Comments on: A Quick Savage Minds FAQ http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Erkan's field diary http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-36247 Erkan's field diary Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:01:26 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-36247 <strong>"The concept of culture and Danish anthropology in the public debate on immigration...</strong> Linda Lützau Nielsen says: The Danish Association of Anthropologists is celebrating its 30 year birthday this year, and marked the occasion last week with a debate evening at the University of Copenhagen on the relation between the concept of culture.... “The concept of culture and Danish anthropology in the public debate on immigration…

Linda Lützau Nielsen says: The Danish Association of Anthropologists is celebrating its 30 year birthday this year, and marked the occasion last week with a debate evening at the University of Copenhagen on the relation between the concept of culture….

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]]> By: orange. http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-34081 orange. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:50:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-34081 <i>"Aha—so it’s really just Cultural Studies after all!"</i> *smile Actually there ARE more cultural studies types in anthropology than do confess to be. “Aha—so it’s really just Cultural Studies after all!”

*smile
Actually there ARE more cultural studies types in anthropology than do confess to be.

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-34028 Rex Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:54:19 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-34028 Yeah. We like to show our unbuttoned "first draft" sides on the blog ;) Yeah. We like to show our unbuttoned “first draft” sides on the blog ;)

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]]> By: Jonathan http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-34026 Jonathan Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:58:55 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-34026 "Presitguous" mitigates the tone somewhat. “Presitguous” mitigates the tone somewhat.

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]]> By: SLS http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33299 SLS Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:17:00 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33299 "the phenomenon of culture—a sui generis, domain of arbitrary and conventional meaning that is distinctly human." Aha--so it's really just Cultural Studies after all! Or maybe Linguistics, minus the languages... “the phenomenon of culture—a sui generis, domain of arbitrary and conventional meaning that is distinctly human.”

Aha–so it’s really just Cultural Studies after all!

Or maybe Linguistics, minus the languages…

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33251 Rex Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:06:09 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33251 Q: Are any of the Savage Minds regular contributors tenured professors of anthropology? A: I have no idea. You'd have to ask them. I believe a few are. The three most active contributors -- Kerim, Oneman, and Myself -- most definitely are not. Q: Are any of the Savage Minds regular contributors tenured professors of anthropology?
A: I have no idea. You’d have to ask them. I believe a few are. The three most active contributors — Kerim, Oneman, and Myself — most definitely are not.

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]]> By: Sarapen http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33242 Sarapen Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:24:57 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33242 I see, so it was pretty much what I suspected all along, except I thought you all lived in your cars and donated your bodily fluids for a living. I see, so it was pretty much what I suspected all along, except I thought you all lived in your cars and donated your bodily fluids for a living.

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]]> By: Judith http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33241 Judith Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:13:05 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33241 FAQ #4 Are any of SavageMinds regular contributors tenured professors of anthropology? FAQ #4 Are any of SavageMinds regular contributors tenured professors of anthropology?

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]]> By: ckelty http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33225 ckelty Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:07:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33225 Actually, if you donate enough, you can have your donated organs transplanted *on* my yacht. Actually, if you donate enough, you can have your donated organs transplanted *on* my yacht.

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]]> By: Kerim http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33219 Kerim Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:25:18 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33219 We don't ask our readers to subsidize the blog, but we do ask that you consider giving money to the current charity of choice. I'm happy to see that one of the three projects we are now funding (the "Harlem Book Club") was fully funded. Unfortunately, Savage Mind readers can hardly take credit for that ... We don’t ask our readers to subsidize the blog, but we do ask that you consider giving money to the current charity of choice. I’m happy to see that one of the three projects we are now funding (the “Harlem Book Club”) was fully funded. Unfortunately, Savage Mind readers can hardly take credit for that …

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]]> By: oneman http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33146 oneman Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:21:16 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33146 "Say, who pays for the hosting, anyway? It’s fine if you think filthy lucre is not an appropriate subject for this dinner table, but I just realized I have no idea of the mechanics behind this blog." Rex answered the other questions but neglected to mention how this site is financed. As you know, anthropologists develop a wide variety of contacts in remote locations around the world. This has allowed us to build a quite lucrative trade in black market body parts, the sale of which covers hosting, small honoraria for myself and the other writers, and of course, winter homes in the Cayman Islands (well, Kelty has a yacht). I suppose this would bother some people -- I mean after all, third world children need organs too -- but as we all know postmodernism lets us ignore the moral ramifications of this line of work. Sure, you can call it "filthy lucre", but I call it post-capitalist resistance to the dominant economic narratives which structure Western ethico-financial relations. And it's good. “Say, who pays for the hosting, anyway? It’s fine if you think filthy lucre is not an appropriate subject for this dinner table, but I just realized I have no idea of the mechanics behind this blog.”

Rex answered the other questions but neglected to mention how this site is financed. As you know, anthropologists develop a wide variety of contacts in remote locations around the world. This has allowed us to build a quite lucrative trade in black market body parts, the sale of which covers hosting, small honoraria for myself and the other writers, and of course, winter homes in the Cayman Islands (well, Kelty has a yacht). I suppose this would bother some people — I mean after all, third world children need organs too — but as we all know postmodernism lets us ignore the moral ramifications of this line of work.

Sure, you can call it “filthy lucre”, but I call it post-capitalist resistance to the dominant economic narratives which structure Western ethico-financial relations. And it’s good.

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33138 Rex Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:13:35 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33138 Kerim created the layout by tweaking a popular WordPress theme (check the footer of this page for more detail). The site is hosted on a communally-maintained box at http://www.communitycolo.net/ to which I donate -- and you should to! Kerim created the layout by tweaking a popular WordPress theme (check the footer of this page for more detail). The site is hosted on a communally-maintained box at http://www.communitycolo.net/ to which I donate — and you should to!

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]]> By: Sarapen http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33127 Sarapen Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:22:25 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33127 Say, who pays for the hosting, anyway? It's fine if you think filthy lucre is not an appropriate subject for this dinner table, but I just realized I have no idea of the mechanics behind this blog. Where is Savage Minds hosted? And who did the designing? Say, who pays for the hosting, anyway? It’s fine if you think filthy lucre is not an appropriate subject for this dinner table, but I just realized I have no idea of the mechanics behind this blog. Where is Savage Minds hosted? And who did the designing?

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]]> By: John McCreery http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-33046 John McCreery Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:54:23 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-33046 Did anyone else notice, by the way, the following from Grant McCracken's <a href="http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2006/09/ethnography_and.html" rel="nofollow">This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics</a>, <blockquote>There is an interesting exercise called Savage Minds and subtitled Notes and Queries in Anthropology that might serve as a precedent for what I am proposed. It is a "collective web log devoted to bother bringing anthropology to a wider audience as well as providing an ouline forum for discussing the latest developments in the field." </blockquote> The entry, titled "Ethnography and the 'Extra Data' Opportunity" starts with these words. <blockquote>My profession has a problem. It is awash in hacks and pretenders. I am guessing that 1 in 3 ethnographers is more or less incompetent. It is easy to identify some of the offenders. Some actually claim to be "self trained." Others are focus-group moderators simply renamed. Still others actually claim competence on the grounds that they "roomed with an anthropology major in college." There has to be a way to separate the sheep from the goats, and we have to do it fast. Commercial ethnography could easily go the way of the focus group.</blockquote> Did anyone else notice, by the way, the following from Grant McCracken’s This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics,

There is an interesting exercise called Savage Minds and subtitled Notes and Queries in Anthropology that might serve as a precedent for what I am proposed. It is a “collective web log devoted to bother bringing anthropology to a wider audience as well as providing an ouline forum for discussing the latest developments in the field.”

The entry, titled “Ethnography and the ‘Extra Data’ Opportunity” starts with these words.

My profession has a problem. It is awash in hacks and pretenders. I am guessing that 1 in 3 ethnographers is more or less incompetent.

It is easy to identify some of the offenders. Some actually claim to be “self trained.” Others are focus-group moderators simply renamed. Still others actually claim competence on the grounds that they “roomed with an anthropology major in college.” There has to be a way to separate the sheep from the goats, and we have to do it fast. Commercial ethnography could easily go the way of the focus group.

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/comment-page-1/#comment-32997 Rex Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:14:57 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/10/04/a-quick-savage-minds-faq/#comment-32997 Well this is exactly the point about this being a lounge rather than a scholarly session -- we invite all and sundry :!) Well this is exactly the point about this being a lounge rather than a scholarly session — we invite all and sundry :!)

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