The field: The city has 14312 inhabitants, more than half are unemployed, 53% of the under 18 years old are officially living under the poverty line. The main source of income for the town: Smuggling of people and drugs.
Social anthropologist Johann… more »
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Two interviews that I've conducted for the research program "Cultural Complexity in the new Norway" have been translated into English:
Law and multiculturalism: When law crosses borders
How does multicultural society challenge the Norwegian legal s… more »
It seems that Michael Parenti has summarized many of our main points regarding culture and the culture concept in his new book "The Culture Struggle". In an interview on ZNet, he says:
(...) it has long occurred to me that what we call "culture" is no… more »
by lorenz on Feb 7, 2006 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
Judd Antin at TechnoTaste recently informed us about two new anthropology centers. One of them Laboratory for the Anthropology of the Contemporary seems to take knowledge sharing more seriously than other research centers. You can click on and read every… more »
by lorenz on Feb 7, 2006 in politics, corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), ethics • 2 comments »
Anthropologist Fazia Rizvi points to an article by Maureen Dowd where she argues that the White House should hire an anthropologist:
Corporations have begun hiring anthropologists to help them improve product designs and interpret markets. And clearl… more »
No good news: In France, they shut down anthropology, in the US, we see the sell-out of our disciplin: "U.S. analysts are starting to apply anthropological models to trying to understand and fight the Iraq", according to United Press International.
An… more »
by lorenz on Jan 29, 2006 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
On the website of the American Anthropological Association, medical anthropologist Matthew Wolf-Meyer announces a new anthropology journal called After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies:
The first issue is planned for release in September 2006, and the… more »
It might not be something new to us that anthropology is as scientific as physics. But it's as Steve Gilday writes in the Cavalier Daily:
Most people make the strongest connections between science and subjects like physics, chemistry and biology. Ant… more »
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