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15/02/10
03:17:17, by Lorenz 
. Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, aboriginees, journal articles / papers Yes to female circumcision?
The problem with the representation of various forms of female circumcision as ‘mutilation’ is that the term, among other things, presupposes some irreversible and serious harm. This is not supported by current medical research on female circumcision. (s… 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 »
16/11/09
02:28:49, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Native American, journal articles / papers Where shamans understand colonialism as sickness
"I am here to save the people, to cure the people. In the city they are all sick, they are all domesticated. The shaman has to go together with disease."
Anthropologist Anders Burman talks to Don Carlos, an Aymara shaman in Bolivia. According to D… 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
France asks anthropologist for advice on burqa-ban
The French government has asked anthropology professor John Bowen to testify on a possible burqa-ban in public places in France. France banned burqas in public schools in 2004, Student Life and New York Times report.Bowen said that none of the Fren… more »
10/09/09
04:48:44, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, aboriginees, journal articles / papers The Anthropology of Suicide - World Suicide Prevention Day
It was around four months ago, I received the message of my friend's sudden death. "Nobody knows", I was told, "why she stepped in front of a train". Afterwards I often wondered if her life could have been saved if we all had known and talked more about… 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 »
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 »
09/07/09
Book review: How the Ganges boatmen resist upper-caste and state domination
Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges is the title of a new book by anthropologist Assa Doron that Tessa Valo reviews here for antropologi.info. It is a book about the life of a marginalized group of people in India - the boatmen at the river Gang… more »
22/01/09
21:14:38, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Asia, development empowerment, Visual Anthropology Anthropological activism in Pakistan with lullabies
A few days ago, Pakistani anthropologist Samar Minallah lauched a "video song", a tribute to little girls in all the regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan where schools are being destroyed, depriving girls of their right to education, The News reports.… more »
03/01/09
01:41:02, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Asia, development empowerment, journal articles / papers, tourism Headhunting as expression of indigenousness
Anthropologists often criticize mainstream media for exoticizing people. But in Borneo you'll find indigenous people who promote themselves as headhunters and are proud of it. The journal Cultural Analysis has recently received a prize in the Sav… more »
25/09/08
20:54:49, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, Native American, media In Norwegian TV: Indian tribe paid to go naked to appear more primitive
(Norwegian version) In the reality program «Den store reisen» (Ticket to the tribes), a Norwegian family moved in with Waorani-indians in Banemo, Ecuador. The TV-pictures show people who go naked and live "primitively". What the TVstation NRK fails to me… more »
23/09/08
03:27:59, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, development empowerment, books, Northern America, Native American How gaming wealth is reviving American Indian traditions
Gaming is big business for many Native American tribes. For the Seminole tribe in Florida, gaming wealth enabled them to revive traditions and celebrate their culture in previously unimaginable ways, anthropologist Jessica R. Cattelino writes in her new… more »
29/08/08
00:00:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, ecology nature, Native American, journal articles / papers "Untouched" Amazone hosted large cities - a model for the future?
The myth of the "untouched" Amazone is popular. But areas that look pristine today have been the home of large urban areas, anthropologist Michael Heckenberger has found out already five years ago.
In a new paper that was published today in Science h… more »
22/08/08
Native American Tribe Allows Gay Marriage
Gay marriage is banned in Oregon and the most states in the U.S. But if you are gay and Native Indian you are lucky: The Coquille Indian Tribe on the southern Oregon coast recently adopted a law that recognizes same-sex marriage.
The law extends to g… more »
13/08/08
17:54:07, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Asia, globalisation, music Ainu in Japan: Cool to be indigenous
Better times for the Ainu in Japan? There is an "revival of ethnic pride" going on in Japan according to ap.
At the forefront are the Ainu Rebels (image). They use music and dance to rebel against a history of institutionalized discrimination. They c… more »
03/07/08
01:38:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Native American, media "Tribal wives" - Pseudo-anthropology by BBC?
The BBC has sent six British women to be "second wives" to so-called "tribesmen" in - according to the BBC "some of the world's most remote communities". "Any anthropologist feels pleased when the hidden peoples of the world get a chance to appear on tel… more »
04/06/08
02:26:23, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, Native American, media The Double Standards of the "Uncontacted Tribes" Circus
The story of the so-called "uncontacted tribes" in the Amazon has made its way around the world (even to Norway!). At the same time, there is a complete lack of interest in the story of indigenous people being publicly humiliated in Bolivia, the CultureM… more »
18/05/08
"Dreamtime" no longer an acceptable term
The West Australian and South Australian education departments have made lists of appropriate and inappropriate words to describe Aboriginal people and culture, The Australian reports.- Dreamtime is no longer an acceptable term to describe the collec… more »
04/04/08
12:21:26, by Lorenz . Categories: language, inuit, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, history Discovered the first-ever linguistic link between Siberia and Canada
While studying an ancient language now spoken by only a few hundred people in a remote corner of Siberia, linguist Edward Vajda has found the first-ever linguistic link between the Old World and any First Nation in Canada, the Ottawa Citizen reports. "T… more »
30/03/08
15:51:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, Native American, Caribbean, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Another way of doing fieldwork: Developing websites with your informants!
Indigenous communities have embraced the internet from early on. The website of the Oneida Indian Nation was set up before the website for the White House. Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has developped several websites in collaboration with indigenou… more »
24/03/08
The special thing about the Tibet protests
Six months after the protests for democracy in Burma, we see similar things happen in Tibet. That's of course not the first time but according to anthropologist Carole McGranahan, China has for the first time acknowledged that there is something like pr… more »
17/02/08
19:21:01, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, books, anthropology (general), history Sheds light on the collaboration between science and colonial administration in Naga ethnography
Paul Pimomo reviews in The Morung Express a book that might not only be interesting for area specialists. The History of Naga Anthropology is, he writes, "a valuable contribution to the broad area of postcolonial studies".
In History of Naga Anthropo… more »
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