Around the Web
Anthropology at a Glance: Ever wonder how you can boil down your discipline into 6 pages? Look up Spark Notes’ Anthropology Chart. It contains a history, theory, and methodology for all four fields, plus kinship, economy, hominids, ethnicity, gender and religion.
Center for Indigenous Health: Check out this post from Culture Matters on Sidney Universities latest addition.
Blog Reviewed Books: The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports Blog Comments and Peer Review Go Head to Head to See Which Makes a Book Better
Pacific Islanders…Revealed: Both Dienekes and the New York Times picked up on this study released by the Public Library of Science Genetics recent findings that Polynesians and Micronecians are share more genetic heritage with East Asia than Melanesia. The Times reported:
Years ago, a reporter who visited the Marshall Islands asked an aging Micronesian chief where his people came from long, long ago. ‘We have always been here,’ he replied. Now, if it matters to them, his descendants have been given a more scientific answer.
Krober on Sex: Audio files on a 5-part lecture by Kroeber on Sex and Natural History in 1956. Also available on the Berkeley Media Resources Center, Levi-Strauss on The Birth of Historical Societies, Mead on Female Creativity, and Foucault on Culture and Self. You will need Read Audio to listen.
Looking for the next big field site? HubCulture just announced its 2008 Zeigeist Rankings, “where innovation, change and vibe combine to create the place of the moment.” Unfortunately, not a single Oaxacan or Tamilnad village made the list. Thanks to Global Culture for catching this.
“Anthropologist Studied Tribes”: Title of the Boston Globe Obituary for David Maybury-Lewis, Amazonian anthropologist and founder of NGO Cultural Survival.
Gone Geisha: Lorenz at Anthropologi.info found this story on Fiona Grahm, an Oxford-trained anthropologist and the first non-Japanese to debut as a Geisha.
FIFEQ 5, Ethnographic Film Festival: Unfortunately, if you’re reading this now, you’ve missed the International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec (FIFEQ). But click on Schedule to see some of the films they presented. Also, Languageblog posted a review of the new indie fictional movie The Linguists.
The Secret Museum: Photoethnography.com first posted on this digital reproduction of The Secret Museum of Mankind: a 1936 picture book on exotic natives from around the world. Reads one caption: “Tahitian girls are strikingly picturesque, but farcical European attire has deprived them of much of their charm; nevertheless, the seductive Tahitian smile and the pretty custom of wearing floral wreaths have not been utterly abolished.”
You think you know Kant? Think again.
Welcome Jay, and thanks for this post — you are already rocking out!
Nice links but it reads like an rss feed! Why be nice when we can be anonymous? Break the newbie in!
Thanks, Johny, for your comment. I think it reads a little like an RSS feed because that was the model I used. Do you have any suggestions for how else I might write an “Around the Web” piece?
Hi, Jay. Good job. For me the RSS feed thing is fine. Provides an excellent quick reference to what is going on. If you want to personalize it a bit, you might lead with a paragraph or two on which items interest you most and why.
re: the rss feed, there is a plugin that allows for authors to post “asides” that are like short little posts that are meant to be less discussion oriented and more info-oriented. We could consider adding it to our repertoire…
Well, Jay, I love this entry. I’m checking every link and I’m going to hang the SparkNotes chart up in my office for my physicist colleagues to peruse. Makes me wonder why I didn’t think of laminating my MA degree reading notes and selling them as a giant wall hanging.