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 …
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 …
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! …
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 …
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 …
Juniorprofessur
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
#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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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” …