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Category: development empowerment
15/01/10
05:17:08, by Lorenz 
. Categories: development empowerment, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, poverty, Caribbean Haiti Earthquake: Worldwide solidarity, a common humanity? (updated)
(Hatiain Children up in the mountains. Image: Matt Dringenberg, flickr) (post in progress) "Anthropology to me is all about human connexions, about a common humanity", said Dai Cooper from the Anthropology Song. "B… more »
23/03/09
01:43:51, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Europe, development empowerment, globalisation, anthropology (general) Financial crisis: Anthropologists lead mass demonstration against G20 summit
(Update: Chris Knight suspended over G20-activism) The G20 summit in London next month may be marked by one of the biggest demonstrations since a million people marched against war in Iraq in 2003. According to The Sunday Telegraph, the demonstrations ar… more »
11/03/09
22:16:28, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, development empowerment, ecology nature, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Why we need more disaster anthropology
On the 5th of December 2006, typhoon Durian hit Bến Tre province in Southern Vietnam. Close to 100 people died, more than 800 moored fishing boats sank, thousands of buildings collapsed including schools and hospitals. In her master's thesis, Uy N… 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 »
01/12/08
20:57:13, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, development empowerment, globalisation, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers How anthropologists should react to the financial crisis
Anthropologists have largely left the global effects of economic globalisation to economists. Now in this worldwide financial crisis it is the time for anthropologists to renew an engagement with political economy, Keith Hart and Horacio Ortiz write in… 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 »
24/11/08
03:39:07, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, media, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Ethnographic Study: Social Websites Important For Childhood Development
Many adults worry that children are wasting time online, texting, or playing video games. In the first in-depth ethnographic study of its kind, researchers of the Digital Youth Project found that the digital world is creating new opportunities for youth… more »
09/11/08
19:33:53, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Asia, development empowerment, youth, journal articles / papers Thesis: The limits of youth activism in Afghanistan
What possiblities have Afghan youth to rebuild their country and to work for a better future? Which constraints do they meet? Anthropologist Elisabet Eikås has been on fieldwork among young people in Kabul from October 2003 to June 2004. The result is… 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
Development anthropology via the mobile phone
With mobile banking taking off around much of the developing world, how long will it be before international aid is delivered electronically, asks anthropologist Ken Banks in PC World.
Banks is the founder of kiwanja, an organisation, that helps non… 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 »
16/05/08
01:09:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, interdisciplinary The resurgence of African anthropology
What is the state of anthropology at African universities? African anthropology is interdisciplinary and focuses on solving problems like poverty, diseases and violence, Paul Nchoji Nkwi writes in the book World Anthropologies (download the book):
Th… more »
30/03/08
15:51:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, Native American, Caribbean, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Another way of doing fieldwork: Developing websites with your informants!
Indigenous communities have embraced the internet from early on. The website of the Oneida Indian Nation was set up before the website for the White House. Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has developped several websites in collaboration with indigenou… more »
12/11/07
21:30:50, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, applied anthropology, poverty Urban anthropologist: "Recognize that people want to come to the big cities"
More and more people live in mega cities. Rather than fixating on investing in the countryside, donor agencies need to recognize that people want to come to the big cities. And rather than demolishing squatter developments one should integrate these sel… more »
01/08/07
Airport lamps light only option for studious Guinea kids
When the sun has set in Guinea, one of the world's poorest nations, and the floodlights come on at Gbessia International Airport, the parking lot begins to fill with children. It is among the only places where they can count on finding the lights on. Th… more »
02:42:29, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, internet Ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income communities
Culture Matters points to "exciting" working papers by the Information Society Research Group about the social and economic benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in low-income communities in Jamaica, India, South Africa and Ghana: "T… more »
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 »
17/12/06
16:48:11, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general) Nepal: Anthropologists, sociologists urged to build country
"Anthropologists should actively cooperate in the building of new Nepal", Subash Chandra Nembang said at the three-day international seminar on 'social science in a multi-cultural world', organized by the Nepal Sociological and Anthropological Society (N… more »
28/08/06
00:47:06, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), University / Academia "Discuss politics!" - How anthropologists in Indonesia engage with the public
Crossroads is the name of a new blog by anthropologist Fadjar I. Thufail, currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In an interview (from 2001), he tells us that Indonesian anthropologists continually attempt to link themselv… more »
21/07/06
19:07:00, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), websites New blog: Blogging anthropological fieldwork in Brazil
(via Gumsagumlao.dk) One more Danish anthroblogger: Rune Kier Nielsen is doing research on the black consciousness movement in Brasil. In his first post (three months ago) he writes:
I am writing this blog for me to reflect on an upcomming challenge i… more »
11/06/06
10:50:41, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, development empowerment, inuit, internet How internet changes the life among the First Nations in Canada
(via FieldNotes): These are the first words in an article on how the internet is changing life in First Nations communities in Canada:
"This year, the internet saved a child's life."
For Internet may mean different things to life up there in the N… more »
09/06/06
The Kampala Project on Global Citizenship
At Vanderbilt University, students will work with health organizations in Uganda this summer as part of that country’s response to HIV/AIDS. They are part of a project called "The Kampala Project on Global Citizenship" that has a nice website and they wi… more »
10/05/06
23:36:42, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Africa, development empowerment A Solar power equipped school as gift to the Maasai: Good or bad?
Journalists often draw strict lines between "us" - the modern - and "them" - living in the stone age - although, as anthropologist Kerim Friedman put it we're all modern now.
According to a recent story by Knight Ridder Newspapers, a gift to Maasai p… more »
09/04/06
16:05:43, by Lorenz . Categories: development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general) Do anthropologists have anything relevant to say about human rights?
Anthropology News April focuses on the topic anthropology and human rights. Both anthropologists and non-anthropologists have been asked to answer the question: Do anthropologists have anything useful or relevant to say about human rights?
In Gerald… more »
26/03/06
21:17:58, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, development empowerment, globalisation, gender, anthropology (general) Chronicles Women's Social Movements in India
The small groups of rural women in India fighting for change is something the rest of the world needs to take note of, says Mangala Subramaniam, an assistant professor of sociology and women's studies. Since the late 1990s, Subramaniam has studied social… more »
24/02/06
20:24:55, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, development empowerment, globalisation, Pacific Oceania, persons and theories Available for download: Alex Golubs dissertation on mining and indigenous people
In his dissertation (published on his blog yesterday), anthropologist Alex Golub challenges popular notions on indigenous peoples, mining and globalisation. He has done research in a region that has gone through major transformations and fulfills every s… more »
20/11/05
17:01:27, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, development empowerment, ecology nature, journal articles / papers, San-bushmen, tourism Thesis: Conservation for Whom? Telling Good Lies in the Development of Central Kalahari
Anna Stadler from Linköping University, Department of Anthropology (Sweden) has conducted a study of the relocation of the G//ana and G/wi San from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Her essay discusses how conservation policies, development… more »
06/11/05
When applied anthropology becomes aid - A disaster anthropologist’s thoughts
In Anthropology News November, Susanna M Hoffman (co-editor of Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster) rises the question how anthropologists could help people who are ravaged by the recent hurricanes:
Disasters and their effects on… more »
01/11/05
To improve literacy rates: Through the desert with a mobile camel library
(via GlobalVoices)Fascinating photo story by Rashid Farah on BBC News of librarians who travel the Kenyan desert with a mobile camel library to improve literacy rates in the north-east: "A static library would be of no use to nomads and so instead we fol… more »
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