What is it like being at a conference with anthropology students from many different countries? Daren Williams from Macquarie University in Sydney has written a review for antropologi.info about the 6th conference of the Moving Anthropology Student Netw… more »
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by lorenz on Sep 7, 2008 in Us and Them, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories, history, cosmopolitanism • 3 comments »
Are democracy, capitalism, freedom and the concept of romantic love unique inventions of the West? No. In his new book, anthropologist Jack Goody shows that the superiority of the West is largely unreal, even if we look to the recent past.
In "The T… more »
by lorenz on Aug 30, 2008 in anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia • 6 comments »
Today was the fifth and last day of the 10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. There are no news stories yet, but anthropology students at the University of Ljubljana have already wr… more »
by lorenz on Aug 28, 2008 in Us and Them, globalisation, migration, persons and theories, University / Academia, interdisciplinary • 8 comments »
As some of you might know, I work as a journalist at the interdisciplinary research programme Culcom - Cultural Complexity in the New Norway. I've just put online the English translation of my interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen, research director of C… more »
by lorenz on Aug 18, 2008 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers • 5 comments »
(via media anthropology) What is the purpose of organisations like the American Anthropological Association? What is the point of publishing articles? The free software movement forces anthropologists to rethink these questions, Christopher Kelty says… more »
by lorenz on Aug 3, 2008 in culture traditions, Us and Them, globalisation, music, Visual Anthropology, cosmopolitanism • 3 comments »
In 2005 his movie Metal - A Headbanger's journey took the world with storm. Now anthropologist and metal musician Sam Dunn has released "Global Metal" - a film about the global expansion of heavy metal music.
Together with his co-director Scot McFayde… more »
by lorenz on Jul 22, 2008 in medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), websites, interdisciplinary
Somatosphere - Science medicine and anthropology is the title of a new medical anthropology blog by researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
It will be an interdisciplinary blog as Eugene Raikhel writes in his first post:
The core o… more »
Approximately half of all anthropologists in the United States contributed their expertise to the World War II effort. In his new book Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, anthropologi… more »
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