It’s been a while since I updated the ol’ Around the Web Digest. What with the AAA’s and end of the fall semester (coupled with a spouse-imposed Internet ban over Winter Break) the whole thing slipped from the back burner to out of the kitchen altogether!
Well this morning I decided I was through being behind and culled all those tweets going back to November. I left out a lot of the communiques from the conference and, as usual, the links to Savage Minds posts. Overall it does seem like we’ve been tweeting less, but we shall see what the spring semester brings…
And now, without further ado, to the links!
November
- Grad Students to the Barricades /KF
- RT @pglange Hey anthropology and STS folks: The CASTAC Blog is now live! Join us!
- Historical anthropologist Nick Dirks appointed new chancellor of UC Berkeley. /KF
- Charles Darwin earns 4000 write-in votes vs. Georgia congressman //MT
- Oldest Arrowheads Hint at How Modern Humans Overtook Neandertals /KF
- @ProjectMUSE keeps building an alternative infrastructure for scholarly publishing, god bless ’em
- How Students Are Forced to Prop Up the Education Bubble /KF
- One does not simply…Find a job. Adjunct anthro on living hand to mouth, academic culture, shitty job market. //MT
- State-run Chinese paper picks up story from the Onion. //MT
- @wikimedia ‘s “Atlas of Colonialism” is a superb resource for maps for presentations! Thanks wikimedia! #Rx
- After Successful 3-Year Pilot, JSTOR Launches New Alumni Access Program #Rx
December
- What would KONY2012 look like if an anthropologist produced it? /KF
- Naval Academy anthropologist feels military anthropology is misunderstood. via @NapaAnthro
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, photographer. //MT
- Apes experience mid-life crisis as humans tend to do. Is it an age related change in the brain? //MT
- Folklore win!! Map of regional names for woodlice in the UK will make your day. //MT
- The work of Boas and Malinowski to enter the public domain on Jan. 1, 2013 /KF
- RT @chrislhayes: This is an absolutely fascinating look into the evolution of gun culture. /KF
- University of Chicago’s Indiana Jones mystery solved /KF
- Early-20th-century “paperization” of everyday life in the US and the hypertrophied paperwork of Pakistan… /KF
- Thomas Friedman op-ed generator is best thing in garbled nonsense since Malcolm Gladwell book generator //MT
- All I want for Christmas is radical debt activists buying up distressed medical bills for pennies on the dollar. //MT
- Kyle Cassidy takes portraits of gun owners in their homes in “Armed America” //MT
- Exploring School Rampage Shotings: Research, Theory, and Policy (2011). Links to pdf in dropbox. //MT
- Quotes from Ben Franklin remind us that Germans weren’t always “white” /KF
- Want reindeer pulling a sleigh? Here’s some lovely pictures of the Nenet of Siberia. //MT
- “Frankly, I don’t think that what I write is worth so much fuss…” ~ Lévi-Strauss responds to Derrida. /KF
- Steven Feld discusses “Sound and Sentiment” and his new book “Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra” //MT
- Aljazeera rounds up Zwarte Piet coverage. //MT
- Meriam people of the Torres Straight take freehold title of Mer Island from Queensland govt. //MT
- How to Laugh Online in Other Languages //MT
- RT @StrikeDebt: #LesMisérables student debt /KF
- Early Modern Drugs and Medicinal Cannibalism /KF
- Emperor’s tomb may contain poison blow darts, rolling boulders. //MT
- African Americans’ hair as terrorist threat… “our unruly locks strike fear into white America” /KF
January
- Roy Wagner’s favorite sci fi novel is on sale today on kindle. Weird. #Rx
- RT @kevin_powell Today is Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday. She was one of the greatest writers, anthropologists, storytellers
- Anthropologist?! Help tell the world what you do on the new #thisisanthro webpage from @AmericanAnthro /KF
- RT @Mutantfroginc: Psst … Hey, Buddy, You Wanna Buy a Dinosaur? /KF
- “anyone who says that there is money to be made in a stash of ACADEMIC ARTICLES is either an idiot or a liar” /KF
- Guest post announcing the new “This Is Anthropology” initiative over at #neuroanthropology /KF
- RT @bintbattuta: “When Did Roma Leave India? – New Discovery or Corroboration of Old Theories?” /KF
- SMBC: Normal person vs. anthropologist. //MT
- “Well regulated militia” in 2nd amendment were armed slave patrols southern states used to suppress rebellion. //MT
- An impressive attempt, by @JasonAntrosio, to catalog all current anthropology blogs. /KF
- Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only if They’re Male /KF
- “Maybe she does not know that we can read, and she thinks she needs to read out loud to us?” /via @sepoy /KF
- “Well-read is not a destination” by @nprmonkeysee on difference between “culling” and “surrender.” /via @Dolro /KF
- The Guardian reviews Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday //MT
- The new Anthropology Of This Century is out! #Rx
- RT @JohnPostill: Global Ethnographic journal has just launched #openaccess /KF
- Habermas “simply does not understand the Internet” //MT
- The ethnography of fake Samoan girlfriends. /KF
- Eskimo words for snow author responds to @LanguageLog skewering. //MT
- Map of gender-diverse cultures around the world. /via @JasonAntrosio /KF
- “The creation of inequality” by Flannery and Marcus [book review] via @OccupAnthro //MT
- AnthroDef is a collaboratively edited collection of definitions of anthropological concepts. /KF
- The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World. An online exhibition from the NYPL. /via @roopikarisam /KF