Contact me at:
annarose_pandey@beaverton.k12.or.us
PCC registration link:
http://www.pcc.edu/prepare/head-start/dual-credit/students-parents/dual-credit-registration.html
LINGUISTICS:
The World's regular program on language:
http://www.theworld.org/category/podcast/the-world-in-words-podcast/
Dialect Map of the U.S.:
Signifiers for Emotions we don't think we have...but do:
Good Comic on "Saudade" and the problem of signifiers/signified (cf. Awumbuk):
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2129
Visual Radness on non-english yet shared human signifieds:
Spanish Elvis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTfYItDDwA
and after some nerdy linguists got hold of it and transliterated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64I5gPjxEaI&feature=related
On Naming Practices of Chinese Orphans:
http://www.theworld.org/2012/02/podcast-chinese-orphans-catch-a-break/
On Marked/Unmarked with Japanese Anime and assumptions of whiteness (thanks to h):
On Baseball Signs:
On the ball field there's only one language that matters — baseball
On British English and the fun of making up silly words:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170619-why-british-english-is-full-of-silly-sounding-words
GENDER:
Bic pens:
Germany and the 3rd gender option:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/17/germany-third-gender_n_3769055.html
The Barbie Liberation Organization:
On chromosome and sex testing of Olympic athletes:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93083569&sc=emaf
On Gender and Marketing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-CU040Hqbas
An interesting set of interviews and questions about transgender identity:
On Transgender People in Pakistan from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/03/160496712/pakistans-transgenders-in-a-category-of-their-own
On Transgender Iranian Refugees in Turkey then Canada:
From Iran to Turkey to Canada, a transgender woman seeks refuge
On Gender and Spirit Possession in Myanmar:
http://www.theworld.org/2012/09/taung-byone-festival/
Prom:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/186/prom
On Arranged Marriages:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO-vhpBq0s4
On Indian Weddings:
http://fortune.com/2014/08/08/indian-weddings/
Investigating Arranged Marriage Partners:
On Polyandry (Nat Geo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4yjrDSvze0
Other Cool Stuff:
On Social Control at Pensacola CC (student rights/responsibilities from Sir Paul):
https://www.pcci.edu/pathway/StudentResponsibilities/CollegeStandards2.aspx
On Disneyland and Consumerism:
http://bruchansky.name/2009/05/06/anthropology-on-disney-world-consumerism-postmodernism-and-decontextualisation/
On the "Truman Show" Delusion:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/06/delusion.aspx
Ga coffins:
http://eshopafrica.com/acatalog/Ga_Coffins.html
On Witchcraft:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-ghana-witch-camps-20120909,0,1098113.story
Current Sorcery Attacks in PNG:
An Update on the Aum:
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20150116/272965110.html
A Chinese anti-Communist group/cult depending on your perspective:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/world/asia/china-eastern-lightning-killing/
"Twelve Tribes" group with disturbing similarities to Jonestown:
http://www.examiner.com/article/twelve-tribes-child-abuse-cult-serves-different-kind-of-beverage
Raelians and their pamphlets:
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20150116/272965110.html
On Cargo Cults in Vanuatu -- the Prince Philip cult
On a South Pacific island, a British prince is a god
Gorgeous images of "vanishing" cultures:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/jimmy-nelson-before-they-pass-away
On Branding:
THEORY and Philosophy:
On Existentialism (which anthropologists love to study as well):
http://jezebel.com/5900906/your-morning-ennui-henri-the-french-cat-articulates-the-pain-of-existence
RANDOM AWESOMENESS:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/Everything_Sings_Excerpt_and_Intro.pdf
This links to a beautiful art project that includes mapping, social observation and creative perception.