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Merkel says ready to support Turkey EU accession process

EurActiv.com

Germany is ready to help drive forward Turkey’s European Union accession process, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday (18 October), extending support to Ankara in exchange for Turkish help in stemming the flow of refugees to Europe.

Merkel Links Turkey’s E.U. Hopes to Stemming Flow of Refugees

NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO

The German chancellor said she would support accelerating the process of admitting Turkey to the European Union if the country cooperated in dealing with the influx of migrants into Europe.

MAIN FOCUS: EU and Turkey agree on refugee action plan | 16/10/2015

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The EU and Turkey have agreed on an action plan for reducing the number of refugees arriving in the EU. Ankara is to improve its border control measures and in return the country will be declared a safe country of origin. The deal is a farce in view of all the human rights violations committed in Turkey, some commentators argue. Others lament that a common asylum policy is still a distant goal for the EU.

Merkel’s embrace of Turkey draws criticism from Bavarian allies

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy towards refugees and embrace of Turkey drew criticism on Oct. 19 from conservative allies, with one senior Bavarian politician warning against any consideration of European Union membership for Ankara.

In school on Syria border, Turkey’s challenges as EU gatekeeper are clear

So remote are their hopes of returning to Syria that even some of the teachers in the schools for refugees in Turkey quit to go to Europe.

Swiss parliament shifts to right in vote dominated by migrant fears

Swiss voters swung to the right in parliamentary elections on Oct. 18 dominated by concerns over Europe’s migrant crisis, with the country’s largest party winning a record number of seats.

How likely is civil war in Turkey?

open Democracy News Analysis – by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Barzoo Eliassi

The recent and ongoing clashes taking place between members of the Kurdish and Turkish diasporas in Europe reflect the violent transnationality of this conflict.

Demonstration against the Turkish president Erdogan. Demotix/Elena Aquila. All rights reserved. The violent attack on a peaceful pro-Kurdish rally in Ankara on 10 October is shocking, heinous and not an anomaly. It is part of a broader historical and contemporary trend: Kurds have long been exposed to different forms and degrees of violence in Turkey and the wider Middle East.

Kurdish experiences of secular-Kemalist and Islamist rule in Turkey show that Kurds cannot rely on the current political framework in Turkey to achieve their political rights. This is because their political voices and claims are widely interpreted as undermining the forces that are assumed to maintain the unity and territorial integrity of Turkey. Kurdish voices – including those expressed in peaceful rallies – are perceived by many to be a direct challenge to ethnic Turks, unsettling their ability to be the spatial managers or governors of the Turkish state and the Turkish nation. Indeed, Turkey’s principle of political organization is best categorized as an ethnocracy: it ethnicizes citizenship and stipulates rights on ethnic bases.

British journalist found dead at Turkish airport

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kevin Rawlinson

Jacqueline Sutton, 50, who worked for the UN and the BBC, died at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport en route to Iraq

Tributes have been paid to a British journalist who has died in Turkey in suspicious circumstances.

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Vale Anthony Wallace and Raymond Smith

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

I couldn’t let this week slip by without mentioning the passing of two great anthropologist: Raymond T. Smith and Anthony F.C. Wallace.

Raymond T. Smith was a social anthropologist who earned his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1954 at Cambridge, where he worked with Meyer Fortes. His work focused on the Jamaica, Guyana (then British Guiana), Trinidad, and Chicago. For most of his career he taught at the University of Chicago, and the best short summary of his life can be found in the UofC’s finding guide to his papers. Something like a CV can be found on his personal website as well.

Pseudonyms 2.0: How Can We Hide Participants’ Identities When They’re on Pinterest?

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Rebecca Nelson

It has been standard practice in anthropology to change the names of the people and places we analyze, but recently scholars have been questioning the necessity and even possibility of keeping participants anonymous, especially when they already have a social media presence. In this post, I share what I did to anonymize my research site and participants, and I do my best to start a discussion about the broader issue of anonymization now that detective work can be as simple as plugging a few search terms into Google.

Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity

FoodAnthropology

Review of: Warner, Mark S. 2015. Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Trump or Treat: Lessons in Anthropology
Huffington Post
“It could happen. Trump could get elected. Hitler was elected, you know,” said an older friend of mine. My friend and I were sitting in a college classroom where we are taking a class together in anthropology and photography. It’s the first time that I

Science & Society: A new chapter in physical anthropology
Daily Herald
Following physical anthropology is often frustrating: a new fossil find is rumored or even superficially publicized, but it can be years before the scientific analysis is published. A key reason for this is that researchers tend to keep their .

Necessary Knowledge: Where Denver Anthropologists Drink and Eat

FoodAnthropology

John Brett
University of Colorado Denver

As a Denver native and passionate eater of foods, what follows is my personal, if a bit quirky, list of places I would send my friends and colleagues to eat and drink while visiting Denver. There’s no easy way to organize something of this nature but I’ve added some headings to provide some idea of where things are. I suppose as a Coloradoan, I should include something on our recently legalized intoxicant but I can’t for lack of experience, but I would refer you to the Cannabist, developed by the Denver Post which has a lot of news and reviews and the number of shops rivals Starbucks in their density (the basics: you have to be over 21 to purchase, can’t consume it in public spaces, and can’t take it with you…).

The Denver food scene is big, complex, a bit weird, but really fun so find some time to explore. Most of the restaurants are walking or short taxi ride from the convention center but I’ve included some stellar neighborhood restaurants as well.

The Suprising Ways Anthropology Impacts Our Lives
WUWM
UWM Today’s Tom Luljak talks with Thomas Malaby, chair of UWM’s anthropology department, and John Richards, director of the UWM Cultural Resource Management program. Periodically, we hear stories about construction projects in our area that are put …

The Anthropology in Marketing
Business 2 Community
Understanding the bigger story around why a customer says ‘yes’ is a study in anthropology. To many, the term anthropologyconjures up visions of ethnographic studies of indigenous tribes, but the scope is actually much broader. Anthropology includes ..

Modern humans in China ~80,000 years ago (?)

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blogs

Another (?)-worthy paper has just appeared in Nature in the heels of the African ancient genome paper. Time will tell how these worldview-altering discoveries will change the story of Mankind, and a degree of skepticism is warranted. In the view I’ve held for a few years, modern humans expanded to Arabia before 100 thousand years ago, started leaving it 70 thousand years ago as the ecological situation worsened due to desertification and broke through the “Neandertal barrier” between 70-50 thousand years ago when they developed the skills and technology to overcome them.

The Anthropology of Evil announced at Temple
Staunton News Leader
Staunton. The Anthropology of Evil announced at Temple. Temple House of Israel, 15 N. Market St., will offer a six-session course “The Anthropology of Evil” for ages 18 and older from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 through Nov. 18. Instructor Stephen Kennamer

Eight Questions and Seven Theses about Force Multipliers

OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian Forte

“Force multipliers: Machines which allow a small effort to move a larger load are called force multipliers. Some examples of force multipliers include: a crowbar, wheelbarrow, nutcracker, and bottle opener. The number of times a machine multiplies the effort is called its mechanical advantage. The mechanical advantage of a machine is the number of times the load moved is greater than the effort used. Mechanical advantage (MA) = load/effort.” (Avison, 1989, p. 109)

Divrei Azriel:Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Philosophical Anthropology
Arutz Sheva
In his famous essay, The Lonely Man of Faith, “The Rav,” Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, our great spiritual master in Yeshivat Rabbenu Yitzchak Elchanan, New York, tells the tale of two Adams, i.e., two distinct and fundamental, yet conflicting, facets

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Anthropology roundup: R.I.P for Vale Anthony Wallace and Raymond Smith

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