Blog Action Day 2010: Water

We registered our blog to the Blog Action Day 2010 as you can see. Normally it was better to write about one issue/topic on water (usage, unsafe or unhygienic cause illnesses etc.) but actually, not only I wanted to rise the awareness of this activity, the day and the importance of topics, but also I … Read more

Virtual issue on Water by Cultural Anthropology

VIRTUAL ISSUE: WATER – CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY from Cultural Anthropology by acarse CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS AND COMMENTARY BY STEFAN HELMREICH Authors were posed the following questions, their answers follow: TWO BOOKS TO ANNOUNCE: News Online Transformations and Continuities Graham Meikle and Guy Redden Palgrave Macmillan Introduction: Transformation and Continuity – Graham … Read more

Savage Minds Anthropology Journalism (and an anthro roundup)

How to write an anthropology book that people will read?

from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Joana and Pal

Many thanks to Kerim and Alex for inviting us to Savage Minds to share our experiences writing Seeing Culture Everywhere, a book that explicitly targets a general audience. Over the next two weeks we?ll be writing both about the pervasive use of the concept ?culture? in a broad range of global, national and interpersonal settings, as well as about the challenges and successes we encountered in our effort to popularize anthropological perspectives in two settings, Germany and the US.

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World Water Forum starts…

It happens five minutes away from the campus but I do not have any access and honestly I think at this moment of my life, I have no interest… Turkish police officers stand guard on a boat in Istanbul’s Golden Horn, Turkey, Monday, March 16, 2009, during the opening ceremony of the 5th World Water … Read more