Albuquerque and Drake in Indo-Malaysia – Bows and Arrows
It probably isn't surprising that historical references to bows and arrows in Indo-Malaysia from the age of exploration are relatively few. The bow wasn't a particularly important weapon…
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In Defense of Public Higher Education
Given the pervasiveness of privatization, we need to ask some difficult questions about its human costs.
In Defense of Public Higher Education
Given the pervasiveness of privatization, we need to ask some difficult questions about its human costs.
In Defense of Public Higher Education
Given the pervasiveness of privatization, we need to ask some difficult questions about its human costs.
In Defense of Public Higher Education
Given the pervasiveness of privatization, we need to ask some difficult questions about its human costs.
In Defense of Public Higher Education
Given the pervasiveness of privatization, we need to ask some difficult questions about its human costs.
In Defense of Public Higher Education
Given the pervasiveness of privatization, we need to ask some difficult questions about its human costs.
A Tale of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing–Review of Manufactured Crisis by Gareth Porter (Beeman)
http://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/newsletter/2014/030414/tale.htmlA Tale of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing: Iran’s Nukes Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nu…
‘Gene driven change is much more the norm’
A tweet was directed my way by ziel (@yourlyingeyes). I had tweeted in response to some new HBD silliness that in most cases a genetic explanation is worth…
Urban China issue on Chinese cities in Africa
The Shanghai urban design journal Urban China, based at Tongji University, is devoting its upcoming 63rd issue to Chinese urban design in Africa. As is often the case,…
Anthropology & design
“Anthropology provides a kind of thick description that contextualises design processes and products, and design offers anthropology creative means of exploring and representing what it means to…
Scholarly Communication Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Davis
Circulated on behalf of a colleague… A new UC Davis initiative on “Innovating the Communication in Scholarship” (http://icis.ucdavis.edu/) is hiring a 2 year postdoctoral fellow, sta…
I Want a Different Indonesia
“Daddy, you cannot die now, because now I have finally become successful, I can buy a car, I can build a house, I can finally prove myself to…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Back As a Mrs.
Hello, blog! I’m back! I apologize for my long absence; I was unprepared for how much your life gets sucked up by wedding planning. But, now I am…
Survey for Anthropologists
The Open Anthropology Cooperative exists because back in 2009, a group of like-minded anthropologists from around the world came together to create something genuinely new using a combination…
"I Want to Disturb My Neighbour": Stuart Hall and the Role of the Public intellectual.
By Doreen Gordon There have been many tributes to the Jamaican born thinker, Stuart Hall. He was remarkable for his ability to move between the worlds of the…
Caitlin McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds., “Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity”
When you think about research that contributes to understanding others (or maybe even yourself more), dance is not often the first thought that comes to mind. But the…
Jon Mooallem, “Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals In America”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Environmental Studies] Jon Mooallem’s book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals In America (Penguin, 20… Visit New Books…
Jon Mooallem, “Wild Ones” (Pengiun, 2013)
Jon Mooallem‘s book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals In America (Penguin, 2013) is a tour of a few…