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05/03/08
16:52:25, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Asia, fieldwork / methods, Visual Anthropology, internet, websites "Visual Anthropology of Japan" and more new blogs
Visual Anthropology of Japan" is the name of the blog by anthropologist Steven Fedorowicz (Kansai Gaidai University). All of his students in his class with the same name are required to blog. He links to more than a dozen student blogs.
He explains:… more »
26/02/08
14:14:58, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, websites “Focalizar o que é comum aos seres humanos” / Open Access Anthropology in Brasil
What do all humans have in common? My interview with anthropologist Christoph Antweiler in German about his book on cultural universalisms has been translated into Portuguese and will be published in the journal Revista ANTHROPOLÓGICAS. You can download… more »
17/02/08
19:21:01, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, books, anthropology (general), history Sheds light on the collaboration between science and colonial administration in Naga ethnography
Paul Pimomo reviews in The Morung Express a book that might not only be interesting for area specialists. The History of Naga Anthropology is, he writes, "a valuable contribution to the broad area of postcolonial studies".
In History of Naga Anthropo… more »
17:41:55, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, journal articles / papers, websites Open Access: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Migration and Constructions of the Other is the topic of the first (and most recent) issue of the Open Access journal South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.
According to their self-description, the journal "seeks to ‘democratize’ research-bas… more »
28/01/08
Really an ethnic conflict? An anthropologist on the Kenya-crisis
Both in Norwegian and international media, the recent crisis in Kenya has often been described as an ethnic or an tribal conflict. But is this a correct view? "There is a tendency in media in the West to portray Africa as a place where tribal rivalries i… more »
26/01/08
Australian anthropologist is Japan's first-ever foreign geisha
A documentary film-maker and academic with a doctorate in anthropology from Oxford University, Fiona Graham has just become what she says is the first non-Japanese in 400 years to debut as a geisha. But she hasn't become a geisha for private reasons: Sh… more »
14/01/08
02:45:47, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gender, Northern America, media, cyberanthropology, internet Anthropological research: Online dating as disappointing as the real-life dating scene
Sounds familiar: People on online dating sites are experiencing frustration because it does seem that the internet in many ways is just the same old bar scene. This is one of the findings of research by anthropologist Susan E. Frohlick. She is conductin… more »
10/12/07
01:14:47, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Africa, gender, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general) Circumcision: "Harmful practice claim has been exaggerated" - AAA meeting part IV
Is female circumcision violence against women or a feminist act? Are critics of this practice guilty of cultural imperialism? Those questions were debated at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in Washington - among others by Africa… more »
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