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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 »
09/02/10
02:52:00, by Lorenz . Categories: anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia University reforms - a threat to anthropology?
It started around 20 years ago: The idea of education as a right was being replaced by a concept of education as a commodity to purchase. Today's universities are managed like businesses, striving for "excellence", being best, competing for the "best" br… more »
19/01/10
23:38:08, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, ecology nature, Arctic / Northern Regions, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Why Siberian nomads cope so well with climate change
The tundra ecosystems in Siberia are vulnerable to both climate change and oil/gass drilling. Yet the Yamal-Nenets in West Siberia have shown remarkable resilience to these changes. "Free access to open space has been the key for success" says Bruce For… 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 »
16/11/09
02:28:49, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Native American, journal articles / papers Where shamans understand colonialism as sickness
"I am here to save the people, to cure the people. In the city they are all sick, they are all domesticated. The shaman has to go together with disease."
Anthropologist Anders Burman talks to Don Carlos, an Aymara shaman in Bolivia. According to D… more »
03/11/09
18:58:00, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Two months free access to AAA journals!
From now on until the end of December, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is offering free access to a large section of its journals.Why not free all the time? asks Kerim Friedman. Good question. The AAA has been often criticized for its… more »
01/11/09
17:49:07, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, websites SSOAR - The first Social Science Open Access Repository is online
(via media/anthropology and Open Access Anthropology blog) Where can I publish my papers online? A few weeks ago, I wrote about ResearchGATE and other initiatives. Now, SSOAR - the Social Science Open Access Repository is online. It is according to Ke… more »
05/10/09
21:16:26, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, University / Academia Free access to the 25 most popular Anthrosource articles!
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and their publisher Wiley-Blackwell will be offering two months of free access to 10+ years of Anthrosource content during November and December 2009.As a preview they invite us to view the Top 25 Anthroso… more »
02/10/09
04:02:07, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Asia, aboriginees, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers How can anthropology help us understand Swat and Taliban?
The Swat Pathan have been the subject of classic ethnographies in anthropology for many years. Now they are at the centre of a bigger battle for control and at the center of world attention because of a conflict that forced more than one million people t… more »
10/09/09
04:48:44, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, aboriginees, journal articles / papers The Anthropology of Suicide - World Suicide Prevention Day
It was around four months ago, I received the message of my friend's sudden death. "Nobody knows", I was told, "why she stepped in front of a train". Afterwards I often wondered if her life could have been saved if we all had known and talked more about… more »
24/08/09
00:31:07, by Lorenz . Categories: medical anthropology / ethnobothany, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Why anthropologists should politicize mental illnesses
How to deal with "mental illness"? Are people who are labelled ill actually ill? Is it ok that psychologists call "adolescent rebellion" for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”? What is anthropologists' role here? Eugenia Tsao discusses these questions in an… more »
23/08/09
19:49:02, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, gender, books, journal articles / papers, sports The Anthropology of Wrestling
How do you study wrestling as an anthropologist? By becoming a wrestler yourself! Heather Levi's book The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity is featured in the new issue of American Ethnography on Lucha libre - Mexi… more »
07/08/09
01:25:49, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Public anthropology through collaboration with journalists
How can we make anthropology public? How survive as politically engaged anthropologist in conservative institutions? Nancy Scheper-Hughes answers these questions in the guest editorial in the new issue of Anthropology Today. Public anthropology impli… more »
06/07/09
How anthropology in Eastern Europe is changing
Studia ethnologica Croatica is one of those Open Access journals I've found recently. Their latest issue gives an overview over recent delevopments in anthropology in Eastern Europe. The texts are based on presentations made at the conference ‘New Curric… more »
30/06/09
00:52:16, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Goes Open Access
"I am pleased to announce that JASO (Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford" has been relaunched as a free online journal, editor David Zeitlyn (University of Kent) writes in an email to the Anthropology Matters mailing list:
The intention… more »
07/06/09
Is the anthropologist a spy? New Anthropology Matters is out
When anthropologist Michael Madison Walker did research in rural Mozambique, he - as a white man - was variously assumed to be a priest, a development worker, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, and even a spy. Fieldwork identities is the topic of the new issu… more »
28/05/09
03:24:35, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Asia, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, history, cosmopolitanism Interview with Benedict Anderson: Being a cosmopolitan without needing to travel
During my research for the new overview over open access anthropology journals, I made many great discoveries. I'll try to present some of them.
One of the discoveries was Invisible Culture. An electronic journal for visual culture. The most recent is… more »
27/05/09
00:59:34, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Journal of European Ethnology is going (a little bit) Open Access
Is Open Access the new buzz-word? Do we see some change in the world of anthropology journals? Angels Trias i Valls recently announced the birth of a new open access journal, Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics.
And last week, I receiv… more »
21/05/09
21:36:40, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, gender, journal articles / papers Anthropology, islam and homosexuality
Anthropology student Lykke Bjørnøy sent me an article on homosexuality and islam that she wrote as part of her studies at the University of Cairo. She tries to understand why homosexuality often is demonized. Not only in Islam, but also in Christianity (… more »
01/05/09
14:41:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers New overview over open access anthropology journals
Today we celebrate the first Open Access Anthropology Day. For this occasion, I've made a new overview over open access journals in our field (anthropology, area studies and related stuff).
The overview is not complete, still under construction and n… more »
17/03/09
02:18:49, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Imponderabilia - new international anthropology student journal
Wow! A new anthropology journal! Made by students worldwide. Imponderabilia is it called, and it is "the product of our love of, and frustration with, anthropology":
The journal tries to overcome, erode, undermine and blur the boundaries between insti… more »
11/03/09
22:16:28, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, development empowerment, ecology nature, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Why we need more disaster anthropology
On the 5th of December 2006, typhoon Durian hit Bến Tre province in Southern Vietnam. Close to 100 people died, more than 800 moored fishing boats sank, thousands of buildings collapsed including schools and hospitals. In her master's thesis, Uy N… more »
07/03/09
15:43:12, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, Middle East, University / Academia War in Iraq: Why are anthropologists so silent?
Many US-anthropologists protested against the Vietnam war in the 60s. Why have anthropologists been so reluctant to engage with the "immense tragedy" and "waste of resources by our governments" in the Iraq war, Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Marshall Sahlins… more »
21/01/09
20:13:31, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Northern America, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Dissertation: Why kids embrace Facebook and MySpace
After 30 months ethnographic fieldwork on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites, danah boyd has finally completed her PhD-thesis and put it online. Although she is no anthropologist, she seems to have worked like an anthropologist. Her thes… more »
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 »
20/01/09
Dissertation: Sexualisation of childhood?
Tight jeans and short tops for seven year-old girls? When anthropologist Mari Rysst was out shopping clothes for her then seven year-old daughter she - to her dismay - mostly found clothes which imitated the teenage look. Seven years later she published… more »
What anthropologists and artists have in common
In the new issue of American Ethnography, we'll find these words by anthropologist Martin Hoyem:
Artists, like ethnographers, train their eyes to see things other people don't see. They try to present what they see so that we, the audience, can glimp… more »
19/01/09
22:06:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, globalisation, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Open access: Journal of Identity and Migration Studies
Xenophobia in South Africa, labour mobility and economic development, minorities’ integration, representation of refugees and forced migrants in the British Economy are some of the topics in the most recent issue of Journal of Identity and Migration Stud… more »
03/01/09
01:41:02, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Asia, development empowerment, journal articles / papers, tourism Headhunting as expression of indigenousness
Anthropologists often criticize mainstream media for exoticizing people. But in Borneo you'll find indigenous people who promote themselves as headhunters and are proud of it. The journal Cultural Analysis has recently received a prize in the Sav… more »
02/01/09
The anthropology of children, war and violence
What impact has war on children? What has anthropology to say on this? This autumn I watched the movie "Buddha collapsed out of shame" by the Iranian film maker Hana Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of children who reproduce the violence of the adults. For… more »
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