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Category: Northern America
07/06/09
Fieldwork among homeless heroin and crack users - new book by Philippe Bourgois
"In Search of Respect. Selling Crack in El Barrio" is one of my favorite ethnographies. Now, Philippe Bourgois, is out with a new book. In “Righteous Dopefiend", he looks at the clients of the dealers, the University paper Penn Current reports.
The pa… more »
11/03/09
Anthropologist Explores Wall Street Culture
40,000 AT&T workers lost their job. This sounds like terrible news. But the stock market applauded it, sending AT&T shares up. Why? Anthropologist Karen Ho was fascinated and confused by the different reactions and wrote her dissertation about it… more »
21/01/09
20:13:31, by Lorenz 
. Categories: technology, Northern America, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Dissertation: Why kids embrace Facebook and MySpace
After 30 months ethnographic fieldwork on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites, danah boyd has finally completed her PhD-thesis and put it online. Although she is no anthropologist, she seems to have worked like an anthropologist. Her thes… more »
10/01/09
Humain Terrain anthropologist attacked in Afghanistan has died
(via 'Ilm al-insaan) An anthropologist embedded with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan to help soldiers understand local customs has died more than two months after she was doused with fuel and set on fire, according to ap.
Anthropologist Paula Loyd, 36,… more »
27/11/08
The anthropology of nudity: New issue of American Ethnography Quasimonthly
“Why are you, with your impeccable credentials, studying nude dancing?” “I am an anthropologist. Anthropologists study human behavior”, answered Judith Lynne Hanna when she did her field work on striptease clubs. Hoochy Coochy Dancing and Fantasy Love is… more »
04/11/08
20:28:35, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Northern America, journal articles / papers Who has the right to vote? Anthropology News on US-election
If you need anthropological perspectives on the US-election Obama-McCain, you'll find them in the new issue of Anthropology News. One of the articles is about a study on voting, politicial participation and citizenship among individuals with psychiatric… more »
23/09/08
03:27:59, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, development empowerment, books, Northern America, Native American How gaming wealth is reviving American Indian traditions
Gaming is big business for many Native American tribes. For the Seminole tribe in Florida, gaming wealth enabled them to revive traditions and celebrate their culture in previously unimaginable ways, anthropologist Jessica R. Cattelino writes in her new… more »
22/09/08
21:54:52, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, Northern America, Middle East, ethics How the Human Terrain System people think
"They’re natural born killers. They’re good, they’re lethal, they’re fantastic. I love working with them", says Major Robert Holbert. He was part of the first Human Terrain Team in Afghanistan in 2007 and tells his story in a fascinating interview with L… more »
22/08/08
Native American Tribe Allows Gay Marriage
Gay marriage is banned in Oregon and the most states in the U.S. But if you are gay and Native Indian you are lucky: The Coquille Indian Tribe on the southern Oregon coast recently adopted a law that recognizes same-sex marriage.
The law extends to g… more »
06/07/08
Fieldwork reveals how slot machines are exploiting people
In November, a referendum on the legalizing of slot machines in Maryland will be held. In the Washington Post, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll tells us how slot machines are exploiting people.
Natasha Dow Schüll has been on fieldwork in Las Vegas a… more »
27/04/08
21:20:54, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, Northern America, journal articles / papers, websites New e-zine: American Ethnography
Anthropologist Martin Høyem has launched the e-zine "American Ethnography", an "internet glossy on the study of cultures":
We cover ethnography that relates to anything we would call America. We aim to present the tradition and practice of ethnograph… more »
14/01/08
02:45:47, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gender, Northern America, media, cyberanthropology, internet Anthropological research: Online dating as disappointing as the real-life dating scene
Sounds familiar: People on online dating sites are experiencing frustration because it does seem that the internet in many ways is just the same old bar scene. This is one of the findings of research by anthropologist Susan E. Frohlick. She is conductin… more »
09/12/07
"The insecure American needs help by anthropologists" - AAA-meeting part II
(Photo: Dean Terry, flickr, from the film Subdivided, see below)
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association received more media attention than usual. One important topic was the relationship between anthropology and the military as… more »
07/11/07
Study: Anti-immigration steps are doing the opposite of what they intend to do
Restrictions to keep immigrants from entering the United States are having the effect of encouraging those who are already here to stay by any means necessary, a study by anthropologist Maxine L. Margolis finds.
“The restrictions are doing exactly th… more »
31/10/07
10:27:20, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, Northern America, University / Academia, ethics "Arabs and Muslims should be wary of anthropologists"
News of anthropologists in the US. military starts circulating on one of the largest Muslim websites, Culture Matters reports. Anthropologist Donald Abdallah Cole says to IslamOnline.net that "Arabs and Muslims should be wary of western anthropologists"… more »
09/10/07
15:23:53, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, Northern America, University / Academia, ethics "No wonder that anthropology is banished from universities in the 'decolonized' world" (updated)
The debates about the militarisation of anthropology have recently made the front page of the New York Times and several other newspapers (f.ex. The Boston Globe) and blogs discussed the story.
Are more and more (American) anthropologists willing to… more »
30/09/07
23:35:17, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers When Norwegians do business in Brazil, Lowrider Culture and 9 more anthropology theses (part 1)
Norwegian anthropologists no longer hide their master theses in distant libraries. Most theses are now available online in digital archives. Last week, more than 20 new theses (among them 11 in English) have been put online at DUO, the digital library of… more »
08/08/07
23:52:12, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, books, Northern America, Middle East 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 »
15:29:34, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Northern America, persons and theories "Minority cultures are automatically 'different'"
The majority-minority discourse in Canada doesn't seem to differ from the discourse here in Norway "Anglo culture is dominant and taken for granted; minority cultures are automatically 'different'", Yasmin Jiwani writes in the Vancouver Sun. There, rece… more »
02/07/07
Good anthropological writing: "Nuclear Borderlands" and "Global Body Shopping"
Examples of good anthropological writing? In his constant search to find books he can hand to students and say: "Here is anthropology", Christopher Kelty is two books richer in 2007: Global Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Techno… more »
28/05/07
05:29:36, by Lorenz . Categories: applied anthropology, Northern America, University / Academia, ethics The dangerous militarisation of anthropology
On 15 December 2006 the US Army released a new counterinsurgency manual, FM 3-24. At least one anthropologist played a role in preparing the 282-page document: Montgomery McFate. Anthropological knowledge is even considered as more important than bombs:… more »
03:15:49, by Lorenz . Categories: applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, journal articles / papers, University / Academia, ethics More and more anthropologists are recruited to service military operations
The connections between anthropologists, military counterinsurgency experts and intelligence agencies are multiplying and deepening. It is well known that anthropologists work for the military. But government agencies may be only the tip of the iceberg.… more »
07/11/06
01:29:14, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Northern America, anthropology (general), University / Academia Protests at Yale: When Walmart's management principles run an anthropology department
Generally, anthropologists support social justice, but in their own department, they fire colleagues like David Graeber who publicly supported graduate students' right to form a union. "In increasingly corporate universities, the gap between one's schola… more »
31/10/06
Why borders don't help - An engaged anthropology of the US-Mexican border
"Anthropologists Should Participate in the Current Immigration Debate" was the title of an earlier entry. Josiah McC. Heyman is one of the engaged anthropologists. He wrote several newspaper articles about the US-Mexican border where he showed that more… more »
25/09/06
Interview: Anthropologist studied poor fast food workers in Harlem
The Gotham Gazette has interviewed Urban anthropologist Katherine S. Newman about her research and the situation of the urban poor in New York.
Newman has written No Shame In My Game, an ethnography of fast food workers in Harlem. In October the fo… more »
27/08/06
Home Ethnography?
I've received an email by Bill Jackson, the webmaster of www.storyofmyhome.com/ He hopes that this website will become a resource for academics and historians. On www.storyofmyhome.com people can submit their stories about the houses they've lived in:… more »
14/08/06
00:52:12, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, Northern America, anthropology (general), history The spectacle and entertainment value of living Indians in the museum
Last year we had debates about racism and neo-colonialism when the Zoo at Augsburg exhibited an "African village". The same is happening right now in Kolmårdens djurpark - the largest zoo in Scandinavia: They have engaged Massai people who "dance, sing a… more »
10/08/06
23:20:09, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Bush, "war of terror" and the erosion of free academic speech: Challenges for anthropology
Dean Saitta (University of Denver) is one of the four anthropologists in David Horowitz’s book The Professors: The 101 most dangerous academics in America. The reason? His involvement in a debate on the erosion of free public and academic speech in the U… more »
08/07/06
11:22:24, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, migration, anthropology (general), cyberanthropology, internet, websites New blog: Sarapen. Online anthropology on Filipino bloggers
(via Livejournal Anthropology Community) Jesse de Leon, Master’s student in Social Anthropology, has started blogging on his research on Filipino bloggers - a very interesting blog about migration, transnationalism, identity and internet research. In hi… more »
11/06/06
12:15:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, Northern America, journal articles / papers, food and drink Brewing Cultures: Craft Beer and Cultural Identity
By studying beer cultures, you may learn lot about identity. In the United States, German-American identity is rarely marked. But given the association between Germany and beer, craft beer allows for the active negotiation of German-American identity, an… more »
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