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Category: Middle East

16/04/08

Cooperation between the Pentagon and anthropologists a fiasco?

The collaboration between the U.S. military and anthropologists has been criticized for both political and ethical reasons. According to a recent article in Newsweek, the whole project could end as a fiasco: The implementation of the $40 million project… more »

06/11/07

Kosher cell phones, kosher bus routes and kosher clothing: Israel's Ultra-Orthodox economy

For Jews, not only food needs to be kosher, the New York Times explains in an interesting article about Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox. There are even kosher mobile phones. You cannot send text messages with them, take photographs or connect to the Internet… more »

08/08/07

Selected quotes from "On Suicide Bombing" by Talal Asad

I've finished reading Talal Asad's new book On Suicide Bombing. It belongs to the category of books I like most: It challenges common assumptions, makes us think (not so important if you agree with him all the time or not). By showing that the world is m… more »

"Voices": Anthropologist publishes e-book about Palestinian women

Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement is a collection of oral histories recorded by Beirut-based anthropologist and oral historian Rosemary Sayigh. It was published as e-book, devoted to men and women living in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and… more »

01/08/07

Permalink 16:01:35, by Lorenz Email . Categories: politics, Us and Them, books, Middle East

New York Times reviews Talal Asad's "On Suicide Bombing"

Some weeks ago I wrote a few lines about the book On Suicide Bombing by anthropologist Talal Asad. Among other things, he questions our notions about legitimate violence. On Sunday, the book was reviewed in the New York Times: Asad (...) takes aim… more »

03/12/06

Permalink 21:51:31, by Lorenz Email . Categories: Middle East, Visual Anthropology

Oxford to Host First Conference on Visual Anthropology of Iran

The first Interdisciplinary Conference on the Visual Anthropology of Iran entitled “Images of Culture, Culture of Images” is to be held in Oxford University in September 2007, according to a press release. The two-day conference on the Visual Anthropo… more »

03/11/06

Photography as research tool: More engaged Kurdish anthropology

Visual anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has published several new articles at KurdishMedia.com. It looks like he is about to publish a whole book there. It started four weeks ago with part one of Media consumption, conformity and resistance: A visual ethnog… more »

30/10/06

Lila Abu-Lughod: It's time to give up the Western obsession with veiled Muslim women

(via Alexandre Enkerli at Disparate) "Excellent", a reader comments Lila Abu-Lughod's article: The Muslim woman. The power of images and the danger of pity and adds: Why do Anthropologists so seldom speak up when it's more important than ever to under… more »

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