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 »
Category: "culture traditions"
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 »
by lorenz on Dec 10, 2007 in culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general) • 2 comments »
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 »
by lorenz on Nov 12, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, books, Caribbean • 1 comment »
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 »
by lorenz on Nov 12, 2007 in culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, persons and theories, journal articles / papers
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 »
by lorenz on Nov 6, 2007 in technology, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Middle East
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 »
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 »
by lorenz on Sep 30, 2007 in culture traditions, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
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 »
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