Visual anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has published several new articles at KurdishMedia.com. It looks like he is about to publish a whole book there. It started four weeks ago with part one of Media consumption, conformity and resistance: A visual ethnog… more »
Category: "youth"
by lorenz on Oct 23, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, migration, youth, journal articles / papers • 1 comment »
"Their history deserves to be known in every other country where one can expect to be served a cup of Ceylon tea", Norwegian anthropologist Haakon Aasprong writes in his thesis Making a Home Away from Home: On Up-country Tamil identity and social complex… more »
by lorenz on Oct 16, 2006 in Us and Them, Europe, books, fieldwork / methods, poverty, youth • 7 comments »
"Our politicians are so obsessed by race that they have forgotten the importance of class", writes Daily Telegraph journalist Andrew Gimson and points to a new book by anthropologist Gillian Evans called Educational Failure and Working-Class White Childr… more »
by lorenz on Oct 9, 2006 in fieldwork / methods, music, youth, journal articles / papers, Visual Anthropology
In the field, anthropologists spent lots of time playing football or learning to dance: Could such enjoyable pastimes be considered a kind of work? Could play be used as a research technique? The new issue of Anthropology Matters is out. Its topic: From… more »
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 »
E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder - a parent, teacher or a boss - or to receive an attached file. But email is increasingly losing favor to instant and text messaging, according to an ap-article:
Much li… more »
In their Anthropology News May article Urban Violence and Civil Rights in Postcolonial France, Paul A Silverstein
and Chantal Tetreault analyse the riots in France in november 2005.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced a “state of e… more »
In Anthropology News January 2006, Susan J Terrio criticizes main stream medias coverage of the youth protests in the suburbs in Paris. The protests can't be explained by religion, culture or by pointing to that the rioters are immigrants:
Yet, the “i… more »
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