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12/10/09
Digital Anthropology Report: Attitudes to technology = basis of future class divides
How do people in Britain use the internet? How do they behave online? The new Digital Anthropology Report. The Six Tribes of Homo Digitalis gives some answers.
The British communication company Talk Talk sent researchers from the University of Kent i… more »
28/09/09
France asks anthropologist for advice on burqa-ban
The French government has asked anthropology professor John Bowen to testify on a possible burqa-ban in public places in France. France banned burqas in public schools in 2004, Student Life and New York Times report.Bowen said that none of the Fren… 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 »
06/07/09
How anthropology in Eastern Europe is changing
Studia ethnologica Croatica is one of those Open Access journals I've found recently. Their latest issue gives an overview over recent delevopments in anthropology in Eastern Europe. The texts are based on presentations made at the conference ‘New Curric… more »
20/06/09
03:10:13, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, applied anthropology, University / Academia, ethics Militarisation of Research: Meet the Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation
We have discussed a lot about the strengthening ties between the military and universities in the USA and Britain, but similar things are happening in Scandinavia. And there is no public debate about it here.
One example is a research center that was… more »
27/05/09
00:59:34, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Journal of European Ethnology is going (a little bit) Open Access
Is Open Access the new buzz-word? Do we see some change in the world of anthropology journals? Angels Trias i Valls recently announced the birth of a new open access journal, Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics.
And last week, I receiv… 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 »
20/01/09
Dissertation: Sexualisation of childhood?
Tight jeans and short tops for seven year-old girls? When anthropologist Mari Rysst was out shopping clothes for her then seven year-old daughter she - to her dismay - mostly found clothes which imitated the teenage look. Seven years later she published… more »
19/01/09
22:06:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, globalisation, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Open access: Journal of Identity and Migration Studies
Xenophobia in South Africa, labour mobility and economic development, minorities’ integration, representation of refugees and forced migrants in the British Economy are some of the topics in the most recent issue of Journal of Identity and Migration Stud… more »
04/12/08
New Anthropology Matters out: Practicing anthropology "out of the corner of one's eye"
Why do people wear and produce fake underwear, fake suits and fake jeans? In the new issue of Anthropology Matters, anthropologist Magdalena Craciun tells us in a well written paper about what it was like researching "the place of fake brands in lives li… more »
12/09/08
Guest post: Review of the Moving Anthropology Student Network conference
What is it like being at a conference with anthropology students from many different countries? Daren Williams from Macquarie University in Sydney has written a review for antropologi.info about the 6th conference of the Moving Anthropology Student Netw… more »
23/04/08
01:38:08, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, books, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Phd-Thesis: That's why they embrace Islam
Our fellow anthro-blogger Martijn de Koning was awarded his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam last week.
In his Ph.D. thesis he shows how Islam has become the most important frame of reference for Moroccan-Dutch youth to reflect upon who… more »
10/04/08
00:48:54, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, anthropology (general), interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Interviews about moral cosmopolitanism, India-Pakistan, faith, populism, minoritiy-issues
Recently, several of my interviews with researchers of the interdisciplinary research program Cultural Complexity of the New Norway (Culcom) have been translated into English. Here are the most recent ones:
Does the answer exist in human nature?
What… more »
03/04/08
23:37:13, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers Examples of engaging anthropology - New issue of "Anthropology Matters"
How can anthropology contribute to understanding and fighting inequality? The new issue of Anthropology Matters brings together articles from the first British postgraduate MA in Applied Anthropology and Community and Youth Work. Most of the students ar… more »
15/11/07
Dissertation: Imam's influence on Muslims overestimated
Participants in the debate on Islam often overestimate the authority and influence of imams. The role of the imam is especially limited when it comes to so-called "second and third generation immigrants". This is the conclusion reached by anthropologist… 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 »
17/08/07
Engaged research = Terrorism: Germany arrests social scientists
Germany arrested urban sociologist Andrej Holm because of his academic activities. He was accused of being member of a "terrorist association" called "militante gruppe" (militant group) who is suspected to be behind arson attacks against police and army… more »
02/08/07
Extremism: "Authorities -and not Imams - can make the situation worse"
"Muslim religious leaders are not only working with local authorities but are helping to decrease radicalisation", stresses anthropologist (and blogger) Gabriele Marranci. During an International Conference on Extremism in London, key authorities were cr… more »
04/07/07
15:20:51, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, anthropology (general), websites New blog: Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist
The Anthropology of Islam and Jihad Beyond Islam are the most recent books by Gabriele Marranci. In January this year he has started his own blog Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist. He is also writing for the excellent Middle East blog Tabsir.
Gab… more »
02/04/07
01:24:14, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, persons and theories, interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Five more interviews on cultural complexity!
One of my jobs consists in interviewing researchers in the research program Cultural Complexity in the new Norway. Five of these interviews have been translated into English, I've just put them online:
Traveling to Turkey to Understand Norway
Anthrop… 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
22:04:01, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, anthropology (general), persons and theories, University / Academia Interview: "Anthropology Is Badly Needed In Eastern Europe"
Social anthropology isn't (yet) an established discipline in Eastern Europe. In an interview with me, Vytis Ciubrinskas explains why he thinks anthropology is badly needed.
Vytis Ciubrinskas is Head of the Center of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Mag… more »
How do low-cost airlines influence how people and money travel?
The International Herald Tribune writes about how European low-cost airlines "are drawing a new map of how people and money travel in Europe". An example:
Andrzej Majewski, a Pole who works as a thoracic surgeon in Britain, catches a ride to the airpo… more »
21/01/07
18:46:49, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, youth, journal articles / papers Doctoral thesis: Towards a transnational Islam
Young muslims are moving from an Islam based on the culture of their homeland to an increasingly transnationally embedded Islam of Muslims from many different countries and cultures. That's one of the findings in the doctoral thesis by Norwegian anthrop… more »
17/12/06
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves
"Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space" is the title of a new book by American anthropologist John R. Bowen. For nearly three years ago, the French government banned headscarves and similar clothing that indicates relig… more »
04/12/06
For free migration: Open the borders!
Given the continuing massive disparities in wealth between Europe and Africa, immigration is unlikely to stop anytime soon. Remittances sent by migrants are the second most important income source for many countries in the south. Border control is expens… more »
16/10/06
Ethnographic study: Why the education system fails white working-class children
"Our politicians are so obsessed by race that they have forgotten the importance of class", writes Daily Telegraph journalist Andrew Gimson and points to a new book by anthropologist Gillian Evans called Educational Failure and Working-Class White Childr… more »
00:25:51, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Europe, migration, food and drink France: More and more muslims observe Ramadan
Ramadan is being increasingly observed by France's Muslim community - but also for a few French non-Muslims, afp reports. "I do it sometimes to show my support for my Muslim friends," said Lorie, a schoolgirl in the eastern suburb of Montreuil.
The tr… more »
15/10/06
Multimedia Music Ethnography of Yodelling and Alphorn Blowing
A new interactive multimedia-website was launched about Swiss folk music including an Alphorn Tune Composer. On www.swissalpinemusic.ch you can read about alphorn music and yodelling, on alpine traditions and so on but the best thing is that you can list… more »
09/10/06
An exhibition and a movie: The French, colonialism and the construction of "the other"
The first temporary exhibition at Paris’s Quai Branly museum takes an ambitious look at how the West constructs its ‘other’, Mary Stevens writes in her research blog about the reconfiguration of national identity in French museums:
In the permanent e… more »
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