• - Highlight the connections between people!

    Updated: 2010-06-30 21:22:03
    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 30 06 10 23:22:03, by Lorenz Categories : Us and Them globalisation Pacific Oceania aboriginees migration anthropology general journal articles papers history cosmopolitanism Highlight the connections between people It happened already around 200 years ago : Aboriginal Australians marry Indians . Afghan cameleers open up the interior of Australia for transport and development . Indian seamen fight for Indonesian independence . And long before Australia was colonised by white settlers in 1788, Aboriginees have had longstanding relations with the Indonesian . archipelago A few weeks ago I

  • Parallels of Ethnicity Inc. at the World Cup

    Updated: 2010-06-30 17:52:00
    One thing that we are not hearing about with any regularity is reporting on the experiences of World Cup fans in South Africa.  This is probably a good thing considering the fear build up that occurred for years in the world press with increasing frequency leading up to the event.  It is undeniable that many [...]

  • Ideological Indoctrination in Macroeconomics

    Updated: 2010-06-30 05:53:24
    Kevin Drum shares this great quote from Mike Konczal, on ideological indoctrination in a graduate level macroeconomic’s class: speaking as someone who has taken graduate coursework in “continental philosophy”, and been walked through the big hits of structural anthropology, Hegelian marxism and Freudian feminism, that graduate macroeconomics class was by far the most ideologically indoctrinating [...]

  • Around the Web

    Updated: 2010-06-29 03:36:51
    Live and direct from the Comfort Suites in Charleston, West Virginia, it’s Around the Web with Savage Minds! Tomorrow is the last day of our cross-country family road trip and I’m happy to report that reuniting our adopted daughter with her birth-brother and sister went off without a hitch. Also we paid a visit to [...]

  • The relevance gap

    Updated: 2010-06-27 02:03:14
    I recently stumbled across a newly-published article entitled The Making of an Epic (American) Hero Fighting For Justice: Commodification, Consumption, and Intertextuality in the Floyd Landis Defense Campaign. My first thought was: interesting even though off topic. Hey — maybe its even teachable? But in fact my intuitions about how to connect actual events in life [...]

  • Archaeologists: Collaborate with over 14,000 Researchers at MyNetResearch.com

    Updated: 2010-06-25 19:33:25
    Summary: Publishing quality academic papers engages a lot of our waking hours. ... Research tools have changed a great deal over the years. ... scientists have so far relied too heavily on published papers and per- ... New, free Web 2.0 tools like MyNetResearch.com with over 14,200 global ...

  • How African is the World Cup?

    Updated: 2010-06-25 17:09:28
    Leave it to John Oliver to provide perhaps the most biting commentary thus far on the World Cup and what it means to the informal economy of South Africa in western media

  • ACTA, a TRIPS down memory lane

    Updated: 2010-06-23 18:49:50
    Alex Dent sends word of the next international legal nightmare: the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The first thing to say is that, like TRIPS, this agreement is currently being negotiated behind closed doors, without any apparent consultation from any civil society representatives of any of the signatories. But unlike TRIPS, it is an “executive [...]

  • More posts next week

    Updated: 2010-06-23 01:12:14
    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 23 06 10 03:12:14, by Lorenz Categories : internal notes More posts next week I thought I would have some time left for writing a blog post before I’ll go on a short holiday but anyway there will be more posts next week By the way , recently I updated the anthropology blog news feeds at http : www.antropologi.info feeds anthropology it gives you an overview over the most recent posts by anthropology bloggers in English an alternative to the overview at http : www.antropologi.info blog See you next week Permalink Leave a comment No feedback yet Comment feed for this post Leave a comment

  • Theory Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning

    Updated: 2010-06-21 03:08:22
    When it comes to theory many anthropologists want to have it both ways: they want to use enough of it so that their ethnographic reportage is not mistaken for journalism, dressing it up in just enough of the latest theoretical stylings to give their work academic legitimation; at the same time, however, they also want [...]

  • Theory as a Source of Stress

    Updated: 2010-06-19 21:59:49
    Following on the heels of Kerim’s post, here is a true story from my grad school experience (as in “no kidding true” — I was told it by the person it happened to). A graduate student in anthropology is feeling extremely stressed out and decides to go visit the school counselor. The counselor is very [...]

  • A word about comments

    Updated: 2010-06-18 16:22:58
    Lately we’ve been getting a few complaints about the comments. We don’t censor or ban users unless there is a clear violation of our comments policy. And even then we prefer to err on the side of allowing free discourse, rather than risk censoring talk simply because we, or some of our users, find it [...]

  • "Encouraging to see a Muslim anthropologist studying American society"

    Updated: 2010-06-13 23:58:10
    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 14 06 10 01:58:10, by Lorenz Categories : religion cosmology Us and Them books Northern America Encouraging to see a Muslim anthropologist studying American society Days and weeks before the launch of the new book by anthropologist Akbar Ahmed called Journey into America : the Challenge of Islam it was already reviewed in major Pakistani newspapers . Usually it is Western anthropologists who study Muslim societies . It is encouraging to see a Muslim scholar returning the compliment by studying American society Maleeha Lodhi writes in The News Accompanied by several researchers , Akbar

  • The X chromosome in population genetics

    Updated: 2010-06-03 19:12:43
    The X chromosome in population genetics Something I’m posting a link to for later reference, in case I see any more X chr studies. The bit I want to find quickly is… Taken together, these studies indicate an Out of Africa origin for modern humans. Individually, however, the studies point to diverse conclusions. For example, [...]

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