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• March 01, 2010
• 1:41

  Hindi Film Songs and the Barriers between Ethnomusicology and Anthropology

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  There are only few studies on popular music in South Asia. Tereza Kuldova (Tessa Valo) reviews for us the book Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema by ethnomusicologist Anna Morcom. Her review shows - among other things - the differences ...
• February 15, 2010
• 3:17

  Yes to female circumcision?

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  Is it a good idea to fight against female circumcision? Not neccesarily according to Sierra Leonean-American anthropologist Fuambai Ahmadu. In an interview in Anthropology Today (available free as pdf here), she attacks Western feminists, media and anti-Female Genital Mutilation campaigns ...
• February 09, 2010
• 2:52

  University reforms - a threat to anthropology?

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  It started around 20 years ago: The idea of education as a right was being replaced by a concept of education as a commodity to purchase. Today’s universities are managed like businesses, striving for “excellence", being best, competing for the ...
• January 26, 2010
• 1:09

  Pecha Kucha - the future of presenting papers?

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  Why reading your paper when there are lot more exciting ways of presenting your research? I have asked Aleksandra Bartoszko and Marcy Hessling to tell us about their experience with a recent experiment at the annual meeting of the American ...
• January 19, 2010
• 23:38

  Why Siberian nomads cope so well with climate change

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  The tundra ecosystems in Siberia are vulnerable to both climate change and oil/gass drilling. Yet the Yamal-Nenets in West Siberia have shown remarkable resilience to these changes. “Free access to open space has been the key for success” says Bruce ...
• January 15, 2010
• 5:17

  Haiti Earthquake: Worldwide solidarity, a common humanity?

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  (Hatiain Children up in the mountains. Image: Matt Dringenberg, flickr) (post in progress about anthropological perspectives in Haiti and how to help) “Anthropology to me is all about human connexions, about a common humanity", said Dai Cooper from the Anthropology ...
• January 14, 2010
• 2:50

  The globalisation of the Western conception of mental illness

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  As Greg Downey at Neuroanthropology.net, I was kept awake until late at night by an article in the New York Times Magazine - yesterday for reading, today for writing. It is a fascinating article about a kind of globalisation that ...
• January 03, 2010
• 1:07

  Happy New Year with lists!

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  Happy New Year to everybody with a firework from Sydney (photo by Rajwinder Singh, flickr) and thanks for reading antropologi.info, commenting and contributing to this blog and other blogs! In 2009, when antropologi.info turned five years old, I was especially ...
• December 28, 2009
• 1:17

  Colonialism, racism and visual anthropology in Japan: Photography, Anthropology and History part II

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  Here is the second part of the review of the book Photography, Anthropology and History, edited by Christopher Morton and Elizabeth Edwards. This time, Tessa Valo reviews Ka F. Wong’s article about one of the first Japanese anthropologists, who became ...
• December 27, 2009
• 0:49

  AAA meeting round-up: What did all those anthropologists talk about?

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  Three weeks ago, anthropologists from all over the world met in Philadelphia at the annual meerting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). What did all those anthropologists talk about during the largest anthropology meeting in the world? This is no ...
• December 23, 2009
• 20:56

  Book review: Photography, Anthropology and History (Part I)

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  When filming people became possible, anthropologists began to drift away from it. Though better off than at the beginning of the 20th century, the visual anthropology today is still perceived as a marginal discipline, Tessa Valo writes in the first ...
• 2:18

  Exploring the honor culture of social media

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  How can businesses profit from social media? How does social media challenge what is regarded as “value” in the business world? Anthropologist Lene Pettersen discusses these and other questions in her paper “The impact of social media for business“. Lene ...
• 0:49

  Back again!

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  Hi, I’m back again. Sorry for the long break! I’m still here, not at the same place as last time, though. I’ve moved to a new place outside of Oslo into a tiny little house (see picture) - during the ...
• November 25, 2009
• 1:23

  Book review: Presenting 2nd generation Multi-Sited Ethnography

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  Tessa Valo has read another book for us: Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research, edited by Mark-Anthony Falzon. It consists of 14 articles. Tessa Valo is currently planning a “multi-sited” fieldwork and has picked four articles that ...
• November 17, 2009
• 16:37

  Looking back at 10 years Public Anthropology online

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  What is public anthropology? Already in 1999, when he had started his Ph.D project, Martijn de Koning has made his first anthropology website. In a very interesting blog post with many links, he is looking back at 10 years public ...
• November 16, 2009
• 2:28

  Where shamans understand colonialism as sickness

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  “I am here to save the people, to cure the people. In the city they are all sick, they are all domesticated. The shaman has to go together with disease.” Anthropologist Anders Burman talks to Don Carlos, an Aymara shaman ...
• November 05, 2009
• 4:10

  Anthropologists ignore Open Access Week - a report from Wellington

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  What’s the point of science if it’s not publicly accessible? Two weeks ago, the first global Open Access Week was organized. Masters’ student in anthropology Karstein Noremark has written a report for antropologi.info about the Open Access Week at Victoria ...
• November 03, 2009
• 19:10

  Claude Levi-Strauss is dead

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  A month before his 101st birthday, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the most influential anthropologists, died at the age of 100. He died over the weekend, according to the office of the president of the School for the Advanced Studies in ...
• 18:58

  Two months free access to AAA journals!

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  From now on until the end of December, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is offering free access to a large number of its journals. Why not free all the time? asks Kerim Friedman. Good question. The AAA has often been ...
• November 01, 2009
• 17:49

  SSOAR - The first Social Science Open Access Repository is online

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  (via media/anthropology and Open Access Anthropology blog) Where can I publish my papers online? A few weeks ago, I wrote about ResearchGATE and other initiatives. Now, SSOAR - the Social Science Open Access Repository is online. It is according to ...
• October 22, 2009
• 14:46

  Interview: Meet Dai Cooper from The Anthropology Song!

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  Dai Cooper’s Anthropology Song has fascinated people all over the world. Around 10 000 39 000 people have seen the video on YouTube so far, it was sent around via facebook, twitter, mailing lists, and was already shown in many ...
• October 19, 2009
• 19:42

  The Anthropology Song!

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  (via facebook and Savage Minds) What is Anthropology? Why is it important? Forget about all definitions, here is the Anthropology Song by Dai Cooper! UPDATE: See interview with Dai CooperOriginal post blogged on antropologi.info....
• October 12, 2009
• 19:31

  Digital Anthropology Report: Attitudes to technology = basis of future class divides

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  How do people in Britain use the internet? How do they behave online? The new Digital Anthropology Report. The Six Tribes of Homo Digitalis gives some answers. The British communication company Talk Talk sent researchers from the University of Kent ...
• October 05, 2009
• 21:16

  Free access to the 25 most popular Anthrosource articles!

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  The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and their publisher Wiley-Blackwell will be offering two months of free access to 10+ years of Anthrosource content during November and December 2009. As a preview they invite us to view the Top 25 Anthrosource ...
• October 02, 2009
• 4:02

  How can anthropology help us understand Swat and Taliban?

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  The Swat Pathan have been the subject of classic ethnographies in anthropology for many years. Now they are at the centre of a bigger battle for control between Taliban, Pakistan, the U.S. etc. - a conflict that forced more than ...
• 0:42

  Correction: "Army-Anthropologists don't call Afghans "Savages"

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  My most recent post Army-Anthropologists call Afghans “Savages” received a lot attention, so it might be necessary to write a new post after the debates in the comment field and via email. It seems that the Sydney Morning Herald reporter ...
• September 28, 2009
• 1:39

  Army-Anthropologists call Afghans "Savages"

   » ‎ antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog
  READ THE COMMENTS BELOW - AND THE UPDATE “Army-Anthropologists don’t call Afghans “Savages” Do you want to know what anthropologists who work for the US military in Afghanistan write about the people America is at war with? I resist to ...
• 0:42

  France asks anthropologist for advice on burqa-ban

   » ‎ antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog
  France banned burqas in public schools in 2004. Now, a parliamentary commission is investigating a possible ban on burqas in public places and anthropology professor John Bowen was asked to testify on this matter, Student Life and New York Times ...
• September 26, 2009
• 2:41

  What has anthropology taught you?

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  A friend of mine sent me a link to the website of the Norwegian migration researcher Jørgen Carling [www.dragoeiro.com] It has an unusually nice design, but what I’m even more impressed about is the section “Research findings". Here, he ...
• September 16, 2009
• 0:24

  Selv-archiving repositories: Is ResearchGate the solution?

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  Today, ResearchGATE has launched a new Self-Archiving Repository. “This will make full-text articles available to the public, for free - the first application of its kind worldwide", ResearchGate claims in their press release: Currently, there is no way for researchers ...
• September 13, 2009
• 14:25

  The increasing feminization of anthropology

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  Have you been in an anthropology class / course with more men then women? I haven’t. In both Norway, Germany and Switzerland (pluss many other places incl South Africa, I heard), the gender balance between men and women is around ...
• September 10, 2009
• 4:48

  The Anthropology of Suicide - World Suicide Prevention Day

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  (draft) It was around four months ago, I received the message of my friend’s sudden death. “Nobody knows", I was told, “why she stepped in front of a train". Afterwards I often wondered if her life could have been saved ...
• September 06, 2009
• 23:00

  Oral history, folk music and more: British Library puts vast sound archive online

   » ‎ antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog
  Wow! Overwhelming! The British Library has made more than 23 000 sound recordings from all over the world freely available to everyone at [sounds.bl.uk] “World and traditional music", “oral history", “accents and dialects", “environment and nature” are some of ...
• August 30, 2009
• 0:37

  For more Anthropology of Christianity

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  What is happening within Christianity today? This is a question that is exciting to study, but which has received little attention among anthropologists, says Norwegian anthropologist Edle Lerang Nes. For hundreds of years, Christianity has been the most important religion ...
• August 24, 2009
• 18:17

  96 year old anthropologist starts blogging

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  (via AAA-blog) He was both president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and editor of the journal American Anthropologist. Now Walter Goldschmidt, born in 1913, is joing the growing anthropological blogging community at [waltergoldschmidt.wordpress.com] He writes: Electronic communication, and ...
• 0:31

  Why anthropologists should politicize mental illnesses

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  How to deal with “mental illness"? Are people who are labelled ill actually ill? Is it ok that psychologists call “adolescent rebellion” for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”? What is anthropologists’ role here? Eugenia Tsao discusses these questions in an article in ...
• August 23, 2009
• 19:49

  The Anthropology of Wrestling

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  How do you study wrestling as an anthropologist? By becoming a wrestler yourself! Heather Levi’s book The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity is featured in the new issue of American Ethnography on Lucha libre - ...
• August 09, 2009
• 13:56

  5 years antropologi.info

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  It’s hard to believe that I have been running this blog already for around five years. It was in June 2004, I bought the domain antropologi.info and on the 7th of July 2004, the English blog was launched by anthropologist ...
• August 07, 2009
• 1:25

  Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Public anthropology through collaboration with journalists

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  How can we make anthropology public? How survive as politically engaged anthropologist in conservative institutions? Nancy Scheper-Hughes answers these questions in the guest editorial in the new issue of Anthropology Today. Public anthropology implies usually ‘writing’ for the public – ...
• August 01, 2009
• 0:31

  Why was anthropologist Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila beaten to death?

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  One year after anthropologist, author and indigenous rights activist Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila was beaten to death in Southern Mexico, there has been silence from the Mexican authorities. The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN askes people to ...
• July 30, 2009
• 9:37

  IUAES-anthropologists "praise" Chinese government's relation to minorities

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  Chinese authorities continue using the 16th congress by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) to spread propaganda. This is the most recent article: Overseas anthropologists: Adventure in Chinese ethnic village “eye-opening” The congress arranged fieldtrips to what ...
• July 27, 2009
• 12:29

  Chinese media propaganda at IUAES anthropology conference in Kunming

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  (update 30.7: IUAES-anthropologists “praise” Chinese government’s relation to minorities) As I wrote a few days ago, the vice president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Petr Skalník decided to boycott the IUAES congress in Kunming, China ...
• July 24, 2009
• 3:32

  Anthropology in China: IUAES-conference boycott due to Uyghur massacre

   » ‎ antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog
  (UPDATE 27.7.09: Chinese media propaganda at IUAES anthropology conference in Kunming? / UPDATE 30.7: IUAES-anthropologists “praise” Chinese government’s relation to minorities ) Last year, the conference was cancelled by the Chinese government for fear of protests. Next week, the 16th ...
• 0:15

  Identity politics: Have anthropologists gone too far?

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  Inspired by a lecture by Peter Geschiere, anthropologist Yara El-Ghadban discusses a difficult and central question in our discipline: How to deconstruct a notion without destroying the meaning that it has for people? In order to challenge stereotypical Us-and-them-thinking, anthropologists ...
• July 23, 2009
• 19:39

  When should anthropologists work for the military?

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  The debate on anthropology and the military is extremly polarized. Mats Utas, Head of the Africa Programme at the Swedish National Defence College, has written an interesting article where he challenges both sides. Among other things, he shows ...