Most days somebody has got something worth tweeting @savageminds, although we slowed down a bit there at the end of the semester. This digest collects links we shared in April and May. If you’ve got something you want to share with the Savage Minds community — particularly if it comes off an anthropology blog, even if its your own — send me an email at [mdthomps@odu.edu]. I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
April
- A new JRAI special number on blood as a symbol of relatedness edited by Janet Carsten. Fierce! -Rx
- R.I.P. John J. Gumperz: A BIOGRAPHY … In honour of John Gumperz … /KF
- Supreme Court declines to hear Ward Churchill’s appeal … /KF
- RT @stevesilberman: Anthropologist reveals “the secret world of ‘garbagemen.'” /KF
- U Arizona libraries digitizes collection of 150 years of Mexican American newspapers, pamphlets. //MT
- Gumperz obit. in the @nytimes … /KF
- @BiellaColeman gets a nice write up in the Chronicle. Reflects on Swartz, Occupy. //MT
- Anthropology Blogosphere 2013 – Ecology of Online Anthropology … by @jasonantrosio /KF
- RT @EASAinfo. Marshall Sahlins editorial in Anthropology Today on his resignation from the National Acad of Sciences
- Steve Carell and James Gandolfini will play history’s wackiest feuding paleontologists in Bone Wars … /KF
- RT @SusanaDebraBlum. This came from the efforts of linguistic anthropologists! A Major Victory Against the Language of Bigotry.
- RT @tanyaluhrmann. When folks dig in their heels about religion, it doesn’t help … How Skeptics and Believers Can Connect
- RT @CMcGranahan. Jonathan Mirsky in New York Review of Books on US Tibet policy, including my book + Ken Knaus’ 2 books on CIA/Tibet
- The intertexts and social history of Brad Paisley’s “Accidental Racist” //MT
- Map showing shrinkage of American Indian lands: cool but depressing -Rx
- This volume of essays on Monica Wilson looks pretty darn fierce -Rx
- Hunting selects for patience and teamwork, not aggression. A new book -Rx
- @Gitterfidder there’s a really useful ‘Atlas of Colonialism’ on Wikimedia as well that you might like -Rx
- Enjoying reading Anxious Wealth, a new ethnography of the new rich in China -Rx
- Anthropology students report experiences of sexual harassment/ abuse in the field. //MT
- MT @daniel_lende “I had no power to say ‘that’s not okay:’” Reports of harassment and abuse in the field. //MT
- Open Access UK Theses. Yum! -Rx
- Preview upcoming nonfiction graphic novel about Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas. //MT
- Mike Smith on the latest from Flannery and Marcus: “For those w/ empirical scientific bent: Read this book” //MT
- If this bomber turns out to be white the US will not bomb whatever stale suburb from which said bomber came. //MT
- Michael Eisen on PLoS and his agenda for the future of scholarly communication. //MT
- Last native speaker of Andaman tribal language passes. //MT
- “Hunter-Blatherer” The Nation’s Stephen Wertheim reviews “World Until Yesterday”, cites SM -Rx
- How much social theory is enough? //MT
- Anthropologists explain how to approach aliens parked in Earth orbit /kf
- Chagnon autobio: “a lively contribution to one of the great scientific shitstorms of the past several years” //MT
- Rex’s full review of Diamond’s new book is up at @
appendixjournal -Rx - Attention researchers: BACKUP! /KF
- Remember that PNAS article on how women are attracted to large penises? A.Fuentes weighs in. //MT
- Op-Ed cites @
JasonAntrosio as the future of public engagement in anthro! -Rx - All the paths to citizenship in the Senate immigration bill, visualized. http://ow.ly/kjPQG //MT
- Need academic insight into Chechnya? Here’s a great bibliography from Books For Understanding -Rx
- RT @
vaughanbell: Europe’s Hypocritical History of Cannibalism “a surprisingly meaty history” /KF - A student of sociolinguistics wonders: what would an anthropology of mansplaining look like? //MT
- First issue of “Open Anthropology” (the AAA’s now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t “open” journal) /KF
- San Diego y Tijuana puedan hacer alianza y formar parte de la candidatura para los Juegos Olímpicos de 2024. //MT
- The 25 universities with the worst professors (according to http://ratemyprof.com ) //MT
May
- What’s the deal with May Day? Go ask a socialist. //MT
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo march with artists on May Day, Mexico City, May 1, 1929. //MT
- Welcome @
U_AdelaidePress to Twitter and check out their free PDF ebooks, including this one on PNG -Rx - “in Russia, the ‘blacks’ are the people from the Caucasus” (because of their hair). /via @
zunguzungu /KF - Will Latour jump the shark in his new book or renew his relevance? -Rx
- Here’s the New Yorker’s piece on anarchism, focused on @
davidgraeber ‘s new book -Rx - German Sociologists Boycott Academic Ranking /kf
- What if people told European history like they told Native American history? /KF
- New Open Access Journal: Semiotic Review /KF
- Six Reasons Why Race-and-IQ Scholarship is an Intellectual and Moral Dead End /KF
- What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’ /KF
- Photography & Power in the Philippines: Dean Worcester’s Ethnographic Images of Filipinos (1898-1912) /KF
- Lawsuit to stop medical practice of operating on intersex babies. /KF
- US Courts use UrbanDictionary to understand rapidly changing slang usage. //MT
- Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation /kf
- Genomics documents the co-evolution of humans and dogs. //MT
- Any article that contains the words “Bourdieu” and “cashed up Bogans” MUST be worthwhile -Rx
- “false consciousness among the ponies” /via @
bintbattuta /KF - In Our Time on Claude Lévi-Strauss /via @
bintbattuta /KF - The Afterlife Ethnographic Survey /KF
- Here’s a special issue on using Bourdieu to analyze Australia -Rx
- “That’s part of our folk model of the mind: that belief comes first.” /kf
- What Jason Richwine Should Have Heard from his PhD Committee @
anthronow /KF
Not that I put much stock in Rate My Professors to begin with, but I was shocked to see the Coast Guard Academy and RPI near the top/bottom of that worst professors list. What’s the correlation here? Low acceptance rates + focused curricula?