• Has Noahs Ark Been Discovered in Turkey? - Time Magazine

    Updated: 2010-04-30 01:51:16
    sci.archaeology: Has Noahs Ark Been Discovered in Turkey? - Time Magazine

  • Mako John Kuwimb and Paul Sillitoe on Diamond’s “Vengenace” piece

    Updated: 2010-04-29 00:23:35
    Stinky Journalism has launched the latest in it’s still-ongoing criticisms of Jared Diamond’s Vengeance piece in The New Yorker. While we haven’t covered all of the SJ columns on this blog, I do think it’s important to direct people’s attention to this one. Rebutting Jared Diamond’s Savage Portrait: What Tribal Societies Can Tell Us About [...]

  • Polynesian Tattoos and Public Anthropology

    Updated: 2010-04-24 06:27:44
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 24 04 10 01:53:35, by Lorenz Categories : culture traditions Pacific Oceania books art Polynesian Tattoos and Public Anthropology Public anthropology does exist . There are lots of anthropologists who write for the wider public and not only for other anthronerds . Here’s another example : The Polynesian Tattoo Today by Tricia Allen doctoral candidate in anthropology at the university of Hawai’i . In an interview with Honolulu’s Star Bulletin she : explains The first book did well it is now in its third printing . Its primary readership was those with a specific interest in Hawai’i and

  • Who needs alumni from ‘top schools’?

    Updated: 2010-04-21 21:47:06
    Everyone acknowledges that the academy is shrinking and that full-time, tenure track job positions in anthropology (and everything else) are getting harder and harder to find. Depending on your point of view, this decline might be a result of the recent recession, a ticking time-bomb set off in the late 70s as higher education’s runaway [...]

  • I see your timeline and raise you a timeline

    Updated: 2010-04-18 08:26:47
    A little bit ago a few tweets crossed my transom about Adam Bohannon’s excellent history of anthropological theory timeline. It’s fun and it looks like it was made with CHNM’s timeline builder. I had actually tried the same tool long ago but then sort of abandoned the project and so inspired by Adam revived my [...]

  • Culture is what you can’t choose

    Updated: 2010-04-15 19:28:55
    (I wrote this a while ago but am only now getting around to posing it) Several overlapping events in my life have got me thinking about how much of our lives are not up to us: the food taboos I currently labor under because it is Passover, the fact that I will be a father in [...]

  • Archaeologists find clues to the appearance of modern human

    Updated: 2010-04-13 18:33:24
    sci.archaeology: Archaeologists find clues to the appearance of modern human

  • Looking For a New Assistant Editor

    Updated: 2010-04-11 17:30:41
    Dear Readers, As you may have noticed, the weekly Savage Minds Around the Web feature has become more sporadic than weekly, which means it is time for me to step down and bring someone else into the Savage Minds family.   We’re looking for a new blogger to do a weekly roundup, and participate in the upkeep [...]

  • Two books on indigenous methods

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:47:59
    I am a late adopter of Twitter (r3×0r — feel free to follow me), and one of the nice things about being late to the party is that all of your old friends have already arrived and had a few drinks by the time you find a place to park. I’ve been trading tweets lately [...]

  • Anthro Classics Online: The Impact of Money

    Updated: 2010-04-11 15:47:58
    It’s been a while since I’ve updated my series of posts about classic anthropology texts which can be downloaded for free online. I started the series with a post about a text by Laura Bohannan, now I turn to the husband, Paul, whose classic “The Impact of Money on an African Subsistance Economy” can be [...]

  • Popular Anthropology Magazine = fail

    Updated: 2010-04-10 15:06:41
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 08 04 10 13:09:01, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing anthropology general journal articles papers University Academia Popular Anthropology Magazine fail The first issue of the Popular Anthropology Magazine is out . It was meant to bridge the gap between academia and the public and between anthropologists and continents . Cool , we needed that . But the result is in my opinion disappointing . For it was made with outdated paper journals as ideal . The editors were thinking paper , not web . They do provide a downloadable version on their website but

  • Why anthropologists should study news media

    Updated: 2010-04-10 15:06:40
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 06 04 10 23:21:45, by Lorenz Categories : Us and Them anthropology general media journal articles papers Why anthropologists should study news media Bad News . Photo : Stitch , flickr The time is right for more anthropologists to engage with news media with their creation , reception and content , writes S Elizabeth Bird in the recent issue of Anthropology News that was published . today Anthropological engagement with media was long rare and discouraged and in some quarters still is , Bird criticizes . The main focus has in her view been on topics like the role of television in family

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