao used to be known as one of the more independent (i.e. non-Peking-aligned) major Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong. Perhaps I have missed something, or maybe it’s just Ming Pao Weekly that is no longer blocked in the mainland, but ...
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Erkan’s field diary: Top posts of the week and month
Posted: March 14th, 2010, 11:42am CET by admin
@ haha.nu Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-14 1- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 2- Sonisphere festival in Turkey. 25-27 June. A lineup beyond imagination 3- A super busy week ends with a disappointing news. 4- Turkish TV ...
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No Office Export in Keynote/Numbers for iPad?
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 6:26pm CET by enkerli
Sounds like iWork for iPad will export to Word but not to PowerPoint or Excel....
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Saturday Morning @ SXSW
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 6:23pm CET by Diana
First stop was a panel on IA sketching, but of course it was at capacity. I really do need to start getting to panels earlier. [Must make opening remarks by Danah Boyd at 2 today!!] Since I was already on ...
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Linda Herrera and Arjan de Haan – A court case and an election: Letter from The Hague
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 3:30pm CET by martijn
This letter has been written by Arjan de Haan and Linda Herrera, both working at the International Institute of Social Studies. A court case and an election: Letter from The Hague 11 March 2010 The Hague, the international city of ...
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Behemoth concert tomorrow.
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 2:54pm CET by admin
Via Metal concerts season in Istanbul started last week with Destruction. I could not make it to that one but I will make it to tomorrow’s Behemoth concert. Behemoth is an explicitly Satanist Black Metal band from Poland. They are ...
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Is hearing God like being a skilled athlete?
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 2:21pm CET
Not often do we find in the American Anthropologist material of clear Cognition and Culture relevance. Here is a noteworthy exception: "The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity" (vol. 112,March 2010 issue, available here) by Tanya. M. ...
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Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (6)- Cinema related blogs, Censorship news and more…
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:34pm CET by admin
Nominations for Turkish Blog Awards Turkish Blog Awards started. Check out an interview (in Turkish) with Hasan Yalçınkaya, a pioneer in Turkish blogger… An ambitious Football Manager online game, Efsane Ol [Be a Legend], in Turkish is launched here. I ... -
Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 6:58am CET by admin
Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship, 12 March… Global: World Day Against Cyber Censorship from Global Voices Online by Diego Casaes Internet censorship is still a major issue in many countries worldwide. With that in mind, the Paris-based international organization ...
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Friday @ SXSW
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:14am CET by Diana
So Friday is almost over here at SXSW (well day time programming anyway). I actually got in last night to take advantage of the short lines for Thursday night registration. After spending all morning on a development retrospective conference I ...
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“AAA Annual Meeting Call for Papers Now Open (#AAA2010)
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 11:29pm CET by admin
Special issue of Science as Culture on Identity and Narrative in STS from Somatosphere by Eugene Raikhel The latest issue of Science as Culture focuses on a topic which has long been central to cultural anthropology, but remains relatively novel ...
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Writing and performance
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 10:26pm CET by Cicilie
It was hard picking a photo for this post. So many of my photos evoke memories from my many slam nights in Paris, but how to find a photo that can convey some of theses feelings to the readers of ...
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Now comes Sweden
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 5:37pm CET by admin
When Turkey and Armenia come closest, third country parliaments interfere. Looks like a calculated provocation…. Sweden angers Turkey with ‘genocide’ vote from European Voice Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden in protest at Armenia vote. Turkey’s Ambassador to Sweden Zergun ...
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Calling on Comedy Central
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 4:49pm CET by admin
An article in USA Today points out that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have helped bring science to a wider public by hosting scientists who discuss an issue of importance such as climate change or their new book ...
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Welttag gegen Internetzensur
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 12:17pm CET by just be.
br#10;iHeute ist wieder "Welttag gegen Internetzensur". Reporter ohne Grenzen hat wieder den jauml;hrlichen a href="http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/fileadmin/rte/docs/2010/Feinde_des_Internets.pdf"Bericht #8222;Feinde des Internets#8220; (PDF) /averouml;ffentlicht. Auf 62 Seiten wird beschrieben, welche Lauml;nder Netzzensur-Infrastrukturen betreiben, wer konkret die Feinde des Netzes sind und welche Lauml;nder auf ...
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Istanbul Film Festival: April 3-18 (#istanbul2010)
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 11:21am CET by admin
Istanbul Film Festival to take place in April 3-18 As Turkey’s largest film activity, the International Istanbul Film Festival drew an audience of 162,000 last year. This year the programme is, once again, packed to the brim. Program can be ...
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Workshop: Culture and Cognition in Asia
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 10:13am CET
March 11th – 12th, 2010, National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute.Research in both the social and cognitive sciences has increasingly focused on the complex dynamic between cultural meaning and practices with cognitive processes. From the sociology of science to ...
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EP against ACTA measures
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 1:09am CET by admin
EU Parliament votes 663-13 against ACTA’s enforcement measures from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The European Parliament resoundingly voted against the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), in a resounding 663 to 13 tally. The parliamentarians defied the EU executive and ...
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Public Policy Forum Deadline – Mar. 15
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:55pm CET by Brian
A quick reminder that public policy forum abstracts for the annual meeting are due Mar. 15, 5pm EST. The deadline for volunteered sessions, individual paper and poster presentations, and special events is Apr. 1. Organizers can submit session abstracts here: ...
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A few EU related cartoons
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 10:08pm CET by admin
by Miro Stefanovic more at ANTE PORTAS, the cartoon project book from Macedonia Related posts:Anti-Kurdish Initiative propaganda begins to gain ground…Political Cartoons at work… I have begun to receive forwarded emails with highly ultranationalists... Related posts brought to you ...
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NMNH “Hall of Human Origins” to Open 3/17
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 9:32pm CET by Dinah
On March 18, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History will mark its 100th anniversary on the National Mall with the public opening of the 15,000 sq. ft. David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, the result of an international ... -
Education News around the Web
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 8:56pm CET by Dinah
On March 4, Inside Higher Ed covered the release of a report by Harvard’s Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education on the experience of Generation X faculty, based on interviews with tenure-track faculty members at four-year colleges and universities. ...
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Bytes for Mar 11
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 5:30pm CET by Dina
Daily updates on what I’m reading The FASTForward Blog » Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Research from Cecile Demailly: Commentary by Bill Ives – CLIP: The report suggests that, “communicating externally about the internal change may help to change the mindsets internally.” ...
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Update
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 3:38pm CET
Hey,br /A few months ago I came on here and introduced myself as an English prospective undergraduate student in Anthropology.br /I have just received an unconditional offer to do an MA in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh university, which Im very ... -
Source help?
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:44pm CET
Hello everyone! br /br /Im in a little predicament. Im currently finishing up my second year of my cultural anthropology BA and for my religion class, our final paper is an annotative essay. The professor granted us the freedom of ...
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The doyen of Turkish cartoonists, Turhan Selçuk passes away…
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 2:06pm CET by admin
TURHAN Selçuk passes away March 11, 2010 in Istanbul from caricaturque by kozyurt The doyen of Turkish cartoonists, Turhan Selçuk dies in Istanbul early this morning March 11, 2010 at 01.30 h at Acibadem Maslak Hospital where he had two ... -
The Winter Thief. New novel from Prof. White
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 12:40pm CET by admin
I had the honor to meet her in person. Prof. Jenny White an anthropologist, author of Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics, also writes detective novels that take place in late Ottoman times. Latest novel just released… ... -
Davutoğlu again on stage
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 4:59am CET by admin
Davutoglu is one of The World’s Kissingers …And the youngest of the four. Mavi Boncuk The List: The World’s Kissingers BY JOSHUA E. KEATING A country’s foreign policy is often defined less by its elected leader than its behind-the-scenes operators ...
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SXSW Bound!
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 11:55pm CET by Diana
I’ll be heading in to Austin tomorrow to check in and get my badge before the crazy lines roll in Friday morning. Tomorrow night I’ll be at the Social Media BBQ at Emo’s. Friday I’ll start off in the Blogger’s ...
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Open Democracy on Ergenekon….
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 11:48pm CET by admin
Turkey and Ergenekon: from farce to tragedy , - by openDemocracy Author: Bill Park Summary: An epic military, political, and security scandal continues to absorb Turkey. The affair’s latest bizarre sub-plots make the tensions between the country’s “deep state” and ...
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Debate on Chinese investment package in Guinea
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:19pm CET by Third Tone Devil
On ”China in Africa: The Real Story,” Deborah Brautigam takes issue with a new Chatham House report entitled “Guinea: Bought by Beijing.” The report says that to the surprise of many, after taking control in a coup and then violently suppressing civil ...
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AAA Annual Meeting Call for Papers Now Open
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:56pm CET by Jason
The Call for Papers Site is now accepting submissions to participate in the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Submissions are due by 5pm EST on April 1st. The meeting will be located in New Orleans, Louisiana November ... -
SAFN Launches New FoodAnthropology Blog
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:29pm CET by Dinah
Congrats to the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) on the launch of the FoodAnthropology blog at foodanthro.wordpress.com. The launch was accompanied by a welcome message encouraging SAFN members to contribute news and research info by contacting ...
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New: Our Cognition and Culture Reader and our Bookstore
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:57pm CET
We are today putting online the beta version of a Cognition and Culture Reader with links to relevant papers, books and blog posts. All the papers are freely available on the Internet. All the books listed (and other books mentioned ...
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More confessions from a former media tycoon
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:04pm CET by admin
It is not the first time Mr. Bilgin makes confessions, this time he is bolder. Dinç Bilgin Bilgin wishes he could be a reporter like Taraf’s Baransu YAVUZ BAYDAR – Dinç Bilgin speaks out One of the greatest myths about ...
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SACC Announces First All-Digital SACC Notes
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 4:27pm CET by Dinah
Congratulations to the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) on their first all-digital issue of SACC Notes, emailed to SACC members and subscribers today. This digital effort is a work-in-progress, and all reader feedback is welcome. If you are ...
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A film and An album, I recently discovered
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 4:08pm CET by admin
A Prophet is a French movie I have recently watched. It is definitely worth watching. It is a story of “A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.” Not all action packed ... -
A book on December 19-26, 2000 operation in Turkish prisons…
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 2:00pm CET by admin
hapishanelerde katliam / massacre in prisons: During the week of December 19-26, 2000, 10,000 Turkish soldiers violently occupied 48 prisons to end two months of hunger strikes and “death fasts” by hundreds of political prisoners. The hunger strikers were protesting ... -
Now PM points out the “Jewish lobby” for the course of genocide resolution…
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:19am CET by admin
The Resolution Saga Continues, Erdogan Points to “Jewish Lobby” from Turkish Politics in Action by Ragan Updegraff Prime Minister Erdogan said today that Ankara has no plans to send Turkish Ambasador to the United States Namik Tan back to Washington ... -
the European External Action Service- The EU’s new diplomatic service
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 9:41am CET by admin
The EU’s new diplomatic service from EurActiv.com by Giacomo Introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, the European External Action Service is intended to give the Union a greater role in foreign policy. Yet its scope and competences are the subject of ...
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De curieuze verdwijning van Mohammed Chentouf
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 8:23am CET by martijn
Enige tijd geleden zonder netwerk een item uit over Mohammed Chentouf. die is uitgezet nadat hij zijn straf heeft uitgezeten wegens terrorisme gerelateerde activiteiten: Mohammed Chentouf is veroordeeld in de zogenaamde Piranha-zaak Openbaar Ministerie – Piranha Wapengebruik, jihadistisch-salafi stische bedreigingen, ...
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A video: Maths and beauty
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 6:11am CET by admin
Comedian John Cleese and model and actress Liz Hurley investigate how mathematics can reflect our perception of beauty. Includes some great tests that you can try out yourself! Do parts of your body divide into the ratio 1 to 1.618? ...
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Bytes for Mar 9
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 5:30pm CET by Dina
Daily updates on what I’m reading The Social Media Expert Crisis Descends – "If you’ve gotten 200 followers for your corporate Twitter account in Sydney, and sent out 20 tweets, that’s now ample qualification that you are a social media ...
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A video: Balkan Beat Box “War Again”
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 3:40pm CET by admin
The first video from Balkan Beat Box’s album BLUE EYED BLACK BOY, out on National Geographic Records on 4/27/10 in North America and 3/1/10 on Crammed Discs in Europe. Related posts:Michael Jackson Tribute in Taksim Square and more to ...
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Another China-Africa conference
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 3:26pm CET by Third Tone Devil
China, Afrika en de Europese Unie: een gespannen relatie? (China, Africa and the EU: a tense relationship?) is being organised by IOB at the University of Antwerp and the Euro-China Centre of its management school on 21-22 April....
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PR-Stelle für NGO in München
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:04pm CET by kerleone
Die Aktion "Menschen fuuml;r Menschen" sucht einen Mitarbeiter(in) fuuml;r die Abteilung Kommunikation mit Schwerpunkt Online#29;Redaktion, Web 2.0 und Mailings. (a href="http://sonneR.antville.org/files/Menschen+f%C3%BCr+Menschen/" title=""Menschen für Menschen/a #10;span class="small"#10; (application/pdf, 33 KB)#10;/span#10;)#10;...
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from Ethan: how to fight net-censorship
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 1:55pm CET by admin
Beyond breaking firewalls: how to fight net-censorship from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Ethan Zuckerman’s new piece on Worldchanging, “Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention,” looks at the technical and social limitations of circumvention of censoring firewalls that we love so much ...
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Ethno::Log Stammtisch
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 12:57pm CET by simba
Der nauml;chste Ethno::Log-Stammtisch findet am br /#10;br /#10;Donnerstag, den 11. Mauml;rz 2010 br /#10;br /#10;statt. Eingeladen sind alle, die sich an der weiteren Gestaltung des Weblogs beteiligen wollen. Wir mouml;chten auch diesmal Ideen sammeln, um die Diskussionskultur innerhalb des Ethno::Log ...
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Rapporten Radicalisering, Salafisme en Jihadisme
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:12am CET by martijn
Er zijn recent diverse rapporten gepubliceerd over radicalisering, salafisme en jihadisme. Een kort overzicht. De Nationale Coordinator Terrorismebestrijding (NCTb) heeft vorige week twee nieuwe rapporten gepubliceerd: Ideologie en strategie van het jihadisme De jihadistische beweging vormt de motor achter de ...
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Website
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:10am CET
Hi everybody,br /Im looking for a website that Ive seen posted here before, where you can select various skulls to be juxtaposed. Does anybody have the link?br /Thanks...
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Bytes for Mar 8
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:30pm CET by Dina
Daily updates on what I’m reading Time to Rewrite the Brand Playbook for Digital – Advertising Age – CMO Strategy – CLIP: " .. a lot of marketing professionals also tend to forget that brands have always been the products ...
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International Women’s Day celebrated
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:11pm CET by admin
More celebration photos here. Rights activist İlkkaracan: Turkey needs urgent initiative on gender equality by YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN Activist and researcher Pınar İlkkaracan has said Turkey needs to work harder in order to reverse some downward trends in women’s participation ...
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Anthro in the news 3/8/10
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:59pm CET by admin
• Religion and relief aid in Haiti BBC carried an article pointing to the low profile of voodoo in the aftermath of the earthquake. Some observers think that Christian organizations are dominating the scene and even denying benefits to Haitians ...
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Helene Flautre describes How the EU Has Impeded Judicial Reform in Turkey…
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:43pm CET by admin
Helene Flautre: How the EU Has Impeded Judicial Reform from Turkish Politics in Action by Ragan Updegraff Helen Flautre, Co-Chairwoman of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee Assessing the status of accession negotiations in an op/ed published in Today’s Zaman, Helene ...
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Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 10 – Vrouwen gaan voor
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:54pm CET by martijn
Uit de burgerschapskalender: Vrouwen doen de dingen anders dan mannen. Maar daar is op veel plekken in de samenleving nog te weinig van te merken. De top van grote bedrijven: bijna 100% mannen. Gemiddeld salaris: 23% lager dan mannen. Wereldwijd ...
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App in action
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:00pm CET
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A video to lighten up: “More than 5,000 Australians strip for the latest art
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:31am CET by admin
“More than 5,000 Australians strip for the latest art project by photographer Stanley Tunick on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. . Follow us on twitter at [twitter.com] Related posts:A video: Balkan Beat Box “War Again” The ...
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The John Griffiths Show interview
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 9:44am CET
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Our Web Application
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 9:11am CET
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Anthro connection: beauty in Japan
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:13am CET by admin
Today’s Washington Post carried an article called “Big in Japan? Fat chance for nation’s young women.” Among other points, we learn that young women in Japan are slimmer than they were two decades ago. Young men, however, have become heavier. ...
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Undergraduate Seminar: Doing that 1st fieldwork project for class
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 10:36pm CET by mark
At some point as an undergrad, particularly if you are taking a social science class you may be asked to do some kind of field project as an assignment. The kind where you have to go out and talk to ...
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“”The first edition of ‘Istanbul 2010′ hits newsstands (#istanbul2010)
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 7:01pm CET by admin
it can be dowloaded here. STARTING POINT: The first edition of ‘Istanbul 2010′ hits newsstands – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic ReviewIstanbul tops unemployment list among Turkish cities [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY NEWS, WORLD NEWS ] Your Travels: Mesmerizing Old ... -
“Human Terrain on Google Ads?
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 3:50pm CET by admin
Human Terrain on Google Ads? from ethnografix by Ryan Anderson Well, this wasn’t expected. So I was checking out an anthropology-related site a while ago, just to see what was going on around those parts. And I noticed an interesting ...
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Closing the week 9 – Dutch local elections II
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 2:18pm CET by martijn
NEW on Closer! The official website of ISIM is closed and the repository of Leiden University works like…well it doesn’t work so well. Which is a problem if you want to read the ISIM Review articles. Therefore I’m happy to ... -
Oorlogsmisdaden in Afghanistan?
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 11:57am CET by martijn
Top row, left to right: Atiqullah, 15, Attahullah, 15, Ismael, 12, Matiullah, 16. Bottom row, left to right: Samiullah, 12, Rahimullah, 17, Sebhanullah, 17 and guest Samar Gul, 12 (Times Online) Als bondgenoot van de VS is Nederland een belangrijke ...
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Erkan’s field diary: Top posts of the week and month
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 11:32am CET by admin
Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-07 1- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 2- A super busy week end with a disappointing news. 3- Is Democracy possible in a country where journalists write op-eds in NYT to support the ...
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Ethnologie Symposium 2010
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 10:01am CET by falke
Die Zuuml;rcher Kollegen, unter ihnen das houml;heren Semestern noch bekannte Wolferl, organisieren das diesjauml;hrige Symposion der Ethnostudenten aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. Findet vom 22.-25. April 2010 in Zuuml;rich statt. Es werden auch noch Referenten fuuml;r kleine Vortrauml;ge gesucht. Anmeldung bis ...
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A super busy week end with a disappointing news.
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 7:42pm CET by admin
This semester I have four courses to teach. It is a relatively heavy workload but I am fine with that. I like teaching anyway. One of the courses is an MA course on Cyberculture studies which is very satisfying. In ...
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A heresy is occurring in Australia
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 5:47pm CET by admin
Guest post by Helen Caldicott Ever since white men appeared 200 years ago on the shores of Sydney Harbour in their uniforms, with their guns and flags, the aboriginal people have been hunted, shot at and herded off cliffs and ...
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This is what you get when you do not punish anti-Kurdish violence in the first game
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 4:00pm CET by admin
Diyarbakırspor fans want an apology. Fanatic Bursaspor fans had their anti-Kurdish violence in the first term’s game against Diyarbakırspor. This had gone almost unpunished. If Football Federation does not act accordingly, this is what happens. Today’s game between Diyarbakır vs. ... -
Turkish angers builds up today
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 3:32pm CET by admin
And I am sure this will boost the sequel of Valley of the Wolves… U.S. “genocide” resolution casts shadow over Turkey- Armenia normalization process The Morning After from Turkish Politics in Action by Ragan Updegraff Newly-appointed Turkish Ambassador to the ... -
Fitna arrives Britain
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 2:08pm CET by admin
Fitna (pl. fitan) (فتنة) is an Arabic word with connotations of secession, upheaval and chaos. It is often used to refer to civil war, disagreement and division within Islam and specifically alludes to a time involving trials of faith, similar ... -
“Political streetartings from various cities of Turkey….
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 1:07pm CET by admin
Tens of street art samples from Anticopyright-tr blog. Related posts:Political street-art Political streetartings from various cities of Turkey Check out the... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin....
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New Book – A world of insecurity: Anthropological perspectives on human security
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 8:10am CET by martijn
The concept of Human Security was introduced by the UN Development Programme in 1994, in order to expand the scope of development work and research. Human Security was defined as ‘freedom from want and freedom from fear’. This collection of ...
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Tales From the Field
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 4:20am CET by Amanda
In the last few weeks we’ve had more than our entire year’s rainfall. The country is striking – almost like a slap in the face as you travel through green, green grass, violet blue sky… …and burnt red earth. I ...
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If Barbie and Ken dolls were real people...
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 3:47am CET
Hi guys, br /br /I am taking a sociology and education class (for grades 1 - 6), and I am tying in self-esteem in boys and girls, with Barbie. So, I am looking for articles de-constructing Barbie and Ken. I ...
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Fitna in the Netherlands – Elections and the myth of tolerance
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 6:43pm CET by martijn
I have read several of the reactions outside the Netherlands about the recent local elections which were ‘won’ by the progressive liberals of D66 and the radical anti-islam party PVV of Geert Wilders. Consider some of the headlines: [www.independent.co.uk] ...
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How many minutes does it take for social norms to inhibit survival instinct?
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 6:16pm CET
Forthcoming in PNAS, an innovative study entitled "Interaction of natural survival instincts and internalized social norms exploring the Titanic and Lusitania disasters" by Bruno S. Frey, David A. Savage and Benno Torgler (and already available here alas with subscription; earlier ...