(via Vizuális Antropológia.lap.hu) A critical article by Patrick Harries, University of Cape Town, dealing with the history of visual anthropology in South Africa. "Many early practitioners thought photographs reflected reality in an objective and unbia… more »
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by lorenz on Aug 10, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
Peter Suber from Open Access News tells us about a new academic search engine called BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine). It discloses - according the press release he quotes - "more than 2,3 Mio. documents of 130 online - resources, incl. many scho… more »
by lorenz on Aug 10, 2005 in technology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia • 1 comment »
"Rebekah Nathan" isn't the only anthropologist who is studying students.
The article in Democrat & Chronicle starts like this (quite typically for journalists who are somehow puzzeled by recent changes in anthropology)
On and off for two years… more »
by lorenz on Aug 8, 2005 in corporate & business anthropology, Us and Them, books, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general)
(Post in progress)
Here a short summary of some stories published during the summer break:
Most discussed: Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" and the reasons for differences in progress for different societies
From a summary of the de… more »
by lorenz on Aug 4, 2005 in fieldwork / methods, youth, University / Academia, ethics • 8 comments »
Gil Klein, Media General News Service
WASHINGTON - When most anthropologists do field work, they head off to places like Indonesia to study such things as 20th century head-hunting rituals. But when Rebekah Nathan wanted to study a foreign culture, sh… more »
by lorenz on Aug 3, 2005 in fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), Visual Anthropology, websites
Norwegian Anthropologist Brigt Dale has started to blog in English - additionally to Norwegian. In his first post, he writes:
First of all, I will try to follow up on my motto for my Norwegian blog, and relentlessly attack and scrutinise all things w… more »
Anthopologist Dan Fessler tells us about a new research project "Children and Fire" and asks us to participate and be informants >> read more in antropologi.info Forum
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Rise of armchair anthropology? More and more scientists do online rese… more »
by lorenz on Jun 30, 2005 in fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), interdisciplinary • 2 comments »
The Guardian
A rapidly growing field of research called "social neuroscience" draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for the social interaction between humans.
Traditionally, cognitive neuros… more »
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