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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 »
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