Canadian Public Policy and Aboriginal Addictions in the Toronto Star
Another special newspaper series: The Toronto Star is running a multi-story feature on aboriginal addictions in Canada. Articles on fetal alcohol syndrome, substance abuse among the Innu, suicide, and...
View Article15 Minutes at a Breakfast Joint
Technology blogger Rob Hyndman gives us his fifteen minute observation of a Toronto-area breakfast spot. My students should take note.
View ArticleSan Francisco Coffee Culture
By now, this story on San Francisco coffee culture is ‘old news’ (March 11, 2007). But it is apropos of my recent link to another post on breakfast culture in Toronto. Besides, many of my students are...
View ArticleRules, not laws, Govern Line Ups
My Intro to Cultural Anthropology students should take note of this article from Slate.com. It outlines cultural differences for queuing up, comparing specifically Great Britain and the United States....
View ArticleEndangered Languages on the Colbert Report
I couldn’t agree more with David Harrison that watching Stephen Colbert ‘cover’ endangered languages was a lot of fun (see comments). And, I will be using the clip of Colbert’s discussion with...
View ArticleDude
The new Bud Light commercial has me thinking again about Scott Kiesling’s dude research. Dude, the commercial is too funny!
View ArticleTeaching Strategies: Nacirema and Natural Selection
As the winter semester gets going, I wanted to note a couple of useful teaching-related articles in recent AAA publications. 1) William Guinee writes “A Strategy for Teaching Horace Miner’s...
View ArticleJohn Hawks Reviews 10,000BC
Sure, his review* of 10,000BC is making the rounds … but it is utterly fantastic. Update: The Globe and Mail says this about the film: The story is set among an improbable mountainous tribe of...
View ArticleWhy Computers Can’t Kill Post-Its
From CBC.ca: there are an estimated several hundred ethnographers in the country looking at the specific ways that workers handle “personal information,” like calendars and contact information.
View ArticleAre Ethnographies Novels?
One of my class assignments is to ask students to provide a short review of chapters in the ethnographies they read. Students are to include the following in the reviews: 1) a concise summary of the...
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