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Bookmark The Battle Over Zomia
Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden…

September 5 2011, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark Flash Symposium at Birkbeck, 24th May 2011
Ideal for the commute, the lunch-hour, the stolen moment: shortness necessitates the perfect user-friendly format, arguably suited to the fast paced nature of everyday contemporary urban living. At the same time…

May 17 2011, 2:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

March 6 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
Bookmark The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing
The field of the digital humanities embraces various scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in digital media production. Perhaps…

March 2 2011, 6:36am | Comments
Bookmark What if They Had a Science War and Only One Side Showed…
In November the executive board of the American Anthropological Association, of which I am a member, met for one and a half days. In preparation for the meeting, we were expected…

January 18 2011, 3:18am | Comments
Bibliography Parasite (PostHumanities) by Michel Serres

August 16 2010, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark Writing off the UK's last palaeographer
Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that…

May 29 2010, 10:04am | Comments
Bookmark Gottschall's Problem
These are fighting words. But can the scientific model really be applied to literature? Some of the scholars I talked to regard science’s push into the humanities as an intrusion, an…

May 16 2010, 4:21pm | Comments
Bookmark The Soul of the Scientist of Man
ow does the character of the scientist differ from that of the humanist? The past century has seen an acceleration in the “scientization” of the humanities. The roots of this trend,…

April 4 2010, 6:54am | Comments
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October 19 2009, 5:48am | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments

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