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Now Social Darwinism can apparently even explain why the Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain instead of China: In Britain it was a game of the survival of the richest according to Gregory Clark, an economist at the University of California, ...
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I keep receiving emails the NSF (the US National Science Foundation) about their methods courses for anthropologists. But on closer examination the methods they promise to be teaching seem quite far from what I understand as anthropological methods: instead of ...
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I was just reading the news on the Indymedia site, and found an interesting news article on it about how Aracruz, a multinational cellulose company, has resorted to different forms of media to get locals on their side against attempts ...
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becoming an anthropologist
I'm back in Chicago again. Time to switch my mind back into English-language mode and move house. Acabaram as ferias e e hora de voltar a rotina... On Monday it's back to the grind again. I have a paper to ...
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Today when I opened my email I found the following email. I've been receiving so many different variations of the nigerian scam emails in the past two months that maybe I'm starting to see them even in emails that are ...
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... or perhaps rather the zen of dealing with the pragmatics of airtravel, ie tickets and schedules, airlines etc.br /br /I’m starting to accept the fact that flying from one place to another is no easy matter, at least when ...
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becoming an anthropologist
This Monday President Lula signed a new law for the “Enfrentimento da Violência Doméstica”. The news papers here hail the law as a significant step forward in the fight against domestic violence directed at women. Before a man caught beating ...
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becoming an anthropologist
It feels strange to think I've only been here a bit over a month if only for the fact that I have already moved twice since I arrived in June in Paripe. Now I am staying in my friend Marcio's ...
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becoming an anthropologist
A couple of weeks ago I bumped into a fellow anthropologist and friend who is also doing his research in Candomble here in Bahia, but in a very different setting. Unlike me here in urban Salvador, the capitol of the ...
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Here I am back in my beloved Salvador, but what an adventure it was to get here. I think I´m still trying to get used to the idea that I actually made it. After a crazy last few days of ...
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sitting in the library working on papers can be pretty isolating. like i wrote a couple of weeks ago, its a strange kind of sociality. you sit there with the same people days on end but dont really ever end ...
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getting a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Review_Board"irb/a approval for anthropological research is complicated enough as it is considering the process hasnt really been designed for participant observation at - how do you submit one and a half years of informal interview scripts before even ...
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becoming an anthropologist
Yet again youtube saves my day at the library. Thanks Mary for pointing me to this wonder!br /Double-O Hasselhoff if you wish to chuckle with me:br /object width="425" height="350"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D6P8JYY5AzI"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D6P8JYY5AzI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"/embed/objectdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12244768-114988279189311966?l=becomingananthropologist.blogspot.com' alt='' ...
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becoming an anthropologist
i just realized my email account had been set to central pacific, pacific ocean that is, time for who knows how long. it's funny how disconcerting that can be, especially on a grey day like today when looking out the ...
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becoming an anthropologist
As strange at it seems, I'm holed in at the library again with my fellow commiserators busy writing my final papers - Its a weird kind of sociality. We see each other every day, but we never talk, we dont ...
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becoming an anthropologist
After years as the bottom of the line in the Eurovision contest Finland finally made it to the top today, and with a band of heavy metal monsters. Apparently we just hadnt found our true voice before inspite of such ...
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I dont quite know what to think of this. Todays New York Times had a report on what are known as Emotional support animals. Apparently now you can claim the right to bring an animal with you any where by ...
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This Friday I presented my very first conference paper. Its funny how nervous you can get even when you are talking to a mostly familiar audience, but everything went well, I actually even got people laughing several times. And now ...
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Who said Finns cant dance?br /A good friend of mine just sent me the link to this 80s masterpiece by Armi and Danny:br /br /embed allowScriptAccess="never" style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DoQAAAK_s-9Z_WtHvlc8PbbjKLgr-JgZrKy6sePuKhDTQGcAHhBdTds8Ceh1fhvh9cvyUi3r-rUY8J97WM2E_y3eAMBFN98OP1lHwSrLS7n-P3njiAQjedUnbmi1QPI2pZ5IEa5Jd7jTHfXc95j_eyVqcTuzrqZQY4YdwTdNnTzYmLo7_SmB1eTi4HAwh4Yaze3drg2a1NOserZTyP35Dp579YHyFGp7WG_C9WKxSHRR7_ZIr%26sigh%3DUQXE-Zz0eoqKIhDM-cpuqmb0X3o%26begin%3D0%26len%3D223400%26docid%3D-8610362188397291938thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid%3Dad8246b8b676ea5d%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1145122792%26sigh%3DCOJa4n5rnBrynQlgvg3k_lnW7osplayerId=-8610362188397291938" allowScriptAccess="never" quality="best" bgcolor="..ffffff" scale="noScale" wmode="window" salign="TL" FlashVars="playerMode=embedded" /embeddiv ...
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becoming an anthropologist
Here are some souvenirs from our roadtrip down to the Americana of Southern Illinois, an anthropologist would really not need to go far here to find a fascinating field for studying religion and language. And if you settled in the ...
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becoming an anthropologist
Today the war in Irak has gone on for three full years, and for the first time Chicagoans are allowed to march legally down the Magnificient Mile to protest against it. br /br /Assembly at Walton and State starting 6pm, ...
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becoming an anthropologist
I guess this is kind of the grad student sitting in the library on a saturday afternoon for the 10th day in a row must-do test. I saw it on Matt's blog who had seen it on a friend's blog, ...
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becoming an anthropologist
My cousin just sent me an e-mail titled "crucial tips, especially for ladies" that contains a 9-point list of advice for avoiding THE predator. No wonder women here are scared to walk outside alone in the evenings. They're constantly warned ...