My wishlist:
1. Tell us your main points and findings before you start ("I will show that the Earth is flat" or so) and sum up your paper at the end.
2. Tell us why we should listen to you. Yes, it's interesting that you have studied childhood in I… more »
Categories: "anthropology (general)"
How to study children? "You can't just interview children because most children will find interviews boring and walk away. So we need to facilitate a way for children to explain their own lives with you. We want children to be their own ethnographers, so… more »
It seems as if anthropologist Robert Leonard has written a fascinating book according the Des Moines Register. It's called Yellow Cab:
When anthropologist Robert Leonard took a second job as a cab driver out of economic necessity, he found an "amazin… more »
Jill Walker reports about censorship of research in the USA:
Recently, two articles by teams from the University of Bergen were accepted by prominent US journals and then turned down because, the publishers said, "we cannot publish your paper because… more »
by lorenz on Mar 12, 2006 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia • 4 comments »
In the book Engaging Anthropology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen writes:
In spite of its considerable growth, anthropology still cultivates its self-identity as a counter-culture, its members belonging to a kind of secret society whose initiates possess excl… more »
by lorenz on Mar 7, 2006 in Us and Them, globalisation, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism
Some days ago I registered for the conference Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology at Keele University (UK). As a preparation, here some notes on anthropology and cosmopolitanism.
After the controversis around the Mohammed-cartoons, media loved talking ab… more »
Most homepages of anthropologists at universities only consist of a boring list of non-clickable publications. One of the few exceptions is the homepage of Joshua Barker at the University of Toronto. Eight papers can be read, including papers that have b… more »
by lorenz on Feb 24, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, development empowerment, globalisation, Pacific Oceania, persons and theories
In his dissertation (published on his blog yesterday), anthropologist Alex Golub challenges popular notions on indigenous peoples, mining and globalisation. He has done research in a region that has gone through major transformations and fulfills every s… more »
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