Science Blog / University of Arizona
Timothy W. Jones, an anthropologist at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, has spent the last 10 years measuring food loss, including the last eight under a grant from the U.S. Department of Agricult… more »
Categories: "Regions"
by lorenz on Nov 14, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, technology, culture traditions, Africa, language, inuit
Two articles that both have been published some days ago:
ETHIOPIA: Old alphabet adapted for modern use in technology
ADDIS ABABA, 11 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - One of the world’s oldest living alphabets could make its debut soon on mobile phones, Ethiopi… more »
by lorenz on Nov 12, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Europe, migration, Native American, art
Boston Globe
Photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, who have work up at the Bernard Toale Gallery, are anthropologists of a sort. They document explosions of one culture within another, which occur through migration, colonialism, but also throug… more »
Manchester Online
MOST people believe the local pub is far more important to their community than the church, according to a survey published today. Kate Fox, social anthropologist and co-director of the Social Issues Research Centre, was asked to com… more »
National Geographic
Ghosta is a shaman who lives with his reindeer in the remote forests of northwestern Mongolia. He believes these sacred forests will die if he and his dwindling tribe of Dukha reindeer people abandon their ancestral homeland. Yet i… more »
BBC
Five days of pitched battles between thousands of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese villagers in Henan province left at least seven people dead, the latest in a series of large-scale confrontations that have come to light in recent weeks.
Often hidde… more »
PRICILLA DE WET, Utropia, University of Tromsø, Norway
While watching TV within a circle of Norwegian friends and a Sudanese friend, a documentary about the living conditions in Sudan started. I couldn’t bear the look of disappointment on my Sudanese… more »
Charu from A Time To Reflect (formerly "Peek into my mind") has put online beautiful and colorful pictures from Rajastan and other travels in India. She writes:
"Rajasthan must be the most vibrant and colourful place in India, if not the world. And th… more »
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