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The first issue of Déjà Lu has come out!
Saiu! It’s out! Take a look and tell your friends! DÉJÀ LU. THE WCAA GLOBAL JOURNAL. Déjà Lu (“Already read”) is an initiative of the World Council of Anthropological…
The Social Life of Music — in Mali
When Islamic militants took over large swaths of northern Mali they forced the local inhabitants, who tend to follow moderate Sufi approaches to Islam, to accept a reactionary…
The Social Life of Music — in Mali
When Islamic militants took over large swaths of northern Mali they forced the local inhabitants, who tend to follow moderate Sufi approaches to Islam, to accept a reactionary…
The Social Life of Music — in Mali
When Islamic militants took over large swaths of northern Mali they forced the local inhabitants, who tend to follow moderate Sufi approaches to Islam, to accept a reactionary…
The Social Life of Music — in Mali
When Islamic militants took over large swaths of northern Mali they forced the local inhabitants, who tend to follow moderate Sufi approaches to Islam, to accept a reactionary…
Link Round Up to Hold You Over
You would think with graduation behind me I’d have a lot more free time to blog, but the opposite has been true! I’ve got 3 part time jobs…
Helen Longino, “Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression & Sexuality”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Philosophy] What explains human behavior? It is standard to consider answers from the perspective of a dichotomy between nature and nurture, with most researchers…
Helen Longino, “Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
What explains human behavior? It is standard to consider answers from the perspective of a dichotomy between nature and nurture, with most researchers today in agreement that it…
For Connoisseurs and Amateurs
“This music isn’t meant to be played on a stage! It is intimate and personal. Very personal.” said clavichordist Ingrid Eriksen in today’s concert at Trondheim Art Museum.…
Dissertation – an anthropologists dream or nightmare?
I may be alone in actually choosing to do a degree for the sole purpose of being able to do a dissertation – our curriculum and what one…
Research Assessment Exercises and What They Do To Us
I published a piece last week in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, reprinted below, that has created a bit of a stir in Hong Kong; I suspect…
Instruments that disappeared
What influences the ‘life cycle’ of musical instruments? This evening, I attended a concert of music for historical brass sextett entitled “instruments that disappeared”, featuring instruments that wer…
Links of the Day #15
Today’s links cover academic publishing and open access; some recent headline news in anthropology; and the significance of place and locality in the ethnography of the Internet. No…
The Bengal Studies panel
Panel proposal for the Bengal studies panel entered. We will see if it gets accepted! The Bengal studies panel has been a recurrent phenomenon at the EASAS /…
The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure
We traditionally understand the world to be controlled primarily by technologies of violence and destruction. Who controls these technologies and how they are regulated are arguably the most…
Remembering Francis Bossuyt
The evening before his 31st birthday, biologist Francis Bossuyt went for his daily swim in the lake at Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Manu Park, Peru, and was…
How scholars in the Middle East developed anthropology more than 1000 years ago
Anthropology emerged in a relatively high scientific level in the wider Middle East before it existed as a discipline in the West. Therefore, the label of colonialism often…
Jared Diamond, “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] It’s pretty common–and has long been–for people to think that the “way it used to be” is better than the way it…
Jared Diamond, “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?” (Viking, 2012)
It’s pretty common–and has long been–for people to think that the “way it used to be” is better than the way it is. This tendency to idealize an…
– Academics, speak out against neoliberalism!
It was one of the worst economic crashes in history: A conversation with anthropologist Gísli Pálsson about the meltdown in Iceland, dubious entanglements between universities…
Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] The Hebrews called it “Eden.” The Greeks and Romans called it the “Golden Age.” The philosophes–or Rousseau at least–called it the…
Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)
The Hebrews called it “Eden.” The Greeks and Romans called it the “Golden Age.” The philosophes–or Rousseau at least–called it the “State of Nature.” Marx and Engels called…