http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/ antropologi.info Anthropology Forum and Pin Board en Post by Baz, 09.05.2008, 01:12:

Hi everyone,

If anybody is interested in the evolution of laughter and the various functions it serves in modern Homo sapiens, please you go to the site below. Scroll down until you see the elephant and blind men, and click on "A new theory of humor". You will find my essay on a Google page:

Laughing and crying as displacement activities: the implications for humor theory.


http://www.humorlinks.com/cgi-bin/s...2Findex.html&d=1&imp=yes

Baz]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=46 Fri, 09 May 2008 01:12:09 GMT Post by Hannu Hyvonen, 28.04.2008, 00:04:

The film page of the documentary
Last yoik in Saami forests?
http://elonmerkki.net/en

best wishes

Hannu Hyvönen
documentarist, director]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=45 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:04:03 GMT Post by admin, 11.03.2008, 23:39:

Attention grad and undergrad anthro students: Please consider submitting an article to the new anthropology e- journal sponsored by the National Assoc. of Student Anthropologists (NASA). The call for papers (pasted below) is organized around the theme for the AAA 2008 Annual Meetings. Completed manuscripts of 1000 words should be submitted by April 21, 2008 to nasaejournal (AT) gmail.com. See below for more information...

The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) will launch its first online publication, The NASA e- Journal, under the banner of the 2008 American Anthropological Association conference theme: "Inclusion, Collaboration, and Engagement."

We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide about the application of anthropological theories and methods outside of academia or across disciplines for the purpose of exploring, problematizing, or addressing social problems.

Have you worked in an internship, co-op or another job as a student anthropologist and wish to reflect on how you relied on your anthropological training? Perhaps you collaborated with students from other disciplines at a volunteer organization and seek to describe the value you added from an anthropological perspective? Is there a paper you submitted for a service-learning class where you addressed a social problem using anthropological methods? Have you done fieldwork in a community where you sought to create positive social change in the process of gathering data? Tell us about it! Scholarly articles should be 1,000 words in length and will be subject to a double blind review process.

We also welcome innovative commentary submissions to the e- Journal. Commentaries are opinion or avant-garde pieces of work which are the original work of the authors.

These submissions are to express the next generation of anthropologists' ideas, goals and beliefs of the direction our discipline should head, be it locally, nationally or globally. We seek a plurality of voices on this issue and intend to raise awareness among fellow students as well as more established anthropologists about the direction our discipline is heading.

Commentary submissions might include such mediums as written pieces (1,000 words in length), photo stories (10 photos + 1,000 words of commentary in length) and videos/YouTubeC clips (10-minute maximum in duration + 1,000 words of commentary in length)

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit a full 1,000 word manuscript for consideration by midnight EST on April 21, 2008 along with any accompanying materials. Authors should complete their submissions according to the AAA style guide http://aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm . Submissions should be saved in Microsoft Word ".doc" format with the file title being the first author's last name and first initial. (example: HebertM.doc) .

We invite authors to provide drawings, graphs and maps to enhance the visual component of each article. These should be included as separate attachments in the email. Graphics should be saved as ".jpg" format. The file name should be the first authors last name, first initial and then the number of the photo. (example: HebertM1.jpg) Please also include reference in your text where graphics should be placed by inserting the above identifier in the text.

Videos should be provided as a link (if located on a site such as YouTube) or included as a graphics file in a readily viewable format such as QuickTime or Windows Media Player. Please send submissions to the e-Journal editorial team with the subject heading "NASA Manuscripts - Vol. 1" at nasaejournal (AT) gmail.com.

Authors will be notified regardless if their work has been selected for publication or not. We look forward to publishing submissions for Volume 1 of the NASA e-Journal in the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009.

--
Marc Hebert
Instructor & PhD Student, Anthropology
University of South Florida]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=44 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:39:49 GMT Post by Carol Haslam, 07.03.2008, 12:40:

This is the year of the Ethiopian Millennium and the British Museum opens a small exhibition from 6th March till 5th May, and a season of films on different aspects of Ethiopia on Fridays from 4th April to 2nd May.For full details follow this link to the What's On pages of the BM website:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/22828_Booklet.pdf]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=43 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:40:41 GMT Post by admin, 07.03.2008, 00:14:

Responsible Institution: The Rokkan Centre, Unifob/ University of Bergen (UiB), Norway

Friday 8 August 2008 - Saturday 16 August 2008

One of the aims of this workshop is to bring disability studies into the centre stage of social science developments.

We will present new perspectives and new research in this field and invite interested recruits to join this PhD-workshop.

Course Leader: Jan-Kåre Breivik, Researcher, Rokkan Centre, University of Bergen

Prerequisites: Candidates are expected to have a scientific background within disability studies, medical anthropology/sociology or other related areas. Proficiency in the English language is required.

Travel support is exclusively reserved for students affiliated to academic institutions from the global south. When students from the south apply for a place at the course, they will also be given information on how to apply for other kinds of funding, for instance through the Norwegian Embassies in their countries.

The deadline is 15th of April 2008

More information: http://www.gdc.uib.no/content/99_Do...y_Illness_and_Poverty_141207.pdf

The course is part of the Bergen Summer Research school http://www.gdc.uib.no/]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=42 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:14:51 GMT Post by gold, 26.02.2008, 10:35:

Anthropology of Health and the Body in the 21st Century


What is the relationship between culture, health and people’s sense of wellbeing? Why do many aspects of our lives appear to be understood increasingly through the language of medicine? How is it that while there are extraordinary technical advances taking place, so many people turn to alternative therapies? And do we really have to cope with more health risks nowadays?

Anthropology at Goldsmiths College provides a unique intellectual environment in which to engage with these and many other relevant and pressing questions of our time. More broadly, issues around health and the body provide exciting and diverse ways of thinking about how we live, make meaning and act in the world.

Drawing on debates in medical anthropology, this innovative degree addresses contemporary theories relating to ideas of wellbeing, to the politics and economics of health, to science, technology and modern medicine, to ideas and practices of healing, and to cultural perspectives on health and the body across the globe.

The distinct approach to medical anthropology at Goldsmiths College is characterized by a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, an emphasis on a worldwide rather than exclusively non-western context, and close engagement with issues of public concern.

You will take a core course that introduces the field of medical anthropology and subsequently consolidates themes through seminars and workshops which relate to your own areas of interest. The themes covered in the core course include the political economy of health; the relationship between medicine, religion and rituals; applied anthropological work; new medical technologies global health; organ transplantation and the commodification of the body and its parts; biomedicine, ‘traditional’ medicine, and medical pluralism; politics of medical knowledge and therapeutics; and anthropological perspectives on bioethics, geneticization and pharmaceuticals. In addition, you can choose from a wide range of option courses that are connected to other MA programmes and include gender theory in practice; development and rights; anthropology of the environment; psychological perspectives in anthropology; symbolic and religious systems; visual anthropology; anthropology of media; and politics and economics.

You will build up a portfolio of work that will feed into a final dissertation based on your own research (usually fieldwork) which will allow you to develop and conceptualise your chosen topic within debates and material raised throughout the degree.

The Masters will provide you with an excellent grounding and potential for employment, for example, within the health services as a researcher. It will extend your critical understanding of contemporary debates about the politics of health and social inequalities, and provide a basis for a PhD application if you choose to pursue one.

Length: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Entrance requirements: normally, a qualification in anthropology or related discipline, including health studies (upper 2nd or above in undergraduate degree)

The MA in “Anthropology of Health and the Body in the 21st Century” is usually taught by Prof Sophie Day and Dr Thomas Kirsch. In addition, there are two to five visiting research fellows in the field at any time, through whom placements in the health sector can be organised.

Sophie Day has carried out fieldwork primarily in Ladakh, North India and in London, UK. In Ladakh, her PhD focused on spirit possession, popular Buddhism and relations of gender and household. In the UK, she has recently completed a restudy of sex work developing from an earlier study, through which a project for sex workers was established. She has conducted interdisciplinary research on disease prevention, mostly with reference to sexual health, including tools of the ‘new biology’ through which infectious diseases are typed genetically in relation to the attribution of risk.

Thomas Kirsch has carried out fieldwork in Zambia and South Africa. His PhD research focused on prophet-healing churches, religious power, media use, and spirit possession in rural Zambia. In recent years, he has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on issues of violence, crime, trauma and human safety in urban South Africa.

Recent and current PhDs include research on and migrant sex workers; eating disorders; transsexuality and transgender identities; addiction treatment and alcohol recovery; female circumcision; life quality and neurological movement disorders (dystonia); bodily modification and pain; gender, age and HIV/AIDS intervention programs;and biomedical conceptions of the body.

Contact:

Admissions Office
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW

email: admissions@gold.ac.uk
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=41 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:45 GMT Post by jac, 10.01.2008, 03:26:

i'm trying to read levi-strauss the savage mind but i can't seem to grasp what he's point is..can anyone help?]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=40 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:26:43 GMT Reply from PhilipLismore, 09.01.2008, 10:41:

» Hi Philip,
»
» posting images is deactivated at the moment. What kind of images did you
» want to post? Maybe I'll activate this feature if necessary

It was to upload an avatar.]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=39 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:41:04 GMT Reply from admin, 04.12.2007, 10:49:

Hi Philip,

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» Hi! This is the new forum. Don't hesitate to ask if you have questions!
» Lorenz, antropologi.info
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Hi Lorenz,

What's the code for posting images? the [img] [/img] tags don't appear to be working.]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=37 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:52:18 GMT Post by admin, 25.10.2007, 13:16:

The new Masters Degree Health and Society in South Asia is an English-medium, two-year, taught interdisciplinary degree with a focus on Medical Anthropology and South Asian Studies.

Particular attention will be given to the importance of cultural and historical factors in the areas of health, wellbeing, and illness. The current research focus is on indigenous medical systems of South Asia (e.g. Ayurveda, Tibetan Medicine, and Folk Medicine), ritual healing, health and environment, health and ethics, pharmaceuticals and culture, and public health.

Who is the course aimed at?

* Professionals already working, or wishing to work, in health-related fields in South Asia
* Students wishing to pursue an academic career in anthropology or one of the neighbouring social sciences

More information:

http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/master/]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=36 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:16:12 GMT Post by admin, 16.10.2007, 17:06:

Dialektus Festival European Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival

Budapest, 4-9 March, 2008.


Are you an independent filmmaker?
Have you made a documentary film recently?

We are looking for challenging, creative and inspiring entries for Dialektus Film Festival, 2008.

The deadline for entries is 10 November 2007.

If your film deals with anthropology or aims to tell people about a particular culture or way of life then we would like to hear from you.

Competition entries should be submitted for one of the following categories:

Student Film Competition
Documentary Film Competition

Dialektus aims to screen films, which are sensitive to other cultures, films that present the world as filmmakers see it. Dialektus is a European documentary festival, which aims to make documentary and anthropological film accessible to a wider audience, not just on T.V.

For five days in March 2008 we will screen competitive and non-competitive films representing the diversity of European documentary filmmaking. The Festival will include special retrospectives, discussions with filmmakers and Q&A sessions on documentary film distribution along side photography exhibitions and free concerts.

Download the entry form
www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/attachments/dialektus2008.pdf
www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/attachments/dialektus2008.doc


Palantir Film Visual Anthropological Foundation
H-1163 Budapest, Katoka u. 46.
Tel: +36-1-403-03-52, +36-20-993-40-30
info (AT) dialektusfesztival.hu
www.dialektusfesztival.hu]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=35 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:06:00 GMT Post by admin, 24.09.2007, 14:49:

From antropologi.info mailbag:


Slam Partners is a specialist health and social care consultancy service operating as a business unit from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. We have a proven track record in helping individuals, teams and services develop and sustain more positive ways of working in order to provide patient centred services.

We deliver consultancy; coaching; cultural consultancy, learning and development specifically in respect of managing change, coaching skills and consultancy skills; organisation development, mediation and conflict resolution, research and evaluation. These services are delivered within SLaM and to organisations across the UK and internationally.

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In this newly created, challenging and rewarding role the post holder will be an active member of a flexible and highly motivated team which constantly looks to be creative and innovative in its vision and delivery of its services.

The Cultural Consultant will be educated to at least Masters level in social or medical anthropology and should have excellent knowledge in anthropological theory relating to illness, culture and psychiatry. They should also have experience working in health settings and using ethnography and qualitative research methods.

The post will be expected to deliver and develop the cultural consultancy service within Lambeth Mental Health Services. The position is based on 2 years funding and the cultural consultant will be expected to work to the aims and objectives of the funding application.

The post will require a sound knowledge and understanding of NHS policies and the impact on mental health services and an understanding of the social and political debates surrounding mental health.

If you share our vision and want to be part of an evolving service please contact Dr John Curran, Principal Consultant and strategic lead on Cultural Consultancy, on +44 7989 341801 for an informal discussion or visit the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust’s website at www.slam.nhs.uk and go to ‘Jobs’. Here you can view a more detailed job description and download an application pack

Closing date: 12th October 2007

Assessment dates: TBC

Interview date: TBC]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=34 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:49:22 GMT Post by admin, 24.09.2007, 09:05:

I've received this Call for Papers by email:

International Journal of Sociology of Culture (IJSC), a biannual peer-reviewed journal, invites original research articles that explore the social and cultural aspects of human life.

The journal seeks research articles from professionals, researchers, academics, students, and policy makers cutting across national boundaries to provide a sociological analysis of culture in relation to a range of topics including race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, spirituality, class, status, family, gender, youth, media, science and technology, globalization, and diasporic cultures.

The major criterion for acceptance of articles will be based on the substantial theoretical, methodological and/or empirical contribution it offers to the field of Sociology of Culture. The journal also invites book reviews and proposal for special issues on any specific theme that directly or indirectly falls into the purview of Sociology of Culture.

http://sahoocsid.googlepages.com/IJSC.html]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=33 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:05:16 GMT Post by Nagantnik, 29.08.2007, 20:24:

I'm interested in persuing a graduate program, but I'm a tenured social studies teacher with a Master's. I'd prefer not quitting my day job yet. Any advice concerning online or distance learning programs.]]> http://www.antropologi.info/anthropology/forum/forum_entry.php?id=32 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:24:59 GMT