An increasing number of women are becoming involved in Mexico's drug trade. Anthropologist Howard Campbell has conducted fieldwork among female smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border, The Dallas Morning News reports.
Dallas Morning News refers to Campb… more »
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Will Buddism die out in Japan? Across Japan, Buddhism faces a confluence of problems, the New York Times reports.
Interest in Buddhism is declining in urban areas. The religion’s rural strongholds are being depopulated. Successors to chief priests a… more »
In November, a referendum on the legalizing of slot machines in Maryland will be held. In the Washington Post, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll tells us how slot machines are exploiting people.
Natasha Dow Schüll has been on fieldwork in Las Vegas a… more »
by lorenz on Jun 29, 2008 in Asia, gender, persons and theories, journal articles / papers • 3 comments »
Three weeks ago, anthropologist Siru Aura defended her doctoral dissertation Women and Marital Breakdown in South India: Reconstructing Homes, Bonds and Persons at the University of Helsinki. She has studied divorced, separated and deserted women from di… more »
(via CultureMatters) Prostitution is a fascinating topic and means different things in different parts of the world. In the American Sexuality Magazine, anthropologist Lisa Wynn writes about her difficulties to understand what Egyptians meant when they s… more »
by lorenz on Jun 4, 2008 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, Native American, media
The story of the so-called "uncontacted tribes" in the Amazon has made its way around the world (even to Norway!). At the same time, there is a complete lack of interest in the story of indigenous people being publicly humiliated in Bolivia, the CultureM… more »
(via CultureMatters) While Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of their state's founding, Palestinians around the world are mourning the "Nakba" - or "catastrophe" - that drove so many into exile. SPIEGEL ONLINE interviewed anthropologist Lila Abu-Lu… more »
The West Australian and South Australian education departments have made lists of appropriate and inappropriate words to describe Aboriginal people and culture, The Australian reports.- Dreamtime is no longer an acceptable term to describe the collec… more »
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