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Given the post, “Stuff White People Like: Anthropology, apparently,” and Teaching Anthropology’s “MTV’s ‘Exiled’ Debate: Seems we are riding a wave of sensibility,” this passage in a recent Newseek article (”The Real, Real World“) rang loudly with me, with an import that might exceed the specific context in which the comments were made. With reference [...]
1. Schools shall be obliged to teach the Intelligent Design Theory in all history and anthropology courses, and The Stork Theory of Human Reproduction in all biology classes. 2. The Spanish Inquisition shall be incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security. 3. Abortion, birth control, and jerking off shall be proscribed by awarding legal personhood to embryos, ova, and sperms. 4. The U.S. Government...
As I become a robot like person and concentrated on writing in the remaining days, I had decided not to attend anthropology conferences this year. EASA conference was relatively close to Istanbul but i could not make it. Similarly, I...
Lionel Tiger, who is the Charles Darwin professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, writes in Forbes: It serves the United States of America right. After all the mandatory, moist, bipartisan and endless yammer about the earnest beliefs of various candidates...
This very term itself is a little bit absurd, but as long as White nationalists like to talk about pure Whites versus non-pure Whites, let's evaluate the matter. On a board I think to frequent called Human Biodiversity (mostly non-racists interested in race, genetics, anthropology, etc.), someone said that the purest Whites are from the Caucasus anyway, and the White Power types don't even consider...
Welcome to the coffeehouse! Today we feature jazz pianist, Theolonious Sphere Monk , and the foremost comedian of the Beat Generation, Lenny Bruce . Robin D. G. Kelley , Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, and Jazz Studies at Columbia University , says of Theo Monk: Today Thelonious Monk is widely accepted as a genuine master of American music. His compositions constitute the core...
I do not want to preempt the post on Teaching Anthropology, “The Ultimate Teachable Moment: Wonder How it Will Play Out'” — just to say that there is a very good, critical assessment of this new MTV series, and a list of related links provided by Pamthropologist (I look forward to any excuse to use [...]
Came across a great video today while browsing the website of dotPerformance, a local web design agency here in the Isle of Man. It’s by Mike Wesch, an assistant professor or Cultural Anthropology. Enjoy Interesting huh? November 23, 2007 -- Linkbait about gaming Viral Posts on YouTube (2)October 24, 2007 -- Add a map to your blog [...]
The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, National Anthropology and History Institute) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida (ITM, Mérida Technological Institute), joined into the preservation of some buildings of the Maya area built around 1,500 to 1,700 years ago and despite their age they continue to stand. Both organisms are joined by a new project involved in processing
Dr Monica Janowski: Potency, Hierarchy and Food in Borneo Dr Janowski is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Visit www.sussex.ac.uk/anthropology/ Duration: 21:29. http://audio.resonancefm.com/Free_University/The_Free_University_of_the_Airwaves_Potency_Hierarchy_and_Food_in_Borneo.mp3
Dr Caroline Osella: How do you make a man? An analysis of the construction of male identity in South Asia. Caroline Osella is Reader in Anthropology with reference to South Asia at SOAS. Her specialisms are Kerala, South Asia, South Asian diaspora: ethnophysiology, concepts of person, gender, ethnicity, psychology and anthropology. For accompanying photographs and recommended further reading [...]
Dr Edward Simpson: Remembering natural disasters and memorials in India and Sri Lanka Dr Simpson is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS: www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36082.php For recommended further reading and accompanying images, see Tuesday’s FUoTA page at http:resonancefm.com/free-university Duration: 37:41. http://audio.resonancefm.com/Free_University/The_Free_University_of_the_Airwaves_Remembering_Natural_Disasters_and_Memorials_in_India_and_Sri_Lanka.mp3...
Dr Alpa Shah: Would Yosemite National Park be a better home for the Wild Elephants of Eastern India? Dr Alpa Shah is Lecturer at Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on addressing the reproduction of inequality and the resultant implications for and experiences of marginalised people. Visit www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/ For accompanying images...
I doubt there's any shortage of scholarly papers on the sociological and anthropological effects of the mobile phone. I've never had a desire to search out and read any of them. But my interest was piqued by Amber Case, one of the attendees at Gnomedex 8.0. A recent graduate, Amber describes her area of work and study as "Cyborg Anthropology." Ooh. She was kind enough to send me a copy of her thesis:...
In this never-ending debate, DearAuthor quotes Nancy K. Herther, an anthropology and sociology librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries, who’s on the multiuse side. I’d second observations from DA’s Jane: "For me, the perfect device would be a slightly larger (6-8″ screen size) iPhone. I don’t mind the LCD. I like the touchscreen, the [...]
