In order to prove/test the comments are working on this blog again, I’d like you all ask you all about your 20 minute gig in heaven. As is well known, when people die they go up to Heaven. In heaven, of course, everyone can play guitar and sing just like how you always wanted to [...]
The most recent edition of my Alma Mater’s “Alumni Magazine”:http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/feb2005/index.html features two stories of note. One, from “George Weiblen”:http://geo.cbs.umn.edu/ involves “looking for new species of fig-eating wasps in Madang, PNG”:http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/feb2005/features/science_in_village/index.html. The other is by my coconspirator in the Reed Domination of Anthropology Campaign 2006 “Katherine Verdery”:http://www.lsa.umich.edu/anthro/faculty_staff/verdery.html, who writes on “land ownership in post-Socialist Eastern Europe”:http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/feb2005/features/bitter_harvest/index.html.
I recently upgraded to 1.5 and for some reason comments are turned off at the moment. Strange, 1.5 is very nice indeed, and the upgrade went so smoothly. I think it is my custom theme that is causing the problem. They should be back soon.
“History was made on Saturday, May 17 when Alan Wright, Grand Master, installed Bro. Edward Cleland Matane into the chair as Master of Port Moresby Masonic Lodge No. 445, UGLQ”:http://www.pngbd.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8005&page=1&pp=10 There is more information out there, but for some reason these pictures just seem so _true_ to me.
“The new splashscreen for Open Office 2.0″:http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/bwhelan.html has been decided on. It’s very nice. I’ve been using the preview build for 2.0 for months now and it is as good if not better than M$ Office.
Kerim Friedman, the author of “the keywords blog”:http://keywords.oxus.net/ has posted his recently-completed diss for all and sundry to scrutinize. “Learning “Local†Languages: Passive Revolution, Language Markets, and Aborigine Education in Taiwan.”:http://kerim.oxus.net/contents/learning-local-languages/ looks to be very interesting, particularly for a half-sinophile household such as mine. There’s a nod to Bambi Schieffelin in the acknowledgements which sort [...]
“Peter Pels”:http://leidsewetenschappers.leidenuniv.nl/show_en.php3?medewerker_id=768 and “George Gmelch”:http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/ANTDEPT/ggmelch.htm Articles by both of them are in my queue. Someday, someday I’ll have time to read again.
via “Mack Daddy I”:http://bookninja.blogspot.com/
“Is that a riddler mask?” asks Mac. “Paper bag with eye holes or lone ranger mask?” asks “Steve”:http://www.onepotmeal.com/article/813/photophobe. How could one doubt the answer for a second? !http://alex.golub.name/log/pic/supersleeper.jpg! “I think I’m a new kind of super hero,” I tell my scarily erudite beloved. “The mesh wrapping around irradiated hosui pears gives me strange and powerful [...]
A student of my Scarily Erudite Beloved has expressed an interest in an old blog entry of min on Feng Mengbo. Since it isn’t very easily accessible anymore I’ve reposted it at “The DGI website”:http://digitalgenres.org/?q=node/19. I must say I’m pretty pleased at how well it hold up now, three years later.
From a student in my latest Intro Anthro course: !http://alex.golub.name/pics/wanted2.jpg!
An IRC homie of mine recomends “Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law”:http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p147-184.pdf by “James Grimmelmann”:http://www.laboratorium.net/, whose blog shows him to be, indeed, worthy of IRC-homie-reccomendationdem.
Two more scholars who got the nod as a result of my post of “popular ethnographies”:http://alex.golub.name/log/index.php?p=324, both from University of London affiliated schools. Over at “Goldsmiths”:http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ (who, by the way, get kudos for using the excellent “moodle”:http://moodle.org/ for their online stuff) I’ve been pointed to “Rebecca Cassidy”:http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/anthropology/staff/r-cassidy.php, who studies ideas of ‘nature’, blood, and heredity [...]
The University of California Press is having “a mammoth sale”:http://www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/faq.html#jkt — if you sign up to be on their mailing list they give you a code for up to 65% discounts on hardcovers. Basically these are remainder pricings, essentially, so if you are willing to wait some of these might show up on Amazon for [...]
Two quick links to demonstrate how uneven online encyclopedias can be: The government of New Zealand has a “new, bilingual encyclopedia of New Zealand”:http://www.teara.govt.nz/ online. I think they’re still adding content to it, but the front-end is very pretty. Currently there is no entry for ‘”moko”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moko ‘ or ‘”Crowded House”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowded_House” (which, _ahem_, Wikipedia does). But [...]
To the extent that he is remembered at all, Lewis Feuer is remembered as an echt-Jewish leftie who (like “Karl Wittfogel”:http://www.riseofthewest.net/thinkers/wittfogel01.htm ) turned into a full-on HUAC style anti-communist in the 1950s. I gather that he is mostly remembered today for some early critiques of the Frankfurt school and his own work on J.S. Mill [...]
It’s happened once again — another ‘first contact’ story from New Guinea. This time it’s an “article by Michael Behar”:http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200502/fist-contact_1.html in Outsider Magazine that’s recently been “featured on NPR”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4493348 . Sometimes anthropology’s knee-jerk, politically correct reactions drive me nuts, but in this case the article is so over the top that it’s difficult to take [...]
I’ve changed the motto in this blog’s masthead to reflect the fact that the date of my dissertation defense is now written, if not in stone, than in very very hard plastic and is only two and a half months away. Dissertations are complex documents — mine is now 375 pages long — and finishing [...]
It had to happen: The Everquest Reader is in the works, by Edward Wesp and Eric Hayot (CV here). Hayot has also been blogging at Printculture on all manner of things, including Freedom, Leverage, and Outlaws in Video Games. The site is powered using Nucleus CMS, which I hadn’t heard of before. Printculture is a [...]
The latest update on prospects at Mr. Kare has just been released. In the past six months or so their IP testing has found zones of gold at over 150 grams/ton. If Kare ever opens I’m going to have to eat my hat. But with the gold price what it is and Kare shaping up [...]
A week or so ago I asked the question “what are the most popular ethnographies today that give you a sense of where the field is going, or at least what is popular right now?” With the help of a few friends, some commentors, a very large gin and tonic, and the internet, I came [...]
REAL LIVE SNOWMONKEYS JUST WAITING FOR YOU. WE ONLY NEED YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO CONFIRM YOU ARE 21! This takes me back to the good old days when obscure psychological processes resulted in The Blog Entry that convinced half my readers that I could speak Japanese, and eventually began the Philip K. Dick-like rift [...]
Here’s a researcher whose working on the state, violence, and the highlands in Papua New Guinea. Abby McLeod comes highly recommended — her thesis (you can read the abstract) looks very interesting indeed, as does the article she wrote with Phil Gibbs and Nicole Haley (both also extremely good eggs). My inability to get PDFs [...]