If you’re already following @savageminds or liking us on FB then you had the chance to read Kerim tweet:
The following Brilliant Anthropological Insight™ comes to you courtesy of Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski (cont’d)…
“Two human beings of different sex who are engaged in the business of reproduction…cannot be separated by a great distance in space.”
For those of you not being bombarded by our extraordinary insights and clever #timewasters here’s your chance to catch up on what we were reading in the month of November. Note that last month was the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and so I chose to be selective in which conference related tweets got preserved in the digest. If you’ve seen something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community, email me MDTHOMPS @ ODU.EDU.
- Thesis Eleven has a special issue in memory of Friedrich Kittler /RM
- War Stories from Academic Job Interviews: A full professor shares his experiences /RM
- RT @WB_Anthropology: Free access to key articles from JRAI /KF
- LSA Resolution for U.S. Gvt. Action to Support Preservation & Revitalization of Native American Languages /KF
- Female coach leads boys football team to championship / Girls flag football fastest growing varsity sport.
- Digital Anthropology: Projects & Platforms. Great online anthro projects featured at #aaa2011 /KF
- Who Has Been A Successful Public Intellectual? Randall Collins explains it all for us.
- The syllabi of David Foster Wallace: not exactly mind blowing, but pretty damn interesting. //MT
- How would Anthro departments fare if the US adopted China’s 60% employment requirement? /KF
- RT @AnthroJustPeace: AAA 2011: A Review of Some Presentations on Military, Security, and Intelligence Topics /KF
- RT @zunguzungu: On bibliography-dumping. /KF
- RT @JasonAntrosio: Anthropology’s Challenge: We can be better. /KF
- Must-read evolutionary anth for culturals: Konnor on Hrdy in NYRB. /RM
- RT @daniel_lende: The Montreal Anthropology Meetings – Recap of AAA Coverage On #AAA2011 /KF
- xkcd’s Massive chart on money, a tour de force. //MT
- Digging a backyard pool in the French Quarter yields 15 coffins. //MT
- Don’t get distracted! Write Or Die app punishes you if you stop typing. //MT
- Some thoughts about Steven Pinker’s new book from @swarthmoreburke /KF
- UC Davis students confront Chancellor on the way to her car. //MT
- Prof. gives heart-stopping play by play of UC Davis protest, calls for Chancellor’s resignation. //MT
- MTF denied driver’s license as woman, takes her shirt off and gets arrested for exposure. //MT
- xkcd on where citations come from. //MT
- Journalist undergoes circumcision to secure interview of rebel leaders in PNG. //MT
- Brutal repression of W.Papua activists ahead of US visit in Indonesia. //MT
- RT @daniel_lende: Going to the AAAs: Anticipating Anthropology Highlights in Montreal /KF
- RT @JasonAntrosio: AAA Montreal 2011: #AAA2011 and Political Economy /KF
- I’m one of the lucky ones: Hope, Despair, and the Rhetoric of Luck among the 99 Percent /KF
- Oxford U Press to launch online anthropology encyclopedia in ’12, slowly grow the entries over years to come. //MT
- “Foucault Across the Disciplines” special issue of History of the Human Sciences, in precis. //MT
- Crowdfunded archaeology to sequence ancient Roman DNA. //MT
- Anthropology and Government Planning. /KF
- Important petition: Support Anthropology in Florida, put together by @supportanthro /KF
- This is a VW Beetle,covered in Huichol beads. //MT
- History of zoonosis and HIV traces the origins of the disease back to the 1920s. //MT
- Artist with viral encephalitis offers insight into brain function as she recovers and creates new works. //MT
- Inequality, Health Disparities, & Obesity /KF
- Genres Leak, Being a Reflection on Michael E. Smith’s Essay on Semi-, Quasi- and Psuedo- Journals /KF
- The grave of the future? #timewaster //MT
- Boy rejected from Girl Scouts, now accepted. //MT
- Terms that have different meanings for scientists and the public. //MT
- Anthropology Course Explores the Life Cycle of, Say, Your Pen /KF
- Amer Anthro Assoc renews journal publishing deal w/ Wiley Blackwell thru 2017. No open access for next 6 years. /KF
- Academic fraud: 30+ peer-reviewed social psych/cognition papers will be withdrawn for fabricated data. //MT
- Lots of people start anthro blogs, not so many follow through, but we love the name of this one! /KF
- Susan Harding: “thinking about the act of ethnography as a spiritual practice?” /KF
- If Humans Evolved To Be Social Creatures, Then Why Didn’t Anyone Come To My Party? /KF
- Hope you’re not busy: Linguist Llama meme. #timewaster //MT
- danah boyd’s latest on parents helping their preteens circumvent facebook’s age restriction. //MT
- When did girls start wearing pink? – a history of of children’s clothing in America. //MT
Thank you, Matt. I look forward to this post every month.
I’m so pleased to hear that people read these things and find them useful/ entertaining! If readers have thoughts concerning how the Around the Web feature could be improved please leave them here or email me directly.
Matt, I don’t know how the pointer to Who Has Been A Successful Public Intellectual? Randall Collins explains it all for us became a pointer to two papers on World of Warcraft by Alex Golub (our own dearly beloved Rex)—but I’m awfully glad they did. Everyone here should read those papers.