Articles on Biometrics, US Refugee policy, children's migration, transnational students, challenges of multi-sited ethnography and more can be found in the most recent issue of Anthropology News May, a publication by the American Anthropological Associat… more »
Category: "globalisation"
by lorenz on Dec 1, 2007 in globalisation, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers • 1 comment »
In attempts to globalize anthropology, it is a good thing to translate into Chinese textbooks such as William Haviland’s Anthropology, but it is also desirable to hold on to what is distinctive in local disciplinary history, Chris Hann suggests in Anthro… more »
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 »
by lorenz on Oct 28, 2007 in politics, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, poverty, persons and theories, youth • 2 comments »
There are many campaigns against child labour. But anthropologist Thomas Offit also views child labour as a chance for children to improve and take control of their lives. In an interview with The Lariat Online (Baylor University) he criticizes ethnocent… more »
by lorenz on Oct 24, 2007 in Us and Them, globalisation, migration, persons and theories • 2 comments »
In case you're wondering why this blog sometimes has not been updated for several days: One reason might be my job as a webjournalist for the research program Cultural Complexity in the New Norway (CULCOM).
Now, several of my interviews and summaries… more »
Examples of good anthropological writing? In his constant search to find books he can hand to students and say: "Here is anthropology", Christopher Kelty is two books richer in 2007: Global Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Techno… more »
Another anthro-blogger has published his dissertation. Antti Leppänen has been on fieldwork among neighborhood shop keepers in South Korea. His interest in this toipc was "aroused by the visible ethnographic difference between my native Finland and the… more »
by lorenz on Apr 2, 2007 in Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, persons and theories, interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism
One of my jobs consists in interviewing researchers in the research program Cultural Complexity in the new Norway. Five of these interviews have been translated into English, I've just put them online:
Traveling to Turkey to Understand Norway
Anthrop… more »
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