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01/03/10
Hindi Film Songs and the Barriers between Ethnomusicology and Anthropology
----Review: Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by Anna Morcom 2007, Ashgate, ISBN 978-0-7546-5198-7Tereza Kuldova, Research Fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Department of Ethnography University of Oslo[video:youtube:6B1I56Q4swE]Popular mu… more »
14/01/10
02:50:57, by Lorenz 
. Categories: culture traditions, globalisation, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books The globalisation of the Western conception of mental illness
As Greg Downey at Neuroanthropology.net, an article in the New York Times Magazine kept me awake until late at night - yesterday for reading, today for writing this post. It is a fascinating article about a kind of globalisation that isn't talked about… more »
28/12/09
01:17:05, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Asia, books, history, Visual Anthropology Colonialism, racism and visual anthropology in Japan: Photography, Anthropology and History part II
Here is the second part of the review of the book Photography, Anthropology and History, edited by Christopher Morton and Elizabeth Edwards. This time, Tessa Valo reviews Ka F. Wong's article about one of the first Japanese anthropologists, who beca… more »
23/12/09
20:56:14, by Lorenz . Categories: books, anthropology (general), media, history, Visual Anthropology Book review: Photography, Anthropology and History (Part I)
When filming people became possible, anthropologists began to drift away from it. Though better off than at the beginning of the 20th century, the visual anthropology today is still perceived as a marginal discipline, Tessa Valo writes in the first part… more »
25/11/09
Book review: Presenting 2nd generation Multi-Sited Ethnography
Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research (ed.) Mark-Anthony Falzon. 2009. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7318-7.Tereza Kuldova (Tessa Valo), PhD fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo This edited volume cons… 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 »
09/07/09
Book review: How the Ganges boatmen resist upper-caste and state domination
Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges is the title of a new book by anthropologist Assa Doron that Tessa Valo reviews here for antropologi.info. It is a book about the life of a marginalized group of people in India - the boatmen at the river Gang… more »
07/06/09
Fieldwork among homeless heroin and crack users - new book by Philippe Bourgois
"In Search of Respect. Selling Crack in El Barrio" is one of my favorite ethnographies. Now, Philippe Bourgois, is out with a new book. In “Righteous Dopefiend", he looks at the clients of the dealers, the University paper Penn Current reports.
The pa… more »
14/05/09
Book review: How neoliberalism reshapes motherhood in Calcutta
How do middle-class women in Calcutta understand and experience economic change? What impact is globalization having on the new middle-classes in Asia? Our reviewer Tessa Valo has again been lucky with her choice of books. For antropologi.info, she revie… 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 »
16/03/09
Book Review: How Indissoluble is Hindu Marriage?
Divorce does not belong to Hindu tradition, anthropologist Livia Holden was told when she started her research in India 14 years ago. But is this true? Tessa Valo reviews for antropologi.info Holden’s new book Hindu Divorce. A Legal Anthropology.
Ant… more »
11/03/09
Anthropologist Explores Wall Street Culture
40,000 AT&T workers lost their job. This sounds like terrible news. But the stock market applauded it, sending AT&T shares up. Why? Anthropologist Karen Ho was fascinated and confused by the different reactions and wrote her dissertation about it… 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 »
12/11/08
00:09:58, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, globalisation, books, music, youth, journal articles / papers Reggae, Punk and Death Metal: An Ethnography from the unknown Bali
"This is a break from the norm of writing about Bali", writes Laura Noszlopy enthusiastically about a new book by anthropologist Emma Baulch called "Making scenes: reggae, punk, and death metal in 1990s Bali".
In 1996, Emma Baulch went to live in Bal… more »
02/11/08
Researched the sexual revolution in Iran
Girls wear makeup, go with their hair uncovered, drink, have boyfriends and premarital sex: For seven years, anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi has studied the sexual revolution in Iran, the Ventura Country Star reports.
Those actions could have brought ha… more »
23/09/08
03:27:59, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, development empowerment, books, Northern America, Native American How gaming wealth is reviving American Indian traditions
Gaming is big business for many Native American tribes. For the Seminole tribe in Florida, gaming wealth enabled them to revive traditions and celebrate their culture in previously unimaginable ways, anthropologist Jessica R. Cattelino writes in her new… more »
14/09/08
Nigel Barley: "Fiction gives better answers than anthropology"
"Fiction's more fun. It lets you look inside people's heads in a way you wouldn't dare to do if you stuck to anthropology", anthropologist Nigel Barley says in an interview with the Telegraph:
"As an anthropologist you're always asking questions such… more »
07/09/08
14:51:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories, history, cosmopolitanism Jack Goody: "The West has never been superior"
Are democracy, capitalism, freedom and the concept of romantic love unique inventions of the West? No. In his new book, anthropologist Jack Goody shows that the superiority of the West is largely unreal, even if we look to the recent past.
In "The T… more »
03/08/08
14:13:23, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, development empowerment, globalisation, books, cosmopolitanism Ethnographic study of anti-corporate globalization movements
"I had never seen anything like it. I knew immediately that I wanted to study this phenomenon", says
anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris. In 1999 he participated in the protests against the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Now he ha… more »
11/07/08
"A well-informed critique of wartime anthropology for the military"
Approximately half of all anthropologists in the United States contributed their expertise to the World War II effort. In his new book Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, anthropologi… more »
07/06/08
11:46:30, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, books, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Online: New book on the cultural significance of Free Software
How has Free Software transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education? Anthropologist and Savage Minds blogger Christopher M. Kelty explores this question in his new book "Two bits" that now is "available for purchase, for do… more »
19/05/08
Lila Abu Lughod: "In Israel and Palestine we have an amazing opportunity"
(via CultureMatters) While Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of their state's founding, Palestinians around the world are mourning the "Nakba" - or "catastrophe" - that drove so many into exile. SPIEGEL ONLINE interviewed anthropologist Lila Abu-Lu… more »
23/04/08
01:38:08, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, books, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Phd-Thesis: That's why they embrace Islam
Our fellow anthro-blogger Martijn de Koning was awarded his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam last week.
In his Ph.D. thesis he shows how Islam has become the most important frame of reference for Moroccan-Dutch youth to reflect upon who… more »
08/04/08
Anthropologist: "Decriminalize prostitution! It's part of our culture"
After her fieldwork in a brothel in Mexico, anthropologist Patty Kelly is convinced: Legalizing and regulating prostitution has its problems. But criminalization is worse. It's time to decriminalize prostitution, she writes in The Los Angeles Times.… more »
08/03/08
The most compelling ethnographies
We've been into this topic a few times before, but this might be the longest list of good ethnographies. CultureMatters-blogger Lisa Wynn not only lists her own favorite books but also several ethnographies that are particularily popular with students.… more »
17/02/08
19:21:01, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, books, anthropology (general), history Sheds light on the collaboration between science and colonial administration in Naga ethnography
Paul Pimomo reviews in The Morung Express a book that might not only be interesting for area specialists. The History of Naga Anthropology is, he writes, "a valuable contribution to the broad area of postcolonial studies".
In History of Naga Anthropo… more »
12/11/07
19:59:02, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, books, Caribbean Who are the people keeping the Jewish traditions alive in Cuba?
The Ann Arbor News (Michigan) interviews anthropologist Ruth Behar who has written a new book about Jewish life in Cuba. The island's tiny Jewish community is among the most diverse in the world.
"An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba" offe… more »
15/08/07
Get Out of the Library and Into the Streets - new book by David Graeber
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 »
08/08/07
23:52:12, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, books, Northern America, Middle East Selected quotes from "On Suicide Bombing" by Talal Asad
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 »
01/08/07
New York Times reviews Talal Asad's "On Suicide Bombing"
Some weeks ago I wrote a few lines about the book On Suicide Bombing by anthropologist Talal Asad. Among other things, he questions our notions about legitimate violence.
On Sunday, the book was reviewed in the New York Times:
Asad (...) takes aim… more »
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