The journal has existed for a few years already but it seems to be one of the many hidden treasures on the web. It's called Focus Anthro and is an peer-reviewed undergraduate anthropology journal at Kenyon College, Ohio.
Lots of interesting papers to… more »
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How to understand religious experiences when you have not 'experienced' the experiences? What is the function of emotions in the anthropological research process? Do emotions operate as 'anthropology's taboo'? Or are they key tools in our understanding… more »
by lorenz on Feb 10, 2007 in globalisation, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, cosmopolitanism • 2 comments »
How many Siberian anthropologists do you know? What are Chinese anthropologists engaged in? The discipline of anthropology is quite ethnocentric. It is dominated by research institutes in the U.S and Britain. Only a small elite interacts on a global leve… more »
by lorenz on Feb 7, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia
The new issue of Anthropology Today is out - one of my favorite journals. I used to summarize the most interesting articles here but from now on I'll no longer be able to do that. The Norwegian University libraries have cancelled their subscriptions as a… more »
by lorenz on Feb 7, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
More and more anthropology theses are published online in digital archives. Recently, five new theses were added in DUO (Digital publications at the University of Oslo):
Frank Magnussen: Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. A medical anthropological l… more »
by lorenz on Jan 21, 2007 in religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, youth, journal articles / papers
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 »
by lorenz on Dec 11, 2006 in Us and Them, Africa, poverty, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, ethics • 3 comments »
"The US is sending troops to the Sahara desert of west Africa to open what it calls a new front in the war on terror", the Guardian reported three years ago. "The ‘official truth’ about the ‘war on terror’ on the Sahara-Sahel is a ‘lie’", anthropologist… more »
by lorenz on Nov 30, 2006 in religion cosmology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, internet, websites • 2 comments »
anpere - Anthropological Perspectives on Religion is the name of a new journal that is freely available for everybody. It is edited by anthropologists Pierre Wiktorin and André Möller from Lund University (Sweden).
They explain:
The aim of anpere… more »
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