More and more Tibetan folk songs are disappearing. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) uses digital media to capture tunes that are being lost. The volunteer-run program aims to put all the digital song… more »
Category: "Asia"
by lorenz on Jul 2, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, books, history • 2 comments »
According to Hindu-reviewer Jyotirmaya Sharma, anthropologist and sociologist Nandini Sundar has written an interesting book about the Adivasi in India. The book Subalterns and Sovereigns — An Anthropological History of Bastar (1854-2006) "tells a very c… more »
by lorenz on Jun 11, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, Asia, ecology nature, persons and theories, journal articles / papers • 1 comment »
Are hunter-gatherer communities able to rely completely on the rainforest environment for their food, without any dependence on food traded from farming societies? How has their life changed as a result of settling down? How has the community responded… more »
"Anthropologists should shed light on the violence in Balochistan Province in Pakistan, anthropologist Hafeez Jamali writes in Anthropology News May 2007. Balochistan is presently the scene of a bitter and violent struggle. Multinationals are exploiting… more »
Another anthro-blogger has published his dissertation. Antti Leppänen has been on fieldwork among neighborhood shop keepers in South Korea. His interest in this toipc was "aroused by the visible ethnographic difference between my native Finland and the… more »
Anthropology in India is losing relevance. Many anthropology departments are shutting down, especially in Western India. "Gifted anthropologists" are also shifting to other professions. At the Second Indian Anthropological Congress, KK Basa, director of… more »
by lorenz on Dec 17, 2006 in Asia, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general)
"Anthropologists should actively cooperate in the building of new Nepal", Subash Chandra Nembang said at the three-day international seminar on 'social science in a multi-cultural world', organized by the Nepal Sociological and Anthropological Society (N… more »
by lorenz on Oct 31, 2006 in technology, Asia, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, cyberanthropology, internet • 5 comments »
Anthropologist Jesse de Leon shares some of his results from his field work among Filipino bloggers and their expression of Filipino identity on blogs.
He found five major categories of Filipino bloggers: Cosmopolitans, the Philippine Elite, Im/migra… more »
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