May 2011
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Anthropology in London: Podcasts: Landing page:... →
camarguais: Podcasts from 2010 Anthropology Conference via SOAS.
May 31st
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, on the passing of her husband, Carl Sagan (via afghanibanani)
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Apocalypse: What Disasters Reveal by Junot Díaz →
“How can we ever hope to change? Because we must change, we also must refuse the temptation to look away when confronted with disasters. We must refuse the old stories that tell us to interpret social disasters as natural disasters. We must refuse the familiar scripts of victims and rescuers that focus our energies solely on charity instead of systemic change. We must refuse the recovery...
May 31st
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komansman-deactivated20120315 asked: Thank you so much for your reply. It was most helpful in deciding which one to choose. You gave a profound explanation in spite of your hangover :)

Soooo..
I will probably do both because even though i favor anthropology much more for research i would still choose to study sociology. I am a great believer in change ( critical approach to society) and so i would also like...
May 31st
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Blacklisted Economics Professor Found Dead: NC... →
Clever, tongue-in-cheek by Yves Smith “What would you identify as the central insights of Academic Choice theory?  The theory begins by identifying three principal ways in which economists try to maximize their utility. First, they receive salaries from universities, which can be increased if their course enrollment increases. Course enrollment is primarily driven by students with future...
May 30th
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Tweets about Daniel Miller’s UOC presentation on... →
“This paper reports on a study of Facebook in Trinidad recently published in the book Tales from Facebook (Polity 2011). This suggests that previous arguments about the internet need to be re-thought since in some ways Facebook represents the opposite, rather than a continuity, with the prior internet. The focus of this paper is on the global and older population as opposed to earlier...
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“The only adequate conceptual framework for understanding the city is one which...”
– David Harvey (2009) Social Justice and The City p. 27 (via geogthoughts)
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“The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product...”
– Peter Kropotkin (The Conquest of Bread, 1907)
May 29th
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komansman-deactivated20120315 asked: Well first off, i really love your blog.It Is inspiring,motivating, and challenging.I have one question to ask you.I graduated with a sociology major and a anthropology minor. Im taking a few years before going into grad school ( peace corps ).

How did you decide which one ( socio or anthro) to choose? i am most interested in social inequality. doing research of those that get less...
May 29th
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“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily...”
–  Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
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“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir. (via promotingpeace)
May 29th
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ECUADOR ULTIMATUM: Burn all the oil and gut the... →
leftish: A Turning-Point We Miss at Our Peril We have the choice of burning all the oil left and hacking down all the remaining rainforests - or saving humanity by Johann Hari We have been putting short-term profits for a few ahead of the long-term needs of our species. Every rainforest on Earth is being reduced to the money that can be stripped from it: yesterday, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies...
May 29th
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Tales from the Caribbean
So i never really write too much about me because im quite happy reblogging and tumbling along, viewing what other people tumble and happy with that experience. That said i do like to write, especially to get things out of me that dont need to be there anymore like negative feelings. So here’s a little urban tale of something baddish that happened to me in Trinidad about three weeks ago. I...
May 28th
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“All over the world, historic centers are being sanitized of signs of age and...”
– Rem Koolhaas’s problem with architectural preservation. (via robsmemory)
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“The increasing attacks upon lesbians and gay men, are only an introduction to...”
– audre lorde, there is no hierarchy of oppressions (via weexist-weresist)
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“We needed and need to change our perspectives on other countries. America is...”
– Gil Scott Heron (via slystone)
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Blaming capitalism, Mass youth revolt shakes Spain →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism: By Ben Carroll Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill FIST chapter Madrid, May 21. Drawing inspiration from the fighting spirit and determination of Tahrir Square and the peoples of Egypt,…
May 28th
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Shared Roots in Faith: Tips on how to conduct an... →
  Tips on how to conduct an oral history interview From http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/advice/index.php 1.   Begin by focusing on a theme for your project. 2.  Find someone to interview friends, family, peers local history groups, Rotary Clubs, schools advertise in local library or museum 3.  Plan! Background research Prepare question list - but don’t make it too rigid Group topics in...
May 26th
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May 26th
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Let's talk about sex differences. Again →
I have been writing about gender my whole professional life and I am tired of researchers repeating the same errors
May 26th
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May 25th
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A People's Debt Jubilee →
“the Greeks, Spanish, Portuguese and Irish are all erasing themselves in an effort to pay off debt via austerity. Austerity which has so far, failed to reduced the debts but has erased the means by which they had hoped to pay the debts. In each of those countries the economy has shrunk faster than the burden of debts, leaving them worse off than before. Which is why each of them has...
May 25th
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“The fukú is machismo. It took me a long time to realize that. For a long time I...”
– Carlos Hernandez, “Oscar Wao: Murdering Machismo”. Via SF Signal. (via mamitamala)
May 25th
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cannot versus can not →
There is a grammatical misunderstanding common to many U.S. Americans, largely because we learned about grammar in the either/or terms of right vs. wrong. Here’s the misunderstanding: can not or cannot? My public school teachers said can not was the correct form, and that cannot was a corruption. A friend of mine from a previous generation was taught the opposite. Her son, much better at...
May 25th
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“I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen that amount of concentrated...”
– Neil Gaiman
May 24th
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“No amount of knowledge of ‘competent natives’ rules and codes can ‘account for’...”
– Marvin Harris, Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture, 1979 (via fuckyeahanthrotheory)
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