Weaving is a tradition dear to the Rupshupa of Ladakh. But the craft is at the crossroads because many youngsters are leaving in search of a better lifestyle, says anthropologist Monisha Ahmed in The Hindu. "There are very few ethnic communities in the w… more »
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by lorenz on Mar 26, 2006 in Asia, development empowerment, globalisation, gender, anthropology (general)
The small groups of rural women in India fighting for change is something the rest of the world needs to take note of, says Mangala Subramaniam, an assistant professor of sociology and women's studies. Since the late 1990s, Subramaniam has studied social… more »
by lorenz on Mar 26, 2006 in Us and Them, applied anthropology, books, poverty, Northern America, migration, anthropology (general), ethics
"The most important information, which we can get out of this study, is how and what kind of action one can take."
How much should anthropologists get involved in changing the lives of their informants? Johannes Wilm didn't limit his research to prese… more »
It seems as if anthropologist Robert Leonard has written a fascinating book according the Des Moines Register. It's called Yellow Cab:
When anthropologist Robert Leonard took a second job as a cab driver out of economic necessity, he found an "amazin… more »
by lorenz on Mar 19, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, religion cosmology, inuit, Arctic / Northern Regions
A new film by Inuit film maker Zacharias Kunuk (53) explores how missionaries force-fed Christianity to the Inuit in the 1920s. It's called The Journals of Knud Rasmussen. Before its official world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival, a pr… more »
by lorenz on Mar 15, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, technology, Pacific Oceania, ecology nature, aboriginees • 1 comment »
Indigenous Australians dug underground water reservoirs that helped them live on one of the world's driest continents for tens of thousands of years, new research by hydrogeologist Brad Moggridge shows, according to ABC News. The study indicates Aborigi… more »
Jill Walker reports about censorship of research in the USA:
Recently, two articles by teams from the University of Bergen were accepted by prominent US journals and then turned down because, the publishers said, "we cannot publish your paper because… more »
Gated communities are becoming more and more popular in America. They are no longer ghettoes for the rich and wealthy. Behind fences and walls, more than eight million Americans live in their own parallel societies. Setha Low, professor of environmental… more »
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