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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…

Post date 3rd May 2013
Post author By Daniel Winfree Papuga

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…

Post date 3rd May 2013
Post author By Daniel Winfree Papuga

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…

Post date 3rd May 2013
Post author By Daniel Winfree Papuga

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…

Post date 3rd May 2013
Post author By Daniel Winfree Papuga

The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure, Pt. 3

Please see also Part 1 and Part 2. PART 3: NGOs AND DIGITAL RIGHTS In the last section I considered the roles of business and governments in protecting…

Post date 2nd May 2013
Post author By puellaludens

The Politics and Power of Internet Infrastructure Pt. 2

Please see the first part of this project here. PART 2: NETWORK NEUTRALITY In my last post I described the centralized control of the Internet’s backbone by only…

Post date 2nd May 2013
Post author By puellaludens

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…

Post date 1st May 2013
Post author By Fran Barone

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 /…

Post date 1st May 2013
Post author By Kerstin B Andersson

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…

Post date 1st May 2013
Post author By puellaludens

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…

Post date 28th April 2013
Post author By Glenn H. Shepard

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…

Post date 26th April 2013
Post author By lorenz

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…

Post date 25th April 2013
Post author By Marshall Poe

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…

Post date 25th April 2013
Post author By Marshall Poe

– 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…

Post date 25th April 2013
Post author By www.sv.uio.no

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…

Post date 22nd April 2013
Post author By Marshall Poe

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…

Post date 22nd April 2013
Post author By Marshall Poe

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…

Post date 21st April 2013
Post author By Gill

David Graeber im Exil

Vorgestern, am Montag, den 15. April 2013, erschien in The Chronicle of Higher Education ein mehr als einsichtsvoller Artikel: A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic 'Exile'. Dazu…

Post date 17th April 2013
Post author By zephyrin

David Graeber im Exil

Vorgestern, am Montag, den 15. April 2013, erschien in The Chronicle of Higher Education ein mehr als einsichtsvoller Artikel: A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic 'Exile'. Dazu…

Post date 17th April 2013
Post author By zephyrin

David Graeber im Exil

< !doctype html> David Graeber im Exil April 17, 2013 12:36:52 PM CEST April 18, 2013 9:06:04 AM CEST zephyrin Vorgestern, am Mo…

Post date 17th April 2013
Post author By zephyrin

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…