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Categories: indigenous people / minorities, aboriginees, Andaman & Nicobar societies, inuit, maori, Native American, Saami, San-bushmen
23/07/10
Researching in "non-prestigious areas" - Robert Paine 1926-2010
(via anthropologyworks) British-Canadian anthropologist Robert Paine died at the age of 84. Eveybody who's interested in the Northern and Polar areas will know his name. He sent his most recent article for publication just weeks ago. Last year his… 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 »
08/05/10
15:34:53, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Africa, Northern America, journal articles / papers Protests against Human Zoo i Houston: Africans on display together with chimpanzees?
Five years ago people from all over the world protested against the "African Village" in the zoo in Augsburg, Germany. Now, a new campaign is being planned against "The African Forest", a $50 million project in the Houston Zoo, where Africans are on d… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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