Welcome back AAA conference-goers, while you sleep off your hangovers/ jet-lag use your ample free time to catch up on all the links you missed. Please follow us @savageminds or like or Facebook page to get anthropology themed news, blogs, and other interesting Internet flotsam on a semi-daily basis. Twitter users will want to check the second to last bullet point, Kerim has shared his growing list of anthropologists on Twitter. If you’ve spied something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community email me at mdthomps@odu.edu. Happy clicking!
October
- Alaskan Natives: “Its going to be 40-below in a month.” Indian Country hit hard by gov’t shutdown. //MT
- We need someone to do a report like this for anthro -Rx
- Michael Eisen nails it on Science’s latest anti-OA piece -Rx
- New found archaeological site may push back dates for Apache occupation of Southwest. //MT
- The most intellectual joke I know… //MT
- New faculty positions versus new PhDs, a chart. /KF
- How direct is the relationship b/w SAT performance & household income? Doesnt get any more direct than this. //MT
- Hunter-gatherers thought farmers were jerks, wouldn’t hang out together. //MT
- The geography of an unwanted humanity /KF
- Because its Friday: “Remediating Viking Origins: Genetic Code as Archival Memory of the Remote Past” -Rx
- The new skull from Dmanisi /KF
- Discourse on the Otter is the best postmodern/postcolonial aquatic mammal mashup meme evar!! //MT
- Zoetropes and other 19th Century optical illusion ephemera, transformed into GIFs //MT
- An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments //MT
- 4000 year old brain is kinda gross, looks like charcoal. //MT
- Teleologies of Structuralism /KF
- Michel Gondry interviews Noam Chomsky, whimsical animations ensue. //MT
- The Logic of Stupid Poor People — excellent blog post on privilege and presentation of self. //MT
- Texting and social media helps young people by getting them to write more outside of class. //MT
- The next ‘open access anthro’ is out. Looks better than the first one. Which, uh, isn’t saying much -Rx
- Marshall Sahlins on China’s Confucius Institutes and censorship. Don’t let this happen on your campus! /KF
- The Journal of Business Anthropology has some serious names behind it — and its OA! -RX
November
- “AAA Annual Meeting Mobile Application: A Brief Survival Guide” /KF
- Native American Paranormal Project. These people need a reality television deal! //MT
#lateforhalloween - Three ghost stories from Indian Country Today. //MT
#lateforhalloween - Is this the most remote memorial in the world? //MT
- Racial divisions in the American workforce are really obvious when you lay them out in attractive charts! //MT
- A new multilingual blog promoting linguistic anthropology in Taiwan. /KF
- Skeptical take on those flies with ‘ants’ on their wings. /via
@stevesilberman /KF - Spokane Nation works with baseball team to make logo written in Salish, their traditional language. /KF
- “The neoliberal turn in philanthropy” /KF
- Krampusfest comes to L.A. Curious to see if culture industry can absorb demonic Central European anti-Santa. //MT
- Duke senior reflects on four years of hiding her poverty from her peers. //MT
- Students flash mob in support of adjunct rights. //MT
- RT @tadmcilwraith How did I miss 2 articles by Gillian Tett about Jared Diamond? http://ow.ly/qMpxy & http://ow.ly/qMpFU (ht
@anthroworks &@Liebow4) - RT
@culanth: Vincent Debaene analyzes#writing practices of#French#anthropology in#comparative perspective - Foreign immigrants to the US reflect on the things they just can’t seem to explain to the folks back home. //MT
- Lots of good ideas on using Google Docs to facilitate communication between teacher and student. //MT
- Better late than never: James C. Scott review Diamond’s “World Until Yesterday” -Rx
- RT @jacobsberg Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits via
@gigaom // Quick summary here - RT @bfister Remember how we fought SOPA? It’s back in the
#TPP – unless we stop it. Do it for Aaron. - Google Books’ massive scanning project ruled “fair use” in US Circuit court. //MT
- Young Iraqi gamers express their intimate knowledge of real world violence via first person shooter games. //MT
- Journal special issue: Actor-Network Theory and Sociology looks interesting -Rx
- No R.S.V.P.? In South Jersey, USA, No Worries /KF
- “It used to be egregious… now it’s just business as usual.” CEO-sized severance packages for uni. presidents /KF
- RT
@lennon_ydwong: Sociological Images — Black and White Twins and the Social Construction of Race /KF - Google announces Scholar Library /kf
- Excellent. RT
@studentactivism: Free Education For All: a response to@zunguzungu and@MattBruenig. /KF - Here’s a readable interview summarizing Descola’s
#aaa2013 talk -Rx - “The academic job market is structured in many respects like a drug gang” /via
@naunihalpublic /KF - “Eat what you want. Just leave the damn cavemen out of it.” /KF
- A big thank you to everyone at
#AAA2013 who shared some kind words and encouragement for what we are doing. It means a lot to us! /kf - FDA orders genetic testing company 23andMe to stop marketing saliva tests //MT
- “Googles of the Past” Andrew Abbott takes on Google’s approach to organizing knowledge -Rx
- RT @HollyDunsworth If you look at grad school as “not having a life,” then that’s probably not the life for you.
#URI - Here’s a PDF of Latour’s presentation at AAAs last week
#aaa2013 -Rx - There is no STEM shortage. In fact, there’s a surplus. /KF
- RT
@EricaLWilliams7: Wow, I just learned that this year’s#AAA2013 was the largest ever with 7,078 people attending! - A warm Twitter welcome to incoming AAA President, Monica Heller
@anthroprez /KF - My list of Twitter anthropologists got a big boost from the
#AAA2013 tag. /KF - Creative Commons update released. //MT
Reblogged this on Swift, like Shadows and commented:
There’s a piece on intersections of gaming in there. Guys, there’s a piece in there that discusses gaming and Iraq and the military and I just… I wasn’t going to do a gaming ethnography. I wasn’t sposed to. I was told ‘don’t do it!!11’ by an old dinosaur. I …it’s so pervasive. It’s too big an industry to ignore. But… and this blog wasn’t supposed to be serious, or about research, and I keep doing it! Dammit, Jim…