Recent political events have shown an alarming lack of awareness in western countries of life in the Middle East. Anthropologists play an important role in making social and cultural developments in the Middle East more comprehensible to a wider world, s… more »
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by lorenz on Jun 6, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, aboriginees • 2 comments »
In the Australian magazine On Line Opinion, Anthropologist John Morton criticizes public views of Aboriginess in Australia and argues for avoiding the term culture:
Ever since Europeans first came to Australia, public views of Aborigines have veered b… more »
by lorenz on Jun 3, 2006 in Us and Them, Africa, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet • 3 comments »
Email scams constitute the third largest industry in Nigeria, after oil and drugs. These email-scammers succeed because they play on stereotypical understandings of Africa, anthropologist Elina Hartikainen concludes in paper, that she presented at a conf… more »
by lorenz on May 24, 2006 in culture traditions, Africa, anthropology (general), persons and theories
Kerim Friedman at Savage Minds recently announced a new series about classical works in anthropology which are available online. The idea, he writes, is to "both encourage newbies to read some classical anthropological texts as well as allow those with P… more »
by lorenz on May 16, 2006 in politics, Latin- and Central America, anthropology (general) • 2 comments »
There has been a lot of focus on anthropologists and human rights recently. But being engaged is easier said than done. Police Beat and Gas Students at the National School of Anthropology and History is the headline of a story on Narco News. They were pa… more »
A Montreal newspaper story has rapidly sent Filipino tempers rising around the world. Luc Cagadoc, a 7-year-old pupil, was punished by a lunchtime day-care monitor: “You are in Canada. Here in Canada you should eat the way Canadians eat,” the Quebecois e… more »
Three interviews that I've conducted earlier this year have been translated from Norwegian to English:
Take on the multiculturalism debate - Interview with Alexa Døving
Does culture exist? What is integration? What defines Norwegianness? Is nationali… more »
by lorenz on May 12, 2006 in politics, Us and Them, Northern America, migration, anthropology (general)
"There is ample need for anthropologists and other social scientists to contribute to the immigration debate by providing greater context to the discussion and by describing the effects that immigration policies would have", JC Salyer argues in Anthropo… more »
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