December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 23rd
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Anonymous asked: So....just out of curiosity (and because I'm more than a little weird and cant get over it), how come you never capitalize the first couple of sentences of any of your posts?
Dec 23rd
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An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry. →
When Arunachalam Muruganantham hit a wall in his research on creating a sanitary napkin for poor women, he decided to do what most men typically wouldn’t dream of. He wore one himself—for a whole week. Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat’s blood, Muruganantham went about his life while wearing women’s underwear, occasionally squeezing the contraption to test...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Fierce...Flawless...: Anthropology, Queer Theory,... →
fyeahtranssexuals: Modern queer theory (and much of anthropology, in fact) suffers from ethnocentrism and the ideas of “whiteness” that are so deeply embedded in American culture that it inhibits credibility and the way that the medical community sees and defines sex and culture. This…
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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anarchist anthropology →
follow the link to read the complete two page article. The anthropologist David Graeber has a strong claim to being the house theorist of Occupy Wall Street. A veteran of the antiglobalization uprisings in Seattle and Genoa, he helped orchestrate the first “General Assembly” in New York this summer, and has since become one of the movement’s most outspoken defenders. For him, the encampments in...
Dec 10th
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american anthropological association, a stand... →
follow the link to read the complete post. American drug policy has direct effects on discrimination against Mexicans and Central Americans. We do not know how much Mexico’s drug war has cost. It is not a simple calculus, as many of the expenses are incurred at the state and local levels, and indirect costs are many. At the federal level, though, budgetary expenditures in security increased...
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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