Zaman Daily Newspaper
At this time of the season, purple flowers bloom more fully in all corners of the Bosphorous, and purple clusters, enchanted because spring is coming at full speed, twine around. Being in Istanbul is a privilege under the shadow… more »
Category: "Us and Them"
by lorenz on Apr 18, 2005 in technology, gift economy gift giving, Us and Them, anthropology (general)
Jill Walker (University of Bergen, Norway) reports from a seminar I've missed to attend:
Lars Risan is the first speaker at the network seminar I’m at in Oslo. Don’t you love the idea of code as sacrament? Lars is an anthropologist, and he starts his… more »
by lorenz on Apr 6, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Native American
Sabina Magliocco, Anthropology News April 2005, American Anthropological Association
The commodification of indigenous spirituality is based on Romanticism’s construction of indigenes as more authentic, closer to nature and the sacred than Westerners;… more »
The Telegraph, Calcutta
Tribal societies have seldom recorded their own history. They usually relied on oral transmission of events, which raises definite difficulties for mainstream historians, who have seldom given serious thought or space to tribal… more »
AP
The intimate moments that once were the glue of American family life are disappearing amid job demands and nonstop activities. Scientists at UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families have spent the past four years observing 32 Los Angeles families… more »
A few days ago, Armand Marie Leroi, an evolutionary developmental biologist at Imperial College in London, wrote a controversial article in the New York Times. She claimed, that contrary to what anthropologists have to say on the subject, perhaps "race"… more »
Anthropik Network
When asked this question directly, many people answer that a civilization is simply a synonym for "society"--that a civilization is simply a group of people living together. This definition is betrayed when you press the point with b… more »
St.Petersburg Times
As almost 1,400 Somali refugees poured in this nearly all-white New England town, the natives weren't quite sure what to make of them. Here were people who looked different, spoke little English and had little money. And expected t… more »
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