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01/03/10
Hindi Film Songs and the Barriers between Ethnomusicology and Anthropology
----Review: Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by Anna Morcom 2007, Ashgate, ISBN 978-0-7546-5198-7Tereza Kuldova, Research Fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Department of Ethnography University of Oslo[video:youtube:6B1I56Q4swE]Popular mu… 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 »
21/01/09
01:14:19, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Open Access Anthropology in Africa - an introduction
Heard of the Sudan Open Archive? Already taken a look at the recent anthropology papers of the University of Pretoria? Many universities in Africa have set up digital libraries, repositories for papers and theses that are freely accessible for everybody.… more »
19/01/09
22:06:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, globalisation, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Open access: Journal of Identity and Migration Studies
Xenophobia in South Africa, labour mobility and economic development, minorities’ integration, representation of refugees and forced migrants in the British Economy are some of the topics in the most recent issue of Journal of Identity and Migration Stud… more »
29/11/08
14:05:39, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, culture traditions, websites, interdisciplinary The Cognition and Culture Blog
While browsing the web for Claude Levi Strauss posts, I stumbled upon a great site: Cognition and Culture.
It is run by International Cognition & Culture Institute, an initiative of the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics… more »
01/11/08
"A new interdisciplinary approach to the perception of art"
When, why and how are individuals moved by a piece of art in a museum or gallery? How can art change people's lives? Anthropologist Sandra Dudley, and neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga will develop a new, interdisciplinary approach to the perception… more »
28/08/08
00:44:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, migration, persons and theories, University / Academia, interdisciplinary How to challenge Us-and-Them thinking? Interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen
As some of you might know, I work as a journalist at the interdisciplinary research programme Culcom - Cultural Complexity in the New Norway. I've just put online the English translation of my interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen, research director of C… more »
22/07/08
01:29:25, by Lorenz . Categories: medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), websites, interdisciplinary New anthropology group blog, forum
Somatosphere - Science medicine and anthropology is the title of a new medical anthropology blog by researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
It will be an interdisciplinary blog as Eugene Raikhel writes in his first post:
The core o… more »
16/05/08
01:09:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, interdisciplinary The resurgence of African anthropology
What is the state of anthropology at African universities? African anthropology is interdisciplinary and focuses on solving problems like poverty, diseases and violence, Paul Nchoji Nkwi writes in the book World Anthropologies (download the book):
Th… more »
10/04/08
00:48:54, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, anthropology (general), interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Interviews about moral cosmopolitanism, India-Pakistan, faith, populism, minoritiy-issues
Recently, several of my interviews with researchers of the interdisciplinary research program Cultural Complexity of the New Norway (Culcom) have been translated into English. Here are the most recent ones:
Does the answer exist in human nature?
What… more »
03/12/07
18:47:19, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites, interdisciplinary Now open access to 39 years of the journal Folklore Forum
Folklore Forum, a journal that is produced by graduate students at the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department of Indiana University, has gone Open Access. From now on, 39 years of scholarship, debate, and exchange of ideas are freely accessible for ever… more »
28/11/07
"Study how and why people wear denim around the world!"
The majority of the world’s population is wearing just one textile – denim. Why? On the Material World blog, anthropologist Daniel Miller announced the Global Denim Project. This scheme, he writes, is designed to bring together an increasing number of p… more »
15/09/07
Connecting Art and Anthropology
What happens when artists and anthropologists are asked to do something together rather than talk from the safety of their own practice? The result can be seen on the website Connecting Art & Anthropology: Transcripts of discussions, short reports, a… more »
02/08/07
22:57:50, by Lorenz . Categories: persons and theories, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Cultures of Consumption: Re-thinking the relationship between consumer and citizen
Inspiring research contradicts journalistic and academic presumptions. It seems that the multidisciplinary research program Cultures of Consumption has produced inspiring papers. Anthropologist Daniel Miller gives us a summary of a public presentation of… more »
02/04/07
01:24:14, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, persons and theories, interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Five more interviews on cultural complexity!
One of my jobs consists in interviewing researchers in the research program Cultural Complexity in the new Norway. Five of these interviews have been translated into English, I've just put them online:
Traveling to Turkey to Understand Norway
Anthrop… more »
22/02/07
17:50:04, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, interdisciplinary Job offer: Anthropologists needed for development of tools for ageing populations
Anthropologist Simon Roberts at INTEL in Ireland asked me to blog about this job offer (pdf) that actually is a good example of applied anthropology. "The jobs will suit people who are interested in working at the exciting intersection of technology, med… 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 »
08/10/06
Neuroanthropology: "Different cultures produce different brains"
It might sound deterministic (and essentialising - maybe one should replace "cultures" with "societies"), but Juan Dominguez, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, believes "different cultures" produce "different brains" and that cultural differ… more »
11/09/06
13:48:09, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Qualitative Migration Research in Europe: New issue of "Forum Qualitative Social Research"
How to do research on migration? Lots of interesting papers in the recent issue of the multilingual and interdisciplinary Open Access journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
"Qualitative Migration Research in Contemporary Europe" is the topic of… more »
23/04/06
Primatologists go cultural - New issue of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology
The second issue of the peer reviewed Open Access journal Ecological and Environmental Anthropology is quite unusual. The papers have titles like
"The Importance of Integrative Anthropology: A Preliminary Investigation Employing Primatological and C… more »
26/03/06
22:33:25, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), University / Academia, interdisciplinary Anthropologist observes native academics in their natural habitat
Anthropologists seem to get more interested in academic culture. Not long ago we heard about anthropologists studying students. Now, anthropologist Rena Lederman is doing fieldwork among her her fellow academics. She is writing a book called “Anthropolog… more »
25/01/06
19:15:59, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books, music, interdisciplinary The emerging research field of medical ethnomusicology: How music fights AIDS
In a new book, Gregory F. Barz, professor of ethnomusicology at Vanderbilt University documents the effective role music and the arts are playing in the fight against AIDS in Uganda. It's according to the official press release the first book of an emer… more »
30/06/05
Social Neuroscience - Psychologists neuroscientists and anthropologists together
The Guardian
A rapidly growing field of research called "social neuroscience" draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for the social interaction between humans.
Traditionally, cognitive neuros… more »
23/05/05
22:39:44, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, ecology nature, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Culture and Environment - New issue of Pro Ethnologica is online
Pro Ethnologica (published by the Estonian Eesti Rahva Muuseumi in Tartu) is one of the few anthropology Open Access journals. Their recent volume is dated back in December 2004 but the articles haven't been onliner until now - probably due to copyright… more »
03/12/04
08:17:44, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Europe, migration, interdisciplinary Cultural complexity in Norway - Turning away from ethnicity as explanatory model
University of Oslo
Cultural complexity in the new Norway, represents a large commitment by the University of Oslo towards research on cultural diversity. This is the first time in the history of the University of Oslo that it is being worked cross-dis… more »
04/11/04
Teamwork, Not Rivalry, Marks New Era in Research
Los Angeles Times / KTLA TV
Teamwork across departmental lines was once a rarity at the nation's most prestigious universities. But the practice, usually known as interdisciplinary research, is spreading rapidly. They are teaming psychologists and ant… more »
08/10/04
Why do we laugh? - Interdisciplinary project on cartoons
TownOnline.com
A team of researchers from several fields at the University of Michigan is launching a study of why people laugh at cartoons. Come on, guys: Because they're funny! That's not good enough for the psychologists, linguists, anthropologists… more »
24/07/04
12:52:57, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, anthropology (general), persons and theories, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Emphasis on ‘culture’ in psychology fuels stereotypes, scholar says
Currents online, University of California
In an invited lead article in the current issue of the influential journal Human Development, UCSC psychology professor Per Gjerde challenges his colleagues to reconsider popular ideas about the role of cultur… more »
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