A few weeks ago I wrote about the deepening connections between anthropologists, military and intelligence agencies. Yesterday, Fort Leavenworth (USA) conducted a roundtable discussion among anthropologists and military veterans who have experience in Ir… more »
Category: "Us and Them"
Help out the Hadza, urges Kambiz Kamrani on anthropology.net. A United Arab Emirates royal family is trying to use the land of the Hadza as a “personal safari playground”. After a helicopter tour, they have worked out an arrangement with the Tanzanian g… more »
"On Suicide Bombing" is the title of a new book by anthropologist Talal Asad. In the introduction he writes:
For many non-Muslims in the United States, Western Europe, and Israel, the suicide bomber quickly became the icon of an Islamic “culture of de… more »
by lorenz on Jun 2, 2007 in religion cosmology, Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia, ethics
Reading my earlier post “The dangerous militarisation of anthropology” you might get the impression that this is something that only regards the U.S. But the same thing is happening in Britain. A few weeks ago the Association of Social Anthropologists of… more »
by lorenz on Apr 18, 2007 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, ecology nature, persons and theories, Arctic / Northern Regions, journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
Our fellow anthro-blogger Tad McIlwraith has successfully defended his dissertation "But We Are Still Native People’: Talking about Hunting and History in a Northern Athapaskan Village" that now can be downloaded from his website (The graduates in his ye… more »
by lorenz on Apr 18, 2007 in culture traditions, Us and Them, anthropology (general), media • 1 comment »
Bob Geldof is to team up with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a project to digitally catalogue all known human existence. They want to create the "largest ever living record" of films, photographs, anthropological histories, philosophies, t… more »
by lorenz on Apr 2, 2007 in Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, persons and theories, interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism
One of my jobs consists in interviewing researchers in the research program Cultural Complexity in the new Norway. Five of these interviews have been translated into English, I've just put them online:
Traveling to Turkey to Understand Norway
Anthrop… more »
While Iraq is seen as a place with messy politics, the Sudan is seen as a place without history and politics, and the Darfur-conflict as a case of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide": "Arabs" are trying to eliminate "Africans". Why is the violence in Iraq… more »
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