Anthropology roundup: ““Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive

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“Anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Adam Fish

A search for “anthropology” in the Snowden Surveillance Archive results in two hits. Both documents were created and presented by the UK GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) which sees anthropology as a method with which to “manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.” Take a look at the two GCHQ Powerpoints below and see how the surveillance apparatus views your discipline.

ISIS beheads leading Syrian antiquities scholar in Palmyra

 Mashable! by Megan Specia

A prominent Syrian antiquities scholar was brutally killed and beheaded by Islamic State militants, according to reports from local activists and Syria’s government-run news outlet.

Toward Living with (not Under) Anthropology, Pt. 1

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Matt Thompson

Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Takami Delisle. Tak currently works as a medical interpreter for Japanese patients and helps run an organization for anthropology students of color. You can find her on Twitter @tsd1888 and she also has her own blog. If you’re interested, please contact her.

The social costs of export agriculture in San Quintin, Baja California–An Interview with Christian Zlolniski

…r strikes in the San Quintin Valley that began this past March. Zlolniski is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on economic globalization and immigrant labor, with regional emphasis in the US Southwest and Mexico.  He is the author of the book Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley (UC Press, 2006) and co-author of De Jo

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Remembering ‘the father of Palmyra,’ the 82-year-old scholar slain by ISIS

Mashable! by Alex Thomson

LONDON — A good friend and colleague in Syria recalled on Wednesday how he had walked with “the father of Palmyra” among the ruins — ruins that Khaled Asaad had turned into his life’s work.

 

22. Notes on the second digital ethnography reading session

media/anthropology by John Postill

This is the twenty-second post in the Freedom technologists series.

by Victor Lasa
PhD candidate
RMIT University, Melbourne

In this second session of the monthly Digital Ethnography Reading Group meetings at RMIT we discussed the Introduction and Chapter 5 of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2014. 464 pp.

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