ZNet India interviews anthropologist Angana Chatterji
One of the most controversial "development projects" in recent years is a series of more than 3,000 dams in India’s Narmada River Valley. These dams flood vast areas and displace hundreds of thousa… more »
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Nepalnews.com
Professor Dr. RISHIKESHAB RAJ REGMI – who teaches anthropology at the Tribhuwan University - is a well known anthropologist of Nepal:
"The event of September 1 was very mysterious. The people who attacked mosque and Muslims are not Ne… more »
by lorenz on Sep 7, 2004 in politics, Asia, development empowerment, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, poverty
Medical anthropologist Sabina Faiz Rashid, The Daily Star Bangladesh
The assumption often among policymakers is that mere provision of health services and better choices will improve health of the poor. Universal education in public health and biology… more »
by lorenz on Sep 6, 2004 in religion cosmology, culture traditions, Asia, globalisation, migration • 1 comment »
Nepal News
With the increase in the population, Kathmandu valley's dynamics and structures of population have changed. New migrant families are coming up and the structures of old families are transforming from extended ones to nucleus. The family rel… more »
Two new links, found via Science Blog/ Open Directory Project:
The Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana: Short overview, many links. By John Bock, professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton: "The Okavango Delt… more »
The Jakarta Post
A Papuan anthropologist, Marlina Flassy, has been declared the winner of the Peniti Emas community research award, capping a series of science and technology achievements by people in the remote province.
Marlina's research conduct… more »
CNN/ CBS News
-- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection.
Designed like temple carriages… more »
The Hindu
"COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION" and "Community managed and government supported" approaches are buzzwords in the realm of development cooperation. The discourse on gender analysis in development planning has contributed to an increasing interest i… more »
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