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John McCreery commented on Johannes Castner's blog post Natural Language and the Social Sciences"It will be particularly interesting, to the general reader as well as scholars, how your results compare with the conclusions reached by George Lakoff inMoral Politics, the book that introduced the idea of framing to public political discourse in…"
Sandra Weissinger posted a discussionReligion, Spirituality, and Inequality in Communities of Color - Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS Religion, Spirituality, and Inequality in Communities of ColorA Special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color Guest EditorsAssata Zerai, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSandra Weissinger, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Recent public discourse on women’s reproductive rights and abortion, full-time homemakers and working mothers, and LGBTQ partnership and marriage, has highlighted the pervasive role and power of organized religion and spirituality in…See More
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Ethnography
Discussing ethnography and ethnographic disciplines in general, whether or not they are exclusive to anthropology as a discipline. Folkloristics, market research, ethnomusicology, microsociology, microeconomics, microhistory...
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Teaching Anthropology
A group for discussing and exploring that other thing that many of us do with anthropology: teaching. Tactics, strategies, pedagogical theory -- anything related to teaching anthropology is fair game.See More
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Physical and Forensic Anthropology
This group allows for discussion of the various issues that the Physical and Forensic Anthropology address.
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Arctic & Northern Cultures
Regarding the study of indigenous and other cultures in northern and arctic regions.
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London Anthropology Day 2013
July 4, 2013 from 9:30am to 4pm – British Museum's Education Clore Centre
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Gentrificación en Sevilla:
Un regalo sin estrenar por la población actual del barrio.
On Chagnon:
Finding the honest balance.
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What is anthropology?
More scholarly research on the informal economy.
Local banknotes in times of crisis.
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Religion, Spirituality, and Inequality in Communities of Color - Call for Papers
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Globalisation are becoming increasingly international,
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'ultra-conserved' words.
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After the disaster (but before Krugman endorsed Klein's shock doctrine)
Nate Roberts posted a link on Facebook to a recent piece by Paul Krugman essentially saying that he once thought Naomi Klein's views on neoliberalism were extreme, but now he thinks she could be right. This led me to look up an Anthropology Today editorial I published in…
Natural Language and the Social Sciences
For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile).
Rather than discussing the specifics of my current project, which you can read about here, I…
An anthropologist in all but name?
Reading this review of a new book about the "anti-utopian reformer with keen eye for detail" Albert Hirschman, I found myself thinking of OAC founder Keith Hart. I wonder what Hart will think of being seen as resembling Hirschman, in a complimentary way.
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Heart at East: The Coalition for Equal Distribution of Cultural Funds in Israel
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After the disaster (but before Krugman endorsed Klein's shock doctrine)
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Natural Language and the Social Sciences
Posted by Johannes Castner on May 17, 2013 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments
Marx's "XI"th Thesis on Feuerbach is Not Explicit Enough.
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An anthropologist in all but name?
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