Do you want to know what anthropologists who work for the US military in Afghanistan write about the people America is at war with? I resist to believe it but according to the Syndney Morning Herald they call some Afghan societies for "utter savages".… more »
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by lorenz on Sep 10, 2009 in politics, Us and Them, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, journal articles / papers • 8 comments »
It was around four months ago, I received the message of my friend's sudden death. "Nobody knows", I was told, "why she stepped in front of a train". Afterwards I often wondered if her life could have been saved if we all had known and talked more about… more »
by lorenz on Aug 7, 2009 in politics, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia • 2 comments »
How can we make anthropology public? How survive as politically engaged anthropologist in conservative institutions? Nancy Scheper-Hughes answers these questions in the guest editorial in the new issue of Anthropology Today. Public anthropology impli… more »
by lorenz on Aug 1, 2009 in indigenous people / minorities, politics, Latin- and Central America, anthropology (general) • 2 comments »
One year after anthropologist, author and indigenous rights activist Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila was beaten to death in Southern Mexico, there has been silence from the Mexican authorities. The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN as… more »
by lorenz on Jul 30, 2009 in indigenous people / minorities, politics, Us and Them, Asia, anthropology (general), ethics • 7 comments »
Chinese authorities continue using the 16th congress by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) to spread propaganda. This is the most recent article: Overseas anthropologists: Adventure in Chinese ethnic village "e… more »
by lorenz on Jul 24, 2009 in indigenous people / minorities, politics, Us and Them, Asia, anthropology (general), ethics • 3 comments »
(UPDATE 27.7.09: Chinese media propaganda at IUAES anthropology conference in Kunming? / UPDATE 30.7: IUAES-anthropologists "praise" Chinese government's relation to minorities )
Last year, the conference was cancelled by the Chinese government for fea… more »
The debate on anthropology and the military is extremly polarized. Mats Utas, Head of the Africa Programme at the Swedish National Defence College, has written an interesting article where he challenges both sides. Among other things, he shows that there… more »
by lorenz on Jun 20, 2009 in politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, applied anthropology, University / Academia, ethics • 5 comments »
We have discussed a lot about the strengthening ties between the military and universities in the USA and Britain, but similar things are happening in Scandinavia. And there is no public debate about it here.
One example is a research center that was… more »
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