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24/08/09
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 »
24/07/09
03:32:09, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, politics, Us and Them, Asia, anthropology (general), ethics Anthropology in China: IUAES-conference boycott due to Uyghur massacre
(UPDATE 27.7.09: Chinese media propaganda at IUAES anthropology conference in Kunming? / UPDATE 30.7: IUAES-anthropologists "praise" Chinese government's relation to minorities )
Last year, the conference was cancelled by the Chinese government for fea… more »
00:15:36, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, anthropology (general), persons and theories Identity politics: Have anthropologists gone too far?
Inspired by a lecture by Peter Geschiere, anthropologist Yara El-Ghadban discusses a difficult and central question in our discipline: How to deconstruct a notion without destroying the meaning that it has for people? In order to challenge stereotypi… more »
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