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Category: culture traditions
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 »
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 »
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 »
06/09/09
23:00:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, music, history, internet, websites Oral history, folk music and more: British Library puts vast sound archive online
Wow! Overwhelming! The British Library has made more than 23 000 sound recordings from all over the world freely available to everyone at http://sounds.bl.uk
"World and traditional music", "oral history", "accents and dialects", "environment and natu… more »
30/08/09
00:37:06, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, culture traditions, Europe, anthropology (general) For more Anthropology of Christianity
What is happening within Christianity today? This is a question that is exciting to study, but which has received little attention among anthropologists, says Norwegian anthropologist Edle Lerang Nes. For hundreds of years, Christianity has been the… 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 »
22/01/09
21:14:38, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Asia, development empowerment, Visual Anthropology Anthropological activism in Pakistan with lullabies
A few days ago, Pakistani anthropologist Samar Minallah lauched a "video song", a tribute to little girls in all the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan where schools are being destroyed, depriving girls of their right to education, The News reports.… 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 »
29/11/08
14:05:39, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, culture traditions, websites, interdisciplinary The Cognition and Culture Blog
While browsing the web for Claude Levi Strauss posts, I stumbled upon a great site: Cognition and Culture.
It is run by International Cognition & Culture Institute, an initiative of the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics… 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 »
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 »
13/08/08
17:54:07, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Asia, globalisation, music Ainu in Japan: Cool to be indigenous
Better times for the Ainu in Japan? There is an "revival of ethnic pride" going on in Japan according to ap.
At the forefront are the Ainu Rebels (image). They use music and dance to rebel against a history of institutionalized discrimination. They c… more »
03/08/08
16:15:59, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, globalisation, music, Visual Anthropology, cosmopolitanism Anthropologist explores heavy metal in Asia, South America and the Middle East
In 2005 his movie Metal - A Headbanger's journey took the world with storm. Now anthropologist and metal musician Sam Dunn has released "Global Metal" - a film about the global expansion of heavy metal music.
Together with his co-director Scot McFayde… more »
29/06/08
"Prostitution is not sex for money"
(via CultureMatters) Prostitution is a fascinating topic and means different things in different parts of the world. In the American Sexuality Magazine, anthropologist Lisa Wynn writes about her difficulties to understand what Egyptians meant when they s… more »
27/04/08
21:20:54, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, Northern America, journal articles / papers, websites New e-zine: American Ethnography
Anthropologist Martin Høyem has launched the e-zine "American Ethnography", an "internet glossy on the study of cultures":
We cover ethnography that relates to anything we would call America. We aim to present the tradition and practice of ethnograph… 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 »
26/01/08
Australian anthropologist is Japan's first-ever foreign geisha
A documentary film-maker and academic with a doctorate in anthropology from Oxford University, Fiona Graham has just become what she says is the first non-Japanese in 400 years to debut as a geisha. But she hasn't become a geisha for private reasons: Sh… more »
10/12/07
01:14:47, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general) Circumcision: "Harmful practice claim has been exaggerated" - AAA meeting part IV
Is female circumcision violence against women or a feminist act? Are critics of this practice guilty of cultural imperialism? Those questions were debated at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in Washington - among others by Africa… 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 »
13:06:28, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, persons and theories, journal articles / papers First issue of open access journal "After Culture" is online
The first issue of "After Culture - Emergent Anthropologies" that was planned for release in September 2006 has finally been published, Savage Minds reports.
The journal is edited by anthropologist Matthew Wolf-Meyer . In his editorial he explains tha… more »
06/11/07
02:18:16, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Middle East Kosher cell phones, kosher bus routes and kosher clothing: Israel's Ultra-Orthodox economy
For Jews, not only food needs to be kosher, the New York Times explains in an interesting article about Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox.
There are even kosher mobile phones. You cannot send text messages with them, take photographs or connect to the Internet… more »
28/10/07
AfricaWrites - Videos from rural Africa
Patrick Gorham, editor of AfricaWrites: Heroes, Rituals & Legends writes to me. He created AfricaWrites several years ago "with the intent and goals of research, exploration, preservation and documentation of traditional African culture". On the webs… more »
30/09/07
23:35:17, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers When Norwegians do business in Brazil, Lowrider Culture and 9 more anthropology theses (part 1)
Norwegian anthropologists no longer hide their master theses in distant libraries. Most theses are now available online in digital archives. Last week, more than 20 new theses (among them 11 in English) have been put online at DUO, the digital library of… more »
28/08/07
00:37:45, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, language, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, internet, websites New website helps save Kenai Peoples language (Alaska)
Their language is nearly dead. Maybe a new website can revitalize Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: The Kenai Peoples Language in Alaska? For more than two years, the two anthropologists Alan Boraas and Michael Christian have taken pictures, navigated through HTML an… more »
08/08/07
15:29:34, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Northern America, persons and theories "Minority cultures are automatically 'different'"
The majority-minority discourse in Canada doesn't seem to differ from the discourse here in Norway "Anglo culture is dominant and taken for granted; minority cultures are automatically 'different'", Yasmin Jiwani writes in the Vancouver Sun. There, rece… more »
01/08/07
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 »
31/07/07
National Geographic Channel Is Going Anthropology?
Michelle Shildkret from the National Geographic Channel writes to me and informs about a new TV-program called taboo. This season of Taboo premieres Sunday, August 5th.
Taboo is an hour-long program that challenges the way we look at other cultures a… more »
02/07/07
How to save Tibetan folk songs? Put them online!
More and more Tibetan folk songs are disappearing. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) uses digital media to capture tunes that are being lost. The volunteer-run program aims to put all the digital song… more »
22/06/07
13:50:18, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Native American, ethics Infanticide: "We are fighting against anthropologists"
Babies born into some Indian societies in the Amazon are being buried alive, a practice that is being covered up by the Brazilian authorities and anthropologists "out of respect for tribal culture" according to the Telegraph. "We are fighting against doc… more »
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