Ukraine: Authorities Shut Down File-Sharing Site Ex.ua - On Jan. 31, the Ukrainian authorities shut down Ex.ua, a popular file-sharing site. A selection of relevant tweets [en, uk, ru] is here: e.g., @sinplotnika...

American Anthropological Association Takes Public Stand against Open Access - On November 3rd, 2011, The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy put out a call for public comment on Public Access to Scholarly Publicat...

Neuroanthropology: The Digital Return: Digital Repatriation and Indigenous Knowledge - By Kimberly Christen, Joshua Bell, and Mark Turn On January 19, 2012, twenty-eight participants convened at the National Museum of Natural History in Washi...

OMNIVORE: Why Oceania matters - Is New Zealand too orderly, tidy and tame?

Paul McCartney’s New Album, Kisses On The Bottom, Streaming for Free - Kisses On The Bottom — it’s Paul McCartney’s 35th post-Beatles album, his most provocatively-titled album to be sure, and a great stroll down memory lane. ...

February’s Political Prisoner birthdays – write a letter! - I assume that most of you have seen the great monthly posters put out by the folks at Chapel Hill’s Prison Books Collective — every month, they release a n...

Newspaper urges protection for Benham & Lynch -

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Readers (HUM225/HUM455) - I’ve been assured that the readers for HUM225 and HUM455 will be available in the bookstore by noon tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ve uploaded pdf versions o...

Law and Disorder January 30, 2012 - Updates: Michael Smith visits political prisoner David Gilbert and discusses David’s book Love and Struggle. Genocide Bill Angers Turks – It Was Genocide R...

Are We Ready for a 'Morality Pill'? - Would it be ethical to produce, or take, a drug that makes us more likely to help others?

Campaigning vs. Governing - Whether it was the President's State of the Union or the GOP debate in Jacksonville, Florida, passions were on display this week for the President and his ...

Is Democracy Chinese? An Interview with Journalist Chang Ping - Ian Johnson *This is the fourth in an NYRblog series about the fate of democracy in different parts of the world.* Ian Johnson Chang Ping Chang Pin...

Close Encounters of the Mashco Kind - Attack by an Isolated Indigenous Group in Peru The look on Casiano’s face was beginning to worry me. He had...More

Consuming Space: On "blood timber", chewing gum, and free roaming hens - *Book Review. Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective edited by Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman & Michael Redclift. Ashgate, 2010.* *Terez...

Das Brand - Exploitation 2.0 If I still have you with me, by now you are probably comfortable with murkiness. As another husband-wife duo, not the Resnicks but the Co...

Women, Labor, and Capital Accumulation in Asia - One of the enduring myths about capitalism that continues to be perpetuated in mainstream economic textbooks and other pedagogic strategies is that labor s...

The Juvenile Delinquents - [image: Switchblade knife] The Holy Barbarians -- a documentary book about the beatnik scene of Venice West in Los Angeles -- was first published in 1959....