Back in January I read about how Taiwanese filmmaker Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖) is planning on making the “first Taiwanese epic,” about an Aborigine uprising against the Japanese which took place over 75 years ago. The film is tentatively titled Seediq Bale (賽德克巴萊). It seems they are still attempting to raise the money necessary to shoot [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Another anthropology blogger finishes his dissertation! Congrats Alex! {anthropology, Bloggers}
Fei Xiaotong 孝通 (1910-2005), who died on Sunday in Beijing, is best remembered for his passion for sociology and anthropology. Full story in the China Daily. I’ll add more links here as I come across them. UPDATE: A nice biography of Fei Xiaotong. UPDATE: JJ has a bunch of excellent links to books by (and [...]