In their Anthropology News May article Urban Violence and Civil Rights in Postcolonial France, Paul A Silverstein
and Chantal Tetreault analyse the riots in France in november 2005.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced a “state of e… more »
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by lorenz on May 11, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America
Read this (we've had many stories like this before, but this one here is extremly "funny" - or let's rather say ethnocentric. The people are escaping from the Colombian drugs war, but this article reads more like an explorers account 200 years ago):
S… more »
by lorenz on May 10, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Africa, development empowerment • 2 comments »
Journalists often draw strict lines between "us" - the modern - and "them" - living in the stone age - although, as anthropologist Kerim Friedman put it we're all modern now.
According to a recent story by Knight Ridder Newspapers, a gift to Maasai p… more »
In my previous post, I've quoted anthropologist Owen Sichone about the concept of "Global apartheid": Whatever the advantages of apartness are (more economic than cultural), the South African system came to an end just as the rest of the world was r… more »
Security has come to be the overriding issue in every debate about development and immigration issues - and it's part of a worldwide trend which in fact does the complete opposite and helps to create insecurity. That's according to anthropologist Rema H… more »
Four interviews that I've conducted for the research program "Cultural Complexity in the new Norway" have been translated into English:
The sacred space between Christians and Muslims - Interview with Oddbjørn Leirvik
Leirvik has been involved in int… more »
Lots of demonstrations recently - not only in Paris, but also in the USA. According to anthropologist Roberto J. Gonzalez the recent mass demonstration against a tougher immigration policy (bill HR 4437) is proclaiming "the birth of a new civil rights mo… more »
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 »
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