The new Cultural Anthropology is out, and it includes two worthwhile looking articles (not read them yet) by “Bill Bissel”:http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/can.2005.20.2.215?cookieSet=1 and “Chris Kelty”:http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/can.2005.20.2.185 (or, as I like to call him, the _K-Dawg_) Bill is another Chicago alumn. I have never met him. But there was a guy I used to see at the local bar [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about Weber recently, mostly because of recent spats on wikipedia as well as forumlating the main ideas of my dissertation through his writings on bureaucracy and why it doesn’t work so well in Papua New Guinea. So I was gratified to run across this “post on Weber and subjective attitudes [...]
I just updated to “WordPress 1.5.1″:http://wordpress.org/development/2005/05/one-five-one/. Since this is a minor upgrade if anything is broken it is definitely my fault. You can upgrade too if you like.
Man it is amazing what a few nights of actual sleep and no stress will do for a person. This whole ‘finishing the dissertation’ thing was _such_ a good idea. Here are a few quick links: ‘Borderline’ because that’s kinder than ‘kooky’ or ‘weirdo’. It’s not that these institutions _aren’t_ organized by genuine anthropologists of [...]