[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At Acts of Minor Treason, Andrew Barton comes out strongly in favour of the durable book: unlike the e-book, the hardware of the book is durable.


• Burgh Diaspora examines the surprising success of Atlantic Canadian businesspeople in their diaspora, contrasted particularly with Atlantic Canada's ongoing issues.


• Edward Lucas at Eastern approaches mourns the impending replacement of Estonia's young kroon with the Euro.


• The Global Sociology Blog cites evidence that patriarchy is a norm that has to be reinforced with violence, first through the murder of a Pakistani-British couple for not marrying their daughters off to Pakistani relatives, second to the abuse meted out to women abducted to be wives in Chechnya.


• Dave Noon at Lawyers, Guns and Money savages a John Robbins column at the Huffington Post purporting to link the latest Chinese baby food scandal with American milk production ("hormones" do differ from each other).


• Savage Minds' Rex makes the point that communities where the potlatch, not the market, is the basic mechanism for economic exchange tend not to be generally caring so much as generally very watchful.


• At Understanding Society, Daniel Little examines how the first generations of French anthropologists curiously didn't connect their study of subject peoples in the colonial empire with studies of local communities back in the metropole.


• Window on Eurasia collects documents suggesting that one in five Russians would be willing to move, this proportion rising to one in two Russians in the Far East.


• At the Zeds, Michael Steeleworthy gives a positive review of Lawrence Lessig's recent book Remix, which critiques current copyright regulations as stifling of innovation and commentary.