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18/04/07
04:00:55, by Lorenz 
. Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, ecology nature, persons and theories, Arctic / Northern Regions, journal articles / papers "But We Are Still Native People" - Tad McIlwraith's dissertation is online
Our fellow anthro-blogger Tad McIlwraith has successfully defended his dissertation "But We Are Still Native People’: Talking about Hunting and History in a Northern Athapaskan Village" that now can be downloaded from his website (The graduates in his ye… more »
12/03/07
Anthropologists condemn the use of terms of "stone age" and "primitive"
Good news: British anthropologists take part in public debates. The ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) issued a statement where they "condemn the use of terms like 'stone age' and 'primitive' to describe tribal and indigenous peoples alive toda… more »
28/02/07
International Polar Year opened - Anthropologists involved
More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles when the International Polar Year officially opened on Monday: It unifies 228 research projects about the impact of global warming in the Arctic the Washington Post r… more »
12:36:22, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, aboriginees, fieldwork / methods, music "A new approach to the collection of traditional Aboriginal music"
The days of anthropologists taking recordings away to Canberra where they might as well be lost to the community forever, are now gone according to ABC Radio (Australia) in a story about the National Recording Project. Its aim is to document the traditio… more »
04/12/06
01:35:51, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, inuit, Saami, Arctic / Northern Regions, history, websites Rethinking Nordic Colonialism - Website Sheds Light Over Forgotten Past
56 artists, theorists, politicians, and grassroots activists from all over the world participated in the project that took place in Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Sapmi, Norway, Sweden and Finland. They exchanged colonial and postcolonial experiences and st… more »
27/11/06
00:57:09, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Open Access to Indigenous Research in Norway
More and more theses in Norway are published in digital archives and are freely available in full text. In MUNIN - the digital library of the University in Tromsø (Northern Norway), you can download eight master theses in indigenous studies. They look v… more »
05/11/06
"The Maori ethnopolitical movement threatens democracy"
"The ethnopolitical Maori-Pakeha movement in New Zealand is subverting democracy, erecting ethnic boundaries between Maori and non-Maori and promoting a cultural elite within Maoridom", Elizabeth Rata claims. She has just published her second book, "Publ… more »
23/10/06
21:29:00, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, migration, youth, journal articles / papers Online: Thesis about Up-Country Tamil Students
"Their history deserves to be known in every other country where one can expect to be served a cup of Ceylon tea", Norwegian anthropologist Haakon Aasprong writes in his thesis Making a Home Away from Home: On Up-country Tamil identity and social complex… more »
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