Most homepages of anthropologists at universities only consist of a boring list of non-clickable publications. One of the few exceptions is the homepage of Joshua Barker at the University of Toronto. Eight papers can be read, including papers that have b… more »
Category: "Asia"
by lorenz on Feb 19, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, journal articles / papers
Although race has typically been mobilized to justify and uphold social inequality, recently in Nepal race was used in a political movement to oppose those in power, Susan Hangen writes in her article The Emergence of a Mongol Race in Nepal in Anthropolo… more »
An old drawing style in Japan is being reintroduced as new in the United States, and USC anthropology research scientist Mizuko Ito presented the development of Anime at the UCLA Faculty Center, UCLA University writes on their homepage. Academics should… more »
by lorenz on Oct 27, 2005 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, Asia, Latin- and Central America, development empowerment, internet
(via Bits and Bytes Interesting story by INTEL-etnographers Tony Salvador and John Sherry (one of them - Sherry - is actually an anthropologist!) on their work in India, Peru and Hungary. They summarize some of their findings after four years circling th… more »
Danny Yee reviews Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account by Andrew Beatty and finds this book "in many ways more compelling" than Clifford Geertz' The Religion of Java. Beattys book is based on fieldwork carried out in an Osing villag… more »
by lorenz on Oct 17, 2005 in religion cosmology, Asia, gender, books, Northern America, anthropology (general), persons and theories, Caribbean
The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology has published several new book reviews on its website:
Marc Augé: Oblivion
The French anthropologist breaks new ground introducing the theme of Oblivion (Les formes de l’oubli) – a challenging reflect… more »
Estonian anthropologist Janno Simm has his own website with several exciting photos from his fieldwork in Northern Khanty fishing and reindeer communities in Siberia. You can even listen to two Khanty songs.
In his text Reflections on Ethnographic Ph… more »
"Despite the fascinating content, the book is a methodical anthropological study, and thus heavy going at times. One longs to hear more Na voices, to read more stories of their ways", David Loftus writes in his review of the book A Society without Fathe… more »
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