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    Updated: 2013-01-30 18:03:07
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  • Interview: An Anthropologist on Tiger Woods

    Updated: 2013-01-30 09:57:00
    I had the pleasure of pitching a few questions to Orin Starn, Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, about “popular anthropology,” golf, Ishi’s brain, and the right PC sports to play if you’re an anthropologist (its not golf!). AF: I really liked your book The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports [...]

  • Twitter urtnas Speaking Ethically Across

    Updated: 2013-01-30 00:42:39
    : Search query Search : Language English Bahasa Indonesia Bahasa Melayu Dansk Deutsch Español Euskara Filipino Italiano Magyar Nederlands Norsk Polski Português Suomi Svenska Türkçe català français ČeÅ tina ΕλλΠνικά Русский Українська мова Ö´×‘Ö°×¨Ö´× ª اردو العربية فارسی हठन्दी ภาษาไทย 日本語 简体中文 繁體中文 한국어 Have an account Sign in New to Twitter Join Today Username or email Password Remember me Sign in Forgot password Already using Twitter via text message Follow Following Unfollow Blocked Unblock Pending Cancel Jonathan Mair urtnas 16h Speaking Ethically Across Borders' reading group begins today at CRASSH . First session on rooted cosmopolitanisms . 12-2pm ARB , West Road Reply

  • So Who Really Did Build the Assemblage which is the Internet? (Part 6)

    Updated: 2013-01-24 16:26:10
    The internet is translative boundary object for political thought, situated between four liberal ideologies about freedom and the state, corporation, individual, and the public. The internet is thus a parallax object, looking different from what ideological perspective one looks at it. Its clear that Crovitz twisted his story to fit his technolibertarian agenda. Manjoo aligned [...]

  • Digital Anthropology’s To Do List

    Updated: 2013-01-22 16:27:35
    At the 2012 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association we hosted the first business meeting of the Digital Anthropology Group. I ran the meeting like a focus group and the forty or so anthropologists in attendance, from grad students to senior professors, participated with gusto. Growing out of conversations about Digital Anthropology here on [...]

  • Humans and the animals without history

    Updated: 2013-01-22 04:35:36
    I do an exercise on the first day of class where I ask my students: In what ways are humans like animals? I collect the responses: we talk about food and sex – these are particularly interesting topics because they illustrate the breadth of anthropology and all the different methods we can use. Then I [...]

  • This Week in Ethnography: Does Jared Diamond do Ethnography?

    Updated: 2013-01-21 22:30:29
    This week in Ethnography, I realized that “DIY anthropologist” Jared Diamond is now moving into the area of anthropology I hold most dear – ethnography.  In earlier publications and movies, Diamond has dabbled in other areas of anthropology (e.g., archeology and physical) but his latest work cuts too close for my comfort.  Barbara J. King posted a review of Diamond’s [...]

  • Who Built the Internet? We Did! (Part 5)

    Updated: 2013-01-21 16:22:52
    In 2006, according to Time Magazine, the theory of technoindividualism “took a serious beating.” In electing You to the position of the Person of the Year, Time prophesized the fourth discourse of internet historiographical revisionism following President Obama’s statement. It was not the state, corporations, or genius insiders who made the internet, nonfiction best seller [...]

  • How to go open access in 3 easy steps

    Updated: 2013-01-18 16:58:05
    First, I want to start off with my favorite comment from SM readers in the past couple of weeks.  It comes from “Gio” on Rex’s post about the passing of Aaron Schwartz: Yes, stop mourning: act. Stop obsessing about tenure, publish your best work open-access. Donate. Stop even debating interminably about OA. Do something concrete [...]

  • Who Built the Internet? Studly Genius Individuals! (Part 4)

    Updated: 2013-01-18 16:19:51
    Thus far Crovitz’s and Manjoo’s positions are located within modernist historiographical and liberal conceptions over the battles of freedom, with network technology as a proxy battlefield, and the role of states and corporations as extenders or inhibitors of those freedoms. The third leg of this modernist battle has to be initiated by the sole genius [...]

  • anthropology of ethics Jonathan Mair

    Updated: 2013-01-16 21:42:51
    Jonathan Mair Anthropology Buddhism China Cognition Ethics Jonathan Mair Main menu Home About Me Contact Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by . email urtnas RT LSEReviewBooks Philosophy for Life And Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans ow.ly gPRjr 1 day ago RT CRASSHlive New reading group on Speaking Ethically Across Borders' starts this term crassh convened by urtnas ow.ly gPifQ 1 day ago Kwame Appiah on cosmopolitanism video youtube.com watch v=VjMnyP… 1 week ago RT vaughanbell 21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words is.gd PH7mAj 1 week ago RT DrDannyPenman Jon Kabat- Zinn talks about Mindfulness Program in US Army Camp Zama ow.ly ghKsL 3 weeks ago RT Erica_D_House BuddhistEthics You are

  • anthropology Jonathan Mair

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    Jonathan Mair Anthropology Buddhism China Cognition Ethics Jonathan Mair Main menu Home About Me Contact Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by . email urtnas RT LSEReviewBooks Philosophy for Life And Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans ow.ly gPRjr 1 day ago RT CRASSHlive New reading group on Speaking Ethically Across Borders' starts this term crassh convened by urtnas ow.ly gPifQ 1 day ago Kwame Appiah on cosmopolitanism video youtube.com watch v=VjMnyP… 1 week ago RT vaughanbell 21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words is.gd PH7mAj 1 week ago RT DrDannyPenman Jon Kabat- Zinn talks about Mindfulness Program in US Army Camp Zama ow.ly ghKsL 3 weeks ago RT Erica_D_House BuddhistEthics You are

  • anthropology Jonathan Mair

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    Jonathan Mair Anthropology Buddhism China Cognition Ethics Jonathan Mair Main menu Home About Me Contact Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by . email urtnas RT LSEReviewBooks Philosophy for Life And Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans ow.ly gPRjr 1 day ago RT CRASSHlive New reading group on Speaking Ethically Across Borders' starts this term crassh convened by urtnas ow.ly gPifQ 1 day ago Kwame Appiah on cosmopolitanism video youtube.com watch v=VjMnyP… 1 week ago RT vaughanbell 21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words is.gd PH7mAj 1 week ago RT DrDannyPenman Jon Kabat- Zinn talks about Mindfulness Program in US Army Camp Zama ow.ly ghKsL 3 weeks ago RT Erica_D_House BuddhistEthics You are

  • Who Built the Internet? The State! (Part 3)

    Updated: 2013-01-15 16:18:05
    Despite Crovitz’s best wishes, Taylor’s Xerox PARC Ethernet didn’t become the internet as Slate’s Farhad Manjoo and Time’s Harry McCracken explain. Two days later, Manjoo rebutted Crovitz’s “almost hysterically false” argument. Aligning with given wisdom, Manjoo stated that the internet was financed and created by the US government. Despite being more historically accurate than Crovitz’s [...]

  • Melancholy of Tribe?

    Updated: 2013-01-15 03:33:59
    [This month Leif Jonsson, Masao Imamura, and Jacob Hickman are guest blogging about James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed. This post is by Masao Imamura.] James Scott’s Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia [hereafter Anarchist History] presents a tragedy of hill tribes, who were “runaway, fugitive, maroon [...]

  • Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” in the latest issue of American Ethnologist

    Updated: 2013-01-14 21:36:49
    Smadar Lavie’s essay, “Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” appears in the latest issue of American Ethnologist (Volume 39, Issue 4). The essay focuses on Israel’s single mothers on welfare who are Mizrahi—Jews with origins in the Muslim World. Here is its abstract:

Equating bureaucratic entanglements with pain—or what, arguably, [...]

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