The majority of the world’s population is wearing just one textile – denim. Why? On the Material World blog, anthropologist Daniel Miller announced the Global Denim Project. This scheme, he writes, is designed to bring together an increasing number of p… more »
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by lorenz on Nov 16, 2007 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
Swedish universities have launched a new website www.essays.se which gives access to several thousands University papers:
Every year tens of thousands of Swedish university students spend many million hours researching and writing their final theses.… more »
Nice interview with anthropologist Alan Klima in University paper The California Aggie about anthropology in general.
For example the anthropologist's answer to the question how he became interested in anthropology:
I was always interested in soci… more »
A few days ago, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) decided to oppose the embedding of anthropologists in military teams (HTS) in Iraq and Afghanistan. The use of anthropological knowledge in the U.S. military and the m… more »
by lorenz on Nov 12, 2007 in culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, persons and theories, journal articles / papers
The first issue of "After Culture - Emergent Anthropologies" that was planned for release in September 2006 has finally been published, Savage Minds reports.
The journal is edited by anthropologist Matthew Wolf-Meyer . In his editorial he explains tha… more »
Another new blog: Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has recently launched the blog Open Anthropology - "a project of decolonization, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism":
OPEN ANTHROPOL… more »
News of anthropologists in the US. military starts circulating on one of the largest Muslim websites, Culture Matters reports. Anthropologist Donald Abdallah Cole says to IslamOnline.net that "Arabs and Muslims should be wary of western anthropologists"… more »
Norwegian anthropologist Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme has started blogging. He is currently on fieldwork in the Philippines among the Pentecostal Christians in Ifugao.
In his first two posts of his blog Jon Henrik in Ifugao, he describes parts of the fi… more »
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