The Japan Times Online
Anthropologist Satsuki Kawano in her study of various ritual practices in the city of Kamakura wishes to see religious rites as being both culturally constructed and socially generated. Kawano prefers to demonstrate that partaki… more »
Category: "culture traditions"
by lorenz on Jun 20, 2005 in politics, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Asia, applied anthropology
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Dutch-sponsored researcher Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta analysed the dynamics of the conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Molucca Islands. The anthropologist proposes that rituals play an import… more »
Anthropologist Christopher Davis, The Guardian
Tony Blair's Commission for Africa has left me bewildered. As an anthropologist interested in "traditional" medicine, I was delighted to see its report's attempt to take an Africa-centred point of view. R… more »
by lorenz on Jun 12, 2005 in religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, gender, books, anthropology (general)
American Ethnologist and The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology are some of the best places to stay informed about new anthropology books. A few days ago they published their newest reviews, among others:
The Making of English National Iden… more »
by lorenz on Jun 6, 2005 in culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, food and drink
Lots of interesting articles can be read in full-text in the new issue of the journal "Anthropology of Food", edited by Virginie Amilien and Gunnar Vittersø at SIFO - Norwegian Institute for Consumption Research, f.ex about "coalho" cheese in the northea… more »
by lorenz on Jun 6, 2005 in corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, Asia, applied anthropology • 2 comments »
Daily Telegraph
It is easy to see why multi-national giants such as Wal-Mart, French rival Carrefour and Tesco, all of which are active in China, are so attracted to India. The country has the world's second largest population after China with over 1b… more »
SanDiego.com Union TribuneThe way we move tells us who we are. The rhythm of our walk, the sports we play and our dances define us as individuals and cultures. Movement also can cross borders. That makes modern dance a stunning example of global comm… more »
The Globe and Mail
Cultural lag is the term first coined by anthropologists to describe the gap between an invention and society's ability to actually use it. It took about 50 years for the typewriter to displace the pen. When electricity first came t… more »
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