E-mail etiquette guide
Updated: 2011-03-31 23:05:05
This etiquette guide from Nature Education is enormously useful for students: "How to send a professional e-mail to a professor".
Anthropological Kerfuffles
Updated: 2011-03-25 14:28:50
OK. This is about as lazy as blogging gets. Below the fold is a four way Twitter conversation I had with Thomas Strong, Ken Wissoker and Carole McGranahan. What started as a funny quote about Patrick Tierney’s Darkness in El Dorado turned into a discussion about which “big debates” in Anthropology get picked up by [...]Attention: Universe
Updated: 2011-03-25 04:48:30sci.archaeology: Attention: UniverseAround the Web
Updated: 2011-03-23 16:26:59This week Around the Web is all about language and the mind. Let’s kick things off with another of those clever RSA Animate features, this time starring Steven Pinker as he discusses what language can tell us about social relationships. BRAAAAIINSS!!! The phenomenon of Alien Hand Syndrome: after doctors cut her corpus callosum to [...]Social Anthropology Lectures
Updated: 2011-03-22 05:35:09Home Teaching Contact Subscribe to this RSS feed These posts and attached files are related to my lectures in the Department of Anthropology , University of Cambridge and are updated every year . They are primarily intended for my students , but are also available for anyone who has an interest . If you do download the associated files , please do let me know what you like and how I can improve them by email or by using the comment function . If you have any questions please leave a comment and I'll do my best to . answer Thursday , 17 February 2011 15:36 Anthropology of Belief 3 4 : Ethnographic Approaches to Belief Written by Jonathan Mair In these two , final , lectures on belief , I looked at work on belief that tries to capture the specificity of historical and cultural traditions ofJonathan Mair
Updated: 2011-03-22 05:35:09Home Teaching Contact font size decrease font size increase font size Print E-mail Jonathan Mair , Research Fellow in Social Anthropology , St John's College , Cambridge My research in the anthropology of religion focuses on Buddhism in East Asia . Though Buddhist traditions have ancient roots in Asia , there have been enormous innovations in ideas , practices and organization in the last century , and especially in the last few decades transformations that are no less radical than the other changes in Asian societies over the same . period My main research project is an attempt to understand the contemporary revival of Tibetan Buddhism among Mongols and Han Chinese in northern China . Religion in China was suppressed from the 50s to the end of the 70s , and was treated with suspicionJonathan Mair
Updated: 2011-03-22 05:35:09Home Teaching Contact font size decrease font size increase font size Print E-mail Jonathan Mair , Research Fellow in Social Anthropology , St John's College , Cambridge My research in the anthropology of religion focuses on Buddhism in East Asia . Though Buddhist traditions have ancient roots in Asia , there have been enormous innovations in ideas , practices and organization in the last century , and especially in the last few decades transformations that are no less radical than the other changes in Asian societies over the same . period My main research project is an attempt to understand the contemporary revival of Tibetan Buddhism among Mongols and Han Chinese in northern China . Religion in China was suppressed from the 50s to the end of the 70s , and was treated with suspicionContact Details
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Updated: 2011-03-22 05:35:08Home Teaching Contact font size decrease font size increase font size Print E-mail Jonathan Mair , Research Fellow in Social Anthropology , St John's College , Cambridge My research in the anthropology of religion focuses on Buddhism in East Asia . Though Buddhist traditions have ancient roots in Asia , there have been enormous innovations in ideas , practices and organization in the last century , and especially in the last few decades transformations that are no less radical than the other changes in Asian societies over the same . period My main research project is an attempt to understand the contemporary revival of Tibetan Buddhism among Mongols and Han Chinese in northern China . Religion in China was suppressed from the 50s to the end of the 70s , and was treated with suspicionJonathan Mair
Updated: 2011-03-22 05:35:07font size decrease font size increase font size Print Jonathan Mair , Research Fellow in Social Anthropology , St John's College , Cambridge My research in the anthropology of religion focuses on Buddhism in East Asia . Though Buddhist traditions have ancient roots in Asia , there have been enormous innovations in ideas , practices and organization in the last century , and especially in the last few decades transformations that are no less radical than the other changes in Asian societies over the same . period My main research project is an attempt to understand the contemporary revival of Tibetan Buddhism among Mongols and Han Chinese in northern China . Religion in China was suppressed from the 50s to the end of the 70s , and was treated with suspicion throughout the 80s , but thereSocanth
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Updated: 2011-03-22 05:35:06Home Teaching Contact font size decrease font size increase font size Print E-mail Jonathan Mair , Research Fellow in Social Anthropology , St John's College , Cambridge My research in the anthropology of religion focuses on Buddhism in East Asia . Though Buddhist traditions have ancient roots in Asia , there have been enormous innovations in ideas , practices and organization in the last century , and especially in the last few decades transformations that are no less radical than the other changes in Asian societies over the same . period My main research project is an attempt to understand the contemporary revival of Tibetan Buddhism among Mongols and Han Chinese in northern China . Religion in China was suppressed from the 50s to the end of the 70s , and was treated with suspicionWelcome to the Buddhist Ethics Network
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Updated: 2011-03-16 01:37:46I’d like to briefly mention three initiatives aimed at making anthropology more accessible: The first is a wonderful new—what to call it? blog? journal? blogurnal?—anthropology blog/journal “anthropologies” aimed at exploring “contemporary anthropology through essays, short articles, and opinion pieces written from diverse perspectives.” Their first issue explores the question “What is Anthropology?” The second is [...]Around the Web: Web Edition
Updated: 2011-03-15 14:49:02I gave up Facebook for Lent, but perhaps a more fitting penance would have been to actually write a column a week for Savage Minds. Though I haven’t done a good job of staying on top of Around the Web, I have been saving links for weeks now. This week its all about the interwebs. [...]Thanks Julian and a Note on Guestbloggers
Updated: 2011-03-11 05:34:22Thanks to Julian, our recent guest-bloggger for a lovely series of thought-provoking posts! We have two kinds of guest bloggers at Savage Minds, regular guest bloggers who are given their own accounts to do a series of posts on a “theme” over a two week period. Julian’s posts can be all be found here. A [...]Contrasting ‘Contemporaries’
Updated: 2011-03-05 14:11:46…making connections is essential, and I think the project we’re engaged in here, at some level, is precisely to make some of those connections visible for emergent anthropologies elsewhere. So let me offer one, in the form of a thought on description. A Machine to Make a Future, my Celera Diagnostics book, is a kind [...]