News of anthropologists in the US. military starts circulating on one of the largest Muslim websites, Culture Matters reports. Anthropologist Donald Abdallah Cole says to IslamOnline.net that "Arabs and Muslims should be wary of western anthropologists"… more »
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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 9, 2007 in politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, Northern America, University / Academia, ethics
The debates about the militarisation of anthropology have recently made the front page of the New York Times and several other newspapers (f.ex. The Boston Globe) and blogs discussed the story.
Are more and more (American) anthropologists willing to… more »
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, politics, religion cosmology, Asia, anthropology (general) • 4 comments »
Burma's protesters may have been silenced, but we must continue to support them, writes Brendan Barber in The Guardian. But maybe we should not focus too much upon the courage of the monks. Muslims in Burma are persecuted, not only by the military, even… more »
by lorenz on Sep 30, 2007 in politics, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
Is it because the academe rewards critique rather than advocacy? Conflict resolution studies, Mark Davidheiser and Inga E Treitler write in Anthropology News September, are "not widely acknowledged within our discipline" and are "rarely published in main… more »
Wear red for Burma: Several thousand people at the demonstration in Oslo
"Wear a red t-shirt in solidarity this friday!" "Light candles in your windows on Friday night to honour the victims of the demostrations." Pro-democracy protest marches in Burm… more »
(via Savage Minds) Can a discussion about the use of music in torture shed new perspectives in our debates about the use of anthropological knowledge in torture, askes Kerim Friedman on Savage Minds. Jason Baird Jackson points in his comment to the Soci… more »
by lorenz on Sep 23, 2007 in politics, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, ethics • 1 comment »
In the newest issue of Anthropology Today (to be published in October), David Price continues discussing how CIA and similar agencies "covertly set our research agendas and selectively harvest the resulting research" and writes that "sometimes we may nee… more »
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