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Category: Northern America
17/10/05
23:15:58, by Lorenz 
. Categories: religion cosmology, Asia, gender, books, Northern America, anthropology (general), persons and theories, Caribbean Some new ethnographies (Book reviews)
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology has published several new book reviews on its website:
Marc Augé: Oblivion
The French anthropologist breaks new ground introducing the theme of Oblivion (Les formes de l’oubli) – a challenging reflect… more »
16/10/05
11:06:26, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, development empowerment, ecology nature, applied anthropology, Northern America, anthropology (general) Katrina disaster has roots in 1700s / Earthquake disaster in South Asia man-made
As noted before, disasters have their cultural aspects: Disasters are embedded in cultural practices of societies. "Disasters do not just happen."
Anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith says in an interview about the earthquake in South Asia:
People… more »
07/10/05
13:12:13, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Northern America "Aboriginal knowledge is science"
10 aboriginal and four non-aboriginal graduate students from the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) are working with First Nations elders, community leaders and educators to identify science content elements of aboriginal knowledge and det… more »
19/09/05
23:59:05, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Northern America, Native American, history, Visual Anthropology, ethics On Savage Minds: Debate on the Construction of Indigenous Culture by Anthropologists
Early visual anthropologists produced a form of salvage anthropology that uncoupled "traditional" society from any form of change, Patrick Harries (University of Cape Town), writes in an article on the the history of visual anthropology in South Africa.… more »
11/09/05
18:31:39, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Africa, Europe, Latin- and Central America, books, Northern America, migration, Native American, anthropology (general), music American Ethnologist - New book reviews on Indian Resurgence in Brazil, Anthropology of Britain, Race and Transnationalism
The August reviews of the journal American Ethnologist are now online.
Among them we'll find:
Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. By: Kamari Maxine Clarke
Kamari Clarke is an Afro-Canadian who join… more »
Secret rituals: Folklorist studied the military as an occupational folk group
The website of The Association of Feminist Anthropology is another place to look for anthropology books and ethnographies. One of the books reviewed is written by folklorist Carol Burke "Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-And-Tight: Gender… more »
05/09/05
12:38:01, by Lorenz . Categories: development empowerment, applied anthropology, Northern America, anthropology (general) The Anthropology of Disaster - Anthropologists on Katrina
(post in progress)
A quick round-up of some news and blog-entries on the Katrina-disaster:
Anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith has researched how communities re-emerge from destruction. He's surprisingly pessimistic according to a press release (U… more »
02/09/05
19:07:19, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, books, Northern America, Native American, journal articles / papers Book review: Who owns native culture - A book with an excellent website
Very interesting review by David Trigger in the August-edition of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Michael F. Brown's book "Who Owns Native Culture?" discusses Indigenous assertions of ownership of cultural information. These can be in tension wi… more »
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