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Categories: anthropology (general), ethics, fieldwork / methods, interdisciplinary, persons and theories, Visual Anthropology
01/03/10
Hindi Film Songs and the Barriers between Ethnomusicology and Anthropology
----Review: Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by Anna Morcom 2007, Ashgate, ISBN 978-0-7546-5198-7Tereza Kuldova, Research Fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Department of Ethnography University of Oslo[video:youtube:6B1I56Q4swE]Popular mu… more »
09/02/10
02:52:00, by Lorenz 
. Categories: anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia University reforms - a threat to anthropology?
It started around 20 years ago: The idea of education as a right was being replaced by a concept of education as a commodity to purchase. Today's universities are managed like businesses, striving for "excellence", being best, competing for the "best" br… more »
26/01/10
01:09:07, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia Pecha Kucha - the future of presenting papers?
Why reading your paper when there are lot more exciting ways of presenting your research? I have asked Aleksandra Bartoszko and Marcy Hessling to tell us about their experience with a recent experiment at the annual meeting of the American Anthropologic… more »
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 »
03/01/10
Happy New Year with lists!
Happy New Year to everybody with a firework from Sydney (photo by Rajwinder Singh, flickr) and thanks for reading antropologi.info, commenting and contributing to this blog and other blogs! In 2009, when antropologi.info turned five years old, I was… more »
28/12/09
01:17:05, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Asia, books, history, Visual Anthropology Colonialism, racism and visual anthropology in Japan: Photography, Anthropology and History part II
Here is the second part of the review of the book Photography, Anthropology and History, edited by Christopher Morton and Elizabeth Edwards. This time, Tessa Valo reviews Ka F. Wong's article about one of the first Japanese anthropologists, who beca… more »
27/12/09
AAA meeting round-up: What did all those anthropologists talk about?
Three weeks ago, anthropologists from all over the world met in Philadelphia at the annual meerting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). What did all those anthropologists talk about during the largest anthropology meeting in the world?… more »
23/12/09
20:56:14, by Lorenz . Categories: books, anthropology (general), media, history, Visual Anthropology Book review: Photography, Anthropology and History (Part I)
When filming people became possible, anthropologists began to drift away from it. Though better off than at the beginning of the 20th century, the visual anthropology today is still perceived as a marginal discipline, Tessa Valo writes in the first part… more »
25/11/09
Book review: Presenting 2nd generation Multi-Sited Ethnography
Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research (ed.) Mark-Anthony Falzon. 2009. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7318-7.Tereza Kuldova (Tessa Valo), PhD fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo This edited volume cons… more »
17/11/09
16:37:43, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites Looking back at 10 years Public Anthropology online
What is public anthropology? Already in 1999, when he had started his Ph.D project, Martijn de Koning has made his first anthropology website. In a very interesting blog post with many links, he is looking back at 10 years public anthropology online:… more »
05/11/09
04:10:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet, ethics Anthropologists ignore Open Access Week - a report from Wellington
What's the point of science if it's not publicly accessible? Two weeks ago, the first global Open Access Week was organized. Masters' student in anthropology Karstein Noremark has written a report for antropologi.info about the Open Access Week at Victor… more »
03/11/09
Claude Levi-Strauss is dead (updated)
A month before his 101.birthday, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the most influential anthropologists, died at the age of 100. He died over the weekend, according to the office of the president of the School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Pa… more »
18:58:00, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Two months free access to AAA journals!
From now on until the end of December, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is offering free access to a large section of its journals.Why not free all the time? asks Kerim Friedman. Good question. The AAA has been often criticized for its… more »
01/11/09
17:49:07, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, websites SSOAR - The first Social Science Open Access Repository is online
(via media/anthropology and Open Access Anthropology blog) Where can I publish my papers online? A few weeks ago, I wrote about ResearchGATE and other initiatives. Now, SSOAR - the Social Science Open Access Repository is online. It is according to Ke… more »
22/10/09
14:46:41, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), music, Visual Anthropology, internet Interview: Meet Dai Cooper from The Anthropology Song!
Dai Cooper's Anthropology Song has fascinated people all over the world. Around 10 000 people have seen the video on YouTube so far, it was sent around via facebook, twitter, mailing lists, and was already shown in many anthropology classes. Maybe nobody… more »
19/10/09
19:42:23, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), Visual Anthropology, internet The Anthropology Song!
(via facebook and Savage Minds) What is Anthropology? What is it about? Forget about all definitions, here is the Anthropology Song by Dai Cooper:[video:youtube:LHv6rw6wxJY] more »
02/10/09
04:02:07, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Asia, aboriginees, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers How can anthropology help us understand Swat and Taliban?
The Swat Pathan have been the subject of classic ethnographies in anthropology for many years. Now they are at the centre of a bigger battle for control and at the center of world attention because of a conflict that forced more than one million people t… more »
00:42:02, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, Asia, aboriginees, anthropology (general), ethics Correction (and Update): "Army-Anthropologists don't call Afghans "Savages"
My most recent post Army-Anthropologists call Afghans "Savages" received a lot attention, so it might be necessary to write a new post after the debates in the comment field and via email. It seems that the Sydney Morning Herald reporter misunderstoo… more »
28/09/09
Army-Anthropologists call Afghans "Savages"?
Do you want to know what anthropologists who work for the US military in Afghanistan write about the people America is at war with? I resist to believe it but according to the Syndney Morning Herald they call some Afghan societies for "utter savages".… more »
26/09/09
02:41:21, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, anthropology (general), websites What has anthropology taught you?
A friend of mine sent me a link to the website of the Norwegian migration researcher Jørgen Carling http://www.dragoeiro.com It has an unusually nice design, but what I'm even more impressed about is the section "Research findings". Here, he lists selec… more »
16/09/09
00:24:34, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet Selv-archiving repositories: Is ResearchGate the solution?
Today, ResearchGATE has launched a new Self-Archiving Repository. "This will make full-text articles available to the public, for free - the first application of its kind worldwide", ResearchGate claims in their press release:Currently, there is no w… more »
13/09/09
The increasing feminization of anthropology
Have you been in an anthropology class / course with more men then women? I haven't. In both Norway, Germany and Switzerland (pluss many other places incl South Africa, I heard), the gender balance between men and women is around 25-75. Eli Thorkelson, g… 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 »
24/08/09
18:17:59, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), websites 96 year old anthropologist starts blogging
(via AAA-blog) He was both president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and editor of the journal American Anthropologist. Now Walter Goldschmidt, born in 1913, is joing the growing anthropological blogging community at http://waltergoldsc… more »
00:31:07, by Lorenz . Categories: medical anthropology / ethnobothany, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Why anthropologists should politicize mental illnesses
How to deal with "mental illness"? Are people who are labelled ill actually ill? Is it ok that psychologists call "adolescent rebellion" for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”? What is anthropologists' role here? Eugenia Tsao discusses these questions in an… more »
09/08/09
13:56:46, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites, internal notes 5 years antropologi.info
It's hard to believe that I have been running this blog already for around five years. It was in June 2004, I bought the domain antropologi.info and on the 7th of July 2004, the English blog was launched by anthropologist Simon Roberts from Ideas Bazaar… more »
07/08/09
01:25:49, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Public anthropology through collaboration with journalists
How can we make anthropology public? How survive as politically engaged anthropologist in conservative institutions? Nancy Scheper-Hughes answers these questions in the guest editorial in the new issue of Anthropology Today. Public anthropology impli… more »
01/08/09
00:31:10, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, politics, Latin- and Central America, anthropology (general) Why was anthropologist Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila beaten to death?
One year after anthropologist, author and indigenous rights activist Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila was beaten to death in Southern Mexico, there has been silence from the Mexican authorities. The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN as… more »
30/07/09
09:37:18, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, politics, Us and Them, Asia, anthropology (general), ethics IUAES-anthropologists "praise" Chinese government's relation to minorities
Chinese authorities continue using the 16th congress by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) to spread propaganda. This is the most recent article: Overseas anthropologists: Adventure in Chinese ethnic village "e… more »
27/07/09
12:29:02, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, anthropology (general), University / Academia Chinese media propaganda at IUAES anthropology conference in Kunming
(update 30.7: IUAES-anthropologists "praise" Chinese government's relation to minorities) As I wrote a few days ago, the vice president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Petr Skalník decided to boycott the IU… more »
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