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Category: history
04/08/10
Book review: The deep footprints of colonial Bombay
Antropologi.info’s main book reviewer Tereza Kuldova has read another book for us.“One wonders how little has changed”, she writes in her review of the book The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture… more »
30/06/10
23:22:03, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, Pacific Oceania, aboriginees, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, history, cosmopolitanism - Highlight the connections between people!
It happened already around 200 years ago: Aboriginal Australians marry Indians. Afghan cameleers open up the interior of Australia for transport and development. Indian seamen fight for Indonesian independence. And long before Australia was colonised by… 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 »
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 »
06/09/09
23:00:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, music, history, internet, websites Oral history, folk music and more: British Library puts vast sound archive online
Wow! Overwhelming! The British Library has made more than 23 000 sound recordings from all over the world freely available to everyone at http://sounds.bl.uk
"World and traditional music", "oral history", "accents and dialects", "environment and natu… more »
28/05/09
03:24:35, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Asia, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, history, cosmopolitanism Interview with Benedict Anderson: Being a cosmopolitan without needing to travel
During my research for the new overview over open access anthropology journals, I made many great discoveries. I'll try to present some of them.
One of the discoveries was Invisible Culture. An electronic journal for visual culture. The most recent is… more »
07/09/08
14:51:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories, history, cosmopolitanism Jack Goody: "The West has never been superior"
Are democracy, capitalism, freedom and the concept of romantic love unique inventions of the West? No. In his new book, anthropologist Jack Goody shows that the superiority of the West is largely unreal, even if we look to the recent past.
In "The T… more »
11/07/08
"A well-informed critique of wartime anthropology for the military"
Approximately half of all anthropologists in the United States contributed their expertise to the World War II effort. In his new book Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, anthropologi… more »
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