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…
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www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de Viel Erfolg!
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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.…
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.…
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.…
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…
#Instalife: How Instagram redefines the meaning and practice of photography
Instagram is a social, mobile photography app. They have 100 million monthly active users, and 40 million Instagram photos are posted per day. Purchased by the leviathan of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…