On the recent conference by the Society for Applied Anthropology, Mary Odell Butler from Battelle suggested that anthropologists ought to quit using the word ‘culture’ wherever possible, according to Judd Antin at Technotaste who writes:
"The larger a… more »
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by lorenz on Mar 28, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Europe, books, migration, anthropology (general), persons and theories, journal articles / papers • 6 comments »
In her new book Plausible Prejudice: Everyday Experiences and Social Images of Nation, Culture and Race, Norwegian social anthropologist Marianne Gullestad identifies five major challenges for the discipline of anthropology. To understand the problems of… 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 »
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 »
I recently interviewed Benedict Anderson. He wrote one of the most read books on nationalism, “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism”. I was surprised over Andersons positive views on nationalism. He thinks that nation… more »
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