Prof. Fischer is in town!
One of the professors I most admire in the discipline of anthropology is in Istanbul! I had the pleasure to meet with Prof Michael Fischer and we have even been to the opening ceremony of Santral Istanbul.
Former power plant Silahtarağa is converted into a museum of contemporary arts. The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the opening ceremony.
Thus I and Prof. Fischer were 2 m close to the PM and witnessed him coming to the ceremony. It was an interesting night...
speaking of anthropology, here are some notable links:
Lab Notes: Anthropological Collaboration & Writing Form
Just came across a new feature of the journal Ethnos, called “Anthropologists Are Talking” which has the following mission statement: The aim of the series is to provide an alternative to the standard, single-authorarticle that academic journals generally publish in order to give spaceto a more dialogic kind of reflection. When they do not write, anthropologistsarguably [...]
Widespread faculty ignorance of Open Access
By Eric Kansa
A First Look at Italian Anthropology
Keith Hart is blogging; Economic anthropologist Keith Hart has upgraded his website The Memory Bank....
Anthropological perspectives on suicide bombing
Six reasons for bad academic writing
Protests against British research council: "Recruits anthropologists for spying on muslims"
Eurovision is A Campy Festival of the National-Cultural
By StrongGreat Diagrams in Anthropology: Mary Douglas Edition
By Strong
Akbar Ahmed's anthropological excursion into Islam
VSS: McFate, Anthropology, and the War
The SF Chronicle has another article on Montgomery McFate, the war, and anthropology — this one very much worth reading. The response from the anthropologists is, I think, kind of astonishing. Read on…
Biopower and the Contemporary: Pieces by Valverde and Rose
Here and here are the two pieces on Foucault by Valverde and Rose.
