Around the Web digest

Each month we do a round up of weblinks, current events, and anthropologists in the news that were originally broadcast daily (or at least in semi-reliable fashion) via @savageminds. Here’s a sampling of what we were reading in October. If you’ve seen someting around the web that you want to share with the Savage Minds community email me MDTHOMPS @ ODU.EDU.

• RT @David_Dobbs: Paying for job market advice @johnhawks on someone bold enough to call academic work work… /KF
• Searching for authentic Tahrir Square revolutionaries? Arab intellectuals annoyed with western leftists. //MT
• John Hawks grabs his boomstick, takes on zombies. Metaphorically speaking. Okay, that’s not true at all.//MT
• Optical unconscious: digital artist morphs every Playboy centerfold into SFW abstractions. What do you see?//MT
• RT @BiellaColeman: Newly designed science/med and anthro blog is newly designed and really really nice/KF
• In Montreal, keep an eye out for the recently evolved Homo Quebecois.//MT
• Cryptozoology gets real: International Center of Hominology in Moscow goes yeti hunting in West Siberia.//MT
• Derrick Bell, pioneer of legal scholarship, antiracist activist, author of critical race theory, dead at 80. //MT
• UC journal Reclamations — Generation of Debt: The University in Default and the Undoing of Campus Life.//MT
• Anthropologist Eben Kirksey calls for site specific art installations at Occupy events around the country.//MT
• Fossilized footprints found in remote mountains of Chihuahua, Mexico, 4.5k-25k years old. //MT
• For National Coming Out Day: John Waters on coming out.//MT
• Archaeo-astronomists will be excited for this Celtic calendar construction found in the Black Forrest.//MT
• In wake of Fukushima the Japan Tourism Agency will offer 10,000 free trips for foreigners. Anthros assemble!//MT
• Journal special issue: Ian Hacking, James Ferguson, etc on Foucault//RM
• 100,000 year old artist’s palette found in South Africa.//MT
• Lots of charts and data on unemployment, income inequality, and the growth of the financial sector.//MT
• Haiti doesn’t need your old t-shirt.//MT
• Archaeologist studies material culture in Silicon Valley.//MT
• Women of a remote village in Columbia have since June vowed no sex until a road to their town is completed.//MT
• Ask anyone on the job market. Rick Scott is right about anthropology.//MT
• Chris Kelty and @BiellaColeman have an editorial about tech pioneer, Dennis Ritchie in @AlJazeera/KF
• Sign the petition! Big RT @change #Florida Gov threatens to cut liberal arts funding; #Anthropology major fights back!
• This is as good a modern day Ambrose Bierce: Lemony Snicket addresses the 1%//MT
• Elouise Cobell, Native legal activist won $3.4 billion settlement from the federal govt, dies at 65.//MT
• Herman Cain doesnt believe in racism. Is this internalized antiblack racism or simply class interests?//MT
• David Graeber’s Madagascar ethnography gets a nod as an intellectual root of the Occupy movement.//MT
• The revolution will be crowdsourced. //MT
• Mind Hacks reviews http://bit.ly/nbZLnR Pinker’s latest on violence//MT
• Somatosphere covers Stanford conf: “Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind” Part I and Part II. //MT
• Pentagon cultural analyst helped with interrogations/KF
• Anthropology, Moral Optimism, and Capitalism: A Four-Field Manifesto/KF
• More anthropologists on Wall Street please | The Economist /via @Martijn5155 /KF
• The ‘Jerry Lewis’ of anthro—French Ministry of Culture to honor Sahlins for contributions /via @GregDowney1 /KF
• Anthropology, Dialog, and “Intellectual reconstruction”: Over at the “Democracy in America” blog at The Economis…
• Immigrant labor disappears, Ala. farmers worried as few among state’s unemployed want to work the fields. //MT
• The peer review process. #timewaster //MT
• Frank Dikötter: “Forging National Unity: Ideas of Race in China” /KF
• Korean “kkita” (fit tightly) and “nehta” (loosely in or around) cross-cuts English “in/on” distinction #whorf /KF
• MyMicrobes, a social network for intestinal bacteria. //MT
• Decolonize Wall St: Occupy Albuquerque renames itself. //MT
• Can the Subaltern Draw?: The Spectre of Orientalism in Craig Thompson’s Habibi /via @ChapatiMystery /KF
• Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access (because copyright has expired) /KF
• “Civilisation’s going to pieces” Pankaj Mishra reviews Niall Ferguson /via @sepoy /KF
• Awful/ Awkward/ Awesome – the word detective explains. //MT
• “This Is Anthropology”: Students at USF respond to Gov. Scott with Prezi. //MT
• Dinosaurs in flight: the movie /KF
• Richardson & Kroeber’s “Three Centuries of Women’s Dress Fashions: A Quantitative Analysis” /KF

Matt Thompson is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. He was once cast as a soldier in Andrew Jackson's army in a theatrical production on an Indian reservation.