Ideas Bazaar Weblog
An article about a book I retrieved from the shelves before I went away on the Raj in India and Hill Stations. The Magic Mountains examines the importance of these settlements as a means of racial separation and a subsuquent demons… more »
Category: "books"
Haaretz, Israel
Mary Douglas:
"Today too much dominance is given to the anthropologists themselves within the research. This is strange, as it used to be that the main criticism was that anthropologists kept themselves invisible in the research in a… more »
Nepal News
Martino Nicoletti, an Italian anthropologist, explains Kulunge Rai’s practice of shamanism in Nepal in his book "Shamanic Solitudes. Ecstasy, Madness, and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas". Shamanism is widely practiced among the Ti… more »
by lorenz on Jul 8, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, inuit, books, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions
Kenai Peninsula Online (Alaska)
Generations of anthropologists have appeared in Alaska Native villages and attempted, with varying degrees of tact, naivete or insight, to explain the villagers' lives. Margaret B. Blackman who teaches anthropology at t… more »
Nunatsiaq News
At 473 pages, the book is unlikely to appeal to the audience its authors say they’re aiming for: children, young parents, and teachers of Nunavut. It is more likely to attract academics, who should be its secondary audience. No one woul… more »
Daily Telegraph
Michael Young's 690-page book is the first of two projected volumes. It takes Malinowski from his birth in Poland in 1884 to his return to England from the Trobriand Islands in 1920 - when his most famous work was yet to be written, an… more »
The Japan Post
"Unless you understand how money is moving about the economy, it is impossible to have any meaningful analysis of a society or its culture; and unless you look at cultural issues, it is difficult to ever understand how a financial syste… more »
The Western Mail (Wales)
"When we feel uncomfortable in social situations (that is, most of the time) we either become over-polite, buttoned up and awkwardly restrained, or loud, loutish, crude, violent and generally obnoxious", says Kate Fox - social… more »
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