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Members

  • s rakops
  • Arvind Venkataramani
  • Veerendra Lele
  • itsushi kawase
  • Fernando Cruz
  • Tânia Madureira
  • Jose da Silva Ribeiro
  • NIKOS GOUSGOUNIS
  • Ursula Köppel
  • Sean Mallin
  • Malarie Eagle
  • Raluca Moise Aldoiu
  • Cristina Valentim
  • Aina Landsverk Hagen
  • Trine Olsen-Slagman
  • Lotta Björklund Larsen

Latest Activity

Veerendra Lele added a discussion to the group Semiotic Anthropology
First, my apologies for not having posted anything in a while – I thought I’d share a few quick thoughts on a recent semiotic anthropology-related article, and hope that others might wish to post reviews or info about recent (or older) articles/mo...
25 minutes ago
Reprinted with permission: Why Won’t the Arabs Protect Themselves from Iran by Actively Battling Against Tehran Having Nuclear Weapons? Posted: 18 Nov 2009 02:17 PM PST By Barry Rubin It isn’t hard to conclude that Iran having nuclear weapons ...
3 hours ago
Just Satire,I declare,for whom can still appreciate it....
4 hours ago
Cristina Valentim added 3 photos
6 hours ago
Actually, the article is a little older than the article history shows. The earliest edits do not show up in the history for some reason. I put together the outline and wrote the preliminary text with a community college teacher from Florida named...
7 hours ago
Satire or flamebait?
8 hours ago
Iran's Supreme Leader cannot be removed Reuters | Mowjcamp | Oct. 13, 2009 "Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cannot be removed from his post because his legitimacy comes from God, an official close to Iran's most powerful figure was ...
9 hours ago
In Iran, Cyber police spring into action Press TV | Nov. 13, 2009 "Amid the growing use of the Internet in Iran, a senior Iranian police official says a special unit to monitor Internet crimes has sprung into action in the country. ...." http:/...
9 hours ago
Fariba Pajooh, still in jail by SETAREH SABETY in Nice, France 03 Nov 2009 21:44 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/fariba-pajooh.html
9 hours ago
The Islamic Republic of Iran offers something less than a free press: The Plight of Iranian Journalists by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles 11 Nov 2009 23:30 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/iran-journalism-hell.html
9 hours ago
PEJAK separatists create mayhem in Sanandaj Tabank | Nov. 13, 2009 "Members of the outlawed Kurdistan Democratic Party (PEJAK) staged an illegal gathering in the city of Sanandaj, barricading a street and clashing with security forces. ..." htt...
9 hours ago
One way or another, many who resist the Islamic Republic die in prison: What Happened to Ehsan Fattahian? by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles 15 Nov 2009 14:41 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/what-happened-to-ehsan-fa...
9 hours ago
Iran protesters sentenced to death Al Jazeera | Nov. 18, 2009 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/selected-headlines-70.html
9 hours ago
Great! I'm sure we will all learn with each other!! I have to write up some field notes from an intense day yesterday of fieldwork and then will try and read the article. If I dont finish it today in time to come up with some kind of reaction, the...
10 hours ago
Mathematics of Man * is an attempt of cooperation between pure anthropology and pure mathematics, predicted by Andre Weil and K. Levi-Strauss in 1950s. Andre Weil (1906 - 1998 ) was great mathematician and, in fact ,leader of the Bourbaki group. H...
10 hours ago
Points of contact between core ideas in philosophy and anthropology such as comparative cosmology and ontology and the theorisation of subjectivity.
10 hours ago
Oh, and it's dr. Steven Van Wolputte. For some reason, and for almost 2 years now, I keep saying Stefan... Don't ask me why.
10 hours ago
For open discussion about anthropology and semiotic theory
10 hours ago
A group to bring people together that are interested in Visual Anthropology.
10 hours ago
In 1954 K Levi-Strauss introduced a new term-"Mathematics of Man" as an area of the ultimate cooperation between algebraic topology and pure anthropology.His first experiments in such sort of mathematics of man were made with great Andre Weil...
11 hours ago
 

What's new at the OAC?

23-Oct-2009: The OAC Press announces their Editorial team.

12-Oct-2009: A set of rules (Some don'ts) has been posted by the admins under the About OAC tab.

05-Oct-2009: The OAC Press is launched with the Working Papers Series.

Forum

Beck J

Creepy anthropology 5 Replies

Started by Beck J in Welcome to the new OAC Forum. Last reply by NIKOS GOUSGOUNIS 4 hours ago.

Justin Shaffner

Citizendium and Wikipedia 17 Replies

Started by Justin Shaffner in Welcome to the new OAC Forum. Last reply by Joe Quick 7 hours ago.

Valerie Feria Isacks

Is anybody else here a member of the AAA or NASA 5 Replies

Started by Valerie Feria Isacks in Welcome to the new OAC Forum. Last reply by susanne kuehling 1 day ago.

John McCreery

Dell Hymes 1 Reply

Started by John McCreery in Welcome to the new OAC Forum. Last reply by Jason Baird Jackson 1 day ago.

Blog Posts

Jacob Lee

Systems: an extended glance at the obvious. Part I

Which among these three human artifacts is best described as a system: a hunting net, a shoe, or a gasoline powered motor? I think many of us are inclined to answer the third as being the most system-like. Why?

When one is asked to give prototypical examples of some concept, it is natural enough that we choose those examples with which we are familiar. When we think about a concept we often do so with these prototypical examples in mind. This entails a kind of ethnocentric coloring to our think… Continue

Posted by Jacob Lee on November 19, 2009 at 12:00am

Roger M. Christian

International InterCultural Communications - What would be your Seminar Proposals?

Cultural Anthropolgy studies the central social character of culture and civilizations - both past and present. Yet in the area of human connectiveness which is essential to the development of human society the present contemporary aspect of International InterCultural Communication [ I.I.C. ] in the present advances in social sciences are now causing younger - who are aware of this I.I.C. Process - professional Anthropologist to redeveloped their historic thinking of historic cult… Continue

Posted by Roger M. Christian on November 14, 2009 at 1:00am

Jacob Lee

Engineered Objects, Systems, and State Spaces

Some anthropologists are uncomfortable with describing human-environment interactions in the language of systems. The concern seems to be that human-environment interactions don't work, in some fundamental way, like computers, engines, or other proto-typically designed things. These interactions are held to be too complex, too non-linear, too open for the systems metaphor to be appropriate, or at least useful. For my part, I think that the concept of a system is entailed by any non-trivia… Continue

Posted by Jacob Lee on November 13, 2009 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

 
 

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