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From the paper:The period between the 4th and 3rd millennia B.C. was the time of great cataclysmic events in the Caucasus; its cultural advances were influenced by changes...

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At the end of 2009, linguists around the world collected words to characterize the first decade of the new millennium.  “Aporkalypse” appeared at the top of their list,...

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Okla. Senate unveils $80M plan for 2 new museumsThe Oklahoma Senate unveiled a new plan on Thursday to divert $80 million in state sales and use taxes over a four-year period...

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  I’ve been living in Germany for the last nine months.  One of my goals is to improve my German skills, and guess what, I am getting better.  But still my German is...

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Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period, providing links and representative extracts or key passages from...

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Excerpts from the paper “Diffusion Models of Cycles of Protest as a Theory of Social Movements” n.d. by Pamela E. Oliver (University of Wisconsin) and Daniel J. Myers...

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An unknown language in an unknown script, and the forgotten woman who found the key to deciphering it.

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Today's links cover academic publishing and open access; some recent headline news in anthropology; and the significance of place and locality in the ethnography of the Internet. ...

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For those interested in a more in-depth look at the state of Minoan/Mycenean script decipherment in the late 1940s, or more generally in the life of Alice Kober, here is a link to...

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Lüders, M. 2008. Conceptualizing personal media. New Media & Society 10, 683–702 (available on-line: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/5/683, accessed 10 April...

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CFP: InfoSocial 2013: Bridging Media, Technology and Social ScienceA graduate student conference hosted by the Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) program at Northwestern...

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Like a year ago I was browsing through the stacks when I came across an essay by Alfred Kroeber’s granddaughter in an edited volume. At the time I was like: I should take...

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By Aaron Swartz. July 2008.   Reposted to honor his goals, to remember him, and to motivate change in the justice system that failed him. His suicide is sad and deeply depressing...

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Disney's Chimpanzee has come out in theaters! The movie was primarily filmed in Ivory Coast with the habituated chimps from the Tai Chimpanzee Project and partially with the...

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I had a lovely email from one of you out there.  Its that time of year again...here they come...the student hordes.  And for some of you out there, its time to start...

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Hi, this blog is basically defunct these days.  We have all moved over to the official website of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology at http://linguisticanthropology.org/....

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