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Category: ecology nature
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 »
29/03/09
Earth Hour - The first globalized ritual?
I have to confess I have an ambivalent relation to initiatives like the Earth Hour. But anthropologist Stephen Bede Scharper casts an interesting perspective on this new way to save our planet.
He describes Earth Hour as "the first globalized ritual"… 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 »
29/08/08
00:00:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, ecology nature, Native American, journal articles / papers "Untouched" Amazone hosted large cities - a model for the future?
The myth of the "untouched" Amazone is popular. But areas that look pristine today have been the home of large urban areas, anthropologist Michael Heckenberger has found out already five years ago.
In a new paper that was published today in Science h… more »
30/03/08
19:21:20, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, ecology nature, poverty, anthropology (general), food and drink The last days of cheap oil and what anthropologists can do about it
Oil is vital to our growth economy. Yet, our need for continued access to fossil fuels drives many of today's conflicts. And we are in the last days of cheap oil and need alternatives. In his guest editorial in the new issue of Anthropology Today (subsc… more »
30/09/07
15:17:40, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, ecology nature, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, food and drink Ethnobotany in Britain: Anthropologists study social networks around plants
Ethnobotany in not only about "exotic" plants in the rain forest: "The ethnobotany of British home gardens: diversity, knowledge and exchange" is the title of a new research project at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent. Among other… more »
09/08/07
Now online: Third issue of "Ecological and Environmental Anthropology"
The third issue of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology, an open access peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Georgia is out and consists of four book reviews and two papers:
Keri Vacanti Brondo, Laura Woods:
Garifuna Land Rights… more »
02/08/07
Malaysia: Penan people threatened by demand for "green" bio-fuels
The Penan people from the jungles of Sarawak are threatened by rampant commercial logging and palm oil plantations for bio-fuel, a Malaysian government report said. European and North American demand for "green" bio-fuels made from palm oil means rainfor… more »
11/06/07
13:11:23, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Asia, ecology nature, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Dissertation: Survival in the Rainforest
Are hunter-gatherer communities able to rely completely on the rainforest environment for their food, without any dependence on food traded from farming societies? How has their life changed as a result of settling down? How has the community responded… more »
22/04/07
Global Migrants For Climate Action - Migrants organize to fight climate change
We've read a lot about the consequences of climate change for the Inuit. But it's people in poor countries who will suffer most and they already do. Lots of people from these countries live as migrants in countries like Norway or the U.S. Because of pers… more »
18/04/07
04:00:55, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, ecology nature, persons and theories, Arctic / Northern Regions, journal articles / papers "But We Are Still Native People" - Tad McIlwraith's dissertation is online
Our fellow anthro-blogger Tad McIlwraith has successfully defended his dissertation "But We Are Still Native People’: Talking about Hunting and History in a Northern Athapaskan Village" that now can be downloaded from his website (The graduates in his ye… more »
31/03/07
03:57:47, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, globalisation, ecology nature, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, journal articles / papers, food and drink Thesis: How does EU influence the life of farmers in Finland?
Why see uncertainty caused by social change as a hindering aspect of human experience, instead of an enabling one? In her thesis Good Lives, Hidden Miseries: An Ethnography of Uncertainty in a Finnish Village, anthropologist Susanne Ådahl from the Univer… more »
28/02/07
International Polar Year opened - Anthropologists involved
More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles when the International Polar Year officially opened on Monday: It unifies 228 research projects about the impact of global warming in the Arctic the Washington Post r… more »
13/07/06
11:47:09, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees, books, persons and theories A link between food resources and social hierarchies?
In a portrait on the website of The National University of Australia, anthropologist Ian Keen, tells about his research among Aboriginees in Australia. Among other things, he wanted to find out why pre-colonial Aboriginal societies tended to be more egal… more »
23/04/06
Primatologists go cultural - New issue of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology
The second issue of the peer reviewed Open Access journal Ecological and Environmental Anthropology is quite unusual. The papers have titles like
"The Importance of Integrative Anthropology: A Preliminary Investigation Employing Primatological and C… more »
15/03/06
16:17:52, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees How to survive in a desert? On Aboriginals' knowledge of the groundwater system
Indigenous Australians dug underground water reservoirs that helped them live on one of the world's driest continents for tens of thousands of years, new research by hydrogeologist Brad Moggridge shows, according to ABC News. The study indicates Aborigi… more »
22/12/05
18:23:32, by Lorenz . Categories: ecology nature, inuit, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions Arctic refuge saved from oil drillers - Inuit divided
Good news (for environmentalists) before the Christmas New Year-break: There will be no oil drilling in the Alaska's Arctic national wildlife reserve. Republicans have battled to allow drilling in the reserve for 25 years. Although they pledged to try ag… more »
07/12/05
Anthropology News December: Comparative studies of flood management in neoliberal, social-democratic states needed
One month before Katrina resulted in floods in New Orleans, a similar “natural” disaster occurred in Mumbai, India. Judy Whitehead, associate professor at the University of Lethbridge in Canada the United Kingdom, has conducted disaster research in partn… 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 »
19:08:47, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, fieldwork / methods Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea: Who are the exotic others?
A recent post by Alex Golub on Savage Minds is interesting for several reasons: Even a scientific project on a very narrow topic might suddenly be relevant for a wider audience. Golub has studied the relationship between indigenous people in Papua New Gu… more »
20/10/05
A new word For June - or: When is the Arctic no longer the Arctic?
Long story in the International Herald Tribune about climate change in the Arctic, sinking cities, unhappy reindeers, emaciated looking polar bears, walruses trying to climb onto white boats, mistaking them for ice floes and seasoned hunters who have bee… more »
16/10/05
11:06:26, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, development empowerment, ecology nature, applied anthropology, Northern America, anthropology (general) Katrina disaster has roots in 1700s / Earthquake disaster in South Asia man-made
As noted before, disasters have their cultural aspects: Disasters are embedded in cultural practices of societies. "Disasters do not just happen."
Anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith says in an interview about the earthquake in South Asia:
People… more »
03/10/05
00:31:21, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, development empowerment, ecology nature, applied anthropology, anthropology (general) Pacific Ethnography - Anthropology research consultancy on Human and Environmental Interaction
(Via my site statistics) Most anthropological research consultancies concentrate on design and business anthropology. Pacific Ethnography do conduct consumer product research, but they provide human environmental impact research as well and work with no… more »
19/09/05
New website: Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
This is how social scientists should act. The Social Science Research Council has set up the website Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. SSRC explains:
"As analyses and "spin" of the Katrina crisis grow, we confront the sort… more »
08/09/05
"Disasters do not just happen" - The Anthropology of Disaster (2)
"Nothing Is Just", anthropologist Dustin M. Wax wrote in one of his first posts on Savage Minds: Filmmaking isn’t “just” making movies: Marriage isn’t “just” a marker of committment. Family isn’t “just” the people you are related to. Giving gifts isn’t “… more »
27/06/05
Thailand: Local wisdom protects hometown from the onslaught of globalisation
Bangkok Post
"We fishermen have knowledge about the Mekong based on our time-tested experiences," said Oon Thammawong, 57, of Ban Had Bai in Chiang Rai's Chiang Khong district. "But policy-makers dismiss us as simple folk so that they can dismiss our… more »
23/05/05
22:39:44, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, ecology nature, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Culture and Environment - New issue of Pro Ethnologica is online
Pro Ethnologica (published by the Estonian Eesti Rahva Muuseumi in Tartu) is one of the few anthropology Open Access journals. Their recent volume is dated back in December 2004 but the articles haven't been onliner until now - probably due to copyright… more »
01/05/05
New full text journal: Ecological and Environmental Anthropology
"Time in Service to Historical Ecology" - "Roads Diverging in Yellow Woods: New Paths for Ecological and Environmental Anthropology" - "Ecology & Anthropology: A Field without Future?" are some the names of the articles in the new journal Ecological… more »
22/04/05
08:47:21, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, ecology nature, Saami, Arctic / Northern Regions Greenpeace activists & Sami reindeer herders want to stop the logging of forests
Six Degrees, Finnland
Greenpeace have set up a Forest Rescue Station in Finnish Lapland to stop the logging of forests used as natural pastures by Sami reindeer herders. This action also highlights outstanding disputes concerning the land rights of th… more »
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