More and more Tibetan folk songs are disappearing. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) uses digital media to capture tunes that are being lost. The volunteer-run program aims to put all the digital song… more »
Category: "internet"
You can light virtual candles for Shabbat, teleport to a Buddhist temple or consult the oracle for some divine guidance. In Second Life, an online virtual universe with 3.7 million users, religious diversity and participation have skyrocketed. For some… more »
by lorenz on Apr 26, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, applied anthropology, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet
Jen Cardew has done a great job in recording and publishing speeches held at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Several new podcasts (mp3-files from the session "Global Health in the Time of Violence") can be downloaded. S… more »
by lorenz on Mar 30, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet • 3 comments »
Are we on the way to "Open Access Conferences"? As already announced, several sessions at the conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) will be published as podcasts. Jen Cardew who has taken the initiative to this project reports that a… more »
by lorenz on Mar 26, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites • 4 comments »
It's only a few weeks ago that anthropologist Michael Wesch explained in an extremly popular YouTube-video how collaborative web technologies change scholarship. Now Jen Cardew at Synthesis of Thoughts tells us that several sessions at the conference of… more »
by lorenz on Feb 19, 2007 in technology, Us and Them, globalisation, anthropology (general), cyberanthropology, internet
(via del.icio.us) After his video about collaborative tools on the web (like blogs, wikis etc), Michael Wesch has become the most talked about anthropologist on the internet. In an interview with John Battelle's Searchblog, Wesch explains his interest in… more »
by lorenz on Jan 21, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet
(post in progress) 2005 was the year anthropology finally became visible on the internet. 2006 was the year of a more public, political and open access anthropology?
Open Access
More and more anthropologists want to make their research available on… more »
Another example of how religious and cultural practices change: A soon to be released survey of religious practices in Morocco will show that the majority of Moroccans prefer to pray alone, and use audiovisual media and the internet for information on th… more »
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