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21/05/08
11:17:26, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Us and Them, media, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Ethnographic study: Social network sites are "virtual campfires"
After five years participant observation, anthropologist Jenny Ryan has published her masters' thesis about the social network sites Facebook, My Space and Tribe.net. She created a beautiful web version of her thesis at http://www.thevirtualcampfire.org/… more »
04/04/08
13:43:53, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, persons and theories, youth, journal articles / papers Transforming the Anthropology of Childhood - Anthropology News April
Has Anthropology News gone open-access? 14 articles of the new issue are online. Anthropology News examines new ways of thinking about childhood and children's roles and experiences. Methodological challenges of anthropological work with and of children… more »
03/04/08
23:37:13, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers Examples of engaging anthropology - New issue of "Anthropology Matters"
How can anthropology contribute to understanding and fighting inequality? The new issue of Anthropology Matters brings together articles from the first British postgraduate MA in Applied Anthropology and Community and Youth Work. Most of the students ar… more »
28/03/08
"Putting Aboriginal languages on the curriculum has improved 'race' relations"
He's not an aboriginal Australian. Nevertheless he has to learn the local indigenous language. He and many other children say it's fun. Teachers, parents and linguists say it is improving self-esteem, literacy and school attendance, rescuing indigenous l… more »
28/10/07
15:09:46, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, poverty, persons and theories, youth Anthropologist calls for a greater appreciation of child labor
There are many campaigns against child labour. But anthropologist Thomas Offit also views child labour as a chance for children to improve and take control of their lives. In an interview with The Lariat Online (Baylor University) he criticizes ethnocent… more »
01/08/07
Airport lamps light only option for studious Guinea kids
When the sun has set in Guinea, one of the world's poorest nations, and the floodlights come on at Gbessia International Airport, the parking lot begins to fill with children. It is among the only places where they can count on finding the lights on. Th… more »
21/01/07
18:46:49, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, youth, journal articles / papers Doctoral thesis: Towards a transnational Islam
Young muslims are moving from an Islam based on the culture of their homeland to an increasingly transnationally embedded Islam of Muslims from many different countries and cultures. That's one of the findings in the doctoral thesis by Norwegian anthrop… more »
03/11/06
01:46:13, by Lorenz . Categories: gender, fieldwork / methods, youth, Middle East, Visual Anthropology Photography as research tool: More engaged Kurdish anthropology
Visual anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has published several new articles at KurdishMedia.com. It looks like he is about to publish a whole book there. It started four weeks ago with part one of Media consumption, conformity and resistance: A visual ethnog… more »
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