03.08.05: The blog has moved to www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/, and several broken links have been corrected
Here are the most recent posts on the new blog location:
Thursday, October 14, 2004, 08:02
Brazil teen arrested in anthropologist's killing
CNN
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy Wednesday and charged him with killing a prominent anthropologist last week in an Amazon state.
Meireles, who was the first anthropologist to contact the Cinta Larga Indians in the late 1960s, had been called out of retirement in April, after the tribe massacred 29 people illegally mining for diamonds on their reservation. Meireles was working with a federal task force to shut down the mining operations when he was killed.
Mining on the Roosevelt Indian reservation is believed to involve powerful economic interests. Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry estimates some $2 billion worth of diamonds have been smuggled off the reservation over the past four years. >> continue
SEE ALSO:
Indian Specialist Shot Dead in Brazil (The Guardian)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 12:20
Pro Ethnologica - an anthropological journal with articles in full tekst online
Pro Ethnologia is one of the few free accessible anthropological journals. It is published by Eesti Rahva Museum in Tartu, Estonia.
Recent issues include articles on Studies on Socialist and Post-socialist Everyday Life, Multiethnic Communities in the Past and Present Tartu, Cultural Identity of Arctic Peoples. Most articles are written in English
>> continue to Pro Ethnologia
SEE ALSO:
Overview over anthropological online journals (English /Norwegian / German)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 09:37
Museum's anthropology curator seeks to express science through artwork
Rocky Mountain News
"When Robert Pickering left the post of chairman of the anthropology department, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science began a search that netted three candidates for his replacement. One of the things that stood out in her background was that she wanted to express her science through her artwork. It was something new and different for us."
During the November conference of the American Association of Anthropology, Ella Maria Ray will be on a panel dealing with visual arts and ethnographic fieldwork, where she and three peers will present their artwork for discussion.
And she's working on an ethnographic novel - Standing in the Lion's Shadow - outlining via fictional characters her work in Jamaica. Beginning in the late 1980s, she conducted extensive field work there to study the role of female members of the Rastafari community. >> continue
SEE ALSO:
Ella Maria Ray's homepage on art and anthropology
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 19:24
AnthroSource - AAA announces new anthropology portal. Great, but....
A short comment
"The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is proud to announce the development of AnthroSource, the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Combining low-cost digital access to the AAA's peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins with high-level electronic content functionality, AnthroSource is an indispensable research tool for your patrons." >> continue
Sounds good, but it looks like to be one more of those scientific pay-sites. Shouldn't knowledge circulate freely and be free accessible to all of us?
>> Budapest Open Access Initiative
>> Creative Commons - an alternative to full copyright
>> Copyleft
>> Paper in First Monday on AnthroSource and anthropologists' use of the Internet
(link to AnthroSource found via Ethno::log)
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 10:06
Columbus Day: Celebrating a holocaust
MSNBC / The Indian Country
Stannard, board member of the new American Indian Genocide Museum being established in Houston, said the most massive act of genocide in the world followed the arrival of Columbus in the Americas.
When Columbus first sighted land on Oct. 12, 1492, the American Indian Holocaust began. The Spanish were driven by their lust for gold and silver and the English fueled by their desire for property. Christians killed with zeal those they believed defiled with sin. Their goal was exterminating the Indian race. Overall, 95 percent were obliterated. >> continue
SEE ALSO
Professors deconstruct heroic myth of Columbus (Daily Nebraskan)
Mass arrests at Columbus Day protest (Native American Times)
Venezuela: The Transition from Columbus Day to Indian Resistance Day (The NarcoSphere)
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 08:24
New link: Pictures from Tibet
Tibet Information Network has published a huge collection of pictures about different topics like Culture and Society, Education, Environment and Religion >> continue
(link found via tibet.ethno.info)
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 08:18
New film highlights friendship, community and alienation among urban Inuit
Nunatsiaq News
According to the Association of Montreal Inuit, 750 Inuit from Nunavut and Nunavik now call Montreal home.
By following several Montreal-dwelling Inuit from different generations and communities in Nunavut and Nunavik, the film Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) looks at the urbanization of Inuit who are moving away from the land and the North.
It will also look at how the traditional Inuit strengths and values of sharing and friendship endure in the city, through events such as the monthly community feasts organized by AMI, or the construction of an inuksuk at the Montreal Children's Hospital. >> continue
UPDATE (15.10.04): Link currently no longer working. Nunatsiaq news has some mysterious archieving system which includes renaming the URLs
Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 08:15
New museum: Indigenous cultures reign on the Seine
The Australian
When it opens in 2006, the museum - 39,000 sqm of it - will sit on the banks of the Seine, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Dedicated to non-Western art, it is a pet project of French President Jacques Chirac, who believes that for too long, art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas has been too easily dismissed - even in a city as culturally rich as Paris - as little more than exotic curiosities.
One of Branly's most arresting features will be up to 1000sqm of ceiling, straddling three or four storeys, to be designed by handpicked indigenous Australian artists.
This week, it was confirmed that eight artists - four men and four women - are to work on the project, which co-curator Brenda Croft describes as "the most significant international indigenous visual art commission from Australia". >> continue
Sunday, October 10, 2004, 21:45
Jacques Derrida - Father of deconstruction dies
The New York Times
Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital. He was 74.
Derrida was known as the father of deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction, and that the author's intent could not overcome the inherent contradictions of language itself.
The concept was eventually applied to the whole gamut of arts and social sciences, including linguistics, anthropology, political science, even architecture. >> continue
SEE ALSO
More on Derrida in Wikipedia
Jacques Derrida Online (site navigation on the top)
Saturday, October 09, 2004, 09:03
Five Centuries of Ethiopian-German Relations
allAfrica.com
Since the first news from Ethiopia had reached Germany in medieval ages, it has always played a special role in German conscience, attracting Germans from all social layers and from all professions through the centuries, especially starting from the early 19th century.
A history of the relations between Germany and Ethiopia has to start with the scholarly interest German theologians took into this biblical country in the late medieval period. German scholarly interest in Ethiopia, first by natural scientists, then by linguists and ethnographers, reinitiated Ethiopian Studies in the 19th century. Ethiopians appear at German universities at a comparatively early stage in 1872. >> continue
Friday, October 08, 2004, 08:00
Why do we laugh? - Interdisciplinary project on cartoons
TownOnline.com
A team of researchers from several fields at the University of Michigan is launching a study of why people laugh at cartoons.
Come on, guys: Because they're funny!
That's not good enough for the psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, historians and others who will be able to confront their subjects with every cartoon every published in The New Yorker magazine, all 68,647 of them. >> continue
More informartion
What's so funny about humor? (The New York Times / kniff.de)
Tuesday, October 05, 2004, 21:34
Study Finds New York City's Muslims Growing Closer Since 9/11
The New York Times
Facing increased discrimination after the Sept. 11 attacks, New York City's Muslims have identified more deeply with their religious roots, setting aside the sectarian and linguistic differences that have traditionally divided them according to a six-year study released yesterday by Columbia University.
The study also assessed news coverage of Muslim Americans before and after Sept. 11 and concluded that negative visual depictions of the group rose substantially after the attacks.
The study, financed by the Ford Foundation, provides the most comprehensive look yet at the religious, social and political affiliations of New York City's estimated 600,000 Muslims both before and after Sept. 11, 2001, and involved work by more than a dozen academic researchers and professors. It was coordinated by Louis Abdellatif Cristillo, a Columbia anthropology professor >> continue or use this link (Islam Online)
SEE ALSO
Press release by Columbia University
Monday, October 04, 2004, 22:19
An Ethnographic Study on Online Communities in Saudi Arabia
Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS)
The aim of this article is to discuss the lessons learned from conducting semi-structured interviews online in an ethnographic study that took place in Saudi Arabia during the period 2001-2002.
The purpose of the study was to explore individuals' participation in online communities in Saudi Arabia and also understand how online communities in Saudi Arabia are affecting participants' offline culture. Semi-structured online interviews were used to report the perceptions of 15 participants (8 females, 7 males) about their online community experience in Saudi Arabia. >> continue
This article is part of the 16th Issue of the open-access journal "Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS) that now is available online. Link to mainpage
Monday, October 04, 2004, 15:59
New book: Anthropologist roams the corridors and meeting rooms of the BBC
The Guardian
What happens when you let a sharp-eyed anthropologist roam the corridors and meeting rooms of the British Broadcasting Corporation for several years? You get this, a fascinating patchwork of interviews, testimonials, diary entries and analysis that offers distressing evidence - if any still were needed - of the ideological vandalism committed by John Birt in the name of efficiency. >> continue
SEE ALSO
More info on the book "Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the reinvention of the BBC" (Cambridge University)
Research project: The Future of Public Service Broadcasting (Cambridge University)
Monday, October 04, 2004, 13:57
Design Anthropology: Software development by participatory observation
Anne Lau Revil's homepage
Software design is usually undertaken by IT specialists, who have a technical training. Few have a sociocultural background. In this paper I will show several examples of software design as sociocultural adjustments, and more specifically how anthropologists may contribute.
Finally, I will discuss how the value of the anthropological contribution to the development of software systems may be improved through the development of more flexible methods of communicating the research to both the academic world and the user community. >> continue (pdf, 14 pages) or go to Anne Lau Revil's homepage
SEE ALSO
Joel Spolsky: Over the next decade, I expect that software companies will hire people trained as anthropologists and ethnographers to work on social interface design (found via Conversations with Dina - Dina Mehta's Blog)
Monday, October 04, 2004, 08:02
For Turks, Germany is home - Turkey's EU membership, assimilation and identity
International Herald Tribune
On Wednesday, European commissioners in Brussels are likely to give their approval for Turkey, which has been a member of NATO since 1952, to begin talks to join the European Union.
Yet in the crucible of the Ruhrgebiet, the industrial region around Essen, East has lived with West for 50 years. It is here that answers can be found about whether an earlier wave of Turkish migrants has integrated successfully and what it means today to be European. >> continue
Friday, September 24, 2004, 06:46
Fewer updates the following 10 days
As I'll be travelling a lot the following 8-10 days, there won't be so many updates as usual.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 17:54
Ethnographic Study About Life Without Internet: Feelings of Loss and Frustration
Business Wire
All participants in the qualitative portion of the study found living without the Internet more difficult than they expected, and in some cases impossible, because the tools and services the Internet offers were firmly ingrained in their daily lives. Nearly half the respondents in a complementary quantitative study indicated they could not go without the Internet for more than two weeks and the median time respondents could go without being online is five days.
The qualitative portion of the study, fielded by Conifer Research, consisted of an ethnographic study in which participants chronicled their lives without the Internet for a period of two weeks. The study provided a deep view into the emotional connections consumers have with the Internet as the medium that helps them drive their lives.
Regardless of age, household income or ethnic background, all participants in the ethnographic research study experienced withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration and disconnectedness when cut off from the online world. Users described their time offline as 'feeling left out of the loop,'and missing their 'private escape time' during the day. The survey findings demonstrate that a larger circle of social networks have developed as a result of Web access. >> continue (Link updated with copy of press release)
SEE ALSO:
Ethnographic Research by Conifer Research
Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 21:23
New book review: The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan (Nazif Shahrani)
Danny Yee's Book Reviews
Originally published in 1979, The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan is a study of the peoples of the Wakhan Corridor, the long, narrow portion of Afghanistan that reaches out to touch China. This 2002 edition adds a foreword and an epilogue.
I was only expecting to read parts of The Kirghiz and Wakhi, but I ended up reading it cover to cover. It offers all the pleasures of a well-written ethnography, along with plenty of connections to broader history and anthropology. >> continue
Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 15:56
Large Dams In India -- Temples Or Burial Grounds?
ZNet India interviews anthropologist Angana Chatterji
One of the most controversial "development projects" in recent years is a series of more than 3,000 dams in India’s Narmada River Valley. These dams flood vast areas and displace hundreds of thousands, mostly peasants and adivasi (tribal) people, while promises of relocation and resources usually prove to be illusory.
- National dreams and global capital have created incredible suffering and destroyed not just human life, not just part of our cultural heritage, but also the natural heritage of the Valley, says Angana Chatterji, a Calcutta-born anthropology professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco It is cruel and criminal.
- We drove to Purni, beyond which the land is engulfed by an infinite stretch of gloomy water. Narmada Sagar exemplifies the violence of nation-making in India today -- a demonic, calculated rush for homogenized, unsustainable futures. This is what cultural genocide looks like. >> continue
SEE ALSO:
Information about Angana Chatterji incl articles
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