AAA Boycott Vote Postmortem Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology By now you have probably heard that the boycott vote failed by an incredibly narrow margin: In the end an astounding 51% of its 10,000 members participated. The resolution failed by exactly 39 votes: 2,423-2,384 (50.4%-49.6%)—a statistical dead heat. David Palumbo-Liu, Steven Salaita, Charlotte Silver, … Read more
Gorgeous book of paper airplanes collected by anthropologist Harry Smith Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Myths and Facts About the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Jessica Winegar Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to extend its original series on this blog … Read more
President Obama writes his first line of Javascript Mashable! by Stan Schroeder The U.S. now has a “coder-in-chief:” President Barack Obama has written his first line of code Peter Sunde: The Pirate Bay Should Stay Down TorrentFreak A few weeks ago Peter Sunde was released from prison where he’d been serving a sentence for his involvement in … Read more
Anthropology Blogs 2014 Anthropology Blogs are a way to understand What is Anthropology. For 2014 I revisited the previous 2013 Anthropology Blogs and 2012 Anthropology Blogs. The blogs included here have all published since June 2013. New Resource for Emerging Anthropologists Two important lessons we learned at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago: 1. Recent graduates in anthropology are … Read more
Lawrence of Arabia as anthropologist To be honest, I was surprised how much attention Peter O?Toole?s recent passing received. We all knew he was famous, but we also learned this week how deeply he was loved. Many people loved him because he had that one thing that is so hard to find in the entertainment … Read more
“Gelecek, Nasil Gelecek?” Soru merak uyandırıcı ve bir çok yeni tartışma konusunu beraberinde getiriyor. Konuşmamız gereken yepyeni başlıklar var. Bilimin, irrasyonelligin -özellikle dinin-, teknolojinin degismesi, kuskusuz yeni yasam formlarinin da insanoglunun hayatina girmesine neden olacak… Her zaman ?simdi?de varolan degisimin ?hizi? ise ?uyum saglama kurami? yla birlikte gelismenin, degismenin sonuclarini bize gosterecek. İnsanoğlunun varolduğu günden … Read more