More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles when the International Polar Year officially opened on Monday: It unifies 228 research projects about the impact of global warming in the Arctic the Washington Post r… more »
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by lorenz on Jul 13, 2006 in culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees, books, persons and theories
In a portrait on the website of The National University of Australia, anthropologist Ian Keen, tells about his research among Aboriginees in Australia. Among other things, he wanted to find out why pre-colonial Aboriginal societies tended to be more egal… more »
The second issue of the peer reviewed Open Access journal Ecological and Environmental Anthropology is quite unusual. The papers have titles like
"The Importance of Integrative Anthropology: A Preliminary Investigation Employing Primatological and C… more »
by lorenz on Mar 15, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, technology, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees • 1 comment »
Indigenous Australians dug underground water reservoirs that helped them live on one of the world's driest continents for tens of thousands of years, new research by hydrogeologist Brad Moggridge shows, according to ABC News. The study indicates Aborigi… more »
by lorenz on Dec 22, 2005 in ecology nature, inuit, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions
Good news (for environmentalists) before the Christmas New Year-break: There will be no oil drilling in the Alaska's Arctic national wildlife reserve. Republicans have battled to allow drilling in the reserve for 25 years. Although they pledged to try ag… more »
One month before Katrina resulted in floods in New Orleans, a similar “natural” disaster occurred in Mumbai, India. Judy Whitehead, associate professor at the University of Lethbridge in Canada the United Kingdom, has conducted disaster research in partn… more »
by lorenz on Nov 20, 2005 in Africa, development empowerment, ecology nature, journal articles / papers, San-bushmen, tourism
Anna Stadler from Linköping University, Department of Anthropology (Sweden) has conducted a study of the relocation of the G//ana and G/wi San from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Her essay discusses how conservation policies, development… more »
In Anthropology News November, Susanna M Hoffman (co-editor of Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster) rises the question how anthropologists could help people who are ravaged by the recent hurricanes:
Disasters and their effects on… more »
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