A new interactive multimedia-website was launched about Swiss folk music including an Alphorn Tune Composer. On www.swissalpinemusic.ch you can read about alphorn music and yodelling, on alpine traditions and so on but the best thing is that you can list… more »
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The first temporary exhibition at Paris’s Quai Branly museum takes an ambitious look at how the West constructs its ‘other’, Mary Stevens writes in her research blog about the reconfiguration of national identity in French museums:
In the permanent e… more »
by lorenz on Oct 8, 2006 in Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers, Middle East, Visual Anthropology, websites • 1 comment »
The first part of the paper Media consumption, conformity and resistance: a visual ethnography of youth culture in Iranian Kurdistan by anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been published on KurdishMedia. Ahmady wanted to examine the factors which shape a s… more »
The New York Times called it "Bin Laden's Low-Tech Weapon": Islamic cassette sermons are often associated with terrorism. They are rather a medium for democratic activism and ethical selv-improvement, anthropologist Charles Hirschkind argues in his new b… more »
by lorenz on Oct 3, 2006 in religion cosmology, culture traditions, inuit, Arctic / Northern Regions, Visual Anthropology
As noted earlier, Inuit film maker Zacharias Kunuk explores in his film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen how missionaries force-fed Christianity to the Inuit in the 1920s.
Now the film has made its way to the International Film Festival in Toronto and… more »
The Gotham Gazette has interviewed Urban anthropologist Katherine S. Newman about her research and the situation of the urban poor in New York.
Newman has written No Shame In My Game, an ethnography of fast food workers in Harlem. In October the fo… more »
by lorenz on Sep 22, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, anthropology (general)
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 »
by lorenz on Sep 11, 2006 in Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary • 2 comments »
How to do research on migration? Lots of interesting papers in the recent issue of the multilingual and interdisciplinary Open Access journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
"Qualitative Migration Research in Contemporary Europe" is the topic of… more »
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