Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes Named First AAA Public Policy Award Winner The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that its Committee on Public Policy has selected medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes as the first recipient of the new Anthropology in Public Policy Award. Dr. Scheper- Hughes is a nationally-recognized expert on several important health issues, … Read more
You find information about Manfred and his work in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Kremser And German: http://www.univie.ac.at/voelkerkunde/html/inh/pers/wiss/krem.htm Among his publications related to cyber / digital anthropology are: 2004 [with Philipp Budka] ?CyberAnthropology ? Anthropology of CyberCulture?, in Stefan Khittel, Barbara Plankensteiner & Maria Six-Hohenbalken (eds), Contemporary Issues in Socio-Cultural Anthropology: Perspectives and Research Activities from Austria. Wien: Löcker. … Read more
Al Jazeera Travel Show Explores World Cities Through Their Street Food from Open Culture by Colin Marshall Anthropology: the major, the career from American Anthropological Association by Joslyn O. During this week there has been quite the conversation about adjuncts and their working conditions in the press. These articles have lead to further conversation in … Read more
A Response to the Recent Attacks on Professor Frances Fox Piven from American Anthropological Association by Joslyn O. AAA was one of 23 academic organizations that released a joint statement of response to the recent attacks on Professor Frances Fox Piven, renown professor of the University of New York Graduate Center. The statement condemns Glenn Beck, radio and television personality, … Read more
Interview with hacker anthropologist Biella Coleman from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow In this week’s show, Thomas Gideon’s Command Line podcast interviews NYU professor Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist who studies hackers, trolls, 4chan and other online phenomena. I met Biella when she was doing fieldwork for her PhD by hanging around EFF and the hackers … Read more
Neuroanthropology.net at 1,000,000 from Neuroanthropology by dlende Neuroanthropology.net just broke through the 1,000,000 visits mark! We?ve done that in three years. Our very post came in December 2007. Even though Greg and I have moved over to Neuroanthropology PLoS, this site has continued to generate impressive traffic since September 1st. Here are some of the … Read more
Human genetic variation: the first 50 dimensions from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog by Dienekes Here is a huge data dump for anyone interested in human variation. Part of the reason I started the Dodecad Project was to be able to analyze data on my own, rather than having to squint to make sense of a plot, … Read more
E-workshop on digital and media anthropology starts now!! from media/anthropology by John Postill ** via Media Anthropology Network mailing list ** Dear All Welcome to our e-workshop on digital and media anthropology! As I said in a previous announcement, we thought it would be interesting to continue on this mailing list the face-to-face conversations we … Read more
Well, as a person who has more than a thousand friends in Facebook, I had already experienced that, now we scientify it (!):
Brain Can’t Handle More Than 150 Facebook Friends Finds Oxford Boffin
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A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up
We have lost another great anthropologist recently. I have already announced the news and here is a few more links about Prof. Dell Hymes. and more of other stuff below…
As Kerim noted, Dell Hymes passed away. My connection to Hymes is tangential?mostly the odd personal connections that come with the small world of academics?and others will be able to memorialize him better than I. The passing of Hymes and Lévi-Strauss so closely together is sad but also offers a time for us to reflect on these academics, their legacies, and their different personal style. Lévi-Strauss loved culture and, at times, seemed almost traumatized that he was forced to study people in order to get at it. Hymes?s writings are equally scrupulous, but deeply honor human life and are dedicated to finding the beauty and complexity in the ephemeral moments of our speaking and story-telling. In 1968 Lévi-Strauss?s structures took to the streets. In 1972 Dell Hymes published Reinventing Anthropology.