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More cool professors

The latest issue of JRAI taught me that “Yael Navaro-Yashin’s”:http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/staff/furtherinformation/navaroyashinfurtherinfo.html “work”:http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/staff/publications/navaro-Yashin.html looks really fascinating.

Carlos Mondragon has a blog

“He cannot hide from me.”:http://salul.wordpress.com/ For everyone who was wondering about the ancient and enduring ties between Mexico and Vanuatu, look no further.

More people to keep track of

For the next time I have to advise students re China/Taiwan/Ethnicity: “Melissa Brown”:https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/106. On both the American culture and intellectual history tip: “Michèle Lamont”:http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/lamont/

Open tabs in my browser I want to close

“Culture and Human Rights: Anthropological Perspectives”:concepts of discovery, registration, etc.; pace layering; browsing in the library; thinking about your intellectual regime and life of mind (for the THE chapter) “Minor Arts of Daily Life”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0824828003 (Kerim-approved) “Early Human Kinship”:http://www.amazon.com/Early-Human-Kinship-Wendy-James/dp/1405179015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215245687&sr=8-1 “Russell Jacoby”:http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=827 (file under ‘interesting profs’) “On Justification: Economies of Worth”:http://www.amazon.com/Justification-Economies-Princeton-Cultural-Sociology/dp/0691125163/ref=cm_lmf_tit_12_rsrssi0 (a trend I’ve been meaning to [...]

Jack Barbalet on Max Weber

You know, it is not like the scholarly literature on Max Weber is small. And although most social scientists have worked through some of his stuff at some time or another not all of them are as interested in his work as I am. But even with that said, when Amazon.com sends you an email [...]

More people and presses on gaming

“McFarland Publishing”:http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/ has a really fascinating list, including volumes like “The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Autor”:http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2822-9 and “two”:http://www.gamingcultures.com/ “volumes”:http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2832-5 by “J. Patrick Williams”:http://www.jpatrickwilliams.net/. I will have to try to get ahold of some of this stuff…