Estonian anthropologist Janno Simm has his own website with several exciting photos from his fieldwork in Northern Khanty fishing and reindeer communities in Siberia. You can even listen to two Khanty songs.
In his text Reflections on Ethnographic Ph… more »
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by lorenz on Oct 7, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Northern America • 2 comments »
10 aboriginal and four non-aboriginal graduate students from the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) are working with First Nations elders, community leaders and educators to identify science content elements of aboriginal knowledge and det… more »
by lorenz on Oct 2, 2005 in Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, migration, journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism
Why are there such different patterns of identity and community formation among second-generation migrants? A transnational perspective with focus on the migrants' relationship to their (or their parents') homeland is neccessary, argues anthropologist S… more »
by lorenz on Sep 29, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, poverty, Native American, journal articles / papers
Interesting thesis in social anthropology by Knut Olav Krohn Lakså. The thesis has recently been published in the Digital Library at the University of Oslo
Knut Olav Krohn Lakså conducted fieldwork among the Pataxó Indians in Brazil. He wanted to see… more »
Wolfgang "Anthronaut" Wohlwend has returned from his two month fieldwork in a warehouse in Istanbul. He summarizes some of his experience with short-time fieldwork and gives us the advice: "Start at the general and go into the specific!":
Two months… more »
by lorenz on Sep 19, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Northern America, Native American, history, Visual Anthropology, ethics
Early visual anthropologists produced a form of salvage anthropology that uncoupled "traditional" society from any form of change, Patrick Harries (University of Cape Town), writes in an article on the the history of visual anthropology in South Africa.… more »
by lorenz on Sep 14, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Europe, journal articles / papers
Pro Ethnologica is - as far as I know - the only anthropology journal that is published both on paper and is freely available on the web for all of us.
Their new volume is now online. The papers in their new volume were presented at a workshop in Augu… more »
by lorenz on Sep 11, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Africa, Europe, Latin- and Central America, books, Northern America, migration, Native American, anthropology (general), music
The August reviews of the journal American Ethnologist are now online.
Among them we'll find:
Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. By: Kamari Maxine Clarke
Kamari Clarke is an Afro-Canadian who join… more »
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