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I am sorry to say that my time has been spent on other spheres than this site lately. I am working with an extensive project – making an anthropological documentary while working full time as an administrator. So have patience. ...
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Anthromodernity
There are quite a few stories about how Ganesh came to be the Indian god with the body of man and head of elephant. This is a nice youtube cartoon which I use during my college lectures.
Enjoy!...
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Anthromodernity
Just watched Ranbir Kapoors stunning performance in the Indian Blockbuster from 2009 : “Wake up Sid”. Wake up Sid is comparable to “3 idiots” which I recently reviwed in the sense that the two films have a common message: it ...
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Anthromodernity
On the 19 of December 2009, one of the most eminent Scandinavian Professors of Indology passed away. With one boisterous laughter he introduced me to the beautiful Hindi language. Prof William Smith was an extraordinary teacher, he knew many languages ...
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15:19
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Anthromodernity
My recently started film project is coming to shape! I am at moment working out the themes from my material. The girls are so vivid talkative and spontaneous in the interviews that I am so happy about their contribution in ...
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23:13
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Anthromodernity
I just watched Indias christmas Blockbuster 2009: “3 Idiots”. When the script was written by Chetan Bhagat, author of “A night at the call centre”, I was curios. As a Bollywood blockbuster from the film is interestingly enough to a ...
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Anthromodernity
The sea captain Jonas Brunck from Komstad, Sävsjö in southern Sweden gave name to the city distinct Bronx in New York. Brunck sailed overseas in the 15th century at a time when many swedes immigrated to America, and came to ...
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Anthromodernity
I have been granted a scholarship to complete my documentary on the Desi Girls who figures in my thesis. The material has been residing in my drawer for almost exactly one year when I, earlier this week, received the letter ...
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Anthromodernity
I am reading this lovely book, a New York Times Bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert. The book is called “Eat Pray Love and its is a self-lived story about a woman’s spiritual journey. The book is divided into three parts, geographically: ...
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Anthromodernity
There has been a denim debate in Sweden recently as well as internationally. The debate is regarding new Swedish designers who produces their jeans in a north Korean factory. According to NoKo jeans website their interest and curiosity in North ...
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Anthromodernity
I have been to the states, and hence afk for a couple of weeks now. It was was my first visit and it was something like a cultural shock for me actually. I am European and I did not really ...
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Anthromodernity
The picture of today is a reminder of the people whose lives were lost in Bhopal today 25 years ago. I borrowed the the picture from SASNET webb....
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Anthromodernity
It has been 25 years of denial, deceit, and injustice. The people who were injured when 40 tonnes of toxic waste, methyl isocyanate, leaked out from the US owned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India has still not been ...
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Anthromodernity
My MA dissertation on Delhi girls “Desi Girls – a stydy of young urban middle class girls’ expressions and negotiations of gender” is now to be found online, feel free to download and spread! Thank you.
Just click on this ...
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Anthromodernity
Thanks to my fellow anthropologist Paul Wren, who dugg this poster up, I can now publish it on my blog, this is the poster I saw, and argued against in previous blog entry....
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Anthromodernity
My all time favourite Bollywood actor, Shahrukh Khan ( शाहरुख़ ख़ान ) turned 44 this week, on Nov 2. I am happy to congratulate him on his work in my blog. For all of you who are unfamiliar with Bollywood, ...
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Anthromodernity
In the Stockholm metro I saw a huge poster this morning, it is an ad for the forthcoming film “2012 Doomsday” which is coming up in cinemas in December. In the ad there is a huge a picture of Cristo ...
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Anthromodernity
For students of anthropology everywhere, its time for a television series. The series “Moonlight” from 2007 features in its first episodes an eclectic professor of Social Anthropology, who achieved his PhD in Vampire cults. In the series he has started ...
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Anthromodernity
This a short film with images from Mumbai made by Mark Lapwood. It is called Eclipse and was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Take time to watch it, it is stunning!
Eclipse...
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Anthromodernity
This is one of the pictures I show, when lecturing about Indias religions to Swedish college students. These are the three major Hindu gods. The beautiful Brahma to the left is the Creator. Vishnu in the middle is upholder of ...
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Anthromodernity
This can be reality in my Hometown Stockholm, Sweden according to Swedish news media Dagens Nyheter . A ski tunnel under the heart of Stockholm. Beautiful or what?...
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Anthromodernity
I have for the last couple of days managed my daily life routine without a functioning cell phone. For me, personall y,I went through the first phase of panic the first day I realised I was completely disconnected. During the ...
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Anthromodernity
It recently came to my awareness that in the Us there is a special type of restaurant called “BYOB:s”. BYOB means Bring Your Own Bottle. And you actually bring your own bottle of alcohol and you can drink it at ...
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Anthromodernity
Chinese news media are featuring a story about a famous but non-existing town in north of Sweden Shakebao, which is a name not sounding remotely swedish to me. Shakebao is the only town i the world ruled and populated by ...
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Anthromodernity
The most beautiful Hindu symbol is the Aum. Aum is a three sound syllable, the Sanskrit vowels a-u-m put together formulates the first sound in the Hindu creation process. The Hindu belief is that first God created sound, and that ...
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Anthromodernity
Been scanning a lot of my India Photos today, preparing for a lecture that I am teaching “India from a religious perspective” at a Swedish College next week. This is a Karnataka frog living in a lotus pond. Good life!...
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Anthromodernity
Since my previous entry I feel an urge to explain how I apply the concept of colonialism in modern times. I think colonialism has at its core a selfish centre. When selfishness results in taking advantage of less fortunate people ...
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Anthromodernity
Ok, Julia Roberts is shooting for a film in India, The Hari Mandir temple and Ashram on the outskirts of Delhi is one of the locations. Fine, she appreciates the wonderful India. According to these news and these news: when ...
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Anthromodernity
Yang Lui born in 1976. She studied at UWE at Bristol, UK, attained a Master degree from University of Arts Berlin. Since 2004 she has established Yang Liu Design in Berlin. Yang Lui is currently exhibiting her new culture and ...
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Anthromodernity
On September 25 there is an global inequality campaign issued by Plan international Sweden, an aid organization which I volunteer at. Plan Internationals event Pay Day is addressing the global inequalities in the world and is a fundraising project which ...
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Anthromodernity
According to the Aki Mari diary blog Feb 22 is called Cat day in Japan merely because of a lingustic twist. The pronunciation of 22 is apparently a bit like cat in Japanese. Aki Mary says “2 is read as ...
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Anthromodernity
I believe that ones own cultural values are more prominent in an information society where the availability of other value systems are easily accessed through the process of globalization, the mobility of goods, services, and people. Gender is today a ...
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There is a debate in Swedish news media regarding diseased peoples facebook profiles, do we honour them by letting the profile remain as a virtual bversion of the deas person, or is it simply disrespectful? In the infomation age – ...
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Anthromodernity
Conducting my research in Delhi in November and December 2008 I did a classical anthropological fieldwork in an upper class market in South Delhi. I choose a popular cafe as my field and all my initial meetings with informants took ...
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Anthromodernity
In the 21st century I can still be amazed by laws to oppress women and their freedom. In the news today I read the story of the trial against the journalist Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese woman whose crime is: she ...
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Anthromodernity
When concluding a fieldwork study a big task lies ahead. Which information is useful? And what types of statemenst can I make out of the information data? I started with a discourse analysis, to reveal underlying patterns in my material. ...
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Anthromodernity
Johanna: Is there a norm to be a good Indian girl and in that case, which are her
qualities?
Yasmin: In India girls are expected to be silent, demure and sacrificial. It’s not ok to
challenge norms, or argue back ...
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Anthromodernity
This picture I post to paint a smile on your lips for the coming weekend. Look closely at the picture and notice an observer to the girls conversation…...
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Anthromodernity
I found the Chetan Bhagat bestseller “A night at the call centre” and I finished the book during one weekend only. What a great read! On the very first page Bhagat had gotten my attention, it is really a book ...
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Anthromodernity
Sweden is a country of four seasons, when the summer is during June-Aug with a climate of 25 degrees Celsius. Many Swedes, are affected by the warm weather in a positive way, there is generally a lot of joyous occasions ...
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Anthromodernity
This picture is from a market in South India, where these Henna-stamps are displayed. Handmade and carved in wood they are real pieces of art, and truly beautiful. Painting the hands with henna is a sign of festivity for Indian ...
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Anthromodernity
This is an observation from my recent summer holidays. I went to Estonia, and while there I did some shopping in a clothing store. While in the queue, I am carrying my items to purchase, a couple of t-shirts and ...
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Anthromodernity
I am back from the afk-holiday with great news! The gay community in Delhi have celebrated since the beginning of June. 2 June 2009 is a historical day for the gay community, Delhi High Court abolished the ...
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Anthromodernity
I am currently idle, having summerholidays somewhere in Sweden away from keyboard. Will continue blogging in August, please visit my blog then!!
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Anthromodernity
Rubina Ali, who playes the young Latika in the award-winning Slumdog Millionaire, is 9 years old and born and raised in the slums of Mumbai. She has attained a contract with the brittish pubilisher Transworld, ...
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Anthromodernity
India is interesting on so many levels. And I am fascinated by the strong “we can do it” approach that is present among the young women. “It” in this sense refers to meeting equality, meeting the men ...
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This is as extract from my fieldswork in Delhi; One day at Lady Shri Ram College, in South Delhi, the students were gathered in the assembly room for a screening of a documentary on women’s issues. ...
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