I put off the Around the Web Digest for the month of June because, come early July, we were already enjoying the many excellent guest posts from Deepa and her crew. Because I know how special it is to be above the fold and because the posts were all really good, I was loathe to take away the spotlight. That and I didn’t want my Around the Web column to be buried in the onslaught of fresh posts!

So here, a month late, is the Around the Web Digest for the month of June. Please follow us @savageminds or like us on Facebook to get updates on a (semi-)daily basis.

As a final farewell to a our guest contributors I hope that they (and our general readership) continue to seek out the satisfaction of expression that can be found in the world of blogging. It’s free, its easy, and more people should do it. I hope Deepa and her colleagues continue to blog so that I can link to them in future editions of Around the Web.

• “Life Behind the Lobby” – sociologist explains how Indian immigrants came to dominate American motel industry. //MT
• SFF as metaphor: aliens, vampires, foreigners and immigrants /KF
• “Debt is too useful as social discipline.” @DougHenwood on Student Debt /KF
• Free online ebook from @AmericanAnthro: Racism in the Academy: The New Millennium /KF
• Bombing Savages in Law, in Fact, in Fiction— Sven Lindqvist talk at LSE /KF
• So apparently believing you are trapped in “The Truman Show” is like a real thing now. //MT
• The AAA Author Agreement is Not the Same as the New MLA Author Agreement—Jason Baird Jackson /KF
• Welcome to America, Please Be On Time: What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S. /KF
• New Open Access Anthropology Journal: Journal of Business Anthropology /KF
• Fans of Sid Meier’s Civilization will want to read this. //MT
• Video project on feminism and video games. Check out updates tab for details on filmmaker’s harassment. //MT
• Latest Survival International Campaign: Many Awá are still uncontacted, and they are running for their lives. /KF
• OA as all-you-can-eat buffet. New journal lets authors pay one-time fee, publish unlimited papers. //MT
• Gardener must repay his dead son’s student loans w/o knowing how much is owed or which banks hold the loans. //MT
• What’s next for US interests in Africa now that Gadaffi is gone? Africom unchained. //MT
• More on the fate of the African Union post-Gadaffi H/T Zero Anthropology //MT
• Neoliberalism & public schools: “Jindal is already doing what Romney promises to do, keep a close watch on LA” //MT
• “Occupy Comics” will star Alan Moore and Art Spiegelman, many more. //MT
• On how the urban landscape can escalate preexisting cultural conflicts within a community. //MT
• Where will culture fit in the turn towards “Big Data”? Check my own post on culturomics. //MT
• On philosophy of science and the value of being tolerant to neologism. //MT
• A perfectly cromulent teaching resource: Book review of “The Simpsons in the classroom”. //MT
• The cargo cult of Washington insider dinner parties. //MT
• WTH is strategic dynamism? “What all kinds of executive dynamism share is actually the absence of strategy” //MT
• Has Zizek jumped the shark, or is he just getting warmed up? //MT
• “If there’s a cult of Žižek, who exactly is in it? I couldn’t name even one orthodox Žižekian.” //MT
• Media consolidation and why they still play “Mrs. Robinson” on the radio. All in one handy chart! //MT
• “The mechanics of creativity are actually pretty dull” Some good anti-advice for writing and thinking. //MT
• The English language in 24 accents. //MT
• Latour on Frankenstein: his sin is not hubris of making life, but abandoning his creation. //MT
• New Indo-European Language Discovered. //MT
• Area man has 29 college degrees, still wants more: “It makes life interesting for me.” //MT
• The story of Black women’s journey to natural hair. //MT
• This fail is brought to you by… meritocracy. And what would the alternative be anyways? //MT
• “9/11 stole my whiteness.” Perpetual foreigner syndrome transforms a native of Orange County into an Arab. //MT
• LaTrobe sets about “reducing staffing requirements & streamlining the curriculum to remain competitive” //MT