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Category: persons and theories
03/11/09
Claude Levi-Strauss is dead (updated)
A month before his 101.birthday, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the most influential anthropologists, died at the age of 100. He died over the weekend, according to the office of the president of the School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Pa… more »
24/08/09
00:31:07, by Lorenz 
. Categories: medical anthropology / ethnobothany, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Why anthropologists should politicize mental illnesses
How to deal with "mental illness"? Are people who are labelled ill actually ill? Is it ok that psychologists call "adolescent rebellion" for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”? What is anthropologists' role here? Eugenia Tsao discusses these questions in an… more »
24/07/09
00:15:36, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, anthropology (general), persons and theories Identity politics: Have anthropologists gone too far?
Inspired by a lecture by Peter Geschiere, anthropologist Yara El-Ghadban discusses a difficult and central question in our discipline: How to deconstruct a notion without destroying the meaning that it has for people?
In order to challenge stereotypi… more »
19/06/09
Cecil Helman has passed away
Shortly after I wrote about Olivia Harris' death I was informed about the death of medical anthropologist Cecil Helman.
Helman was both anthropologist, doctor and poet. He combined both clinical and anthropological perspectives on a variety of issues… more »
12/06/09
Olivia Harris has passed away
One of antropologi.info's readers alerted me to the death of anthropologist Olivia Harris. She died suddenly of cancer aged 60 on the morning of 9th April.
Harris is the co-founder of the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College (also Universit… more »
28/05/09
03:24:35, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Asia, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, history, cosmopolitanism Interview with Benedict Anderson: Being a cosmopolitan without needing to travel
During my research for the new overview over open access anthropology journals, I made many great discoveries. I'll try to present some of them.
One of the discoveries was Invisible Culture. An electronic journal for visual culture. The most recent is… more »
02/01/09
The anthropology of children, war and violence
What impact has war on children? What has anthropology to say on this? This autumn I watched the movie "Buddha collapsed out of shame" by the Iranian film maker Hana Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of children who reproduce the violence of the adults. For… more »
28/11/08
How media covered Claude Lévi-Strauss' 100th birthday
100 years ago he was born - Claude Lévi-Strauss - one of the most famous and influential anthropologists in the world. A quick Google News search revealed that there are some articles in a some newspapers around the world (not so many in English than in… more »
25/10/08
23:07:44, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), persons and theories, journal articles / papers George Marcus: "Journals? Who cares?"
When George Marcus, one of the most influential anthropologists, was in Oslo recently, I asked him what he thinks about Open access. His answer surprised me. He said: "Journals? Who cares?" There is little original thinking in journals, no longer exciti… more »
07/09/08
14:51:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories, history, cosmopolitanism Jack Goody: "The West has never been superior"
Are democracy, capitalism, freedom and the concept of romantic love unique inventions of the West? No. In his new book, anthropologist Jack Goody shows that the superiority of the West is largely unreal, even if we look to the recent past.
In "The T… more »
28/08/08
00:44:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, migration, persons and theories, University / Academia, interdisciplinary How to challenge Us-and-Them thinking? Interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen
As some of you might know, I work as a journalist at the interdisciplinary research programme Culcom - Cultural Complexity in the New Norway. I've just put online the English translation of my interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen, research director of C… more »
29/06/08
Thesis: How Indian women fight the stigma of divorce
Three weeks ago, anthropologist Siru Aura defended her doctoral dissertation Women and Marital Breakdown in South India: Reconstructing Homes, Bonds and Persons at the University of Helsinki. She has studied divorced, separated and deserted women from di… more »
19/05/08
Lila Abu Lughod: "In Israel and Palestine we have an amazing opportunity"
(via CultureMatters) While Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of their state's founding, Palestinians around the world are mourning the "Nakba" - or "catastrophe" - that drove so many into exile. SPIEGEL ONLINE interviewed anthropologist Lila Abu-Lu… more »
30/04/08
16:01:05, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Maurice Bloch: Religion is a Figment of Human Imagination
Why did religions evolve? According to anthropologist Maurice Bloch, there is nothing special with religion. It's just a product of human imagination - in the same way as nations are, Bloch writes in an article to be published in June, the New Scientist… more »
23/04/08
01:38:08, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, books, persons and theories, journal articles / papers Phd-Thesis: That's why they embrace Islam
Our fellow anthro-blogger Martijn de Koning was awarded his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam last week.
In his Ph.D. thesis he shows how Islam has become the most important frame of reference for Moroccan-Dutch youth to reflect upon who… more »
Obituary: Anthropologist Germaine Tillion dies at the age of 100
"Few students of anthropology probably can tell you who Germaine is despite the fact that she has been one of the anthropologists who have contributed not only to the understanding of the Mediterranean region, particularly North Africa, but also to the f… more »
04/04/08
13:43:53, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, persons and theories, youth, journal articles / papers Transforming the Anthropology of Childhood - Anthropology News April
Has Anthropology News gone open-access? 14 articles of the new issue are online. Anthropology News examines new ways of thinking about childhood and children's roles and experiences. Methodological challenges of anthropological work with and of children… more »
11/03/08
Marianne Gullestad has passed away
Yesterday, one of Norway's most important anthropologists has passed away: Marianne Gullestad. I got to know it just a few hours ago, and MaterialWorld-blogger Daniel Miller has already made a post about her and has re-published the introduction he wrote… more »
12/11/07
13:06:28, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, persons and theories, journal articles / papers First issue of open access journal "After Culture" is online
The first issue of "After Culture - Emergent Anthropologies" that was planned for release in September 2006 has finally been published, Savage Minds reports.
The journal is edited by anthropologist Matthew Wolf-Meyer . In his editorial he explains tha… more »
02/11/07
New blog: "Open Anthropology" by Maximilian C. Forte
Another new blog: Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has recently launched the blog Open Anthropology - "a project of decolonization, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism":
OPEN ANTHROPOL… more »
28/10/07
15:09:46, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, poverty, persons and theories, youth Anthropologist calls for a greater appreciation of child labor
There are many campaigns against child labour. But anthropologist Thomas Offit also views child labour as a chance for children to improve and take control of their lives. In an interview with The Lariat Online (Baylor University) he criticizes ethnocent… more »
24/10/07
12 new interviews about cosmopolitanism, islam, modernity, street culture...
In case you're wondering why this blog sometimes has not been updated for several days: One reason might be my job as a webjournalist for the research program Cultural Complexity in the New Norway (CULCOM).
Now, several of my interviews and summaries… more »
30/09/07
12:53:48, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gender, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, websites Sexual anthropologist explains how technology changes dating, love and relationships
Bella Ellwood-Clayton is sexual anthropologist. As we read in the Washington Post, Bella Ellwood-Clayton has studied texting and dating in the Philippines. On her website you can download the texts Desire and loathing in the cyber Philippines and Unfai… more »
08/08/07
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 »
03/08/07
Anthropologist Paul Bohannan Dies at 87
Paul Bohannan, the anthropologist who was known for his research on the Tiv culture of Nigeria (especially the economic spheres) died July 13. He was 87. Later, Bohannan studied U.S. culture, particularly family life and divorce among the middle class.… more »
02/08/07
22:57:50, by Lorenz . Categories: persons and theories, journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary Cultures of Consumption: Re-thinking the relationship between consumer and citizen
Inspiring research contradicts journalistic and academic presumptions. It seems that the multidisciplinary research program Cultures of Consumption has produced inspiring papers. Anthropologist Daniel Miller gives us a summary of a public presentation of… more »
01/08/07
Obituary: Anthropologist Priscilla Reining Broke Ground on AIDS
Anthropologist Reining died July 19 at the age of 84. "Anthropologist Broke Ground on AIDS, Satellite Mapping", writes the Washington Post in an orbituary.
Last winter I wrote about anthropological studies that showed that male circumcision reduces t… more »
01:50:18, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), persons and theories, University / Academia "To know what's happening around the world, you have to study the knowledge of local people"
Recently, we cound find a portrait of anthropologist Melissa Leach in the Guardian. At the age of 35, Leach became professor of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. Now, at 42 and proficient in four African languages, she has been m… more »
05/07/07
Keith Hart is blogging
Economic anthropologist Keith Hart has upgraded his website The Memory Bank. Now it looks more like a blog and produces a RSS-feed so it's easier to follow. Apart from his blog posts, his book on the anthropology of money is online and many papers. more »
New Proposals - New Open Access Journal
Anthropologist Charles Menzies is the editor of a new open access journal called New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry:
New Proposals is a journal of Marxism and interdisciplinary Inquiry that is dedicated to the radical tran… more »
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