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• March 15, 2010
• 13:20

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

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  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: ...
• March 14, 2010
• 23:42

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

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         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 ...
• March 07, 2010
• 22:36

  Undergraduate Seminar: Doing that 1st fieldwork project for class

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  At some point as an undergrad, particularly if you are taking a social science class you may be asked to do some kind of field project as an assignment.  The kind where you have to go out and talk to ...
• February 22, 2010
• 5:52

  Why I Like Anthropologists Better than International Studies Types: AAA vs. ISA vs. ASA

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       Mark Dawson commented on his Facebook page about attending the International Studies Association meetings in New Orleans this year, and promises to write something for this blog later this week.  This brought back memories to me.  I attended the ...
• February 17, 2010
• 5:52

  The Case of the Stung Ducks: A Study of Law from Sukumaland in Tanzania

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  This is a story about the nature of law, what is like to feel like an outsider in court. It is about laws of liability which are rational, reasonable, and legtimate by local standards.  However, as I think that the ...
• February 12, 2010
• 22:23

  How to Get Deported for Christmas

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         File this one under…I don’t know what.  My story begins with the desire to get cheap airplane tickets to visit our family in Germany this winter.  Simple: Leave at an uncomfortable hour, fly Christmas Eve, save $200 per ...
• February 08, 2010
• 22:04

  Learning Foreign Languages

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         I was reminded of the importance of foreign language learning twice in the last week or so.  This morning I read a commentary in the New York Times about how poorly Americans do at foreign languages.  Several of the ...
• 22:00

  Foreign Language Learning is a Really Good Thing!

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  I was reminded of the importance of foreign language learning twice in the last week or so. This morning I read a commentary in the New York Times about how poorly Americans do at foreign languages. Several of the authors ...
• 21:24

  The Connection between Crime and Immigration: A Complicated but not Conflicted Issue

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  My first book was based on my Ph.D. dissertation, and called Crime and Immigrant Youth (Sage 1999). I of course really like it when people read it, even though it is becoming dated.  In this context, I read the Center ...
• February 07, 2010
• 5:30

  Is a single currency for all the world a good idea?

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  A buddy of mine and I were talking about our favorite conspiracy theories.  Of course, the “one world government” deal is the biggest and bestest of them all. But it led to an economics questions neither of us are skilled enough to answer:  Would a single currency worldwide be ...
• January 24, 2010
• 16:57

  Undergrad Seminar: How long should this paper be?

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  Every student wants to know “How long should this paper be?” I think that’s a pretty reasonable question, but for some reason instructors sometimes treat this question like one of the deadly sins. Ironically, when your instructor is asked to ...
• January 18, 2010
• 19:49

  Undergrad Seminar: Time Management- Part 1

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  Here we are in the 2nd half of the academic year. If the 1st half got off to a rocky start, maybe this is a good time to talk about time management. Not the “The 7 habits of that smugly ...
• January 12, 2010
• 14:43

  Ethnography, Tanzania, PhD degrees, and Something to Read at Bedtime

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           Someone told me once that a PhD is a license to write for other PhDs.  As Donna Lanclos notes, this is different than making a living, and getting a full-time tenure-track job.  Nevertheless, as Donna herself demonstrated with ...
• January 11, 2010
• 0:21

  PhD, or not PhD

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  A column in The Chronicle of Higher Education, as pointed to by my friend Matt Bandy, has an interesting take on the essentialness (or lack thereof) of a Ph.D.  The column is specific to the humanities, but is easily transferable ...
• January 10, 2010
• 16:04

  I Hope That The Human Terrain Teams Read The Deceivers by John Masters: An Anthropological Novel

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  One of my favorite all-time historical novels is The Deceivers by John Masters. Published in 1952, the protagonist William Savage is an administrator in a remote district for the British East Indian Company. The book is set in 1825. Savage ...
• 2:49

  Mark said we’re not blogging about HTS anymore

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  but I thought this was a good story, not specifically about HTS, but about one anthropologist’s work with the military, as a professor at the Marine Corps University at Quantico. Not surprisingly, I agree with the points she makes about ...
• January 05, 2010
• 20:16

  NoLa AAA 2010: Panel Participants Wanted

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  Anthropology in a Box: Circulating ideas about the nature of Anthropology in Enclosed Spaces Libraries, hospitals, schools, businesses, households, military tanks and other vehicles. These are all locations that can inspire and require novel anthropological approaches, both theoretical and methodological. ...
• January 03, 2010
• 23:12

  Blogging is soooooooooo 2006

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  This is the time of year when blogs talk about their top posts for the 2009, the most important issues in their area of interest and otherwise reflecting with great insight on the past year or decade. I promise this ...
• December 30, 2009
• 18:09

  Pete Seeger Sings Classical Social Theory

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  Classical Sociology is typically considered to be a course about the three “classics” of sociology who are Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and W. E. B. DuBois. Marx tells us why capitalism and materialism is important for organizing society, ...
• December 24, 2009
• 22:19

  As part of the holiday tradition, we present “Mr. Krewstyscabbe’s Night Before Christmas.”

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  “Twas the night before Christmas” written by Nicholas Krewstyscabbe* Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. For they had been smooshed and flattened and relieved of their feet ...
• December 21, 2009
• 19:47

  AAA Issues Report on Human Terrain Teams

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  The American Anthropological Association has issued a report on the Human Terrain Team experiment that the military has undertaken. The report is nuanced and thoughtful, and I recommend that interested people have a look here. AAA Report on Human Terrain ...
• December 19, 2009
• 7:51

  Johnny Cash, my family witch craft and why it is so ordinary.

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  My family – mother and father sides – are from the Appalachian regions. We are from, as my father said “Coal miners and dirt farmers.” I was the 3rd person in either family to ever get a college degree, my ...
• December 18, 2009
• 3:06

  “The Onion” continues to support all four fields of anthropology

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  Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of ‘Friendster’ Civilization!!...
• December 14, 2009
• 2:43

  Here is a call for papers, a nice reason to see Liverpool in the Fall.

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  The 5th Annual Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences. In Association with the Journal Ethnography Work, Organisations and ...
• 2:24

  Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines Hui

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  This announcement showed up in my e-mail, nicely formatted too: Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines Hui 17 – 19 November 2010 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Kia ora koutou (Greetings to everyone)! New Zealand’s first international ethnography hui will ...
• December 06, 2009
• 20:34

  Now Available for your Xmas giving, Chief Culture Officer by Grant McCracken!

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  I am pleased to let people know about a new book by fellow social science innovator, Grant McCracken.  Hi book “ Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities” was a major inspiration for me when ...
• November 20, 2009
• 23:03

  The Chrysler Peapod, The Reason Innovation Gets a Bad Name

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  I believe the time of the electric vehicle is drawing near. It makes a lot of sense: we already have the ubiquitous infrastructure for “fueling” – any electric socket -, can be recharged with renewable energy, and does not have ...
• October 27, 2009
• 5:30

  Ok, this is just for amusement, and pretty good at that.

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  Most people reading this blog will be unaware of my past as a European style clown, street performer, juggler, musician and well… all the odd eclectic things you learn on the road over about a decade of wandering. Without those ...
• October 26, 2009
• 6:07

  The ethnography of a stroke

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  I first heard of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor during an interview on Fresh Air, it is a great conversation (Listen to the interview, not just the text, it is more in depth than the TED talk you see here). Thanks ...
• September 01, 2009
• 0:19

  The growing work of anthropologists with the military parallels the evolution of design anthropology – 15 years later…

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  Lord knows I would welcome much stronger examination of the credentials of people that claim to be social scientists / anthropologists that are working in the military. There is the potential for the development of an excellent sub-discipline of anthropologists ...
• August 21, 2009
• 16:29

  Ordinary People Project – Roger from Yukon Territory

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  I met Roger, a master carver, while staying at Nugget City, Yukon. Enjoy!...
• August 20, 2009
• 7:52

  Go Barney Go!

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  I am a registered independent, I always have been. I have voted all over the political map because I don’t think I should have to vote for a party but the person. With the health care debates its hard NOT ...
• August 16, 2009
• 8:29

  Patience 101: Just Wait Until You Hear This

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  CNN has reported that Trina Thompson, age 27, is suing her alma mater, Monroe College (New York), for not being sufficiently helpful in supporting her efforts to find a job since her graduation this past April.  Headlines describing the suit ...
• August 05, 2009
• 3:11

  A Rejuvenating and Inspiring Experience.

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  I had the opportunity to attend a youth summer camp that the company I work for [www.uaii.org)] holds every year in Big Pine, CA. The camp is for American Indian children (ages 5 to 17 years) residing in the ...