Technology Review interviews anthropologist Mizuko Ito. Ito has studied the use of mobile phones for six years and is editor of a new book "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life". Cell phones are used differently depending partly… more »
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by lorenz on Oct 29, 2005 in development empowerment, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, persons and theories • 3 comments »
Anthropology professor Luke Eric Lassiter has received the 2005 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. The Margaret Mead Award celebrates the tradition of bringing anthropology to bear… more »
by lorenz on Oct 17, 2005 in religion cosmology, Asia, gender, books, Northern America, anthropology (general), persons and theories, Caribbean
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 »
Yale anthropologist David Graeber has been recently fired for his anarchist activism. For a long time, there were no news, and the Graeber solidarity blog hasn't been updated either. Now, Yale Daily News writes that Graeber has formally appealed the deci… more »
The first entry of a new blog called "New anthropology" starts presenting us new ways of anthropology
"Two ways to express what I call New Anthropology.
1. The new theoretical concern should be highlighted: A Cognitive Turn!
2. The new learning me… more »
"Despite the fascinating content, the book is a methodical anthropological study, and thus heavy going at times. One longs to hear more Na voices, to read more stories of their ways", David Loftus writes in his review of the book A Society without Fathe… more »
Interesting interview by Scott McLemee with anthropologist Deborah Reed-Danahay on her recent book Locating Bourdieu in the magazine "Inside Higher Education". The book is according to Scott McLemee "a very good place for the new reader of Bourdieu to st… more »
by lorenz on Jun 24, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, anthropology (general), persons and theories, Andaman & Nicobar societies
Quite regularily, newspapers report about so called "primitive peoples". The newest example is the Reuters-story "Hunter-gatherers face extinction on Andaman island" where we read "how primitive tribesmen came out of the jungle armed with bows, arrows an… more »
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