Secularisation is often seen as a process that is associated with the "West" and modernisation, as a process that is opposed to islamisation. In his doctoral dissertation, anthropologist Sindre Bangstad shows that processes of secularisation also emerge… more »
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by lorenz on Oct 17, 2007 in fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
Writing Up and Feeling Down is the topic of the new issue of the Anthropology Matters Journal. The articles outline the challenges involved when moving from fieldwork to writing, when trying to draw an argument out of unwieldy case studies, when you are… more »
by lorenz on Oct 11, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia, websites
As the open access to Annual Review of Anthropology only was a temporary pleasure, it is good to know that the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i is going to launch MANAO - an Open Access repository for anthropology:
The Mana’o pr… more »
by lorenz on Oct 9, 2007 in politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, Northern America, University / Academia, ethics
The debates about the militarisation of anthropology have recently made the front page of the New York Times and several other newspapers (f.ex. The Boston Globe) and blogs discussed the story.
Are more and more (American) anthropologists willing to… more »
by lorenz on Oct 8, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
(via anthropology.net) The Annual Review of Anthropology 2007 is out and all articles are freely available online, for example: (UPDATE: No longer open access. You'll have to get the paper version in your library! Ridiculous pricing: 20 USD per article!… more »
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, politics, religion cosmology, Asia, anthropology (general) • 4 comments »
Burma's protesters may have been silenced, but we must continue to support them, writes Brendan Barber in The Guardian. But maybe we should not focus too much upon the courage of the monks. Muslims in Burma are persecuted, not only by the military, even… more »
by lorenz on Sep 30, 2007 in culture traditions, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
Norwegian anthropologists no longer hide their master theses in distant libraries. Most theses are now available online in digital archives. Last week, more than 20 new theses (among them 11 in English) have been put online at DUO, the digital library of… more »
by lorenz on Sep 30, 2007 in politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
Is it because the academe rewards critique rather than advocacy? Conflict resolution studies, Mark Davidheiser and Inga E Treitler write in Anthropology News September, are "not widely acknowledged within our discipline" and are "rarely published in main… more »
by lorenz on Sep 30, 2007 in Europe, ecology nature, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, food and drink
Ethnobotany in not only about "exotic" plants in the rain forest: "The ethnobotany of British home gardens: diversity, knowledge and exchange" is the title of a new research project at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent. Among other… more »
by lorenz on Sep 30, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, Native American
"Ecologists have photographed a little-known nomadic tribe deep in Peru's Amazon, a sighting that could intensify debate about the presence of isolated Indians as oil firms line up to explore the jungle", the Vancouver Sun writes. But Suzanne Oakdale, an… more »
by lorenz on Sep 30, 2007 in technology, gender, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, websites
Bella Ellwood-Clayton is sexual anthropologist. As we read in the Washington Post, Bella Ellwood-Clayton has studied texting and dating in the Philippines. On her website you can download the texts Desire and loathing in the cyber Philippines and Unfai… more »
by lorenz on Sep 28, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, poverty, journal articles / papers
(via Intute Social Science Blog) Homeless women, gated commnities, active citizenship and the post-industrial labour market: That's what the papers in the first issue of the new open access journal People, Place and Policy are about:
People, Place an… more »
Wear red for Burma: Several thousand people at the demonstration in Oslo
"Wear a red t-shirt in solidarity this friday!" "Light candles in your windows on Friday night to honour the victims of the demostrations." Pro-democracy protest marches in Burm… more »
(via Savage Minds) Can a discussion about the use of music in torture shed new perspectives in our debates about the use of anthropological knowledge in torture, askes Kerim Friedman on Savage Minds. Jason Baird Jackson points in his comment to the Soci… more »
by lorenz on Sep 23, 2007 in politics, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, ethics • 1 comment »
In the newest issue of Anthropology Today (to be published in October), David Price continues discussing how CIA and similar agencies "covertly set our research agendas and selectively harvest the resulting research" and writes that "sometimes we may nee… more »
(via Savage Minds) As a response to the growing militarisation of anthropology, a group of anthropologists (incl. David Price, Gustaaf Houtman and Kanhong Lin) has lauched the Network of Concerned Anthropologists: They encourage the development of an eth… more »
What happens when artists and anthropologists are asked to do something together rather than talk from the safety of their own practice? The result can be seen on the website Connecting Art & Anthropology: Transcripts of discussions, short reports, a… more »
by lorenz on Sep 7, 2007 in technology, gift economy gift giving, Us and Them, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, cosmopolitanism
It all started when anthropologist Andreas Lloyd (University of Copenhagen) was browsing on the Internet looking for a new laptop computer and ended up installing the free Windows alternative Linux. Two years later, he finished his master thesis "A syst… more »
Another article about military anthropologists: The Christian Science Monitor writes about anthropologist "Tracy" who helps the US Army in their war against Afghanistan. Tracy "can give only her first name" to the journalist:
Evidence of how far the… more »
by lorenz on Sep 3, 2007 in Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, cosmopolitanism • 1 comment »
What holds humanity together? What are the hidden or unacknowledged features of mainstream society? These are the issues that 21st century anthropology should address, Thomas Hylland Eriksen writes in his paper The perilous identity politics of anthropol… more »
by lorenz on Aug 28, 2007 in technology, culture traditions, language, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, internet, websites • 1 comment »
Their language is nearly dead. Maybe a new website can revitalize Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: The Kenai Peoples Language in Alaska? For more than two years, the two anthropologists Alan Boraas and Michael Christian have taken pictures, navigated through HTML an… more »
Is Internet making any significant difference to the governance of an multiethnic middle-income suburb of Kuala Lumpur? Anthropologist John Postill has been on fieldwork there and sent me a working paper about his research Field theory and the political… more »
by lorenz on Aug 17, 2007 in politics, Europe, anthropology (general), University / Academia • 1 comment »
Germany arrested urban sociologist Andrej Holm because of his academic activities. He was accused of being member of a "terrorist association" called "militante gruppe" (militant group) who is suspected to be behind arson attacks against police and army… more »
Popular anarchist anthropologist David Graeber is one of the editors of a new book on the relationship between academics and social action called Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization:
According to libcom.org:
Th… more »
The third issue of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology, an open access peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Georgia is out and consists of four book reviews and two papers:
Keri Vacanti Brondo, Laura Woods:
Garifuna Land Rights… more »
Volume 14 Issue 1 - Summer 2007 of the Durham Anthropology Journal is out. The Open Access journal is edited by postgraduate students at the Department of Anthropology of Durham University. The new issue consists of four articles:
Chris Allen: The dea… more »
by lorenz on Aug 8, 2007 in politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, books, Northern America, Middle East • 3 comments »
I've finished reading Talal Asad's new book On Suicide Bombing. It belongs to the category of books I like most: It challenges common assumptions, makes us think (not so important if you agree with him all the time or not). By showing that the world is m… more »
A group of anthropologists from Leuwen University, Belgium, has just launched anthropologynet.org, a new website that aims to be a "worldwide community of anthropologists": Anthropologists can register and look for other members sharing the same (or dif… more »
The majority-minority discourse in Canada doesn't seem to differ from the discourse here in Norway "Anglo culture is dominant and taken for granted; minority cultures are automatically 'different'", Yasmin Jiwani writes in the Vancouver Sun. There, rece… more »
by lorenz on Aug 8, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, anthropology (general), Middle East, websites
Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement is a collection of oral histories recorded by Beirut-based anthropologist and oral historian Rosemary Sayigh. It was published as e-book, devoted to men and women living in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and… more »
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