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News from the blogs we read...
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 8:49pm CEST by Eugene Raikhel
First of all, congratulations to Daniel Lende and Greg Downey whose excellent Neuroanthropology blog has just made the move to a new science blogging platform: PLoS Blogs. This new venture, under the auspices of the Public Library of Science -- ...
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Violence at Chinese construction site in Mongolia escalates?
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 8:33pm CEST by Third Tone Devil
A Chinese-language report on the Minjian International mailing list says, without indication of source, that a fistfight at the construction site of an unidentified Chinese aid project is being investigated by a government-level committee. The report is entitled  èć€ćœäžæčæŽć»șć·„ć°ćçćČçȘïŒæ°ææç«Żćżćä»ć „ (Nationalist extremist ...
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Info: Why I believe printers were sent from hell...
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 7:33pm CEST by Karen Nakamura
After helping our intern with our infernal Epson inkjet that kept on jamming on perfectly fine paper, I found this cartoon on Oatmeal that sums up my feelings perfectly. This is just one of the hilarious-but-true panels: Read more: ...
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African Green Revolution Forum
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 5:01pm CEST
Today is the opening of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Accra, Ghana, an initiative begun in partnership between public and private interests to increase agricultural productivity in Africa. In the AGRF mission statement, agriculture productivity is positioned as ...
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[On] Free [AAA] Journal Access as a Public Issue
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:56pm CEST by Jason Baird Jackson
A discussion of the future of scholarly publishing within the American Anthropological Association is underway in a small way on the AAA’s blog, where an editorial by AAA Executive Director Bill Davis (“Free Journal Access as a Public Issue”) has ...
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It is forbidden to urinate here. The penalty is bang.
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:38pm CEST by Victor Mair
Despite the best efforts of two dozen stellar native and non-native scholars and teachers of Chinese, we still have not reached a consensus about the exact meaning and syntax of the sign at a Shanghai construction site presented in "Next ...
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Summer reading reflections from a group of scholars, Followup on Rice U Press etcâŠ
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:38pm CEST by admin
Pollution-Sensing lung tumor from Daisy Ginsberg’s project Synthetic Kingdom VIA Reflections on summer reading from The Immanent Frame by The Editors As the start of the fall semester inches closer, weâve invited a handful of our contributors to reflect on ...
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The Wall Street Journal Is Probably Not Red-Faced
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:22pm CEST by Victor Mair
Last summer, I posted on an ad in the New Yorker sponsored by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism in which a string of Chinese characters was inverted mirror-fashion: "Masschusetts is red(-faced)", 6/5/2009. When I saw this photograph in ...
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Turkey has to negotiate for membership with countries who have f*ckhead statesmen like Thio SarrazinâŠ
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:16pm CEST by admin
Jewish gene, Muslim brains talk tarnishes Bundesbank from Hurriyet Dailynews by HDN Migrants from countries such as Turkey and Morocco depend on the state and are making the country ‘dumber,’ Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin claims. You Can Insult Turks, ... -
Metalhead (5)- Iron Maiden tops
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:33am CEST by admin
album of the week The Final Frontier (Mission Edition) ~ Iron Maiden Honestly, I wasn’t too excited about. But it is a good piece of work. Special focus on “The Talisman” erkan’s best of- song 006-007 KROKUS – Hoodoo Woman ...
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Leaves from an old Bible Atlas #2
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 8:02am CEST by tabsir
Comparative view of the United States and Old Testament world, approximate scale, 900 miles to 1 inch (in the original map which is only 3 3/4 inches across) The Christian fascination with the Holy Land as a window into interpretation ...
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Where are you going to buy some good bonsai outside of Japan? In Superior, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 4:25am CEST
From a recent trip to America. In Germany I grew tired of taking pictures of all the Japanese and sushi restaurants. But I couldn't resist taking this shot. One can get a short term loan and then buy some bonsai ... -
"Kobe eyes tattoo ban at Suma beach after marijuana case"
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 3:52am CEST
From today's Japan Today: Totally ridiculous on so many (visual and other) levels...The Kobe municipal government is considering banning people with tattoos from a beach in Suma Ward following the recent arrests of college students for alleged marijuana possession during ...
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podcast & playlist for august 31st's interzone radio show
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:59am CEST by Ted Swedenburg
the podcast for the August 31 interzone radio show is herelisten to Buraka Som Sistema, Merle Haggard, Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics,Charanjit Singh, Googoosh, Zeid and the Wings...and more!!!!playlist here...
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"And the town takes to dreaming"
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:13am CEST by Mark Liberman
At some point, I mean to get back to looking up the research that is said to support Matt Richtel's claims that "the brain is rewired when it is constantly inundated with new information". Right now, though, I'd like to ... -
Suffixocation
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 12:23am CEST by Mark Liberman
Nina Paley's Mimi and Eunice for 8/20/2010: Nina's comment on the strip: "I love my Libertarian friends! So it is with love I poke gentle fun at them." [Hat tip to William Benzon.]...
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Neuroanthropology Is Moving to PLoS Blogs
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 9:58pm CEST by dlende
Neuroanthropology is moving! Weâre joining a new Public Library of Science project: PLoS Blogs. Weâll be part of a new cluster of eleven science blogs at PLoS. You can now find us at PLoS Neuroanthropology. Please update your subscriptions, come ... -
Wednesday Round Up #118
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 9:37pm CEST by dlende
Those of you looking for our weekly round up, you can now find it at PLoS Neuroanthropology – Wednesday Round Up #118. That’s right – we’ve moved over to PLoS Blogs! Well, for the most part. Greg and I will ...
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Second week on my TV career
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 8:00pm CEST by admin
I am now heading to studio. I guess I will not need to be there this early as the program starts at 23:00 at TRT Haber but for the first weeks I have to be there and supervising…. I won’t ...
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H.R. 725: Indian Arts and Crafts Amendments
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 6:46pm CEST
H.R. 725: Indian Arts and Crafts Amendments...
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Why Pastor Jones (together with similarly minded people) believes in tautological Islam
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 6:25pm CEST by marranci
I have no doubt that during the forthcoming âInternational Burn a Quran Dayâ, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the pages of many Qurâans, probably in translation, will meet fire. Fanatics, such as Pastor Terry Jones ...
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Singular they with personal name antecedent
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 4:44pm CEST by Geoffrey K. Pullum
Bob Ladd just got a message requesting an academic reference letter for someone who I will refer to as Gerald Black. I am concealing his name, but not his gender: he is male, and his real name couldn't leave you ...
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Pictures at a Yemeni exhibition
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 4:27pm CEST by tabsir
Painting by Qais Saleh Ahmed Aluan, founding member and vice-director of the Bait al-Fann (House of Art) in Yarim (Ibb Governorate) The media focus on Muslim grievances over images of the Prophet Muhammad obscures the fact that there is a ...
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Swedenâs chief prosecutor is still after Julian Assange
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 4:00pm CEST by admin
Sexual Assault Case Against WikiLeaks Founder Reopened from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder Swedenâs chief prosecutor has reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Recently, Assange was accused with crimes of molestation and rape by the Swedish authorities. Assange ...
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Depressing: My Contribution to the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:57pm CEST by Jason Baird Jackson
Last night I saw one of two published versions of my contribution to the monumental (10 volume) Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (New York: Berg, 2010). It is the chapter titled “The Southeast” and it is one of ...
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Linguistic Relativity, Whorf, Linguistic Anthropology
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:52pm CEST by SLA President
Kathryn Woolard, SLA President The question of linguistic relativity is the topic of an August 29, 2010 New York Times magazine article, âYou Are What You Speakâ Â Many linguistic anthropologists were surprised by the articleâs representation of Benjamin Lee ... -
Michel DeGraff on Haitian KreyĂČl
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:35pm CEST by Leila
Comments by Michel DeGraff on responses to his petition on Haitian KreyĂČl As it turns out, these responses echo age-old arguments about the (mis)use of language in Haitian schools and in Haitian society at large. Yves Dejean and many others ...
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More factoid tracking
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 2:55pm CEST by Mark Liberman
To continue the process of footnoting Matt Richtel, here's a passage from a bit later in the (online description of his) interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air ("Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets", 8/24/2010): He points to one study ...
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A game from 3000 years ago
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 2:45pm CEST by Fiona Jordan
I came across this great paper today*: CONNAUGHTON, S. P., TACHĂ, K., & BURLEY, D. V. (2010). Taupita: A 3000-year-old Shell Game in the Lapita Cultural Complex of Tonga. Journal of Social Archaeology, 10(1), 118-137. DOI:10.1177/1469605309354400  [link] Abstract: Recent excavations at the ...
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Recommended reading
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 2:29pm CEST by Mark Liberman
Chris at The Lousy Linguist has an excellent post — "the largest whorfian study EVER! (and why it matters", 9/1/2010 — describing and discussing JĂŒrgen Bohnemeyer, Sonja Eisenbeiss, and Bhuvana Narasimhan, "Ways to go: Methodological considerations in Whorfian studies on ...
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Can Erol: FIBA 2010- Everything is going fantastic now!
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 2:02pm CEST by admin
Kerem Tunceri of Turkey celebrates scoring against Greece during their FIBA Basketball World Championship game in Ankara August 31, 2010.⊠Read more » Kerem Tunceri of Turkey celebrates scoring against Greece during their FIBA Basketball World Championship game in Ankara ...
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Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 35 â normaal opvoeden
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 1:09pm CEST by martijn
Uit de burgerschapskalender: Ergens na de vakantie moeten we de draad weer oppakken. Terug naar het werk, weer naar school. En als we onze kinderen dan leren veilig te fietsen, laten we dan niet zelf door rood rijden. âOpvoeding is ...
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Call for Applications, Deadline 1 October
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 10:20am CEST by OCB1
The Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies at Bayreuth University, Germany, brings together outstanding young African and non-African scholars to work jointly in the field of African Studies. It offers a centre of creative and innovative PhD training based on a ...
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Withdrawing from Afghanistan: Three Movies on the Soviet Occupation
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 8:10am CEST by Maximilian Forte
Imperial Brains Blown Out When you’re wounded an’ left on Afghanistan’s plains An’ the women come out to cut up your remains Jus’ roll to your rifle an’ blow out your brains An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.–Rudyard ...
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not only prevention, your attempt to access the site is ârecordedâ- arrogant filtering everywhereâŠ
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 6:31am CEST by admin
When I was trying to access Daily Motion, it was filtered in all Teacher Guest Houses I stayed during my Eastern Anatolia trip. This aggressive warning appeared… Related posts:the AAA way in Open Access! “Open Access at Duke "Open ...
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AAA Leadership Wants Your Feedback
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 8:58pm CEST by Damon
Today, President-Elect Leith Mullings wrote a letter to all AAA members, asking for input regarding the next major public policy project for the association. Read her letter below, and feel free to submit your ideas and post comments. August 31, ...
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Museum Engagement and Applied Anthropology - Call for Papers
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 8:27pm CEST
Call for Papers: Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting Seattle, Washington (March 30 - April 2, 2011) Session Title: Museum Engagement and Applied Anthropology Session Organizer: Robert P. Connolly (University of Memphis) The session is conceptually framed around The Participatory ...
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A cricket writer enlightens us on the Urdu tense system
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:52pm CEST by Geoffrey K. Pullum
Pakistan is playing England in a series of cricket matches, and on Sunday, August 29, Mike Brearley filed from the famous Lord's cricket ground an unbearably pompous article in The Observer about how things are going. "Cricket is the cruellest ...
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âPine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:35pm CEST by admin
The Loaded Goat: Revisiting Pine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by M. Jamil Hanifi The diary of Ted the Tongue reveals more about the poverty of the academic thinking and conduct that provisions the âComparative Cultural Competenceâ (or ...
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Reading Bytes for Aug 31
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:30pm CEST by Dina
Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error...
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The Glamour of Grammar
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:08pm CEST by Mark Liberman
[This is a guest post by Roy Peter Clark. He was indirectly quoted in "Flacks and hacks and brainscans" (11/23/2007), but the "analysis and criticism" that he mentions can be found in "Slippery glamour" (7/4/2008), "Don't tell Sister Catherine William" ...
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Free Journal Access as a Public Issue
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 5:20pm CEST by Bill Davis
In the September AN, AAA Executive Director William âBillâ E Davis writes on journal access. He shares the text of the article here. If you have any comments, you are welcome to post them below. Government Mandated Free Access to ...
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They are them; we are me and others.
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:54pm CEST by Chad Nilep
In his 30 August editorial, “Weâve Seen This Movie Before,” Stanley Fish notes that critics of Park51 (the so-called ‘Ground Zero mosque’) describe the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 as an act committed by ...
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TESEV report: Serap Yazıcı on Constitutional Changes (in Turkish)
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:36pm CEST by admin
Click here to download the report. Related posts:"TESEV Kurdish Report A report on Turkish bloggers Constitutional Court violates Constitution again but not prevents a possible Constitutional change… Report: Ergenekon is our reality TESEV: Impartial judiciary, most media go hand ...
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Tracking a factoid to its lair
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:06pm CEST by Mark Liberman
Matt Richtel, one of the leading current peddlers of the "technology is eating our brains" meme, is fond of this assertion: The average person today consumes almost three times as much information as what the typical person consumed in 1960, ...
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Links of the Day #3
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:39pm CEST
Got a recommendation for tomorrow? Leave a comment and let me know. Exquisite Castaways | National Geographic Magazine Posted: 28 Aug 2010 05:42 AM PDTBeautiful ... insect eggs? "The images were made with a scanning electron microscope, which uses beams ...
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David Harvey and the possibility of social revolution
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 2:35pm CEST
"the Problem for the anti-capitalist left is to build organizational forms and to unleash a co-revolutionary dynamic that can replace the present system of compounding accumulation of capital with some other forms of social coordination, exchange and control that can ...
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Next day's Chinese lesson
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 2:18pm CEST by Victor Mair
Following up on "Chinese Lesson for Today," we have another specimen of writing on a wall related to the bodily functions that requires grammatical explanation. Here is a temporary sign at a construction site in Shanghai, taken by Mollie Kirk ... -
Protocols of the Quizmasters of Zion
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 1:55pm CEST by Mark Liberman
I can usually figure out the specific reasons that statistical MT systems come up with peculiar translations. But this one has me stumped: Google Translate renders "Montar un vínculo con Israel" into English as ""Build a bond with Israel", which ...
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There is no Ground Zero Mosque
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 1:28pm CEST by martijn
Many of you have by now read my thoughts on the Ground Zero Mosque, that is not a mosque and not at Ground Zero. Probably many of you have already seen the hilarious Daily Show episode, if not watch it ...
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Industrial efficiency news of the day
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:45am CEST by loomnie
The Chinese market in fake European classical art is growing. Steadily. Something they bring to it? Industrial efficiency. The village of Dafen in southern China has become the centre of a big industry, with about 8,000 artists responsible for creating 60 per ...
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Dance Workshop & Discussion: Leila of Cairo and Anthropologist Najwa Adra
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:33am CEST by tabsir
Leila, left; Dr. Najwa Adra, right Dance Workshop & Discussion: Leila of Cairo and Anthropologist Najwa Adra Wednesday, September 1, 2010 6:00 pm at Alwan for the Arts Workshop: 6:00-8:30 pm Discussion: 8:30-10:00 pm This evening of dance and discussion ...
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The new linguistic relativism: Guy Deutscher in the NYTimes
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:16am CEST by gregdowney
How does language affect thought and perception? Itâs a question weâve looked at here at Neuroanthropology.net on a number of occasions, but Prof. Guy Deutscher, offers a nice general survey of the current state of play in the research over ...
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Finally almost two years laterâŠ
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 6:24am CEST by Diana
From a direct email Best Buy sent me: “Next time youâre at a Best Buy store you can conveniently get the product information you needâright from your mobile phone. Learn more about specifications, ratings and reviews using the new QR ...
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Linguistic relativity in the news
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 6:19am CEST by schrisomalis
Guy Deutscher’s article at the New York Times, “Does Your Language Shape How You Think?” is attracting (rightly) a lot of attention in the anthropologico-linguistico-blogospherico…oh, you get the idea. Yes, it’s a popularization of a lot of different research, but ...
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Anthro in the news 8/30/10
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 5:45am CEST by admin
This week’s anthropology in the news is the final posting made with the assistance of Graham Hough-Cornwell. For the past year, Graham has been a vital force behind the blog from inspiration, contributing his own posts, editing, photo-research, publishing posts, ...
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Our Top 100 Posts
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 2:57am CEST by dlende
Here are our top 100 posts – 10% of our overall content, given that we just hit 1000 posts. For the nitpickers, I included some of our pages in the actual list of posts. So there’s more than 100 in ...
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Towards an era of bureaucratically controlled medical compliance?
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 12:52am CEST by Eugene Raikhel
The latest issue of Anthropology and Medicine is a superb special issue titled âTowards an era of bureaucratically controlled medical compliance?â and guest edited by Somatosphere contributors Kalman Applbaum and Michael Oldani. Applbaum and Oldani emphasize in their introduction that ...
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Film: Children of the Stars
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 10:33pm CEST by Karen Nakamura
One of my graduate students told me about this film, Children of the Stars, which is about Chinese children with autism. I'd love to see it, but there's no distribution in the USA yet for their DVD:... -
Publishing a DVD with CreateSpace and Amazon
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 9:23pm CEST by Karen Nakamura
One of my friends asked me about my experience publishing a DVD with CreateSpace and Amazon. CreateSpace is a company that allows you to publish your own DVDs, CDs, and books. They were bought out by Amazon and so Amazon ...
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Can a conference be a family occasion?
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 9:10pm CEST by Cicilie
Early morning, Maynooth Campus Taking one’s family along to a conference is obviously not that uncommon. “Where can I sign up for that anthropologists’ wife association?” my partner wondered, as he saw yet another man pushing a stroller along on ...
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Europe goinâ crazy: Sarkozy to go his Roma policy, Swiss initiative to re-introduce death penaltyâŠ.
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 8:11pm CEST by admin
MAIN FOCUS: Europe unsettled by death penalty initiative | 25/08/2010 from euro|topics The campaign to collect signatures on reintroducing the death penalty in Switzerland was stopped by its initiators today, Wednesday, a day after it began. By their own account ...
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Never mind the conclusions, what's the evidence?
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 7:00pm CEST by Mark Liberman
A month ago, I linked to Lera Boroditsky's WSJ piece "Lost in Translation", and promised to discuss the contents in more detail at some point in the future ("Boroditsky on Whorfian navigation and blame", 7/26/2010). At the time, I noted ...
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1000 Posts!
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 6:18pm CEST by dlende
This is it, post #1000! Neuroanthropology is now the house of 1000 posts, a veritable host of long-tail zombie content sure to infect the entire internet. Well, at least those synergistic people who are still alive out there after surfing ...
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More syllabus mania! (figuratively speaking)
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 5:56pm CEST by Eugene Raikhel
We should have some more posts in our series on syllabi and reflections on teaching, but in the meantime, you might want to check out similar efforts underway at other blogs. The brilliant h-madness is also running a series of ...
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Get the Syllabus â Biocultural Medical Anthropology
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 5:04pm CEST by dlende
For those of you who are interested, hereâs the list of readings for my class on Biocultural Medical Anthropology. To make sure I had good articles, I drew on syllabi from other professors I really respect, and also dug into ...
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Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (10)- digital PR agencies, a list of active blogs and active forums etcâŠ.
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 4:39pm CEST by admin
a list of blogs recommended by Turkish FriendFeed users here: [www.ruhunevrenselcansikintisi.com] http://www.tameroz.com/tr… [mustafaacungil.blogspot.com] http://daron.yondem.com/tr… [www.cengizhan.com] http://www.nuricankaya.com/ [atalayaktas.spaces.live.com] http://kadirsenerms.spaces.live.com/ [komunaliskembe.blogspot.com] http://www.grizine.com/ [ismailsenol.blogspot.com] [hayatyelpazem.blogspot.com] [sonradan.wordpress.com] [begenmezsenokuma.blogspot.com] http://www.havayolu101.com/ [www.pedalla.com] http://baskabirdunya.wordpress.com/ [diazepam-ayakizleri.blogspot.com] http://maliano.blogspot.com/ ...
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How did sport get to big?
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 3:35pm CEST by loomnie
A well-researched piece in Intelligent Life Magazine. Concludes with: Sport has infected other fields with its values. Everything from hairdressing to accountancy now has its own awards ceremony, making mere workers into winners and losers. The recent British election was ...
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What We Still Donât Know About Islam
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 3:24pm CEST by tabsir
by Hussein Rashid, Religion Dispatches, August 26, 2010 Cathy Lynn Grossman, at USA Todayâs Faith and Reason blog, writes about how most Americans know very little about Islam. Intentionally or not, she actually models this ignorance of Muslim traditions. Like ...
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Pamuk says âyesâ to reform package⊠Towards referendum (7)
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 1:23pm CEST by admin
Nobel winner Pamuk says ‘yes’ to reform package Today’s Zaman Turkey’s Nobel-prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has said he will vote âyesâ on the Sept. 12 referendum on a constitutional amendment package. … Turkish opposition leader ‘tweets’ on amnesty debate ...
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BP embraces social responsibility
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 1:18pm CEST
I snapped these photographs of a BP fuel tanker on a motorway near London. The companyâs slogan reads: BP Ultimate: more performance, less pollution. They could not have come up with a more ironic tagline in light of one of ...
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Whorf gets a makeover
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 6:25am CEST by Leila
A lengthy excerpt from Guy Deutscher’s new book examines current evidence for linguistic relativity: [www.nytimes.com]...
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"Sumo association to set up 'mob-cams' at Kokugikan"
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 2:22am CEST
From today's Japan Today:The Japan Sumo Association will set up ââmob-camsââ at Tokyoâs Ryogoku Kokugikan for the upcoming Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament as a measure to kick organized crime out of the national pastime. Determined to remove the presence of ... -
"Film shows Japan-U.S. security from artists' viewpoints"
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 2:17am CEST
From today's Japan Today:A documentary film on Japanâs tumultuous postwar history since signing the 1960 security treaty with the United States will be released next month, featuring the works and first-person accounts of artists and writers looking back on the ...
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The Loaded Goat: Revisiting Pine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 1:31am CEST by M. Jamil Hanifi
The diary of Ted the Tongue reveals more about the poverty of the academic thinking and conduct that provisions the âComparative Cultural Competenceâ (or is it âCross-Cultural Competenceâ?) component of the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) than the colorful ...
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The Muslim brother
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 12:14am CEST by admin
âHeil Hitlerâ yells the lady and raises her arm. Then Dudrik blasts in to tell her that I am not fond of âhimâ. I hate when people respond like this because Iâm from Germany but this time it is rather ...
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Anthropologists at Work
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 10:25pm CEST
Anthropologists at Work...
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Max Forte on Israeli Penetration of the American Media
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 9:23pm CEST by admin
Israeli Penetration of the American Media: Documents Released from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian Forte Internal documents from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, finding that millions of dollars from Israel were used to ...
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Parisian overture, or getting a locksmith in the holiday season
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 9:13pm CEST by Cicilie
Back in Belleville, - if only for a short visit Finding a place to stay in Paris is one of the worst things I know (except from at a hotel, which is easy.) I’ve lived at six different places in ...
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The Mashup Reigns on Facebook
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 7:50pm CEST by Andriko Lozowy
Mashup Image from Facebook (*Note the black bars through the eyes were my own addition) âMashups combine views, data, and logic from existing Web sites or applications to create novel applications that focus on situational and ephemeral problemsâ . This ...
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Erkanâs Field Diary: Top posts of the week and the month
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 5:22pm CEST by admin
found here [paperbullet.com] VIA Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-08-29 1- A video: Turkish Porn Star Ćahin Kâs comedy film trailer 2- Welcome to BeĆiktaĆ, Guti! â 15 thousand attends the ceremony in Ä°nönĂŒ 3- Elif: AĆk-ı Memnu: ...
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WWGBD
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 4:11pm CEST by lrepublican
Yesterday there was a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, a political act paraded as a national revival meeting. And guess who showed up? None other than Elmer Gantry. If you are too young to remember who Elmer Gantry is, Youtube ...
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Carol Worthman â Habits of the Heart Video
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 3:04pm CEST by dlende
In the previous post Carol Worthman: From Human Development to Habits of the Heart, I covered two of Carol’s recent papers. Just after that I discovered a great lecture by Carol, where she covers her work on “Habits of the ...
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Dylan and philosophy: special section from Philosophy & Social Criticism
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 2:49pm CEST by admin
check out the latest issue. Philosophy and the Habits of Critical Thinking by Reflection Cafe Interview with John Searle (California Univ.-Berkeley) … Is it hard to do philosophy? It’s murder, absolutely. I compare it … if you really want to ...
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Carol Worthman: From Human Development to Habits of the Heart
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 1:56pm CEST by dlende
Carol Worthman, a mentor of mine at Emory University and a real leader in doing neuroanthropological research (even if she might call it “biocultural”), has two recent articles out that I really want to highlight. The first is The Ecology ...
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Ask Language Log: Adjectives from country names?
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 1:39pm CEST by Mark Liberman
Jak King writes: Are there rules in English for making adjectives from countries, or are the assignments random? I have found a number of standard adjectival endings (-ese, -(i)an, -ish, -i, -er). There are also some singularities (French, Greek, Monegasque) ...
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Erkan is back with his new toy: Sony Vaio
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 12:52pm CEST by admin
a few hours before my flight to Dublin, my old Sony Vaio had its last breath. I had to borrow Nurdan’s laptop. In Maynooth campus where I had stayed, IT stuff could not fix the connection problem so i had ...
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Chinese lesson for today
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 12:51pm CEST by Victor Mair
Sign on the wall of a public toilet in China: YĂĄnjĂŹn yĂČng dÇngbĂ o dÇngkÄn dÄng shÇuzhÇ yĂČng" äž„çŠçšć æ„ć ććœæçșžçš. Smooth translation: âUse of Party newspapers and magazines as toilet paper is strictly forbidden.â Rough translation to reflect the redundant use of ...
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Glory Days â Anthropologists as Journalists
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 12:45pm CEST by dlende
Brian McKenna, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan – Dearborn, has a great piece in the August 2010 newsletter of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Starting on p. 11 (the newsletter is a pdf), McKenna has a piece ...
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Rich--The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 8:00am CEST
function submitCCCForm(){ PopUp = window.open('', '_Icon','location=no,toolbar=no,status=no,width=650,height=550,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); this.document.cccform.submit(); } August 28, 2010The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party By FRANK RICH ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from ...
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kufiyas: "Green Zone" & MIA's /\/\/\Y/\
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 4:42am CEST by Ted Swedenburg
I've commented previously on what I am provisionally calling the "tough guy" kufiya. (Re: From Paris with Love, Green Zone, The Hurt Locker, The Book of Eli, Reign of Fire, and The Three Kings.)I recently watched Green Zone, which I ...
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Recent Magazine Articles on Incarceration
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 3:03am CEST by michellestewart1
Ran across this recent piece and thought I’d post it. Prison Without Walls appears in this month’s Atlantic. It is written by Graeme Wood and discusses the use of home monitoring/electronic ankle monitors. Of note I think is the discussion ...
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Foodspotting
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 9:22pm CEST by dlende
I just came across a fascinating site worthy of some gourmet exploration. Foodspotting is a site that allows readers to upload photos of food linked to geographic information and also to short descriptions of the food featured in said picture. ...
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Pure Chinese?
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 8:37pm CEST by Victor Mair
Ads for the Confucius Institutes show up all over the Web. At times they seem to be virtually ubiquitous, at least on sites that I visit. One that I've been encountering frequently of late shows a sculpture of Confucius, at ...
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How to present a thesis
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 6:55pm CEST by o.w.
Check out the 2010 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest. I’ll link two of them, but there are more! I’ve started swing dancing recently and if I ever do a Ph.D., I’ll be joining in!...
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Leaves from an old Bible Atlas #1
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 5:32pm CEST by tabsir
Perhaps there is a geographical inclination gene in my ancestry, since I have always loved Bible atlases. Many years ago my father was given a copy of Jesse Lyman Hurlbut’s A Bible Atlas, first published in 1910; his volume was ...
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Taking care of people
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 2:04pm CEST by Mark Liberman
Today's Tank McNamara features an idiom with two very different meanings: There are a number of words like sanction and table that are in some sense auto-opposites. And it's common to invert the emotional valence of terms like sick or ...
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Links of the Day #2
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 12:11pm CEST
Got a recommendation for tomorrow? Leave a comment and let me know. Top 10 YouTube Videos About Internet of Things Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:45 PM PDTThe Internet of Things is what happens when you take everyday ordinary objects and ...
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Writing systems and literacy: a syllabus
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 5:38am CEST by schrisomalis
At the end of a conference a few years ago on writing systems, we (the dozen or so participants) energetically promised to share with one another the various syllabi we use in our courses on writing systems and literacy. Apparently ...
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Police âmaterial cultureâ
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 5:12am CEST by beajauregui
I was earlier today contemplating this statue, which stands outside of the Philadelphia Police Department Headquarters at 8th and Race Sts. Note the quintessential 1950s “professional officer” style of uniform… and also how there is a gun on his right ...
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UCLA loses to USC, but is Still Afraid to Challenge Chico State in College Rankings!
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 4:22am CEST by Tony
    It is college ranking season again, sponsored by US News and World Report.  Once again, US News left Chico State out of their ranking system, I think because the big kids thought that they would lose if it came ...
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Noyes on the Oversimplications of Cultural Property and Heritage Policy
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 3:45am CEST by Jason Baird Jackson
An important working paper by my friend Dorry Noyes presenting alternatives to the conceptual oversimplifications common in cultural property and cultural heritage policy has just been circulated by the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Cultural Property at the University of Göttingen. ...
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EDL207FL2010
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 1:37am CEST by TheAnthroGeek
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1vA_UOg5V6UBcTjoJCXMXl95jEwwCMLEoHj1sT9DmthI [prezi.com] http://www.amazon.com/Projects-Ethnographic-Research-Michael-Angrosino/dp/1577663691/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1282958010&sr=1-3-fkmr1 [www.amazon.com] http://www.amazon.com/Studying-Children-Schools-Qualitative-Traditions/dp/1577661702/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282958257&sr=1-1...
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âBetween Land and Water: United Houma Nationâ Poster Release Event
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 1:23am CEST by Maya
The United Houma Nation’s oral history poster project will debut at the Jean Lafitte Acadian Wetland Center (Thibadeaux, Louisiana, USA) on September 4, 2010 from 2:00-4:30 p.m. The project is a collaboration between the United Houma Nation’s tribal council, the ...
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Altmann: Hauser apparently fabricated data
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 12:53am CEST by Mark Liberman
There's new information emerging from the slow-motion Marc Hauser train wreck. Carolyn Johnson, "Journal editor questions Harvard researcher's data", Boston Globe 8/27/2010: The editor of a scientific journal said today the only "plausible" conclusion he can draw, on the basis ...
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The Museum is Watching
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 10:27pm CEST
The Museum is Watching...
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Becoming a father: News from George
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 10:02pm CEST by admin
I meet George on a parking in front of a supermarket. He is happy to see me and so am I. The young man and his wife Tiffany moved into a new home a couple of weeks ago, since we ...
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An Anthropologistâs Take on Homemaking
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 9:32pm CEST by Jona
An interview with AAA member Mary Catherine Bateson appeared in the Home and Garden Section of the New York Times on August 26. In the article Bateson shares photos of her home in New Hampshire, reminiscences about her childhood and ... -
âGetting Past the Accidentâ
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 9:08pm CEST by Oona and Emilia
In the September issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, anthropologist Seth D. Messinger looks to the themes of embodiment and subjectivity while contrasting two models of physical rehabilitation. The first model, found at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Amputee Patient ...
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Food For Thought: 21st Century Perspectives on Ethnobotany
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:51pm CEST by admin
This event is hosted by the Departments of Botany and Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden and supported by the Cuatrecasas Family Foundation. The Ninth Annual Smithsonian Botanical Symposium September ...
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Israeli Penetration of the American Media: Documents Released
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 4:46pm CEST by Maximilian Forte
Internal documents from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, finding that millions of dollars from Israel were used to plant stories in the U.S. media, especially The Atlantic Magazine. These documents were released ...
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A shift in Arab views of Iran
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 3:46pm CEST by tabsir
Photograph by Morteza Nikoubazl for Reuters Anger over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. policy is tilting public opinion in favor of Tehran and against Washington. by Shibley Telhami, The Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2010 President Obama may have scored ...
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The normalcy of refudiate
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 1:00pm CEST by Mark Liberman
Ian Best writes: Since it was first used by Palin, and then commented upon by the media, I've heard the word [refudiate] used a couple of times in everyday speech. Both times it was used in a playful, ironic way, ...
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An anthropologist examining online poker
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 12:57pm CEST
Talking to Science JournalistsPerhaps because of the strange combination of being a cultural anthropologist studying online poker, I was invited to give a talk to a group of journalists from The Finnish Association of Science Journalists and Editors on an excursion ...
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Join the Boob-olution!
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 12:29pm CEST by dlende
Hat-tip to Savage Minds Around the Web On a complementary note, especially for breast feeding at night, see our popular post: Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone The Bump: The Inside Scoop ...
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Call for Participation
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 11:27am CEST
When / Where: November 7th to December 4th, 2010, Du Mois Gallery, New Orleans Deadline for proposals: 20 Sept 2010 Contact: Craig Campbell (craig.campbell@mail.utexas.edu), www.ethnographicterminalia.org Ethnographic Terminalia (2010) is scheduled to coincide with the 109th Meeting of the American Anthropological ...
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Part-of-speech classification question
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 10:50am CEST by Geoffrey K. Pullum
Brett Reynolds (who writes the blog English, Jack) raised an interesting question of detail about English grammar the other day in an email to me and Rodney Huddleston: What is the syntactic category (part of speech) of slash, as used ...
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Nigerian power industry to be liberalised
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 9:49am CEST by loomnie
President Goodluck Jonathan says Nigeria’s power industry can only grow through liberalisation: The government will sell 11 distribution companies created out of Power Holding Co. of Nigeria, the state-owned utility, and allow private companies to set up power plants using ...
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David Kellyâs translation of Ma Yu on Chinese investments overseas
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 8:29am CEST by Third Tone Devil
In my 17 July post I discussed Ma Yu’s writings on Chinese investments overseas. Professor David Kelly has kindly offered to post the translation of a recent article by Ma Yu in Southern Weekend (Ma Yu, âHaiwai touzi de âzhidu ...
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Death metal, religion and the socialization of emotion
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 4:34am CEST by gregdowney
Over at The Immanent Frame, a website on religion, secularism and society supported by the Social Science Research Council (USA), Jim Robertson reflects on the presence of religion in Death Metal after a trip to Wacken Open Air (in Germany), ...
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Cruise ships to heaven: Mauritius expands tourist sector
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 3:57am CEST by admin
Guest post by Sean Carey Mark Twain famously quoted a local person in his 1897 travelogue, Following the Equator: âYou gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.â Anyone lucky ...
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size 36 C and counting
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 3:15am CEST by maryannodonnell
I have been thinking about the purpose of human human adaptability. To what ends and how should we craft human lives? The context for my speculation has been the constant construction and reconstruction of Shenzhen, where I have watched the ...
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CMA Student Travel Award Reminder!
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 10:42pm CEST
CMA Student Travel Award Reminder!...
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Links of the Day #1
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 9:39pm CEST
I'm experimenting with a new feature: posting my most recent bookmarks and finds from around the web. There may be some formatting difficulties while I test it out. I mostly share anthropology, web design and technology-related items. Got a recommendation ...
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Is "Character Amnesia" Here to Stay?
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 7:21pm CEST by Victor Mair
A little over a month ago, I wrote a blog about what I called "Character Amnesia." Today, half a dozen readers have called my attention to an Aug. 25th article by Judith Evans for Agence France-Presse entitled "Wired youth forget ... -
"Shorten link as Brumby cops beating"?
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 6:31pm CEST by Mark Liberman
Unless you're familiar with Australian English and Australian politics, this one is going to baffle you. In fact, I'm still somewhat baffled, even after reading (what I think is) the associated story. It may help you to know that Shorten ...
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Back in Print Book Discussion Series: Honor and Shame
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 6:16pm CEST by Dion
The Back in Print Book Discussion Series highlights AAA books and monographs that are once again available via the Back in Print Program. Each part of this series asks key questions posed by the author or editor of one of ... -
US Government ISO Recommendations for Gulf Coast Recovery
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 5:01pm CEST by Damon
The Congressional Black Caucus, under the leadership of the CBC Energy & Environment Taskforce, has issued a Request for Proposals for recommendations on how BP, federal agencies and local networks can move towards long term recovery and restoration of the Gulf ...
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Texting while operating machinery
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 4:33pm CEST by Arnold Zwicky
A Zits on modern menaces: I've been getting reports of texting while bicycling / bicycling while texting, too....
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Elif: Fazıl Say: Fascist or partisan of freedom?
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 4:00pm CEST by admin
Almost a month ago, a discussion erupted after pianist Fazıl Sayâs these statements:  âArabesque music is the picture of arabesque lifestyle. This music weighs upon enlightenment and modernity. Itâs against labor and itâs nor creative neither sensitivity. I am ashamed ...
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Ottoman Haifa
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 2:50pm CEST by tabsir
William Henry Bartlett, Mount Carmel Looking towards the Sea, engraving, collection of Dr. Y. Rimon, Haifa The Haifa City Museum in Israel is sponsoring a special exhibition entitled “Ottoman Haifa: Aspects of the City, 1516-1918″ from August 29, 2009 - ...
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"Latin-obsessed 17th century introverts"?
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 2:26pm CEST by Mark Liberman
Some Language Log readers have long suspected me of secret prescriptivist sympathies, and I'm about to add fuel to the fire by standing up for John Dryden. Sort of. It all starts with today's SMBC. A student asks "Can I ...
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Cultural Holes: Bringing Culture and Social Networks Together
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 1:38pm CEST by dlende
In developing my Biocultural Medical Anthropology grad syllabus, I came across an interesting 2010 article in the Annual Review of Sociology: Cultural Holes: Beyond Relationality in Social Networks and Culture. Here is the abstract: A burgeoning literature spanning sociologies of ... -
Sites for Science and Humanities Exploration
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 12:47pm CEST by dlende
So there is a great new aggregrator out there – Science Blogging! It provides a live feed on some of the best science content from blogs around, including Scienceblogs.com, Discover Blogs, and Scientopia. Science Blogging is the creation of Anton ...
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Sevcan on last nightâs episode: âWe are waiting your tweets for @sosyalmedyatv on Twitter!
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 12:46pm CEST by admin
We had our first social media program at TRT Haber channel last night. Actually, even our program consultant Erkan Saka had no idea about the program circulation. (because he is in Ireland now and we are jealous.) So we could ...
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Travel to Colombia!
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 12:20pm CEST by dlende
I love traveling in Colombia â one of the best places Iâve ever visited, with so much to do and see. And a nice place to make home as well! So here are some travel articles to whet your appetite! ...
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Impressions londoniennes
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:51am CEST by Yara El-Ghadban
Chers tous, Alors voilĂ . Ăa fait presque deux semaines que nous sommes Ă Londres. Nous nous installons tranquillement dans notre quartier de Balham. Toujours entourĂ©s de boĂźtes d’Ikea (oui merci la mondialisation, au moins lĂ je ne me sens pas ...
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Elevated Park: The Highline NYC
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 7:45am CEST by Rob Shields
The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan’s streets. Section 1 of the High Line is open as a public park, owned by the City of New York and operated under the ...
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Peer Previewing
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 6:21am CEST by Leila
From: Leila Monaghan, University of Wyoming, 8/25/10 Interesting article in the New York Times on changing peer review process on articles. Makes me think about whether this blog might be a good place for previewing articles in front of our ...
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Lost numerals revealed
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 6:19am CEST by schrisomalis
Marc Zender of the Peabody Museum (I’ve written about his Tolkien anthropology course before) emailed me the other day to let me know about an article in the new American Anthropologist written by Jeff Quilter, Zender, and several additional co-authors, ...
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DEA and Ebonics
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 2:44am CEST by Leila
Repost of an article by H. Samy Alim and Imani Perry originally written for the The Grio blog: [www.thegrio.com] When the headlines appeared this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had issued a request to hire up to ...
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Erkanâs TV career (!) begins tonight
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 10:40pm CEST by admin
I am an advisor to a weekly TV program on social media that will be launched tonight! It will be broadcasted in TRT Haber channel. If I could be in Turkey, I would probably be in the TV screen for ...
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AAA Student Diversity Travel Grant
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 9:33pm CEST
AAA Student Diversity Travel Grant...
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Why canât African access global payment services?
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 9:05pm CEST by loomnie
Apparently, the fairly fragmented but resilient world of money transfer is getting consolidated: Sigue, a US money-transfer company strong in Latin America, is buying the money-transfer business of Coinstar for $41.5m. Coinstarâs network allows users to transfer cash to 23,000 points worldwide ...
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Manly manoeuvres
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:17pm CEST by tabsir
By Nadeem F. Paracha. Smoker’s Corner, Dawn.com, July 4, 2010 It is rather startling to note how the powerful âWomenâs Libâ movement in the 1970s was manhandled by certain sections of society in the West. They scrapped the intellectual aspects ...
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interzone radio podcast, playlist, august 24
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 6:52pm CEST by Ted Swedenburg
Nuru Kanepodcast -> iciplaylist -> ici...
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Europe's most hated minority
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 5:47pm CEST
From The Local:For two teenage Roma sisters, life has turned into a nightmare since they were expelled from Germany, the only home they had ever known, and forced to settle in Kosovo, a country they had never seen."I feel like ...
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Haitian KreyĂČl and Catalan
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 5:11pm CEST by Leila
Reposted from Celso Alvarez CĂĄccamo 2010/08/24 at 3:13 am Cataloniaâs educational system is one of immersion in Catalan. Catalan- and Spanish-speaking children alike (as well as immigrants from other countries) learn mandatorily in Catalan; Spanish is also taught. Spanish is ... -
Traces of a Lost Language Discovered
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 4:48pm CEST by Leila
Reposted from Peabody Museum Press Release [www.peabody.harvard.edu] Traces of a Lost Language Discovered (Cambridge, August 23, 2010) Sometime in the early 17th century in Northern Peru, a Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four ...
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The German Deaf Museum
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 4:38pm CEST
Even before I came to Germany I was hoping that I would be able to meet some German deaf people and have the opportunity to study German Sign Language. My students at Goethe, Bastian and Armin, found a web page ...