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• March 17, 2010
• 17:14

  2010 Census in NYC

   » ‎ AAA blog
  The AAA was briefly mentioned on the Brian Lehrer Show during a discussion of the 2010 Census and the barriers to counting individuals in New York City. Angelo Falcón of the Census Bureau’s Hispanic Advisory Committee referenced the work of ...

• 16:01

  Roundup: “The decline of Europe’s social democratic parties” and more…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  MAIN FOCUS: EU may help Athens | 17/03/2010 from euro|topics The financial ministers of the Eurozone countries have not as it turns out presented a concrete bailout plan for Greece, but merely agreed at the beginning of the week on ...

• 15:00

  Reading Bytes for Mar 17

   » ‎ Conversations with Dina
  Daily updates on what I’m reading Good back-to-the-basics primer (via @sameerpatel) >> Enterprise 2.0: Can it really benefit your business? | CIO – Blogs and Discussion – CLIP: "Perhaps it’s the word ‘social’ that creates unease amongst some managers, who ...

• 12:50

  Intute: Natural Hazards

   » ‎ Intute blog
  There’s been a tremendous amount of media coverage of natural disasters in recent years; much of this of course stemmed from the devastating earthquake and resultant tsunami on Boxing Day 2004, while the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980 also ...

• 11:17

  A video: Story of Stuff; How Things Work, About Stuff

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  [www.storyofstuff.com] Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. ...

• 10:30

  The balancing act for Universities

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  Michael Atiyah, in an interview in Mathematical Intelligencer (published long ago, in 1984): Universities are institutions that are educational and involved in research. I think that is very important–there should be unity in the university and unity in the whole ...

• 9:34

  CFP – THE CULTURE CONCEPT IN CONTEMPORARY CIRCULATION

   » ‎ Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing
  (This CFP seems relevant to this dialogue about the utility of theorizing policing around a concept of culture) Call For Papers — Proposed Session for AAA 2010 THE CULTURE CONCEPT IN CONTEMPORARY CIRCULATION Does the culture concept have a place ...

• 8:31

  Roundup: digital (post)humanist, neo-liberalism’s appeal as a liberation movement, democracy, e-currency systems, neurocapitalism…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  acting as the digital (post)humanist from digital digs by Alex Reid I’m back on readings for my graduate course on Digital Research and Pedagogy: this week, Brian Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual. Massumi’s text stirs mixed responses, I think. It ...

• 7:40

  Skills for graduates!

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  Communication skills — written and oral — are an important component of university education, and are also very priced in the job market. At InsideHigherEd, I see that the bar has been raised — to include fluency with the use ...

• 4:28

  After Barcelona, Turkish Airlines gets Manchester United

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Turkish delight for Manchester United WebWire (press release) - ‎9 hours ago‎ Turkish Airlines, Europe’s fourth-largest Airline will transport the Manchester United team and officials on their travels for Champions League matches and………. Turkish Airlines becomes sponsor to Manchester United                            ...

• 4:18

  Magnetic manipulations for microelectronic fabrication

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  An interesting piece from the latest PNAS: Magnetically driven three-dimensional manipulation and inductive heating of magnetic-dispersion containing metal alloys J D Calabro et al Fundamental to the development of three-dimensional microelectronic fabrication is a material that enables vertical geometries. Here ...

• 3:32

  Here’s to the Irish: sláinte!

   » ‎ anthropologyworks
  Farming, family and fertility were prevalent themes in the cultural anthropology of Ireland in the 1980s. Over the past two decades, however, cultural anthropologists have pursued a wider range of research topics including violence, politics, heritage and language, policy and ...

• March 16, 2010
• 20:30

  Top 100 anthropology blogs

   » ‎ An Anthropologist Goes Techno
  blockquoteNo matter if you are studying an ancient race of people buried under years' worth of dirt or if you are analyzing the modern culture of New York City or Japan, these anthropology blogs have something to offer you. Enhance ...

• 20:20

  Sarah Raine’s China’s African Challenges

   » ‎ Exporting China's Development to the World
  One of the latest additions to the China-Africa literature is Sarah Raine’s China’s African Challenges, which was published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies last year. Although it breaks no new ground — it would be difficult to do ...

• 17:59

  Age of participation in Indian literature

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  A piece by G N Devy in the Hindu literary review: Throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, drama and theatre had been very powerful genres for creative expression. During the last 60 years, Indian ...

• 16:49

  Scotland Leads Marine Power Revolution

   » ‎ Intute blog
  According to reports today, The Crown Estate has leased ten sites off the Scottish coast to energy companies for the development of tidal and wave power schemes. The areas are located in the Pentland Firth and around Orkney, and by ...

• 15:25

  Die weltpolitischen Aspekte der deutschen Wiedervereinigung

   » ‎ Ethno::log
  Heute um 19:00 findet im Vouml;lkerkundemuseum folgender Vortrag statt: br /#10;br /#10;Die weltpolitischen Aspekte der deutschen Wiedervereinigungbr /#10;br /#10;Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Horst Teltschik, ehem. Organisator der Muuml;nchner Sicherheitskonferenzbr /#10;br /#10;Veranstalter: Gesellschaft fuuml;r Auszlig;enpolitik br /#10;br /#10;br /#10;Entschuldigt die spauml;te ...
• 15:23

  6. Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung

   » ‎ Ethno::log
  Das Berliner Methodentreffen Qualitative Forschung ist mit insgesamt ca. 450 Beteiligten die grouml;szlig;te Jahresveranstaltung zu qualitativen Forschungsmethoden im deutschsprachigen Raum. Erstmals 2005 ausgerichtet, hat sich das Berliner Methodentreffen schnell im Spektrum der Angebote zu qualitativer Forschung etabliert. Das Berliner Methodentreffen ...

• 15:07

  eHealth Week 2010

   » ‎ Intute blog
   eHealth Week 2010 is currently taking place in Barcelona (15th to 18th March).  Two important European ehealth events make up the eHealth Week, and they are: The E.U. High Level Conference on eHealth The World of Health IT (WoHIT) The European Commission defines ...

• 13:46

  We have another ban: No “insemination trips

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Turkey ban on insemination trips from BBC News | Europe | World Edition A new law in Turkey makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination. LGBT Association Sues State Minister ...

• 12:21

  Green procurement

   » ‎ Intute blog
  NHS trusts urged to sign up to environmental efficiency model (HES) Green procurement set to become the norm (BusinessGreen) Green Procurement Has Already Become a Key Competitive Factor (Supply and Demand Chain Executive) see also: DEFRA sustainable development indicators Sustainable ...

• 9:53

  At times, it is the process

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  And, not the results says Libby Gruner: Lots of things I do require time, patience, and attention. Some of them require a considerable amount of revision — tearing out words, paragraphs, whole pages at a time — to get them ...

• 8:46

  EU enlargement chief was in town…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  EU enlargement chief presses Turkey on Cyprus, Armenia (AFP via Yahoo! News) Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (C) and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (R) talk to the media after their meeting in Saariselka Inari, in the Finnish Lapland March ...

• 3:52

  Smoking: in or out?

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  Yesterday in a restaurant in Tokyo, someone at the table next to us lit up a cigarette. I asked my Japanese host if no one ever asked smokers to go outside. His answer took me by surprise: one is not ...

• 2:20

  Looks like Sarkozy has a problem

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  French voters deliver blow to Sarkozy from FT.com – World, Europe French voters deliver a rebuke to the government of Nicolas Sarkozy with opposition parties winning an unprecedented share of the vote in the first round of regional elections Far-right ...

• 1:01

  IslamOnline – Strike, Stream and Twitter Activism

   » ‎ C L O S E R
  IslamOnline is on strike since today. Employees of the Arabic-English news website Islam Online are demanding their voices be heard by the new administration. The original plan was to have a short strike but after security forces were called in ...

• March 15, 2010
• 22:11

  Anthro in the news 3/15/10

   » ‎ anthropologyworks
  • Yo-Yo Ma’s anthropological soul Classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma is, according to an article in the Washington Post, “one of the most recognizable classical musicians on the planet.” Besides being a star of the musical world, he is also a ...

• 19:33

  Een wekelijks portie burgerschap 11 – Niet op zn plaats: een vuil stukje

   » ‎ C L O S E R
  Uit de burgerschapskalender: “Hou zelf toezicht op de publieke ruimte”, zei iemand in Almere. “Niet de gemeente bellen van: hé, er ligt hier een oude fiets voor de deur, maar zelf even die fiets opruimen.” Dat zou inderdaad helpen. De ...

• 18:14

  Broader reach

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  Anthropology edition; via....

• 17:37

  The Politicization of Everything (that the other side is doing)

   » ‎ From the Annals of Anthroman
  Frank Rich wrote a NYT op-ed this weekend that began by criticizing former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for their ideological readings of 9/11. Giuliani was appearing on ABC's Good Morning America in ...

• 17:13

  Anthropology in the Headlines

   » ‎ AAA blog
  Recently, Anthropology and some AAA members have been featured in the public eye! Dr. Harriet Ottenheimer of Kansas State University helped debunk the myth that those responsible for the “Nigerian 419″ scam were actually from Nigeria, according to this article. ...

• 17:08

  Journalists working for Intelligence

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Well-known journalist-interviewer Neşe Düzel interviews former chief editor of Sabah, Ergun Babahan. It is in Turkish. Many notable journalists/columnists voluntarily or professionally worked with military and civil intelligence institutions in Turkey. Now some defend them in the name of press ...

• 15:53

  Cultural differences and linguistic justice

   » ‎ ICCI Home
  Franz de Waal just wrote an interesting post at 3 Quarks Daily. He is currently in Japan to promote his latest book The Age of Empathy and he writes about cultural differences among scientists: Although Japanese scientists were, he says, ...

• 15:30

  Reading Bytes for Mar 15

   » ‎ Conversations with Dina
  Daily updates on what I’m reading All This ChittahChattah | I Need You to Need Me – Needs vs Wants – which is the better research question?<br /> CLIPs: "The need statement (“People need… blah blah”) is a cornerstone of ...

• 14:56

  EU-Digest’s list of TV news reports…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Alternative TV News Reports from EU-DIGEST: Listed below are a few of these alternative TV news stations,  which in streaming video and right on your own lap – or desktop can provide you with a different perspective of what is ...

• 13:37

  World Guide / flickr mashup

   » ‎ Intute blog
  The satellite image search facility on the Intute World Guide now returns any matching images retrived from the flickr photo service. The World Guide contains more than 2,000 satellite photos covering a wide range of themes including agriculture, mountains, rivers, ...

• 13:20

  EPIC 2010 Tokyo Paper abstract submissions are due by March 21st

   » ‎ Ethnography.com
  A reminder that EPIC 2010 Tokyo Paper abstract submissions are due by end of day this coming Sunday, March 21st. You’ll find full details about how to submit proposals for the Paper sessions in the attached pdf, or at: ...

• 13:17

  A short story

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  From Junot Diaz at the New Yorker....

• 5:11

  Cartoonists DRAW for children who are in prison due to Law on Struggle Against Terrorism in Turkey

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  All the world’s cartoonists DRAW for children from KARAKOK OTONOMU TR/CH by Karakök I have received 62 cartoons from 22 cartoonists so far for the project to support children victimised by Law on Struggle Against Terrorism. The event is still ...

• 3:23

  podcasts

   » ‎ Anthropologist Community
  Hello all,br /br /I was wondering what podcasts all of the anthropologists and budding anthropologists here listen to. Ive got a great selection of science, religion and skeptical podcasts, as well as the podcast by the American Anthropological Association, but ...

• March 14, 2010
• 23:42

  Campbell’s Law, Planned Social Change, Vietnam War Deaths, and Condom Distributions in Refugee Camps

   » ‎ Ethnography.com
         Donald T. Campbell was a psychologist in the heyday of the 1970s. During this time, the belief emerged that society was a social engineering project that could be planned and evaluated.  The general idea was  that if you collected ...

• 20:15

  Coal Country the movie

   » ‎ Consumption
  a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xwd3DCeIGe4/S504FJ-sKPI/AAAAAAAAACY/dfOLJG-nMYc/s1600-h/Strip_coal_mining.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xwd3DCeIGe4/S504FJ-sKPI/AAAAAAAAACY/dfOLJG-nMYc/s320/Strip_coal_mining.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448572785417529586" //aI just finished watching a href="http://www.coalcountrythemovie.com/"Coal Country/a a documentary about the devastating affects of strip coal mining in a ...

• 19:33

  Sunday Morning @ SXSW

   » ‎ Cyber Anthropology
  It’s a beautiful day in Austin Texas. I have always said that if I were to ever live anywhere else in Texas it would be in Austin. I simply love this city. Now, I’ll admit that I might be spoiled ...

• 18:31

  Do only humans share with non-kin?

   » ‎ ICCI Home
  "Comparisons between chimpanzees and humans have led to the hypothesis that only humans voluntarily share their own food with others. However, it is hard to draw conclusions because the food-sharing preferences of our more tolerant relative, the bonobo (Pan paniscus), ...

• 14:25

  A must-see video

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  The half-an-hour of video that this blogpost points to is a must watch; I liked the two definitions of teacher given by J C Bose that Prof. Vaidya refers to towards the end of the movie. Link via Anant Observations....

• 13:26

  An “uneventful” week for Erkan

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Playing chess with my students. Yes, I won:) Since I came back from the service, I have been meaning to have some peace of mind but unfortunately life is not fair, which I had learnt several times before, and things ...

• 12:36

  Ming Pao Weekly cover story “Chinese in Africa, Africans in China”

   » ‎ Exporting China's Development to the World
  Ming Pao used to be known as one of the more independent (i.e. non-Peking-aligned) major Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong. Perhaps I have missed something, or maybe it’s just Ming Pao Weekly that is no longer blocked in the mainland, but ...

• 11:42

  Erkan’s field diary: Top posts of the week and month

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  @ haha.nu Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-03-14 1- Recep İvedik 3 on February 2010 2- Sonisphere festival in Turkey. 25-27 June. A lineup beyond imagination 3- A super busy week ends with a disappointing news. 4- Turkish TV ...

• March 13, 2010
• 18:26

  No Office Export in Keynote/Numbers for iPad?

   » ‎ Disparate
  Sounds like iWork for iPad will export to Word but not to PowerPoint or Excel....

• 18:23

  Saturday Morning @ SXSW

   » ‎ Cyber Anthropology
  First stop was a panel on IA sketching, but of course it was at capacity. I really do need to start getting to panels earlier. [Must make opening remarks by Danah Boyd at 2 today!!] Since I was already on ...

• 15:30

  Linda Herrera and Arjan de Haan – A court case and an election: Letter from The Hague

   » ‎ C L O S E R
  This letter has been written by Arjan de Haan and Linda Herrera, both working at the International Institute of Social Studies. A court case and an election: Letter from The Hague 11 March 2010 The Hague, the international city of ...

• 14:54

  Behemoth concert tomorrow.

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Via Metal concerts season in Istanbul started last week with Destruction. I could not make it to that one but I will make it to tomorrow’s Behemoth concert. Behemoth is an explicitly Satanist Black Metal band from Poland. They are ...

• 14:21

  Is hearing God like being a skilled athlete?

   » ‎ ICCI Home
  Not often do we find in the American Anthropologist material of clear Cognition and Culture relevance. Here is a noteworthy exception: "The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity" (vol. 112,March 2010 issue, available here) by Tanya. M. ...

• 12:34

  Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (6)- Cinema related blogs, Censorship news and more…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Nominations for Turkish Blog Awards Turkish Blog Awards started. Check out an interview (in Turkish) with Hasan Yalçınkaya, a pioneer in Turkish blogger… An ambitious Football Manager online game, Efsane Ol [Be a Legend], in Turkish is launched here. I ...

• 9:43

  Developing programming skills

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  For Bio-informatics, apparently. But should be good for anybody from the science and engineering background too — though, personally, I would have added C. Link via Eric Drexler....
• 9:19

  Transcending the personal

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  In blogs: To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn’t. It takes real discipline to not talk about ...

• 6:58

  Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Support the World Day against Cyber-Censorship, 12 March… Global: World Day Against Cyber Censorship from Global Voices Online by Diego Casaes Internet censorship is still a major issue in many countries worldwide. With that in mind, the Paris-based international organization ...

• 0:14

  Friday @ SXSW

   » ‎ Cyber Anthropology
  So Friday is almost over here at SXSW (well day time programming anyway). I actually got in last night to take advantage of the short lines for Thursday night registration. After spending all morning on a development retrospective conference I ...

• March 12, 2010
• 23:29

  “AAA Annual Meeting Call for Papers Now Open (#AAA2010)

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Special issue of Science as Culture on Identity and Narrative in STS from Somatosphere by Eugene Raikhel The latest issue of Science as Culture focuses on a topic which has long been central to cultural anthropology, but remains relatively novel ...

• 22:26

  Writing and performance

   » ‎ Cicilie among the Parisians
  It was hard picking a photo for this post. So many of my photos evoke memories from my many slam nights in Paris, but how to find a photo that can convey some of theses feelings to the readers of ...

• 17:37

  Now comes Sweden

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  When Turkey and Armenia come closest, third country parliaments interfere. Looks like a calculated provocation…. Sweden angers Turkey with ‘genocide’ vote from European Voice Turkey withdraws its ambassador to Sweden in protest at Armenia vote. Turkey’s Ambassador to Sweden Zergun ...

• 17:20

  Decapitated Remains were Vikings

   » ‎ Intute blog
  Nine months after the discovery of a mass grave of 51 decapitated bodies near Weymouth, scientists have confirmed the remains as belonging to Scandinavian Vikings. The burial site was unearthed at Ridgeway Hill during preliminary excavations ahead of a proposed ...

• 16:49

  Calling on Comedy Central

   » ‎ anthropologyworks
  An article in USA Today points out that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have helped bring science to a wider public by hosting scientists who discuss an issue of importance such as climate change or their new book ...

• 14:53

  ESRC Festival of Social Science

   » ‎ Intute blog
  The ESRC Festival of Social Science is happening from 12-21 March 2010 as part of National Science and Engineering Week. The 2010 Festival of Social Science features over 130 events happening in 7 regions and in over 40 different cities in ...
• 14:30

  Desert Hides Oldest Rivers

   » ‎ Intute blog
  Researchers at the Australian National University in Canberra have discovered and mapped an ancient river system some 35 metres below the surface of the Simpson desert. According to their estimates, the underlying waterways date to around 50 million years ago, ...

• 12:17

  Welttag gegen Internetzensur

   » ‎ Ethno::log
  br#10;iHeute ist wieder "Welttag gegen Internetzensur". Reporter ohne Grenzen hat wieder den jauml;hrlichen a href="http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/fileadmin/rte/docs/2010/Feinde_des_Internets.pdf"Bericht #8222;Feinde des Internets#8220; (PDF) /averouml;ffentlicht. Auf 62 Seiten wird beschrieben, welche Lauml;nder Netzzensur-Infrastrukturen betreiben, wer konkret die Feinde des Netzes sind und welche Lauml;nder auf ...

• 11:21

  Istanbul Film Festival: April 3-18 (#istanbul2010)

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Istanbul Film Festival to take place in April 3-18 As Turkey’s largest film activity, the International Istanbul Film Festival drew an audience of 162,000 last year. This year the programme is, once again, packed to the brim. Program can be ...

• 10:15

  Internet to win Peace Prize?

   » ‎ Intute blog
  The Internet has been named as one of a record 237 nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Norweigan Nobel Committee met on March 9 to cull the initial thousands of nominations down to a more manageable list; the ...

• 10:13

  Workshop: Culture and Cognition in Asia

   » ‎ ICCI Home
  March 11th – 12th, 2010, National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute.Research in both the social and cognitive sciences has increasingly focused on the complex dynamic between cultural meaning and practices with cognitive processes. From the sociology of science to ...

• 9:50

  Do women tweet more than men?

   » ‎ Intute blog
  Neilsen research reported this week in a review of social networking activity on mobile devices, women were found do use their phones to “tweet” and “friend” 10% more than men. Do you think it is true that women use some ...
• 9:33

  New UK government publications 5-12th March 2010

   » ‎ Intute blog
  Here is the latest round up from Intute and the LSE Library Audit Commission: The truth is out there – Transparency in an information age – A discussion paper Regenerating the English Coalfields HC 247 Public accounts Committee Invisible Patients: ...

• 1:09

  EP against ACTA measures

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  EU Parliament votes 663-13 against ACTA’s enforcement measures from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The European Parliament resoundingly voted against the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), in a resounding 663 to 13 tally. The parliamentarians defied the EU executive and ...

• March 11, 2010
• 22:55

  Public Policy Forum Deadline – Mar. 15

   » ‎ AAA blog
  A quick reminder that public policy forum abstracts for the annual meeting are due Mar. 15, 5pm EST.  The deadline for volunteered sessions, individual paper and poster presentations, and special events is Apr. 1. Organizers can submit session abstracts here: ...

• 22:08

  A few EU related cartoons

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  by Miro Stefanovic more at ANTE PORTAS, the cartoon project book from Macedonia                            Related posts:Anti-Kurdish Initiative propaganda begins to gain ground…Political Cartoons at work… I have begun to receive forwarded emails with highly ultranationalists... Related posts brought to you ...

• 21:32

  NMNH “Hall of Human Origins” to Open 3/17

   » ‎ AAA blog
  On March 18, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History will mark its 100th anniversary on the National Mall with the public opening of the 15,000 sq. ft. David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, the result of an international ...
• 20:56

  Education News around the Web

   » ‎ AAA blog
  On March 4, Inside Higher Ed covered the release of a report by Harvard’s Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education on the experience of Generation X faculty, based on interviews with tenure-track faculty members at four-year colleges and universities. ...

• 17:30

  Bytes for Mar 11

   » ‎ Conversations with Dina
  Daily updates on what I’m reading The FASTForward Blog » Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Research from Cecile Demailly: Commentary by Bill Ives – CLIP: The report suggests that, “communicating externally about the internal change may help to change the mindsets internally.” ...

• 15:38

  Update

   » ‎ Anthropologist Community
  Hey,br /A few months ago I came on here and introduced myself as an English prospective undergraduate student in Anthropology.br /I have just received an unconditional offer to do an MA in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh university, which Im very ...
• 14:44

  Source help?

   » ‎ Anthropologist Community
  Hello everyone! br /br /Im in a little predicament. Im currently finishing up my second year of my cultural anthropology BA and for my religion class, our final paper is an annotative essay. The professor granted us the freedom of ...

• 14:06

  The doyen of Turkish cartoonists, Turhan Selçuk passes away…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  TURHAN Selçuk passes away March 11, 2010 in Istanbul from caricaturque by kozyurt The doyen of Turkish cartoonists, Turhan Selçuk dies in Istanbul early this morning March 11, 2010 at 01.30 h at Acibadem Maslak Hospital where he had two ...

• 13:50

  Obama Hints at Mars Mission

   » ‎ Intute blog
  After the recent news of funding cuts at NASA and the abandonment of the proposed American return to the Moon in 2020, US President Barack Obama is set to announce heavy investment in technological developments which may open up more ...

• 12:40

  The Winter Thief. New novel from Prof. White

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  I had the honor to meet her in person. Prof. Jenny White an anthropologist, author of  Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics, also writes detective novels that take place in late Ottoman times. Latest novel just released… ...

• 9:58

  Dogs in the news

   » ‎ Intute blog
  Quite a few interesting dog welfare related stories in the media during the past week, here’s a couple that have caught my attention: Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is celebrating its 150th anniversary and to mark this achievement they are ...
• 9:00

  LHC to take Sabbatical

   » ‎ Intute blog
  The trouble Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, which has only just resumed operation after a 14 month hiatus, will be shut down at the end of 2011 for a further 12 ...

• 4:59

  Davutoğlu again on stage

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Davutoglu is one of The World’s Kissingers …And the youngest of the four. Mavi Boncuk The List: The World’s Kissingers BY JOSHUA E. KEATING A country’s foreign policy is often defined less by its elected leader than its behind-the-scenes operators ...

• March 10, 2010
• 23:55

  SXSW Bound!

   » ‎ Cyber Anthropology
  I’ll be heading in to Austin tomorrow to check in and get my badge before the crazy lines roll in Friday morning. Tomorrow night I’ll be at the Social Media BBQ at Emo’s. Friday I’ll start off in the Blogger’s ...

• 23:48

  Open Democracy on Ergenekon….

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  Turkey and Ergenekon: from farce to tragedy , - by openDemocracy Author: Bill Park Summary: An epic military, political, and security scandal continues to absorb Turkey. The affair’s latest bizarre sub-plots make the tensions between the country’s “deep state” and ...

• 22:19

  Debate on Chinese investment package in Guinea

   » ‎ Exporting China's Development to the World
  On ”China in Africa: The Real Story,” Deborah Brautigam takes issue with a new Chatham House report entitled “Guinea: Bought by Beijing.” The report says that to the surprise of many, after taking control in a coup and then violently suppressing civil ...

• 20:56

  AAA Annual Meeting Call for Papers Now Open

   » ‎ AAA blog
  The Call for Papers Site is now accepting submissions to participate in the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.  Submissions are due by 5pm EST on April 1st.  The meeting will be located in New Orleans, Louisiana November ...
• 20:29

  SAFN Launches New FoodAnthropology Blog

   » ‎ AAA blog
  Congrats to the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) on the launch of the FoodAnthropology blog at foodanthro.wordpress.com. The launch was accompanied by a welcome message encouraging SAFN members to contribute news and research info by contacting ...

• 18:57

  New: Our Cognition and Culture Reader and our Bookstore

   » ‎ ICCI Home
  We are today putting online the beta version of a Cognition and Culture Reader with links to relevant papers, books and blog posts. All the papers are freely available on the Internet. All the books listed (and other books mentioned ...

• 18:04

  More confessions from a former media tycoon

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  It is not the first time Mr. Bilgin makes confessions, this time he is bolder. Dinç Bilgin Bilgin wishes he could be a reporter like Taraf’s Baransu YAVUZ BAYDAR – Dinç Bilgin speaks out One of the greatest myths about ...

• 16:27

  SACC Announces First All-Digital SACC Notes

   » ‎ AAA blog
  Congratulations to the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) on their first all-digital issue of SACC Notes, emailed to SACC members and subscribers today. This digital effort is a work-in-progress, and all reader feedback is welcome. If you are ...

• 16:08

  A film and An album, I recently discovered

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  A Prophet is a French movie I have recently watched. It is definitely worth watching. It is a story of “A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.” Not all action packed ...
• 14:00

  A book on December 19-26, 2000 operation in Turkish prisons…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  hapishanelerde katliam / massacre in prisons: During the week of December 19-26, 2000, 10,000 Turkish soldiers violently occupied 48 prisons to end two months of hunger strikes and “death fasts” by hundreds of political prisoners. The hunger strikers were protesting ...

• 13:57

  Beteille on Raj

   » ‎ Entertaining Research
  Here is Beteille on the economist K N Raj: I cannot assess Raj’s contribution to economic science, nor is this the place or the time to do so. But he certainly was an inspiration to many both within and outside ...

• 11:40

  Colossal Congo Crater

   » ‎ Intute blog
  According to reports from Italian researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas, a large impact crater has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The crater measures 36-46km across, and was only recently revealed following ...

• 10:19

  Now PM points out the “Jewish lobby” for the course of genocide resolution…

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  The Resolution Saga Continues, Erdogan Points to “Jewish Lobby” from Turkish Politics in Action by Ragan Updegraff Prime Minister Erdogan said today that Ankara has no plans to send Turkish Ambasador to the United States Namik Tan back to Washington ...
• 9:41

  the European External Action Service- The EU’s new diplomatic service

   » ‎ Erkan in the Army now...
  The EU’s new diplomatic service from EurActiv.com by Giacomo Introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, the European External Action Service is intended to give the Union a greater role in foreign policy. Yet its scope and competences are the subject of ...

• 8:23

  De curieuze verdwijning van Mohammed Chentouf

   » ‎ C L O S E R
  Enige tijd geleden zonder netwerk een item uit over Mohammed Chentouf. die is uitgezet nadat hij zijn straf heeft uitgezeten wegens terrorisme gerelateerde activiteiten: Mohammed Chentouf is veroordeeld in de zogenaamde Piranha-zaak Openbaar Ministerie – Piranha Wapengebruik, jihadistisch-salafi stische bedreigingen, ...