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The Brave New World of Campus Life
There are an increasing number of scholars who, like Giroux, stand strongly against the corporate university. Like Giroux
The Brave New World of Campus Life
There are an increasing number of scholars who, like Giroux, stand strongly against the corporate university. Like Giroux
Visual Anthropology Revisited – This Anthro Life
Join us for an ‘enlightening’ trip as we ‘shed some light’ on the world of sight, seeing, and visual anthropology. In this episode we explore the deep impact…
Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs
A new article by Dan Fessler, Anne Pisor,& David Navarrete, highly relevant to cultural epidemiology in PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. doi:10.1371 Abstract: The functions of cultural beliefs are often…
Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely admit that people have…
Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely admit that people have…
Vershawn Young, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy, “Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy”
[Cross-posted from New Book in Language] In linguistics, we all happily and glibly affirm that there is no “better” or “worse” among languages (or dialects, or varieties), although we freely…
Zareena Grewal, “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] Zareena Grewal‘s monograph Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU Press, 2013), seamlessly interweaves et… Visit New Books…
Zareena Grewal, “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority” (NYU Press, 2013)
Zareena Grewal‘s monograph Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (NYU Press, 2013), seamlessly interweaves ethnographic research with an in-depth histor… Visit New Books…
Do Not Keep Quiet: Subverting the Rules of Cinema Viewing in Sunnyside, Pretoria
By Dennis Webster Near to where I live in Sunnyside in Pretoria is a shopping centre called Sterland. The Ster-Kinekor there seems to be the exception to all…
Are we Neandermans or Neandumans?
Science and Nature have just published research that supports a hypothesis about Neanderthal-human hybridisation that I published with Professor Roger Valentine Short in 2011. The recent popularity o…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Feeding People and Cooking up a Storm: Tayla’s upcoming talk at the Wellington Seminar Series
Inspired by John Key’s comment “Wellington is dying” (ugh), between March and May 2014, the Stout Research Centre is holding the ‘Wellington Seminar Series’. The seminar features presentations…
Coffee Cultures – This Anthro Life
From the farms of Central and South America and Africa to your favorite neighborhood coffee house, join us as we turn our anthropological eye towards the world of…
World Simulation in the NYT
The World Simulation is featured in the NYT’s “Ed Life” section this week along with several other innovative classes. Great picture of Madeline McMillen and Carol Ford, along…
El abismo de las pasiones tristes
Ezequiel Adamovsky lanzó el otro día en Facebook una pregunta políticamente urgente: ¿Cómo explicar que no está bien linchar a un ser humano? En este texto canalizo una posible…
William O. Beeman Commentary on Thomas Friedman "Sheldon: Iran’s Best Friend" NY Times April 5, 2014: Crude and Inaccurate on Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/opinion/sunday/friedman-sheldon-irans-best-friend.html?comments#permid=11511683 Sheldon: Iran’s Best Friend APRIL 5, 2014 Thomas L. Friedman Commentary on this article …