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Glazed America....My friend Paul Mullins has hit it big with his new book Glazed America...an African Diaspora archaeologist goes pop culture historian...NPR joins in [www.npr.org] Daily [www.sciencedaily.com] it out for yourself [www.upf.com]...
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Weirdness in Netflix suggestions...I've become a big fan of Netflix (more about my particular netflix uses later)But...I'm trying to figure out how liking Henry June (the NC-17 film based on the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin), Hedwig and the Angry ...
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Method Theory...A recent post from my colleague over at Middle Savagery reminds me that for some of us...it physically makes us happy to read theory...I agree...Like Levi Straussian myths, for me some theory is "good to think."At the same time ...
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Henry Rollins for President...no...really.That's probably the last thing I thought I'd say...and then I heard an interview with Henry yesterday on Air America's Ring of Fire.Now...I'm a child of the 1970s and a teenager of the 1980s...So I've actually been ...
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The Future of Our Discipline?Hester Davis just sent me this pic to ID (I assume for publication in an upcoming Field Notes)...I LOVE THIS PIC...me Arkansas Archeological Society members Brianne and Harrison Dover at 3HS195 screening in the mud after ...
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Not Our Fault? orBlame the Invisible Hand of the MarketThe near-extinction of the buffalo (or bison as the sciencey-types call it) has long been laid at the feet of mass hunting (sometimes actually perpetrated by US soldiers) aimed at 1) ...
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Does this look like me?This is my "simpsonized" likeness...I haven't decided if it looks enough like me for me to declare that the thing "works" (I mean besides the many code errors on the application)...at any rate, it certainly thinned ...
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The Future of Arkansas History...In 1989 historian Francis Fukuyama published his contraversial and influential article entitled "The End of History?" Fukuyama's argument was a theoretical one, but in Arkansas we are facing a much more concrete "end of history"...or at ...
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In the Field, Round 2:Malvern, Arkansas and Novaculite TradeI have just returned from my second round of fieldwork this summer...as you know from my previous post, my first round was working on the mission San Juan del Puerto near Jacksonville, ...
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Ruben MacDonald ShearerCongrats to my long time friend colleague Peggy Brunache and her beloved Andrew Shearer...Their son Ruben was born at 11:42 a.m. May 3rd, 2007 and weighed in at 6 pounds and 12 oz....with the blood of both Raibeart ...
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Archeological Simulacrum in Service to OutreachI've recently reviewed a book by an old friend of mine from the University of Texas--Dr. Troy Lovata. Troy (now at the University of New Mexico) has recently published Inauthentic Archaeologies: Public Uses and Abuses ...
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On a Mission... I'm back from a brief working vacation--helping my friend James Davidson and the University of Florida's archaeological field school on Fort George Island near Jacksonville, Florida.For the past two years James (and his very competent minions) have ...
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Archaeologists for Social Justice...Upon returning from the SAA meetings in Austin, Texas, I was talking on the phone with James Davidson, one of my closest colleagues. We were talking about how different the SAAs feel from other meetings--such as the ...
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I Can't Go Back to Austin Anymore...In the 1970s Texas legend Doug Sahm wrote a song by the above title...It appeared on The Return of Wayne Douglas album...I always thought it would be a great name for a radio program ...
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Ismail Ax...RosebudWhen the media learned that these eight letters had been written in red ink on the arm of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui the blogs went crazy... It is as of this writing the top search on technorati.I don't ...
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Sometimes it Snows in April.....O.K.....it's a Prince song from Under the Cherry Moon...but this last week it did, in fact, snow in Northwest Arkansas....T.J. reports that the region hit record lows (I'm in Magnolia in the southwest portion of the ...
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White/Black America, White/Black ObamaA month or so back I watched Tavis Smiley's Black State of the Union on CSPAN...I watched Al Sharpton and (the always cool) Cornel West warn Barak Obama that he cannot count on Black America's vote...he had ...
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Miss Me?Wow....I am truly sorry that I have been so remiss in my posting, but the spring semester has really knocked me off of my feet. My first semester as AAS-SAU Research Station archaeologist was very busy, but I managed ...
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Elijah (Perhaps we can also call him Ilyas)Congratulations to John Rachel on the birth of Elijah......
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Happy Birthday!A.J. Ted....a day that will live in infamy....
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Class vs. RaceIn a post entitled "Ethnographic study: Why the education system fails white working-class children" on :: antropologi.info ::, Lorenz blogs about class as a forgotten issue in our culture (or at least in the educational system in the ...
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Real-Life Indiana Jones?This is a job opening currently posted at the AIA website...no comment necessary.--------------Job ListingCasting for "Real-Life Indiana Jones"Travel ChannelDescription:Casting Call: Real-Life Indiana Jones Needed For National Television Series!THE SHOW: An exciting, new archeology adventure series for The Travel ...
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XM: No Static At AllOk...I confess.....I am addicted to XM satellite radio---especially Air America.My wife bought a cheap XM system for me when I moved to southwest Arkansas because it is basically a radio no man's land (There is an ...
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FCC vs. CTIA...Section 106 in the Balance.Back in December of 2005 I posted a blurb about the battle between the FCC and the wrireless industry about Section 106 compliance (see "Section 106 in Trouble?...", December 07, 2005). At that time ...
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Letters From Magnolia....I apologize for the infrequent postings lately, but I have been posting a bit over at my other blog: The Ag Report: Letters From Magnolia. The Ag Report is meant to be mostly about Southwest Arkansas and my ...