May 2013
8 posts
Father of fashionable anthropology
shitmystudentswrite:
On the other hand, Levi-Strauss, the inventor of denim jeans is an example of structuralist opposition. He made the denim jeans fashionable and popular.
April 2013
9 posts
AcademicTyra on rejections
academictyra:
When there are 2 emails from fellowship institutions in my inbox:
I open the first one and see I was rejected:
Okay— stings, but not surprising. Then I see I didn’t get the ‘diversity’ one, so I’m all:
J/k. But still— what the hell, fellowships?! Don’t you know about me?!
Yes, I know:
So now I feel like:
After wallowing in pity for a few minutes, I realize what...
Miles de rabias, un corazón.: ¡Mi país, oh, mi... →
silverdisaster:
Ardiente, amado, hambriento, desolado, bello como la dura, la sagrada blasfemia; país de oro y limosna, país y paraíso, país-infierno, país de policías. Largo río de llanto, ancha mar dolorosa, república de ángeles, patria perdida. País mío, nuestro, de todos y de nadie. Adoro tu miseria de…
March 2013
20 posts
kmtam: These are the things I remember.I remember... →
kmtam:
These are the things I remember.
I remember being in Yap, in Micronesia, in late 2002, and getting news sporadically. Sometimes over the radio, but more often from the internet, when I would go into town a few days a week and use the computer lab at the library to check my email and surf the web…
I went to New Orleans that spring with a friend from high school. We were bouncing...
“On Sunday, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, had...”
– Argentina Senate to Vote on Gay Marriage, July 13, 2010 The New York Times (via melodykramer)
Great.
February 2013
15 posts
Noise for Airports: Extirpation and Variation →
tnelms:
noiseforairports:
Master troll Razib Khan has a couple new blog posts calling for the eradication of cultural anthropology, on the familiar grounds that the discipline is epistemologically muddled and politically tainted:
[C]larity is not something that seems to be valued by cultural anthropologists in
Read it all.
What’s up, anthro?
Latin American History, F*ck Yeah!: Walt Whitman →
fylatinamericanhistory:
En su país de hierro vive el gran viejo,
Bello como un patriarca, sereno y santo.
Tiene en la arruga olímpica de su entrecejo
Algo que impera y vence con noble encanto.
Su alma del infinito parece espejo;
Son sus cansados hombros dignos del manto;
Y con arpa labrada de un roble añejo,
Como…
