Don’t post direct links to your new journal article!
This has become a pit of a pet peeve of mine, but I am getting increasing annoyed when colleagues announce new publications and only include a direct link…
Audiovisual research practice in the global era
Time has shortened, space has shrunk, social relations have stretched and information keeps coming as intensive flows. This article explores the role audiovisual media has in reshaping time…
Of Bodily & Anthropological Matters: Self-Improvement in the Age of Wellness (AAA CFP)
In search of papers for wellness panel at AAA. Tentative abstract below. If interested contact Lindsay.Bell@oswego.edu Of Bodily and Anthropological Matters: Self-Improvement in the Age of Wellness In…
The Effects of a Changing Ecosystem on Parsis End of Life Rituals
Tower of Silence The Parsis people of India came from Persia over one-thousand years ago and brought with them their Zoroastrian religion and burial practices. These practices, similar…
Happy Easter mit Happy Haptic-Design
Dieses Jahr ist es kalt an Ostern, der Osterhase trägt den Leomantel. Niedlichkeit gepaart mit Wildtierdesign. Essen oder streicheln? Kulturding wünscht Frohe Ostern!
What’s the Meaning of Easter Baskets?
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What’s the meaning of Easter Baskets?
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Culinary Historians of New York Scholar’s Grants
CULINARY HISTORIANS OF NEW YORK ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2017 SCHOLAR’S GRANTS INCREASED FUNDING BY JULIA CHILD FOUNDATION FOR GASTRONOMY AND CULINARY ARTS APPLICATION DEADLINE JUNE 2, 2017 C…
Natürlich Schön! Teil 2
Teil 2 In dem „Post“ zuvor (Teil 1 Natürlich Schön!)haben wir uns ja bereits damit beschäftigt, dass Schönheitsoperationen schon lange keine Seltenheit mehr sind und welche Risiken…
Why deviate?
One time a friend of mine, Mike Bishop, asked me an interesting question about the ethics of deviating from norms: “In what sense is deviance important for its…
Kill your darlings 8
The footnotes are getting the chop chop treatment too. It is a sad sad day. A bad bad way to relegate people to the acknowledgements. Is it just…
Trump’s Slogan: More About the “Make” Than the “Great”
The famous catchphrase of the Trump campaign subtly taps into the United States’ spirit of making. But what does it actually mean? Alex Milan Tracy/Associated Press President Donald…
Turkey Votes
The Turkish referendum could extend President Erdoğan’s one-man rule. A piece of bicolored paper. On the left is printed EVET (YES), in black font over a white background,…
Australian gas: between a fracked rock and a socially hard place
Kim de Rijke, The University of Queensland Australia´s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s response to the looming east coast gas shortage has been to secure a promise from gas…
kill your darlings 7 – soon there will only be seven words left…
An approach that experiments with a frame shift towards a political and allegorical register cannot keep up with that level of work, even as it relies wholly upon…
Links & Contents I Liked 228
Hi all, If you are celebrating Easter you are probably looking for some good readings for the long weekend! Development news: AP investigates UN peacekeeping troubles in Haiti;…
Links & Contents I Liked 228
Hi all, If you are celebrating Easter you are probably looking for some good readings for the long weekend! Development news: AP investigates UN peacekeeping troubles in Haiti;…
“EUER WEH”: Accra station woe
EUER WEH – German for ‘your woe‘, reads the car inscription on the bonnet. An unwitting meaning, residue of the former German fire truck, which had FEUERWEHR written…
Black Women’s Food Work is from the Future
Ashanté M. Reese, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College When I think about being a Black girl from the future, my mind goes to the contradiction that…
Ein halbes Jahrhundert in der Fremde: Ein chinesisches Soldatenschicksal
Nach 50 Jahren Kriegsgefangenschaft in Indien kehrt Wangqi in seine Heimat zurück. Um die Deutung seiner Lebensgeschichte entbrennt daraufhin eine engagierte Diskussion um die Frage: Ist Wangqi ein…
Kill your darlings part 7
The slaughter of excess paragraphs and cul de sac ideas continues to leave this residue here in case I need to return… There are several admirable reasons for…
Schleim dein Stress weg!
Schleim ist eine zähflüssige organische Absonderung, insbesondere von Schleimhäuten, die üblicherweise dem Schutz der Organoberfläche vor Austrocknung, Fremdpartikeln oder Abrieb dient. Schleim kann a…