Archive for May, 2005
Talkin’
Talkin’ About Talk is a collection of fascinating insights into language: a series of 52 little essays–conversational in tone, light and anecdotal in style–that encourage language study and invite listeners to look further into the subject of each essay. The series, part of the 2005: The Year of Languages celebration, was co-sponsored by […]
Precondition Failed
Help! I’m suffering from a plague of web sites I am unable to access. I’ve listed all the offending sites here. Some of them are major sites - like Wordpress.org. Whenever I go to them I get the following message:
Precondition Failed
The precondition on the request for the URL / evaluated to false.
I have no idea […]
Spandrels
I’m a little surprised by Mark Liberman’s remark that Noam Chomsky’s “skepticism about the efficacy of natural selection makes him a natural ally for its partisans.” Not because I have strong feelings about Chomksy’s views on biology, but because Mark implies that such a non-reductionist view of natural selection is somehow beneficial to Darwin’s opponents. […]
Inuktitut
You realize how far Canadian aboriginal media is ahead of the rest of the world when their biggest controversy is whether they should dub or subtitle their films into other indigenous languages!
“We’ve been producing films for 15 years and we’ve never had any trouble producing in Inuktitut,” Kunuk says. “Now it’s the one TV network […]
MI-6
Knight Ridder finally reports on the memo from Britain’s MI-6 that was leaked to the press in England before the election. Kevin Drum sums up the import of the memo:
According to the memo, the bottom line is this: By the summer of 2002 George Bush had already decided on war regardless of Saddam Hussein’s actions; […]
Photoethnography
I’m just going to steal Lorenz’ entire blog post, because I have nothing to add, other than the fact I’m always happy to discover another anthropology related blog:
(via delicious) Karen Nakamura is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on disability and minority identity issues in contemporary Japan, currently in Kyoto for fieldwork. While you’ll find many […]
The Burka Band
The Burka Band are one of the first pop groups to emerge in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Performing on Western instruments (electric guitar, drum kit) and singing in English, these 3 ladies not only wear the traditional head-to-toe burkas, they sing about ‘em on their debut 7″ from the German label ata tak. Not quite a Muslim […]
Podcasting Anthropology
Mark Auslander has an interesting post on how his students are using podcasting to create an audio tour for a campus exhibit:
I first thought of trying this out next fall, but then, about three weeks ago, I tossed out the idea in my Anth 133a class (Tradition and Contemporary Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa) that we […]
Grammatical Confidence
The grade school I attended didn’t believe in teaching English grammar, so I remained blissfully unaware of all those rules everyone else seems to have had crammed down their throats. It doesn’t seem to have hurt me one bit, although it did make things difficult in foreign language classes where teachers suddenly expected students to […]
Anthropology Blogs
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