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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pAnother positive review of emAnthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War/em has appeared, this time in the a href="http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/publications/journal-of-the-anthropological-society-of-oxford/"Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford/a (JASO). The reviewer, Iain Perdue, sees the book's discussion of Cold War McCarthyism and ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pI recently drove cross-country, passing through the Texas panhandle, which gave me the opportunity to have a look at a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Ranch"Cadillac Ranch/a outside of Amarillo. Plopped down in the middle of a field just south of I-40, Cadiallc Ranch was ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pThe academic publishing world moves slowly, oh-so-slowly. After almost a year in print, ema href="http://dwax.org/book"Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War/a/em has received its second review, a thoughtful response by Robert Lawless at a href="http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2626"the Anthropology Review Database/a. Lawless ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pAlexandra Levit has given my e-book for college students, a href="http://www.dwax.org/stupid"Don't Be Stupid/a a ema href="http://www.getthejob.com/Community/blogs/water_cooler/archive/2008/10/27/book-review-don-t-be-stupid-a-guide-to-learning-studying-and-succeeding-at-college.aspx"5-star review/a/em in her column at emGet the Job/em. Levit is the author of several career guides, including a href="http://www.amazon.com/Success-Hire-Find-Outstanding-Employees/dp/1562865048/dwax-20"Success for Hire/a, a href="http://www.amazon.com/They-Teach-Corporate-College-Twenty-Somethings/dp/1564147657/dwax-20"They Don't ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pIn honor of my book, a href="http://dwax.org/stupid"Don't Be Stupid/a, Lindsey Pollak (author of a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-College-Career-Things-Before/dp/006114259X/dwax-20"Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World/a) asked me to write a guest post on her blog, listing ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pimg src="http://dwax.org/files/dbs_cover_200.png" align="right" hspace="10px" alt="Don't Be Stupid" width="100" height="156" /Today I'm releasing my e-book emDon't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College/em. A paperback version will be available soon./p
piDon't Be Stupid/i is everything you need ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pIn Alliance, NE, stands the most strange and wonderful thing you can imagine: a href="http://www.carhenge.com/"Carhenge/a./p
pa href="http://dwax.org/files/Ames-to-Las-Vegas-003a.jpg"img src="http://dwax.org/files/Ames-to-Las-Vegas-003a.jpg" height="300" width="400" align="center"/a/p
pThis is what a href="http://dwax.org/2003/06/road-trip"I wrote about Carhenge/a five years ago:/p
blockquotepCarhenge. The product of Jim Reinder's strange and ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pa href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/06/unanswered-rand.html"Seth Godin/a wanted to know:br /
blockquoteWhat's the deal with brown rice? How do people become so attached to the social implications of food that they are willing to starve or suffer from malnutrition rather than take a step ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pIn the wake of the death of one of the HTS anthropologists last week in Afghanistan, emThe Guardian/em covers some of the controversy around a href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2279457,00.html"the use of anthropology by the military/a. The article discusses the "Anthropology and Global Counter-Insurgency" ...
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Dustin M. Wax - writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker
pI've just posted information at a href="http://savageminds.org/2008/04/11/anthropology-and-global-counter-insurgency-conference-in-chicago-april-25-27/"Savage Minds/a about the conference I will be presenting at later this month. Rather than repost the whole post, I'm going to direct you there to a href="http://savageminds.org/2008/04/11/anthropology-and-global-counter-insurgency-conference-in-chicago-april-25-27/"have a look/a./p
pstrongUpdate:/strong The website for ...