Being enthralled with the joy of grading papers over spring break, I’ve shirked my duty to collect our tweets from the month of February in digest form. We share anthropology news, blogs, politics, and world events via @savageminds on a semi-daily basis. There might be some memes comin’ across the wires too. Okay, so it this month might be more jokey than others…
Have you seen something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community? Email me at mdthomps AT odu.edu. To the links!
- “Nina Auerbach called me ‘inept.'” Acknowledgments page from _Annoying the Victorians_ /KF
- Stream 17,000 field recordings from the collection of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax for free. //MT
- “What 1000 male college students in Texas think about women cannot be extrapolated to…minds of entire…species.”
- Excellent @GregDowney1 piece from last year about “uncontacted tribes” /KF
- The bioanth crew chimes in on #aaafail: John Hawks and Powered by Osteons //MT
- Wisconsin 7th grader suspended for saying Hello and I Love You in native language. //MT
- Winona La Duke reacts to being banned by the Tuscon school district. //MT
- Another World is Possible: Open Folklore as Library-Scholarly Society Partnership /by @jasonjackson2 /KF
- AAA Changes Opposition to Open Access – Plus a Proposal to Do More /by @daniel_lende /KF
- 1 million of 1.5 million people teaching in American colleges & unis are adjuncts; tenured faculty under 30% /KF
- Zulu folk singer dead in 2009 resurfaces after escaping from zombie captors. //MT
- Cyberflanerie under the Internet’s own Baron Haussmann: Whither solitude in the tyranny of the social?? //MT
- You’re just too darn ape-like in your cranial morphology! /KF
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year after January 25th (Cultural Anthro Forum) /KF
- Painting of seals in Spain attributed to Neanderthal, 42k y.o. //MT
- Biology Doesn’t Support Gay Marriage Bans /KF
- Open Access and Interventionism @InsideHigherEd article on the latest #aaafail /KF
- On Being descended from Confucius /KF
- “How many anthropologists does it take to screw in a light-bulb?” Syllabus [PDF] /KF
- AHA signs on to letter opposing Research Works Act /KF
- Cultural diffusion and the Whorfian hypothesis /KF
- Crowdsourcing a Compilation of Adjunct Working Conditions /KF
- Task Force on Middle East Anthropology conducting survey of anthropologists studying the Middle East /KF
- On the “obvious statistical absurdities and inherent mendacity” of US News’ college rankings. //MT
- Hey Girl, got some time to waste with Neuroscience Ryan Gosling? #timewaster //MT
- 3 updates to the Linsanity post, including a link to a piece on when basketball was “a Jewish sport” /KF
- But can you teach it new tricks? Dog skull found, 30k years old. //MT
- Europe gets its own great ape, 7 million years old. //MT
- Japanese fart scrolls: “I kept expecting to find some explanation why these guys made scrolls about farting.” //MT
- MT @WennerGrenOrg: …ethnological writings from one of America’s ‘first anthropologists’, POTUS Jefferson /KF
- What College Students Need to Know /KF
- More on Charles Murray’s take on the white working class. //MT
- Aaron Bady, aka zunguzungu, is writing at The New Inquiry too. Check out his essay on David Graeber. //MT
- Canadian universities throw in the towel on copyright battle. Emailing a link now = making a photocopy. //MT
- Society for Medical Anthropology issues statement on health care reform, what anthropologists can do. //MT
- What does it mean to be lucky? An anthropologist considers the “I am the 99%” self-portrait with letter meme. //MT
- Crooked Timber is hosting a seminar on @DavidGraeber’s debt book /KF
- On Forming a Digital Anthropology Group by @daniel_lende /KF
- John Oliver’s brilliant analysis of Rick Santorum’s conservative rhetoric. /KF
- Santorum quote or heavy metal lyric? A quiz. #timewaster //MT
- Why does the media think of IED’s as if they were folk art? (hint: it has to do w/ “civilization”) //MT
- Welcome to the Department of Jackie Chanthropology. //MT
- Badiou, Balibar, Nancy, and others warm of the impending neoliberalization of Greece. //MT
- Vervet monkeys steal cocktails in St. Kitts, fall down drunk. //MT
- “The Internet to us is not something external to reality but a part of it” //MT
- Society for American Archaeology critical of new reality series “American Digger”. //MT
- A petition against the Spike TV reality series “American Digger” /KF
Time for adjuncts to collectively rise up and strike. Being in the majority gives you the power.