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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »