I was going to write another post about what is happening over on Savage Minds but I’m thrilled to pieces with Lorenz’s review, so I’ll just quote him: The anthropology group blog Savage Minds is only five days old, but there are already lots of blog entries and even more comments – or you should [...]
With Savage Minds, grading, and preparing for my upcoming trip to Taiwan keeping me busy, I don’t have much time to blog. But everyone should take the time to read the following: A speech by Bill Moyers, responding to conservative attacks against PBS in general and Moyers in particular. (You can also listen to an [...]
Over at Savage Minds I have a post about consumerism and inequality. Here is a taste: Unfortunately, today’s anthropologists seem to be increasingly fetishizing the commodity. There are lots of reasons for this … However, I worry about this growing emphasis on consumption, especially as such studies can obscure the very nature of social inequality [...]
That was then: It is the judgment of our commander in Afghanistan, General Eichenberry, that in fact the violence that we saw in Jalalabad was not necessarily the result of the allegations about disrespect for the Koran, but more tied up in the political process and the reconciliation process that President Karzai and his cabinet [...]
Last September I wrote an article in Anthropology News encouraging my fellow anthropologists to get online. I was frustrated that while there are numerous blogs by just about every other branch of academia, anthropologists were still largely absent from the online hubbub. Since I wrote that article, the anthropological blogsphere has been slowly expanding. This [...]
I’ve written before about how much the voiceovers used for foreign-language movie trailers annoy me because they try to hide the fact that these films aren’t in English. Today Shashwati has a wonderful post about the man behind those trailers. {film, preview, trailer, Don Lafontaine}
It seems that Satanists have been dialing the wrong number all these years. It isn’t 666, but 616. I don’t know what area code 666 is, but 616 is in Michigan. {bible, history, numerology, satan}
I can’t help but be excited about John Cleese related news … and with Wallace and Gromit mixed in, well, lets just say my expectations are probably way too elevated … John Cleese To Write Next Aardman Film: BBC has news from the Cannes Film Festival. First, the previously announced Curse of the Were-Rabbit Wallace [...]
From an article in Zmag: [Anthropologist] David Graeber, was fired from Yale University a few days ago. Of course, that wasn’t the official explanation. The official one reads that “his contract wasn’t renewed” because of his lack of “collegiality”. If you would allow me to translate this: the “lack of collegiality” that David had showed [...]
A team of artists from Brazil and Portugal has produced this wonderful series of flags-as-infographics, discussing pressing social issues. Here is the one for Brazil: (via Global Voices) {braz, flags, infographics, tufte}