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Category: Africa
15/02/10
03:17:17, by Lorenz 
. Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, aboriginees, journal articles / papers Yes to female circumcision?
The problem with the representation of various forms of female circumcision as ‘mutilation’ is that the term, among other things, presupposes some irreversible and serious harm. This is not supported by current medical research on female circumcision. (s… more »
23/07/09
When should anthropologists work for the military?
The debate on anthropology and the military is extremly polarized. Mats Utas, Head of the Africa Programme at the Swedish National Defence College, has written an interesting article where he challenges both sides. Among other things, he shows that there… more »
22/04/09
Mahmood Mamdani: "Western concern for Darfur = Neocolonialism"
300 000 people have been killed and 2.5 million been made refugees in the war in Darfur. In his new book, anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani describes the Save Darfur campaign as representing a refracted version of the moral logic of the "War on Terror" with… more »
21/01/09
01:14:19, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Open Access Anthropology in Africa - an introduction
Heard of the Sudan Open Archive? Already taken a look at the recent anthropology papers of the University of Pretoria? Many universities in Africa have set up digital libraries, repositories for papers and theses that are freely accessible for everybody.… more »
27/11/08
03:16:54, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Africa, development empowerment, gender, books, fieldwork / methods How electricity changes daily life in Zanzibar - Interview with anthropologist Tanja Winther
How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to people in a village in Zanzibar, East Africa, for the first time? Anthropologist Tanja Winther answers this question in her new book The Impact of Electricity. Development, Desires and D… more »
29/06/08
"Prostitution is not sex for money"
(via CultureMatters) Prostitution is a fascinating topic and means different things in different parts of the world. In the American Sexuality Magazine, anthropologist Lisa Wynn writes about her difficulties to understand what Egyptians meant when they s… more »
16/05/08
01:09:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, interdisciplinary The resurgence of African anthropology
What is the state of anthropology at African universities? African anthropology is interdisciplinary and focuses on solving problems like poverty, diseases and violence, Paul Nchoji Nkwi writes in the book World Anthropologies (download the book):
Th… more »
28/01/08
Really an ethnic conflict? An anthropologist on the Kenya-crisis
Both in Norwegian and international media, the recent crisis in Kenya has often been described as an ethnic or an tribal conflict. But is this a correct view? "There is a tendency in media in the West to portray Africa as a place where tribal rivalries i… more »
10/12/07
01:14:47, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general) Circumcision: "Harmful practice claim has been exaggerated" - AAA meeting part IV
Is female circumcision violence against women or a feminist act? Are critics of this practice guilty of cultural imperialism? Those questions were debated at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in Washington - among others by Africa… more »
27/11/07
01:37:29, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, journal articles / papers An anthropologist on sex, love and AIDS in a university campus in South Africa
"It has sometimes been difficult persuading the girls to do interviews about love and sex with a white, foreign male researcher", anthropologist Bjarke Oxlund says in an interview with OhMyNews. Oxlund traveled to South Africa in 2006 and 2007 to conduct… more »
28/10/07
AfricaWrites - Videos from rural Africa
Patrick Gorham, editor of AfricaWrites: Heroes, Rituals & Legends writes to me. He created AfricaWrites several years ago "with the intent and goals of research, exploration, preservation and documentation of traditional African culture". On the webs… more »
18/10/07
Doctoral Thesis: Is Islam Compatible with Secularism?
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 »
01/08/07
Obituary: Anthropologist Priscilla Reining Broke Ground on AIDS
Anthropologist Reining died July 19 at the age of 84. "Anthropologist Broke Ground on AIDS, Satellite Mapping", writes the Washington Post in an orbituary.
Last winter I wrote about anthropological studies that showed that male circumcision reduces t… more »
Airport lamps light only option for studious Guinea kids
When the sun has set in Guinea, one of the world's poorest nations, and the floodlights come on at Gbessia International Airport, the parking lot begins to fill with children. It is among the only places where they can count on finding the lights on. Th… more »
12/06/07
"Help the Hadza!" - Why focus on culture and not on human rights?
Help out the Hadza, urges Kambiz Kamrani on anthropology.net. A United Arab Emirates royal family is trying to use the land of the Hadza as a “personal safari playground”. After a helicopter tour, they have worked out an arrangement with the Tanzanian g… more »
31/03/07
00:20:58, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, journal articles / papers AIDS:"Traditional healers are an untapped resource of great potential"
In a recently published doctoral dissertation at the University of Helsinki, anthropologist Perpetual Crentsil provides 13 recommendations on how to fight AIDS. Crentsil has been on fieldwork among the Akan in the coastal south and forest zone of Ghana:… more »
21/03/07
Mahmood Mamdani: "Peace cannot be built on humanitarian intervention"
While Iraq is seen as a place with messy politics, the Sudan is seen as a place without history and politics, and the Darfur-conflict as a case of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide": "Arabs" are trying to eliminate "Africans". Why is the violence in Iraq… more »
12/03/07
Anthropologists condemn the use of terms of "stone age" and "primitive"
Good news: British anthropologists take part in public debates. The ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) issued a statement where they "condemn the use of terms like 'stone age' and 'primitive' to describe tribal and indigenous peoples alive toda… more »
08/02/07
On African Island: Only women are allowed to propose marriage
"Now the world is upside down," complaines 90-year-old Cesar Okrane. "Men are running after women, instead of waiting for them to come to them." Christian missionaries challenge a unique tradition on Orango Island (Guinea-Bissau). Here it's women who cho… more »
17/12/06
Male circumcision prevents AIDS?
Two major studies have found that male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection by half, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Dozens of studies conducted since the 1980s found similar results but lacked the scientific rigor of a randomized cli… more »
11/12/06
00:42:10, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Africa, poverty, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, ethics Fieldwork reveals: Bush administration is lying about the "war on terror" in the Sahara
"The US is sending troops to the Sahara desert of west Africa to open what it calls a new front in the war on terror", the Guardian reported three years ago. "The ‘official truth’ about the ‘war on terror’ on the Sahara-Sahel is a ‘lie’", anthropologist… more »
10/12/06
Islam in Morocco: TV and Internet more important than mosques
Another example of how religious and cultural practices change: A soon to be released survey of religious practices in Morocco will show that the majority of Moroccans prefer to pray alone, and use audiovisual media and the internet for information on th… more »
04/12/06
For free migration: Open the borders!
Given the continuing massive disparities in wealth between Europe and Africa, immigration is unlikely to stop anytime soon. Remittances sent by migrants are the second most important income source for many countries in the south. Border control is expens… more »
26/11/06
Cameroon: "Ethnic conflicts are social conflicts"
According to official statistics, Cameroon's population of about 16.5 million encompasses 350 ethnic groups. The sporadic eruption of inter-ethnic conflict in Cameroon has prompted concern about the future of this Central African country, according to IP… more »
09/10/06
An exhibition and a movie: The French, colonialism and the construction of "the other"
The first temporary exhibition at Paris’s Quai Branly museum takes an ambitious look at how the West constructs its ‘other’, Mary Stevens writes in her research blog about the reconfiguration of national identity in French museums:
In the permanent e… more »
26/08/06
Is this anthropology? African pygmies observe Britains in TV-show
TV-shows about people from remote places (the producers use the term "tribes") seem to have become quite popular. In a German TV-show, German families are sent into the African bush to live with "African tribes". Now, in Britain a new TV-show called "Rev… more »
13/08/06
22:32:00, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Africa, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), San-bushmen "There's no AIDS here because men and women are equal"
Along the northern border between Botswana and Namibia, in a region of Africa that is raging with AIDS, a small society of some 3,000 souls, the Ju/'hoansi (or !Kung) is living virtually free of HIV infection. According to research by anthropologist Rich… more »
06/07/06
World Cup Witchcraft: European Teams Turn to Magic for Aid
(via del.icio.us/anthropology) I've just returned from the match France-Portugal and have just stumpled upon this news story in the National Geographic. Many European soccer stars, including those currently playing in the World Cup, turn to magic and odd… more »
03/06/06
03:22:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Africa, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet "Play on sterotypical understandings of Africa" - Anthropologist analyses Nigerian scam emails
Email scams constitute the third largest industry in Nigeria, after oil and drugs. These email-scammers succeed because they play on stereotypical understandings of Africa, anthropologist Elina Hartikainen concludes in paper, that she presented at a conf… more »
24/05/06
01:40:42, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Africa, anthropology (general), persons and theories Savage Minds starts "Anthro Classics Online"
Kerim Friedman at Savage Minds recently announced a new series about classical works in anthropology which are available online. The idea, he writes, is to "both encourage newbies to read some classical anthropological texts as well as allow those with P… more »
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