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UPDATE (5.6.05): Link is corrected. They have moved the article to an earlier issue of the journal Tom WILSON: Globalization, Differenciation and Drinking Cultures: an anthropological perspective. Drinking culture in Ireland, at home or in more public… more »

Eurozine is a netmagazine that publishes both own texts and articles previously published in European magazines. Their new "focal point" looks very interesting. From their introduction: "Have borders become irrelevant with the project of a united Europe,… more »

Zaman Daily Newspaper At this time of the season, purple flowers bloom more fully in all corners of the Bosphorous, and purple clusters, enchanted because spring is coming at full speed, twine around. Being in Istanbul is a privilege under the shadow… more »

The Oberlin Review “Dead bodies have enjoyed political life the world over,” said anthropologist Katherine Verdery on Monday. She did not, however, mean this literally. Verdery’s lecture, appropriately called “The Political Lives of Dead Bodies” after… more »

Anthropologist Cicilie Fagerlid (University of Oslo) has recently published her thesis about young British Asians on the web. In her introduction, she writes: "Society cannot remain a society if people feel excluded on basis of what characterises them… more »

The Daily Star Lebanon Dounia Bouzar, an anthropologist and educator, spent two years working with 12 Muslim associations in France studying the different ways young Muslims approach their daily life. Her newest book, "Monsieur Islam n'existe pas; Pou… more »

BBC News St Petersburg's Museum of Ethnography has decided to illustrate the history of ethnic groups living in Russia with an exhibition of trousers worn as part of their traditional costumes. On display there are 70 pairs of trousers representing… more »

Christian Science Monitor To many Germans, Santa's spread is an unwelcome reminder of the encroachment of American commercialism into Europe. "People are starting to become critical of commercialism in every respect," says Hermann Bausinger, a cultura… more »