Gary Kynoch, H-Net reviews Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy by Adam Ashforth
Many Northern academics, along with their African counterparts, are reluctant to engage with the concept of witchcraft for fear of appearing to label Africans as primitive.… more »
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Interesting interview by Scott McLemee with anthropologist Deborah Reed-Danahay on her recent book Locating Bourdieu in the magazine "Inside Higher Education". The book is according to Scott McLemee "a very good place for the new reader of Bourdieu to st… more »
The Japan Times Online
Anthropologist Satsuki Kawano in her study of various ritual practices in the city of Kamakura wishes to see religious rites as being both culturally constructed and socially generated. Kawano prefers to demonstrate that partaki… more »
(via Fieldnotes): Ethnomusicologist Aaron Fox has set up a website and blog as an "extension of the book": "I'm not going to republish the book on the site, but the book deals so much with sound that I had to make it possible for people to hear the music… more »
by lorenz on Jun 12, 2005 in religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, gender, books, anthropology (general)
American Ethnologist and The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology are some of the best places to stay informed about new anthropology books. A few days ago they published their newest reviews, among others:
The Making of English National Iden… more »
by lorenz on May 11, 2005 in Us and Them, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories, ethics
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In her new book, From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich, Gretchen E. Schafft, an applied anthropologist(George Washington University) explores how the principles of early-20th-century physical anthro… more »
by lorenz on Apr 28, 2005 in culture traditions, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, books, fieldwork / methods, Northern America
USA Today
Medical anthropologist and University of California-San Francisco professor Sharon Kaufman, relies on extensive research and two years of firsthand observations in three hospitals. Kaufman's book wrestles with death and dying. She describes… more »
D. Murali in the The Hindu Buisiness Line
"Children have become conduits from the consumer marketplace into the household, the link between advertisers and the family purse," writes Juliet B. Schor in his book "Born to Buy". Marketers have "set their… more »
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