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Update your bookmarks! Blog moves! 1 year anthro-news sorted into categories
Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:36:00 GMT  
b2evolutionbooks,corporate anthropology,languageand much more.Recent comments show up on the front page, search is improved.Anew calendarwith<a href="http://www.antropologi.info/kalender/rss.php">RSS-support</a> is also installed. Everyone is allowed to add events (moderated by me).The anthropology in the news blog moves from now on tohttp://www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropologyRSS Posts:http://antropologi.info/blog/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=8RSS Comments:http://antropologi.info/blog/xmlsrv/rss2.comments.php?blog=8For more options, see farther down on themain pageDuring moving the entries from my old blog, some errors might have occured."finetune" the categories.If you have comments or suggestionslet me now, but comment the post in the new blog

Intel is using anthropologists in new development centers to develop computers
Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:35:00 GMT  
RedHerringIn a bid to eventually sell more chips, Intel plans to announce Monday that it has set up four new offices around the world that are staffed with anthropologists and engineers to help design computers with features for emerging markets. Traveling from dusty rural villages in India to busy Internet cafés in Brazil, these Intel employees will collect data from weather to the content needs of people in regions where computers are not yet popular.The company began sending ethnographers to study how people interact with technologies. One anthropologist spent a year living in rural China. With the creation of its new business unit and four development centers, Intel has set up permanent and locally hired staff to do ethnographic studies and engineering. The efforts appear to be paying off.>> continue

Online Research Project: Children& fire
Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:09:00 GMT  
AnthopologistDan Fesslertells us about a new research project"Children and Fire" and asks us to participate and be informants>> read more in antropologi.info Forum

New blogscript, new features: Move to b2evolution in August
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:16:00 GMT  
b2evolutionb2evolution has similar features as the more popularWordpress, but additionally a multiple blog feature (neccessary in my case with blogs also in German and Norwegian).

Summerbreak
Mon, 04 Jul 2005 13:26:00 GMT  
With best regards, Lorenz

Social Neuroscience - Psychologists neuroscientists and anthropologists together
Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:36:00 GMT  
The GuardianA rapidly growing field of research called"social neuroscience" draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for the social interaction between humans.Traditionally, cognitive neuroscientists focused on scanning the brains of people doing specific tasks such as eating or listening to music, while social psychologists and social scientists concentrated on groups of people and the interactions between them. To understand how the brain makes sense of the world, it was inevitable that these two groups would have to get together.>> continueSEE ALSO:Social cognitive neuroscience: At the frontier of science(American Psychological Association)

Ethnography a Buzz Word in the Industry - Where is the Quality Control?
Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:23:00 GMT  
A post on"This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics"about"self-trained anthropologists" who claim to be experts in ethnographic research led to an interesting debate:"There are lots of people claiming to do ethnography who are, um,“self trained.” There are of no barriers to entry and no one licensing ethnographers. And the term “ethnography” is now so sought after in certain circles that there is plenty of demand.">> continueSEE ALSO:Articles on Corporate Anthropology

http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/index.php?id=42c2d2..
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:42:00 GMT  
Interesting post onBlack Looksby African feministSokarionLive Aidthat remembers on thedebates on the African Village in the zoo of AugsburgShe writes:"Do They Know Its Christmas" has just been re-recorded - remember the lyrics?"underneath a burning sun.............where nothing ever grows""no rain nor river flows"This is the vision of Africa being sold to millions of young people all over the West - an African stereotype described by Gerald Caplan as"helpless, dependent, passive victims, and we westerners as decent, selfless, compassionate, resourceful missionaries".These simplistic and reductionist views of Africa are not just unhelpful they actually add to the problems Africa faces as it reduces them to"natural causes - bad luck".She quotes Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie who suggests that it is not only Africa that is in receipt of Aid, the [..]

Conference Culture
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:28:00 GMT  
Academics live in another world. In this world, time does not exist. Researchers arrive late in seminars. People kept opening the door and entering the room even 10-15 minutes afterRichard Jenkinshad started with his keynote speech atChildhoods 2005in Oslo. Jenkins:&"&", the next speaker says, surprised over the fact that 13 of her 15 minutes already have passed while she is still struggeling with her introduction. She was not the only one.

Thailand: Local wisdom protects hometown from the onslaught of globalisation
Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:32:00 GMT  
Bangkok Post"We fishermen have knowledge about the Mekong based on our time-tested experiences,&"But policy-makers dismiss us as simple folk so that they can dismiss our voices and impose their policies, which only benefit businessmen but destroy our way of life."Over the past five years, in the wake of the building of dams and the blasting of rapids in China, the condition of the Mekong as it flows through Chiang Khong has drastically deteriorated. Like other communities, the Bangkok-oriented education and political systems have robbed the locals of their historical roots and pride in their culture.&" explained veteran anthropologist Srisakara Vallibhotama, director of the project, which is supported by the Thailand Research Fund.>> continue (updated with copy 22.7.05)SEE ALSO:Local taboos could save the seas

Locating Bourdieu - Interview with anthropologist Deborah Reed-Danahay
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:16:00 GMT  
Interesting interview by Scott McLemee with anthropologist Deborah Reed-Danahay on her recent book Locating Bourdieu in the magazine"Inside Higher Education". The book is according to Scott McLemee"a very good place for the new reader of Bourdieu to start"."Bourdieu believed that we are all constrained by our internalized dispositions (our habitus), deriving from the milieu in which we are socialized, which influence our world view, values, expectations for the future, and tastes. These attributes are part of the symbolic or cultural capital of a social group.In a stratified society, a higher value is associated with the symbolic capital of members of the dominant sectors versus the less dominant and“controlled” sectors of society. So that people who go to museums and like abstract art, for instance, are expressing a form of symbolic capital that is more [..]

Our obsession with the notion of the primitive society
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:03:00 GMT  
(post in progress)Quite regularily, newspapers report about so called"primitive peoples". The newest example is the Reuters-story"Hunter-gatherers face extinction on Andaman island"where we read"how primitive tribesmen came out of the jungle armed with bows, arrows and spears, raided a village in the Middle Andaman island and looted tools, food, clothes, cash and jewellery" and the reporter asks if this is an&"."primitives" play the same role as the so-called"Orient" - as shown byEdward Saidin his classic"Orientalism".Or asAdam Kuperwrote in his bookThe Invention of Primitive Society:"Primitive society was the mirror image of modern society - or rather, primitive society as they imagined it inverted the characteristics of modern society as they saw it."This also applies to anthropologists as we know. Kuper [..]

Islam Is Gaining a Foothold in Chiapas / Red Alert in Chiapas
Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:24:00 GMT  
Der SpiegelLong a bastion of Catholicism, southern Mexico is quickly turning into a battleground for soul-savers. Islam, too, is gaining a foothold and the indigenous Mayans are converting by the hundreds."In Islam, race plays no role,&"They see themselves as restorers of Islam," says the anthropologist Gaspar Morquecho, author of a study of the Muslims of Chiapas."Their defiance of capitalism is similar in many respects to the critique of globalization espoused by many left-wingers.""In Islam, the Indians rediscover their original values," claims Esteban Lopez, the Spanish secretary general of the Muslim community."The Christians destroyed their culture.">> continueSEE ALSO:Red Alert: Zapatistas - War in Chiapas likely to resume(Indymedia San Francisco Bay Area) / see alsocomment by Subcomandante Marcos on ZMagandBlogosphere Reacts to [..]

Book review: Ritual praxis in modern Japan
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:18:00 GMT  
The Japan Times OnlineAnthropologistSatsuki Kawanoin her study of various ritual practices in the city of Kamakura wishes to see religious rites as being both culturally constructed and socially generated. Kawano prefers to demonstrate that partaking in religious rituals does not necessarily involve"belief" in its ordinary sense. Rather"ritual life is not so much about individual faith as it is about securing the well-being of families and communities.">> continue

Radio interview on African Village/"Germans&Japanese less sensitive about race"
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:35:00 GMT  
TheAfrican Village at the zoo in Augsburg, Germanyis still debated in the international media.&", the National Public Radio (NPR) summarizes the debate around the african village in the zoo in Augsburg.>> listen to the radio report by NPR"Germans and Japanese are less sensitive about race in general and about Africa in particular than, say, people in France or the United States, where a significant minority of the population is of African descent>> continueSEE ALSO:In Detroit and London: More African Villages in the ZooAfrican village in the Zoo: Protest against racist exhibition

Rituals - mechanisms for both creating solidarity and for increasing conflict
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:10:00 GMT  
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific ResearchDutch-sponsored researcher Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta analysed the dynamics of the conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Molucca Islands. The anthropologist proposes that rituals play an important role in this. Ritual was found to unite and mobilise people in a confrontation with real or supposed outsiders, but it also helped them to reach an agreement after the confrontation.>> continueSEE ALSO:Rituals and conflict solution: Fetsawa Umamane - a wedding ceremony in support of durable solutions in West Timor. By anthropologist Ingvild Solvang

Ethnomusicologist uses website as an extension of the book
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:43:00 GMT  
(viaFieldnotes):EthnomusicologistAaron Foxhas set up a website and blog as an"extension of the book":&",he explainsand adds:&"Anthropologist Tad McIlwraith on Fieldnotes comments:"I think about this in the context of my work with First Nations people and wonder if I could convince them to allow their actual voices to be found in files on my website. I think my work would be enhanced if they’d agree to that."according to Tad McIlwraith"a fantastic ethnography".

In Detroit and London: More African Villages in the Zoo
Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:10:00 GMT  
African Village in the Augsburg Zoothat took place last weekend. At the same time, theDetroit Zoohas arranged an African American Festival:"It will feature storyteller Ivory D. Williams, arts and crafts, authentic style food, hip-hop lessons, dance groups and an African American Community Resource area." They plan even more festivals like the Middle Eastern Festival, Caribbean Festival and the Native American Festival. No Bavarian or European festival, though.>> read the press releasetold to the press:&" she said. (>> see some picturesor aslideshow- by the local newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine)Nevertheless, the question remains"why Europe is suddenly obsessed with this exotic fascination for Africa, which only the zoo can provide" asthe Guardian (Nigeria) asks in an interesting article. They write about forthcoming"African nights" in [..]

Seeing Africa as exceptional underestimates common experience of globalisation
Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:49:00 GMT  
AnthropologistChristopher Davis, The Guardian"traditional&"history shows African cultures to have been tremendously adaptive, absorbing a wide range of outside influences" is a relief to those of us who have tried for years to make this point."primitive mentality": the idea that"they" are less rational than"we" are.>> continue>> see comments by Kerim Friedman /Savage Minds

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