Marc Erickson, channels.lockergnome.com
Ian Condry: "What is this culture of piracy and what is at stake in trying to change it? In this essay, I take an ethnographic look at music file sharing, and compare the situation in the US with Japan. My findi… more »
Categories: "anthropology (general)"
by lorenz on Jul 21, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, inuit, Saami, anthropology (general), music, Arctic / Northern Regions
Back from the festival, here are some links to some bands that played in Manndalen, Kåfjord community in Northern Norway
Drum Drum from Papua New Guinea
Wai, Maori-band from New Zealand
Taima, Inuit band from Canada
Johan Sara jr - Saami Band… more »
by lorenz on Jul 9, 2004 in Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
Fiona Moore, Anthropology Matters 1 (2004)
Transnational business people are seldom studied by anthropologists. Here, I examine the role that two ‘global cities’ — London and Frankfurt — play in the lives of a group of employees from a German transnat… more »
by lorenz on Jul 9, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, inuit, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions
Nunatsiaq News
Erin Brubacher, who, with Odile Nelson, is co-directing and acting in the play in Iqaluit this weekend, says this is a play that "fits with the community". "The issues involved are universal: interracial marriage, the concept of cultura… more »
by lorenz on Jul 8, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, inuit, books, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions
Kenai Peninsula Online (Alaska)
Generations of anthropologists have appeared in Alaska Native villages and attempted, with varying degrees of tact, naivete or insight, to explain the villagers' lives. Margaret B. Blackman who teaches anthropology at t… more »
by lorenz on Jul 8, 2004 in corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, culture traditions, persons and theories
Tom's Hardware Guide
Tech firms flood consumers which new products every month. In an interview with Tom's Hardware Guide, Intel's anthropologist Genevieve Bell explains why cultures will determine the development of new products. Dell initiated at In… more »
Rediff India
"I was doing my first major anthropology project studying the Baul protest movement and how it used music to talk about injustice, superstitions and hypocrisy. In Brazil too some of its most popular music and dance started in the ghettos… more »
Daily Telegraph
Michael Young's 690-page book is the first of two projected volumes. It takes Malinowski from his birth in Poland in 1884 to his return to England from the Trobriand Islands in 1920 - when his most famous work was yet to be written, an… more »
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