The first temporary exhibition at Paris’s Quai Branly museum takes an ambitious look at how the West constructs its ‘other’, Mary Stevens writes in her research blog about the reconfiguration of national identity in French museums:
In the permanent e… more »
Category: "Us and Them"
by lorenz on Oct 8, 2006 in Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers, Middle East, Visual Anthropology, websites • 1 comment »
The first part of the paper Media consumption, conformity and resistance: a visual ethnography of youth culture in Iranian Kurdistan by anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been published on KurdishMedia. Ahmady wanted to examine the factors which shape a s… more »
by lorenz on Sep 22, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, anthropology (general)
Great commentary (and a good example of engaged anthropology) by anthropologist Sarah Hewat about a recent TV story on Wa Wa, a Korowai boy in Papua, who should be "rescued" from "cannibals". Hewat says, the journalists should have read some work by ant… more »
by lorenz on Sep 11, 2006 in Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, interdisciplinary • 2 comments »
How to do research on migration? Lots of interesting papers in the recent issue of the multilingual and interdisciplinary Open Access journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
"Qualitative Migration Research in Contemporary Europe" is the topic of… more »
by lorenz on Sep 4, 2006 in culture traditions, Us and Them, persons and theories, journal articles / papers
In one the recent additions in the anthropology journal AnthroGlobe, Grace Keyes examines "how hearing loss impacts an individual’s enculturation". Enculturation, she explains, is in anthropology textbooks defined as "process by which people acquire the… more »
by lorenz on Aug 30, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania • 1 comment »
(via del.icio.us) If you miss "good old-style" stories about cannibals in far away places like Papua or New Guinea, read this story by Paul Raffaele in the Smithsonian Mag. It starts like this:
For days I've been slogging through a rain-soaked jungle… more »
by lorenz on Aug 26, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Africa, media • 3 comments »
TV-shows about people from remote places (the producers use the term "tribes") seem to have become quite popular. In a German TV-show, German families are sent into the African bush to live with "African tribes". Now, in Britain a new TV-show called "Rev… more »
by lorenz on Aug 14, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, Northern America, anthropology (general), history • 2 comments »
Last year we had debates about racism and neo-colonialism when the Zoo at Augsburg exhibited an "African village". The same is happening right now in Kolmårdens djurpark - the largest zoo in Scandinavia: They have engaged Massai people who "dance, sing a… more »
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