Comments on: Around the Web http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Strong http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/comment-page-1/#comment-270640 Strong Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:08:25 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/#comment-270640 Suddenly, SM is one of the gayer places on the internets! How _wonderful_. I kinda thought the bear in question looks pretty typically 'bear,' by which I mean: fat and hairy. Jay I think points to what might be called a 'crisis in gay comportment,' a revolution in 'queer habitus,' or perhaps, if you are Andrew Sullivan, "'the death of gay culture'":http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=cac6ca08-7df8-4cdd-93cc-1d20cd8b7a70 : a lot of gay style and straight style have converged in ways that sometimes make it hard to tell who is what! (Mind you, these observations pertain to the States, where I haven't been for nearly two years, and NOT to Helsinki, where there are 3 gay men, and my boyfriend and I are two of them; and cf. earlier "remarks":http://savageminds.org/2008/01/11/your-average-hindu-temple-is-more-fabulous-than-the-gay-bombay-new-years-party/ I made about globalization and gay identity.) One could argue that all of this reflects changing structural circumstances, as does Sullivan. One could also just say that it is the wheel of fashion turning, as it always does. I do think baseball players and fans in the US are seeming gayer and gayer, or is it that gay guys are mimicking straight looks? The goatee or some sort of facial hair is a crucial operator here: in SF, for a long time, you knew the gay guy by the presence of facial hair -- then I noticed that more and more straight dudes were wearing a goatee. And it all got confusing. This is to say nothing of that whole 'metrosexual' moment. Maybe an ethnographer of urban cultures and US masculinity can help me out. Anywayz. Suddenly, SM is one of the gayer places on the internets! How _wonderful_. I kinda thought the bear in question looks pretty typically ‘bear,’ by which I mean: fat and hairy. Jay I think points to what might be called a ‘crisis in gay comportment,’ a revolution in ‘queer habitus,’ or perhaps, if you are Andrew Sullivan, “‘the death of gay culture’”:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=cac6ca08-7df8-4cdd-93cc-1d20cd8b7a70 : a lot of gay style and straight style have converged in ways that sometimes make it hard to tell who is what! (Mind you, these observations pertain to the States, where I haven’t been for nearly two years, and NOT to Helsinki, where there are 3 gay men, and my boyfriend and I are two of them; and cf. earlier “remarks”:http://savageminds.org/2008/01/11/your-average-hindu-temple-is-more-fabulous-than-the-gay-bombay-new-years-party/ I made about globalization and gay identity.) One could argue that all of this reflects changing structural circumstances, as does Sullivan. One could also just say that it is the wheel of fashion turning, as it always does.

I do think baseball players and fans in the US are seeming gayer and gayer, or is it that gay guys are mimicking straight looks? The goatee or some sort of facial hair is a crucial operator here: in SF, for a long time, you knew the gay guy by the presence of facial hair — then I noticed that more and more straight dudes were wearing a goatee. And it all got confusing. This is to say nothing of that whole ‘metrosexual’ moment. Maybe an ethnographer of urban cultures and US masculinity can help me out.

Anywayz.

]]> By: LFB http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/comment-page-1/#comment-268780 LFB Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:20:24 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/#comment-268780 Yes, Jay, let's criticize them for showing a gay man who looks like a regular person (which is what I assume you mean by saying he is "indistinguishable" from a football watching "dude.") Rather than defy stereotype, let's encourage these anthropological artistes and the journalists who cover them to "gay it up" by showing a more stereotypical bear... because striving for surface readings and the thinnest possible engagement with the "other" is what anthropology is all about. The picture was the only thing NOT wrong with the article. Yes, Jay, let’s criticize them for showing a gay man who looks like a regular person (which is what I assume you mean by saying he is “indistinguishable” from a football watching “dude.”) Rather than defy stereotype, let’s encourage these anthropological artistes and the journalists who cover them to “gay it up” by showing a more stereotypical bear… because striving for surface readings and the thinnest possible engagement with the “other” is what anthropology is all about. The picture was the only thing NOT wrong with the article.

]]> By: Kim http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/comment-page-1/#comment-266074 Kim Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:21:32 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/#comment-266074 Aranda = Arrernte (the accepted spelling to date). Aranda = Arrernte (the accepted spelling to date).

]]> By: Entertaining Research http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/comment-page-1/#comment-265995 Entertaining Research Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:37:37 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/31/around-the-web-7/#comment-265995 HowTo: write grant proposals... As I mention in this blog time and again, rarely one gets to see project proposals online (unlike pre-prints) — which makes it difficult for beginners to get an idea as to how one should write such documents. So, what little we have access to are... HowTo: write grant proposals…

As I mention in this blog time and again, rarely one gets to see project proposals online (unlike pre-prints) — which makes it difficult for beginners to get an idea as to how one should write such documents. So, what little we have access to are…

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