Academic
Anthro Blogs
Alex alerts us to a few new Anthropology blogs.
John Norvell has thrown his hat into the ring with anthroblogs.org, an MT install with a few blogs on them, including his own and a group blog of which he seems so far to be the only contributor. There is also a wiki on anthropology which at […]
Anthropology Ballot
This is a message for all those members of the American Anthropology Association out there:
I admit it, I normally throw my AAA ballot in the circular file. But this year I didn’t, because I knew that there were some important labor related issues at stake. However, as I sat down to vote, I realized just […]
Flickrology
Last year, when I was offered the opportunity to teach a course on anthropology and photography at Haverford College, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with Flickr. I even wrote to the folks at Flickr to see if they would offer free “pro” accounts to my class for the semester. They politely declined. […]
Back in Print
Unfortunately, the realities of the contemporary publishing industry are such that even books which are classics in their field, and which are often required reading for college courses, can go out of print. While ideally it would be nice to see such books released as open-source online books, the original electronic manuscripts (if they ever […]
Intercourse
Andrea Dworkin, who died today, never claimed that all heterosexual sex is rape.
statements that Dworkin makes about the meaning of intercourse are routinely misinterpreted as statements made in propia voce [in her own voice] when in fact they are statements of the meaning attributed to intercourse by male supremacist culture and enforced by the material […]
Anthropology Journals via RSS [Feeds]
Very exciting. I just discovered via a discussion on Golublog that CiteULike provides RSS feeds for a number of anthropology journals, including The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and History and Anthropology. It isn’t clear how they are getting these feeds - it look as if they are simply collecting various CiteULike posts and […]
Online Message Bulletin Board
I wasn’t surprised that the recent AAA member survey regarding the use of various forms of electronic messaging didn’t mention wikis, but I thought that it was strange that they didn’t mention blogs. Unless “Online Message Bulletin Board” is a code word for blog?
Online Message Bulletin Board: a general term for any online “bulletin board” […]
Science
I’ve been mulling over how to respond to Mark Liberman’s recent jibe at semioticians. This jibe was provoked by my claim that linguistics should be thought of expansively, as a subfield of semiotics (as Saussure initially intended) and not in the more narrow modern sense.
In his post Liberman picks on Roland Barthes, and his “euphoric […]
Papers
There are two kinds of academic conferences: those that require participants to submit their final papers, and those that don’t. Neither the Association for Asian Studies nor the American Anthropological Association require participants to submit a final paper. I consider this to be the main reason that I don’t much care for these conferences. The […]
Linguistics
Mark Liberman is correct to state that French post-structuralist theory, is not derived from what we, today, consider to be “linguistics,” and if he had left it there I would not have felt compelled to respond. However, I feel he overstates his case when he compares the semiotics of Roland Barthes to a “cargo cult,” […]
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