Manchester Online
MOST people believe the local pub is far more important to their community than the church, according to a survey published today. Kate Fox, social anthropologist and co-director of the Social Issues Research Centre, was asked to com… more »
Category: "books"
by lorenz on Nov 7, 2004 in politics, gift economy gift giving, books, anthropology (general) • 1 comment »
Steven Shaviro, professor in English at Wayne State University
David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. Graeber wants to ally the discipline of anthropology with the anarchist currents th… more »
The University of Chicago Press
An interview with anthropologist Jonah Blank, author of Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras. The Daudi Bohras are a unique denomination of Indian Muslims, with a worldwide population num… more »
Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba (Japan), Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
What is your image of Japan? A technologically hip nation of cyber-savvy samurai? A land where culture can be both cute and conformist? In Japanese Cyber… more »
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2004 in corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, books, fieldwork / methods
The Guardian
What happens when you let a sharp-eyed anthropologist roam the corridors and meeting rooms of the British Broadcasting Corporation for several years? You get this, a fascinating patchwork of interviews, testimonials, diary entries and ana… more »
Danny Yee's Book Reviews
Originally published in 1979, The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan is a study of the peoples of the Wakhan Corridor, the long, narrow portion of Afghanistan that reaches out to touch China. This 2002 edition adds a foreword an… more »
by lorenz on Aug 24, 2004 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, books, anthropology (general)
You're not allowed to read their articles, but American Ethnologist's book reviews are available for the general public! >> continue
Currently, the American Ethnologist seems to reorganize its homepage and plans to add some interactive features like… 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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