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Category: applied anthropology
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
00:42:00, 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 »
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