"We are looking to appoint a Lecturer with research expertise within #Anthropology and #MaterialCulture, #VisualCulture and #DigitalCulture to join our Material Culture section. The post-holder will conduct independent research and teach modules on visual culture at undergraduate and postgraduate levels."
"Our project is revealing a new perspective on how these sites, contrary to previous assumptions, seem to have played a significant role in the configuration and evolution of trading networks throughout the Roman period."
💥 Christmas is coming and my book is coming too! This monthly post about The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia discusses my approach of building a discursive strategy. It explains how I was choosing epigraphs and what books and authors influenced my writing style.
"We analyze the average sonority of basic words of nearly three-quarters of the world’s languages, and confirm a positive correlation between sonority and local temperature. Our findings suggest that lower temperatures, over the course of many centuries, lead to decreased sonority. Our research provides further evidence that climate plays a role in shaping the evolution of human languages."
"We analyze the average sonority of basic words of nearly three-quarters of the world’s languages, and confirm a positive correlation between sonority and local temperature. Our findings suggest that lower temperatures, over the course of many centuries, lead to decreased sonority. Our research provides further evidence that climate plays a role in shaping the evolution of human languages."
Does anyone have any references for interpretive social science(ish) papers that use public comments (as in a federal register) as data? Or perhaps any methods papers that address using public comments? (Have I asked this already?) TIA!
"Y-chromosome results highlight a significant genetic differentiation between the North-Western and South-Eastern part of the Mediterranean, the Italian Peninsula occupying an intermediate position therein. In particular, Sicily and Southern Italy reveal a shared paternal genetic background with the Balkan Peninsula and the time estimates of main Y-chromosome lineages signal paternal genetic traces of Neolithic and post-Neolithic migration events."
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
"NARRATING HERITAGE. Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance" by Veysel Apaydin (Bloomsbury, 2023).
"Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and economic heritage discourses, making explicit the relationship between cultural and natural heritage. This book expands on these discourses by examining the role of violence in heritage, expanding on the concepts of both direct and slow violence. It situates heritage discourse within the sphere of human rights and lays out redistribution, recognition and representation as dimensions of social justice in a heritage context."
Reconsidering foundational relationships between #ethnography and #ethnomethodology and #conversation analysis – an introduction (by Eisenmann, Meier zu Verl, Kreplak & Dennis)
If you search for this phrase or "how to start a religion" in Google, 670 million results are shown in the first case and more than 3 billion in the second case. On Amazon there are several books with these or similar titles such as (surprisingly) "How to Build a God in Your Garage". Some websites (with more or less seriousness) try to explain step by step how to create your sect or community of beliefs.
I've just finished teaching a class on Anthropology of Food in Japan. How I like this topic, wow... it's really, really cool, being able to think about culture through the meals we eat, food production and consumption systems. As the anthropological motto says, food is good not only for eating, but also for thinking. @anthropology#anthropology#japan
@taichara@anubis2814 Sure! There are some classic anthropological articles on this topic. One of them is “Why do we overeat?”, by Margaret Mead. In this text she talks about the American Thanksgiving and the pattern of overeating (and developing guilt later) at the end of the year as something cultural. I also like “Toward a Psychosociology of contemporary food consumption”, by Roland Barthes. > @anthropology#anthropology#food
@taichara@anubis2814@anthropology But my favorites are Pierre Bourdieu’s “Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste”and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structural analysis. I also recommend Claude Fischer books and articles (mostly in French, but he has some stuff in English as well). > #anthropology#food
@taichara@anubis2814@anthropology Regarding some Anthropology of Food in Japan, there are several interesting works. I strongly suggest T.J.M Holden’s “The overcooked and underdone: masculinities in Japanese food programming”. I also like Jordan Sand’s “A short history of MSG” and Nancy Stalker’s “Gourmet Samurai: changing food gender norms in Japan TV”. > #anthropology#food#japan
Adding (belatedly) the Undisciplined Environments blog that resulted from the "Anthropology and Degrowth" workshop! It was really enjoyable and interesting to write something together, directly out of conversation, from scratch. A really useful and rewarding exercise - like to whole workshop.