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Category: Pacific Oceania
29/06/09
Thesis: Hijab empowers women
What is it like being veiled and working in Australian companies? Anthropologist Siham Ouazzif sent me her thesis "Veiled Muslim Women in Australian Public Space: How do Veiled Women Express their Presence and Interact in the Workplace?"
Siham Ouazz… more »
18/05/08
"Dreamtime" no longer an acceptable term
The West Australian and South Australian education departments have made lists of appropriate and inappropriate words to describe Aboriginal people and culture, The Australian reports.- Dreamtime is no longer an acceptable term to describe the collec… more »
28/03/08
"Putting Aboriginal languages on the curriculum has improved 'race' relations"
He's not an aboriginal Australian. Nevertheless he has to learn the local indigenous language. He and many other children say it's fun. Teachers, parents and linguists say it is improving self-esteem, literacy and school attendance, rescuing indigenous l… more »
10/07/07
14:02:30, by Lorenz 
. Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, anthropology (general) Paternalistic anthropology
Quote from an article about tourism in Papua New Guinea (reads more like advertising, though):
Tourism is good for PNG," asserts Dr Nancy Sullivan, a Madang-based anthropologist with an abiding affection for Papua New Guineans. "It brings much-needed… more »
05/11/06
"The Maori ethnopolitical movement threatens democracy"
"The ethnopolitical Maori-Pakeha movement in New Zealand is subverting democracy, erecting ethnic boundaries between Maori and non-Maori and promoting a cultural elite within Maoridom", Elizabeth Rata claims. She has just published her second book, "Publ… more »
22/09/06
00:03:11, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, anthropology (general) "Good story about cannibals. Pity it's not even close to the truth"
Great commentary (and a good example of engaged anthropology) by anthropologist Sarah Hewat about a recent TV story on Wa Wa, a Korowai boy in Papua, who should be "rescued" from "cannibals". Hewat says, the journalists should have read some work by ant… more »
30/08/06
09:14:48, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania "They still eat their fellow tribesmen"
(via del.icio.us) If you miss "good old-style" stories about cannibals in far away places like Papua or New Guinea, read this story by Paul Raffaele in the Smithsonian Mag. It starts like this:
For days I've been slogging through a rain-soaked jungle… 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 »
13/07/06
11:47:09, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees, books, persons and theories A link between food resources and social hierarchies?
In a portrait on the website of The National University of Australia, anthropologist Ian Keen, tells about his research among Aboriginees in Australia. Among other things, he wanted to find out why pre-colonial Aboriginal societies tended to be more egal… more »
06/06/06
02:33:56, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, aboriginees Aboriginees in Australia: Why talking about culture?
In the Australian magazine On Line Opinion, Anthropologist John Morton criticizes public views of Aboriginess in Australia and argues for avoiding the term culture:
Ever since Europeans first came to Australia, public views of Aborigines have veered b… more »
15/03/06
16:17:52, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees How to survive in a desert? On Aboriginals' knowledge of the groundwater system
Indigenous Australians dug underground water reservoirs that helped them live on one of the world's driest continents for tens of thousands of years, new research by hydrogeologist Brad Moggridge shows, according to ABC News. The study indicates Aborigi… more »
24/02/06
20:24:55, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, development empowerment, globalisation, Pacific Oceania, persons and theories Available for download: Alex Golubs dissertation on mining and indigenous people
In his dissertation (published on his blog yesterday), anthropologist Alex Golub challenges popular notions on indigenous peoples, mining and globalisation. He has done research in a region that has gone through major transformations and fulfills every s… more »
06/11/05
19:08:47, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, fieldwork / methods Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea: Who are the exotic others?
A recent post by Alex Golub on Savage Minds is interesting for several reasons: Even a scientific project on a very narrow topic might suddenly be relevant for a wider audience. Golub has studied the relationship between indigenous people in Papua New Gu… more »
23/05/05
23:38:19, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet New articles on AnthroGlobe: Western Cybermythology / People of the open sea
Signs of activity at AnthroGlobe - one of the eldest anthropology web journals. Two new texts and they seem to work with the site layout, it seems:
Carmen Petrosian-Husa: Powerful & Powerless: The Rei Metau on the Outer Islands of Yap
Since 1… more »
07/04/05
Book review: Political Competition and State-Society Relations In Mount Hagen
Edward P. Wolfers, The National (Papua New Guinea)
The book "The Name Must Not Go Down: Political Competition and State-Society Relations In Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea" by Dr Joseph Ketan is primarily a study of political competition in the area ar… more »
07/02/05
First Anthropologist Wins Premier Ocean Award
Scoop, New Zealand
For the first time in its fifteen-year history, the world's most prestigious award in marine conservation has been given to an anthropologist.
Dr. Shankar Aswani, an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropolo… more »
06/02/05
20:49:54, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, Pacific Oceania What ads tell you about New Zealands and Australians
The New Zealand Herald
For New Zealanders the land represents everything that is pure and authentic. It's. the essence of who we are. We love it so much that we fear losing it which is why we get so upset about foreign ownership and Maori claims to th… more »
18/12/04
08:00:01, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, gift economy gift giving, Pacific Oceania Mobile phone company Vodafone gets inspired by traditional Kula exchange system
New Scientist
Every year, the people of the Trobriand Islands in the Solomon Sea off Papua New Guinea exchange ornamental seashell armbands and necklaces. It is a social ritual that according to Malinowski cements social bonds between fishing communit… more »
27/11/04
Anthropology and Colonial Violence in West Papua
Eben Kirksey, Westpapua.net
Most 19th century anthropologists who participated in violent colonial encounters reinforced popular prejudices, depicting apuans as inherently violent savages. Others, however, wrote critiques, and even conducted letter ca… more »
19/10/04
How an Indian migrant group overcame racism in New Zealand
New Zealand News
At the end of this month Auckland City will celebrate Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights. Public celebration of Indian religious festivals in New Zealand is a recent trend, although Indians have been in the country since 1810 when… more »
17/08/04
MARSHALL ISLANDS: Preserving culture with new technologies
Go Asia Pacific
The Alele Museum in the Marshall Islands has joined with the Historical Preservation Office to launch a new internet website, in English and Marshallese. The aim is to make Alele's collection more accessible to students, researchers an… more »
28/07/04
08:58:32, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Pacific Oceania, Visual Anthropology The Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico and Fishing in the Solomon Islands
Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA)
Explore the Chea-villagers' traditional "Kuarao"-fishing in the Solomon Islands - in an interactive presentation based on professor Edvard Hviding and SOTFilm a/s filmproject "Chea's Great Kuarao" (1996).… more »
12/07/04
New Maori party wins first seat in parliament
The Independent
The party aims to be a new force in New Zealand politics, wooing Maori voters who have traditionally supported Labour. It has threatened to join forces with the centre-right National Party to oust Ms Clark's Labour minority government… more »
06/06/04
Migration and development - a report from Tonga
New Zealand Herald
Millions of dollars pour out of New Zealand every year. Remittance, the practice of migrant Pacific Islanders sending money and goods back home, is deeply ingrained in the culture. Remittances as no different from aid, albeit less e… more »
02/06/04
Tokelauans resist offers of autonomy
The New Zealand Herald
Moves to give more independence to one of the world's smallest and last remaining colonies are being held up by the population of the country itself. Each atoll has a single village, and there are no harbours, no airstrips and n… more »
26/05/04
Local taboos could save the seas
New Scientist
The island nations of the south-western Pacific are considering allowing citizens to reclaim legal control of their local seas, in the hope they can use their traditional knowledge, customs and laws to protect fish stocks and biodiversit… more »
17/05/04
19:00:44, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, aboriginees "I'm not the indigenous person people want me to be"
The Star Australia
Dr Anita Heiss is anthropologist and aboriginee. Last year, on a lecture tour in America, she was asked by an anthropology student what was the biggest problem now facing indigenous women in Australia. "Finding a decent man," she re… more »
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