(via GlobalVoices)Fascinating photo story by Rashid Farah on BBC News of librarians who travel the Kenyan desert with a mobile camel library to improve literacy rates in the north-east: "A static library would be of no use to nomads and so instead we fol… more »
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by lorenz on Oct 30, 2005 in development empowerment, applied anthropology, Northern America, websites • 1 comment »
An extinct fishing village, the Polish flats, German Heritage, the Homeless of Southeastern Winsconsin, and the African American neighborhood of Bronzeville: Anthropologists offer Cultural backstreet tours! (source).
These tours are arranged by Urban… more »
by lorenz on Oct 27, 2005 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, Asia, Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, internet
(via Bits and Bytes Interesting story by INTEL-etnographers Tony Salvador and John Sherry (one of them - Sherry - is actually an anthropologist!) on their work in India, Peru and Hungary. They summarize some of their findings after four years circling th… more »
Long story in the International Herald Tribune about climate change in the Arctic, sinking cities, unhappy reindeers, emaciated looking polar bears, walruses trying to climb onto white boats, mistaking them for ice floes and seasoned hunters who have bee… more »
by lorenz on Oct 20, 2005 in Africa, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), ethics
"We have a huge responsibility to give back to the places we study from," anthropology professor Sharon Hutchinson says in a portrait on the website of the University of Winston-Madison. She has increasingly designed her courses to help students think th… more »
Danny Yee reviews Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account by Andrew Beatty and finds this book "in many ways more compelling" than Clifford Geertz' The Religion of Java. Beattys book is based on fieldwork carried out in an Osing villag… 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 »
by lorenz on Oct 16, 2005 in culture traditions, development empowerment, ecology nature, applied anthropology, Northern America, anthropology (general)
As noted before, disasters have their cultural aspects: Disasters are embedded in cultural practices of societies. "Disasters do not just happen."
Anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith says in an interview about the earthquake in South Asia:
People… more »
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