Arctic Monkeys @ Explanda del Estadio Azteca. Photo: monophonic.grrrl / Mariel A. M., flickr
“Ask the indie professor” is the name of a new series in the Guardian. The indie professor in question is Wendy Fonarow. At a music festival she… more »
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by lorenz on Jun 14, 2010 in religion cosmology, Us and Them, books, Northern America • 2 comments »
Days and weeks before the launch of the new book by anthropologist Akbar Ahmed called Journey into America: the Challenge of Islam, it was already reviewed in major Pakistani newspapers. "Usually it is Western anthropologists who study Muslim societies.… more »
Public anthropology does exist. There are lots of anthropologists who write for the wider public and not only for other anthronerds. Here's another example: The Polynesian Tattoo Today by Tricia Allen, doctoral candidate in anthropology at the university… more »
by lorenz on Apr 1, 2010 in globalisation, books, Northern America, anthropology (general) • 8 comments »
Janine Wedel has done something that far too few anthropolologists do: She studied powerful people. Those who rule the world. In her book "Shadow Elite", she shows how a new system of power and influence has taken hold globally, one that undermines d… more »
----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 »
by lorenz on Jan 14, 2010 in culture traditions, globalisation, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books • 2 comments »
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 »
by lorenz on Dec 28, 2009 in indigenous people / minorities, Asia, books, history, Visual Anthropology
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 »
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 »
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