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 »
Category: "Asia"
Ronald Hutton, Times Online
Piers Vitebsky is one of a tiny number of British experts on the region and an internationally renowned anthropologist. This book "REINDEER PEOPLE: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia" is the record of successive vis… more »
Carol Mukhopadhyayis, professor of anthropology at San Jose State, Anthropology News March 2005(AAA)Drawing upon ethnographic and questionnaire data from four urban areas in India, I took a comparative look at the scientific gender gap. My Indian exp… more »
Yahoo Asia News / AP
Malaysia's indigenous tribes are hoping that a planned revision of a colonial-era law will grant them ownership of forests that their ancestors inhabited for more than 10,000 years, activists said.
They say the centuries-old cu… more »
The Statesman, Calcutta
Slowly, a little warily maybe, Muslims of the city are making efforts to break out of the stereotypes and move out of ghettos. For a community mired in financial quicksand and plagued by poverty and lack of education, among oth… more »
by lorenz on Feb 22, 2005 in Asia, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, language, anthropology (general) • 1 comment »
Anthropologist P. Kerim Friedman (Temple University) published his dissertation on the web before it will be published as a book! "No need to wait for the book", he writes. In an earlier post, Friedman encouraged anthropologists to use the Internet to sh… more »
San Francisco Chronicle
Five years into the millennium, Japan's most visible export isn't economic, but cultural. The jury's still out on whether anime (Japanese animation), manga, toys, gadgets and fashion will sweep across middle America. "This stuf… more »
by lorenz on Jan 20, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Asia, ecology nature, Tsunami Dec 2004, Andaman & Nicobar societies
BBC
Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami, anthropologists say. Samir Acharya, convenor of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar… more »
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