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15/01/10
05:17:08, by Lorenz 
. Categories: development empowerment, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, poverty, Caribbean Haiti Earthquake: Worldwide solidarity, a common humanity? (updated)
(Hatiain Children up in the mountains. Image: Matt Dringenberg, flickr) (post in progress) "Anthropology to me is all about human connexions, about a common humanity", said Dai Cooper from the Anthropology Song. "B… more »
23/12/09
02:18:18, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, applied anthropology, media, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Exploring the honor culture of social media
How can businesses profit from social media? How does social media challenge what is regarded as "value" in the business world? Anthropologist Lene Pettersen discusses these and other questions in her paper "The impact of social media for business".
L… 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 »
20/06/09
03:10:13, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, applied anthropology, University / Academia, ethics Militarisation of Research: Meet the Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation
We have discussed a lot about the strengthening ties between the military and universities in the USA and Britain, but similar things are happening in Scandinavia. And there is no public debate about it here.
One example is a research center that was… more »
18/04/09
13:32:40, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, applied anthropology, anthropology (general) Military Anthropology, HIV and the Engaged University: SfAA Podcasts online
Their first set of conference podcasts in 2007 was a huge success. Now, Jen Cardew and her team published a large number of new recordings from the 2009 conference of the Society of Applied Anthropology.
It seems to have a been an interesting conferen… more »
06/01/09
14:31:25, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, University / Academia What is good applied anthropology?
Most anthropologists work outside the university where they don't enjoy academic freedom. These anthropologists must be better prepared for the perils of non-academic applied work, Brian McKenna writes in Counterpunch. For good applied anthropology is be… more »
09/11/08
14:34:20, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, applied anthropology Used anthropology to predict the financial crisis
She spent a year in Tajikistan during her PhD, looking after goats. Two years ago, she predicted the current financial crisis. "I happen to think anthropology is a brilliant background for looking at finance," anthropologist Gillian Tett, assistant edito… more »
22/09/08
21:54:52, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, Northern America, Middle East, ethics How the Human Terrain System people think
"They’re natural born killers. They’re good, they’re lethal, they’re fantastic. I love working with them", says Major Robert Holbert. He was part of the first Human Terrain Team in Afghanistan in 2007 and tells his story in a fascinating interview with L… more »
13/08/08
Development anthropology via the mobile phone
With mobile banking taking off around much of the developing world, how long will it be before international aid is delivered electronically, asks anthropologist Ken Banks in PC World.
Banks is the founder of kiwanja, an organisation, that helps non… more »
28/06/08
17:17:54, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology Motorola anthropologists develop social TV
Some years ago, the researchers observed how people talked on the phone while watching the same TV show. Now Motorola-anthropologist Crysta Metcalf and her team are designing a Social TV, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The researchers designed a prototy… 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 »
16/04/08
Cooperation between the Pentagon and anthropologists a fiasco?
The collaboration between the U.S. military and anthropologists has been criticized for both political and ethical reasons. According to a recent article in Newsweek, the whole project could end as a fiasco: The implementation of the $40 million project… more »
15/04/08
00:27:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, applied anthropology First podcast of the 2008 Society of Applied Anthropology Meeting is online
"The Art and Science of Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century" is the topic of the first podcast from the annual meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology.
More podcasts will be published during the following two months. Last year's podcasts… more »
13/04/08
01:34:11, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), media, internet Why the head of IT should be an anthropologist
(via Bits and Bytes) The true value of IT will come not from information or technology per se but from the social side. Therefore anthropologists and other social scientists will become more important to Information Technology (IT) Departments than IT it… more »
03/04/08
23:37:13, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers Examples of engaging anthropology - New issue of "Anthropology Matters"
How can anthropology contribute to understanding and fighting inequality? The new issue of Anthropology Matters brings together articles from the first British postgraduate MA in Applied Anthropology and Community and Youth Work. Most of the students ar… more »
18/02/08
14:59:09, by Lorenz . Categories: applied anthropology, poverty, journal articles / papers, food and drink What anthropologists can do about the decline in world food supply
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warns ominously of an ‘unforeseen and unprecedented’ decline in world food supply. Anthropologists should contribute their expertise and knowledge to this emerging problem, Solomon H. Katz writes in the curr… more »
26/01/08
Anthropologist: Investors need to understand the tribal nature of banking culture
Can anthropology help us to understand the current Wall Street crisis? Of course. Anthropologist Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times. "It is undoubtedly an unusual background for a financial journalist", she writes:
Indeed, whe… more »
15/11/07
03:08:50, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology How anthropological research can reduce the paper usage in offices
Another example of anthropologists in product development: As a consequence of anthropological research, Xerox is developing a new kind of paper where the printed information simply disappears within about 16 hours, allowing the paper to be reused.
W… more »
12/11/07
American Anthropological Association opposes collaboration with the military - Bloggers react
A few days ago, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) decided to oppose the embedding of anthropologists in military teams (HTS) in Iraq and Afghanistan. The use of anthropological knowledge in the U.S. military and the m… more »
21:30:50, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, applied anthropology, poverty Urban anthropologist: "Recognize that people want to come to the big cities"
More and more people live in mega cities. Rather than fixating on investing in the countryside, donor agencies need to recognize that people want to come to the big cities. And rather than demolishing squatter developments one should integrate these sel… more »
06/11/07
16:39:07, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, applied anthropology, journal articles / papers New journal: "Radical Anthropology" with David Graeber
David Graeber is one of the authors in a new journal called Radical Anthropology. The journal is available for free. You can download it as pdf-file. The journal follows Graebers vision of anthropology as an “intellectual forum for all sorts of planetar… more »
09/10/07
15:23:53, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, Northern America, University / Academia, ethics "No wonder that anthropology is banished from universities in the 'decolonized' world" (updated)
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 »
30/09/07
17:42:56, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Conflict Resolution and Anthropology: Why more scholarship on violence than on peace?
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 »
23/09/07
17:42:39, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, ethics Anthropology and CIA: "We need more awareness of the political nature and uses of our work"
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 »
19/09/07
Oppose participation in counter-insurgency! Network of Concerned Anthropologists launched
(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 »
07/09/07
"Anthropology = Smarter Counterinsurgency"
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 »
03/09/07
00:42:04, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, cosmopolitanism Keith Hart and Thomas Hylland Eriksen: This is 21st century anthropology
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 »
01/08/07
02:42:29, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, internet Ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income communities
Culture Matters points to "exciting" working papers by the Information Society Research Group about the social and economic benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in low-income communities in Jamaica, India, South Africa and Ghana: "T… more »
01:50:18, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), persons and theories, University / Academia "To know what's happening around the world, you have to study the knowledge of local people"
Recently, we cound find a portrait of anthropologist Melissa Leach in the Guardian. At the age of 35, Leach became professor of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. Now, at 42 and proficient in four African languages, she has been m… more »
17/07/07
Military anthropologist starts blogging about his experiences
One of the anthropologists who is working for the military has started blogging about his experiences with the U.S. Army. His name is Marcus Griffin, professor at Christopher Newport University, Virginia (USA). He now works at Ft. Hood, Texas, for the t… more »
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