Travels in the Congo: First Things First
So, I’ve been travelling and working in the Congo for about a month now and I already have an awful lot to write about – both the awesome…
Category: English
Malaysian General Election May 5th: Who can meet the expectations of the majority?
Malaysia’s thirteenth general elections (GE13) will be a battle of the coalitions, pitting the world’s most successful ruling coalition – the 13 party Barisan Nasional (BN/National Front) against…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
April Is the Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we’ll need to be persistent and resilient…
A cultural icon
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
When melting glaciers take away people’s water
Poor people are most affected by climate change, economic crises and discrimination. Anthropologist Astrid Bredholt Stensrud wants to find out how people go about i…
Saving Energy: It’s also about culture
– We can reduce our energy use only through a radically different vision of what it means to be modern, says anthropologist Harold Langford Wilhite.
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…
YouTube Superstars? Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today
The Observer has just carried a long piece about young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. On…
Mezzmer Eyewear Review
Since my reviews of Glasses.com, DB Vision and Warby Parker exploded in popularity, I wrote two additional reviews for high index sunglass options – Cocoons and Eyefly. In…
Does it have to be humans against nature?
Many poor people have been forcibly evicted from their homes in the name of nature conservation. "To protect nature we have to transcend the separation of humans from…
Links of the Day #14
It has been a while since I’ve posted a link roundup. This is mostly for technical reasons (the feed stopped working) and also because I’ve been busy. Now…
An Ax to Grind: Napoleon Chagnon, the Yanomami and the anthropology tribe
I felt like I had walked right into one of the Napoleon Chagnon/Timothy Asch Yanomami films. At one end of the circular village enclosure, a shouting match had…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…
Documentary on migration to the EU (in French and Italian)
I recently discovered this series of videos about recent state approaches to migrants in Europe. I recommend it because it traces the origins of different policies and strategies…
Northern Lights/Global Activism
For someone who has taught college students for more than 30 years, it is troubling to see how the current mindlessness of narrow-minded politicians and bean-counting college administrators…