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10/10/12
What the burial of a 4 year old boy says about daily life more than 24 000 years ago
Antropologi.info is mainly about social anthropology. To broaden our perspective, here is an archaeology paper that Lukas Loeb sent me.
Loeb is currently a student in the Social Science and Economy Department at the University of Agder, Norway. The… more »
03/11/11
Anthropologist: "Stop the abuse of migrants at the U.S. - Mexican boder!"
They beat children and adults during apprehensions and in custody, they deny people with life-threatening medical conditions treatment, separate family members and confiscate their belongings.
“We were held with another woman who was coughing so bad… more »
12/10/11
The Cairo massacre and How to invent "religious conflicts"
It is both interesting and disturbing to see how the event has been covered by international mainstream media in comparison to local (social) media. International media has framed the clashes mainly as a religious conflict while they also could have chosen a totally different perspective: instead of “Muslims against Christians”, they could have chosen “the army against the people”. more »
27/09/11
02:19:38, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Us and Them, anthropology (general), Middle East, University / Academia (updated) The dubious behaviour of Western researchers sightseeing the “Arab Spring”
Egyptian sociologist Mona Abaza has written an interesting article about “growing inequalities” between researchers from the Middle East and the West. “While the Arab Spring has enhanced global interest in the Arab world, local aca… more »
20/09/11
"Similar to the Third World debt crisis" - David Graeber on 'Occupy Wall Street'
While the Guardian is sending an anthropologist on fieldwork among bankers to give us insight in the destructive culture of finance, thousands of people in New York are occupying the Wall Street, “the financial Gomorrah of America” and “… more »
Guardian sends anthropologist on fieldwork among bankers in London
Can you make a complex subject like the world of finance accessible to outsiders? What about sending an anthropologist into the world of bankers in London’s financial district and let him blog his findings? That’s the new project of the G… more »
02/09/11
The misconceptions of slum life
More and more people are living in slums. What can be done about it? A few weeks ago I blogged about Safaa Marafi’s thesis about neoliberal policies, urban segregation and the Egyptian revolution. Now she has published a newspaper article that… more »
27/08/11
13:51:59, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Northern America, migration Deadly migration: The ignored health crisis on the US-Mexican border
A multi-dimensional public health crisis is unfolding on the U.S.-Mexico border that few seem ready to acknowledge, anthropologists Rachel Stonecipher & Sarah Willen write on the Access Denied blog.
The complexity of this crisis came to light dur… more »
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