An cliché, guaranteed to be found in any newspaper article or TV show about indigenous peoples, is the moniker “ancient people”. The idea is that their way of life has remained unchanged for centuries. It is a nice fantasy, but it is almost never true, a… more »
Category: "Us and Them"
by lorenz on Oct 26, 2005 in Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet
In her most recent post, Danah Boyd gives us a round-up of her publications on Friendster, a popular social networking service where she has conducted ethnographic research. Among others, she studied how people publicly perform their social relations onl… 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 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 »
The African Studies Quarterly is an Open Access Online Journal for African Studies.
In their recent issue there's an article by anthropologist Rebecca Gearhart on Taking American Race Relations on the Road...to Africa:
"As an anthropologist who… more »
Interesting article in the International Herald's Tribune on recent research on Gossip. If there's a list of universal human traits, gossip must be part of it:
"Long-term studies of Pacific Islanders, American middle-school children and residents of r… more »
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