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Categories: indigenous people / minorities, aboriginees, Andaman & Nicobar societies, inuit, maori, Native American, Saami, San-bushmen
10/07/07
14:02:30, by Lorenz 
. Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, anthropology (general) Paternalistic anthropology
Quote from an article about tourism in Papua New Guinea (reads more like advertising, though):
Tourism is good for PNG," asserts Dr Nancy Sullivan, a Madang-based anthropologist with an abiding affection for Papua New Guineans. "It brings much-needed… more »
04/07/07
13:43:50, by Lorenz . Categories: language, inuit, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions Inuit language thrives in Greenland
In the 1960s and 1970s, elders in Greenland feared their language would be lost. Today, the vast majority of Greenlanders - 92 per cent - are fluent in their native tongue. Inuit language thrives in Greenland, Nunatsiaq News reports:
You can find a co… more »
02/07/07
Book review: An Anthropological history of the Adivasis of Bastar
According to Hindu-reviewer Jyotirmaya Sharma, anthropologist and sociologist Nandini Sundar has written an interesting book about the Adivasi in India. The book Subalterns and Sovereigns — An Anthropological History of Bastar (1854-2006) "tells a very c… more »
22/06/07
13:50:18, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Native American, ethics Infanticide: "We are fighting against anthropologists"
Babies born into some Indian societies in the Amazon are being buried alive, a practice that is being covered up by the Brazilian authorities and anthropologists "out of respect for tribal culture" according to the Telegraph. "We are fighting against doc… more »
12/06/07
"Help the Hadza!" - Why focus on culture and not on human rights?
Help out the Hadza, urges Kambiz Kamrani on anthropology.net. A United Arab Emirates royal family is trying to use the land of the Hadza as a “personal safari playground”. After a helicopter tour, they have worked out an arrangement with the Tanzanian g… more »
11/06/07
13:11:23, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Asia, ecology nature, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Dissertation: Survival in the Rainforest
Are hunter-gatherer communities able to rely completely on the rainforest environment for their food, without any dependence on food traded from farming societies? How has their life changed as a result of settling down? How has the community responded… more »
14/05/07
01:53:30, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, politics, Asia, anthropology (general) Criticizes the "apathy of anthropologists toward the human rights situation in Balochistan"
"Anthropologists should shed light on the violence in Balochistan Province in Pakistan, anthropologist Hafeez Jamali writes in Anthropology News May 2007. Balochistan is presently the scene of a bitter and violent struggle. Multinationals are exploiting… more »
22/04/07
Global Migrants For Climate Action - Migrants organize to fight climate change
We've read a lot about the consequences of climate change for the Inuit. But it's people in poor countries who will suffer most and they already do. Lots of people from these countries live as migrants in countries like Norway or the U.S. Because of pers… more »
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