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:
Wednesday, August 18, 2004, 12:28
Resident Foreigners and Antalya
Zaman Daily, Turkey
Being the meeting point for many peoples and cultures in global tourism activity, Antalya and its environs are turning into a permanent homeland. People from different cultures, nations and with different mentalities, continuously buy land in Antalya, choosing it as their second homeland. Like a junction, Turkey is hosting a new sociological structure that came along with globalization >>continue
Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 23:07
MARSHALL ISLANDS: Preserving culture with new technologies
Go Asia Pacific
The Alele Museum in the Marshall Islands has joined with the Historical Preservation Office to launch a new internet website, in English and Marshallese. The aim is to make Alele's collection more accessible to students, researchers and the wider public. In the Marshalls, cultural officers are working to protect fragile records of the past, like the De Brum collection, thousands of etched glass plates, with pictures of Micronesia from past centuries. >>continue
Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 22:57
Do doctors simply cure or can they heal?
Cape Times, South Africa
Dr Cecil Helman, born in Cape Town, is a family practitioner, anthropologist and the author of the widely used text book Cultural Dimensions of Illness used in all major universities in Britain and over 120 medical schools in America. He believes the Western medical model is insufficient and traditional medicine is slowly and surely going up a cul-de-sac.
According to Helman, reductionism is at the core of modern medicine and is driving it into a lung, a heart or an artery and away from a whole person. It reduces the complex idea of human suffering down to the disease of a particular organ, distorting the picture as it does. >>continue
Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 08:57
The Impact Of A Small-scale Irrigation Project On Gender In West Bengal Terai
The Hindu
"COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION" and "Community managed and government supported" approaches are buzzwords in the realm of development cooperation. The discourse on gender analysis in development planning has contributed to an increasing interest in women and water management issues.
This book attempts a historical analysis of gender by describing the prominent role played by women in the Tehbaga and Naxalbari agrarian peasant movements that swept the three districts of the small-scale irrigation projects. The volume should contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate in women's studies and feminist anthropology on how to achieve an optimal "gender planning" with the aim to strengthen and/or to empower women in developmental interventions. >>continue
Monday, August 16, 2004, 16:37
New Guestbook! New Links!
New links about cyberanthropology were added. >>continue
Also, I installed a new guestbook. Thanks for signing it! >>continue
Monday, August 16, 2004, 16:03
The distance between us
The Dallas Morning News
If they lean back in the chair, away from him, he's got more work to do. But if they lean forward, he knows in a few minutes they'll be huddled with him over a contract.
"There's so much you can glean from observing the distances between people when they interact," says Dr. William Pulte, anthropologist, linguist and associate professor in Southern Methodist University's Education Department.
Proxemics, the study of how people perceive and use the space around them, was founded in the 1950s by anthropologist Edward T. Hall, and popularized in several of his books – "The Silent Language" (1959) and "The Hidden Dimension" (1966). Hall observed that humans like to keep their distances from one another, and that those distances vary according to social interactions. >>continue
Monday, August 16, 2004, 01:10
The Value of Rituals
New York Times
You've probably heard that the presidential candidates have been crossing the country arguing about Iraq and taxes, but, as usual, the press has ignored the true anthropological significance of their journeys.
"Ritual is absolutely central to modern politics," Professor David Kertzer, an anthropologist at Brown University, said. "The press wrings their hands at what they call the lack of substance at conventions, and some people think of political rallies as being outmoded or even dangerous, but rituals like these are essential for creating solidarity and allegiance to a leader." >>continue
Monday, August 16, 2004, 01:05
Polynesian pop
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
After a 30-year disappearance, it's tiki time once again. We have seen some indications of the trend for the past few years, but now the Polynesian drums are beating so loud they can't be ignored. >>continue
Sunday, August 15, 2004, 00:30
Anthropologist helps Intel see the world through customers' eyes
MSNBC / San Jose Business Journal
When Genevieve Bell agreed to leave Stanford University for a job at Intel in 1998, it was with trepidation. She had, after all, been working her entire life toward being an academic, following the tenure track and accepting that practical applications of her work might never become apparent. "My vision was to survive the first year and not go insane," she says now.
It's not that she thought Intel was such a bad place to be. Quite the opposite. She just couldn't see why a semiconductor company would want a technologically challenged cultural anthropologist on staff.
Now, as she writes up a final report on her three-year study of how Asian families interact with technology, Ms. Bell can't imagine working anywhere else.
Ms. Bell has been credited with performing a remarkable job by making anthropology accessible -- and worthwhile -- to scores of engineers all over the world. >>continue (Link updated with copy in the Web Archive 27.6.05)
Sunday, August 15, 2004, 00:22
Olympic Games: 'Great Fun for Savages'
The Globe and Mail
One hundred years ago, three Ainu couples, a lone male and two young girls travelled to the United States to take part in a living exhibit arranged for the crowds at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. They lived in a large thatched hut on the fairgrounds, part of a global village in which peoples from around the world -- called the primitives -- were on display.
In a run-up to the third Olympiad being held in conjunction with the world fair, U.S. officials organized something called Anthropology Days. "Hairy Ainus" were pitted against "savage Zulus" and other aboriginals in sporting contests to determine strength and speed. Anthropology Days was organized by the heads of the anthropology and physical education departments of the world exposition. The idea was to test the popular notion that "the average savage was fleet of foot, strong of limb, accurate with the bow and arrow and expert in throwing the stone." The two-day contest was held in mid-August when many scientists were attending the fair.
The crown jewel was a 47-acre site organized by the U.S. government to display the conquered peoples of the Philippines, the newest American possession acquired during the recently concluded Spanish-American War. An homage to imperialism, the exhibit was designed to show how America would bring progress to savage peoples. >>continue
Thursday, August 12, 2004, 10:36
Cuba's forgotten tribe experiencing a rebirth
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News
"I want to eliminate the myth once and for all that the Indians were extinguished in Cuba," says Alejandro Hartmann, a historian and Taino expert. For years, anthropologists widely believed this island's once-powerful Taino Indians were exterminated shortly after Christopher Columbus sailed into a pristine bay and walked the steep, thickly forested terrain more than 500 years ago.
With a new museum, academic conferences and other projects, Hartmann and a group of experts also are trying to nurture a nascent sense of identity among the hundreds--perhaps thousands--of Taino descendants who are scattered along Cuba's impoverished eastern tip. >>continue
Wednesday, August 11, 2004, 09:06
The Magic Mountains: New Book on British Hill Stations and Hill Tribes in India
Ideas Bazaar Weblog
An article about a book I retrieved from the shelves before I went away on the Raj in India and Hill Stations. The Magic Mountains examines the importance of these settlements as a means of racial separation and a subsuquent demonstration of superiority. More convincely, the author shows how much of 'home' was recreated up the hill rather than down on the plains. Fascinating stuff. >>continue
Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 08:50
Anthropologists dig into business
Mercury News
For a summer, Dev Patnaik and his team of researchers hung out with teens preparing to go away to college. Trained in anthropology and sociology, they observed while the teens and their parents shopped for the essentials of college life. Some of the students struggled with doing their own laundry and worried about dorm living.
The strategists took it all in. Then they came up with a line of products for dorm rooms. Now items like a kitchen-in-a-box kit and a hamper with laundry instructions are marketed to the back-to-school crowds at the chain store Target.
Patnaik's firm, San Mateo-based Jump, is part of a growing trend in which anthropologists are helping to design new products and business ventures, as well as organize the inner workings of companies.
Work done by anthropologists -- who observe people in real-life settings -- has translated into products including Yoplait's portable Go-Gurt, Whirlpool's "refrigerated oven" and Yahoo's photo service. >>continue
Monday, August 09, 2004, 23:00
Getting research data via the web
Daniel M.T. Fessler, Asst. Prof. of Anthropology at the
University of California, Los Angeles writes to me and tells about his research method. Together with his students, he runs anthropology studies and experiments on the Web. He writes: "Folks generally find participation in our studies thought-provoking, fun, or at least better than a poke in the eye with a number 2 pencil." You can take a look at his site here
Monday, August 09, 2004, 12:11
Mary Douglas critical of the new anthropology
Haaretz, Israel
"Today too much dominance is given to the anthropologists themselves within the research. This is strange, as it used to be that the main criticism was that anthropologists kept themselves invisible in the research in a way that was really artificial. This accusation - pretending to be anonymous on the part of the writers - changed, and in its stead there has been an opposite phenomenon: dominance of the writers over the research material. Thus, today we are exposed far more to the experiences and thoughts of the writer, while the methodology and the orderly method have declined considerably." >>continue
Sunday, August 08, 2004, 19:04
Stunning New Museum Gives Aboriginals a Face in the Modern World
Toronto Star
When the new National Museum of the American Indian opens here on Sept. 21 amid a flurry of drumming, chanting, eagle feathers and sweetgrass ceremonies, it will mark the culmination of a debate that began in Canada in the 1980s over who gets to tell the aboriginal story.
Construction of the museum began five years ago, when the ground was blessed by Chief Billy Tayac, whose Piscataway ancestors lived in the area before the Europeans arrived. Native groups were consulted on every aspect of the museum and its exhibitions — a remarkable act of collaboration. >>continue
Friday, August 06, 2004, 08:16
How did Inuit survive before contact with Europeans?
Nunatsiaq News
Many events bring together different Inuit from across Nunavut every year. And so a group of Inuit students, have converged on the small community of Naujaat (Repulse Bay) to share, learn and grow, brought together by the desire for new friendship, the need for new exciting memories, and the common goal of getting elbow-deep in dirt to gain a greater understanding of the way our Inuit ancestors survived before contact with Europeans. Students from Ottawa and Iqaluit see first-hand how strong Inuit traditions - such as speaking Inuktitut, hunting, and eating frozen caribou and muktuk - are in Nunavut. >>continue
Thursday, August 05, 2004, 08:37
The Pan African Association of Anthropologists Conference opens
allAfrica.com
The National Commission on Culture has embarked on a programme to develop a website to market Ghanaian culture. Professor George Hagan, Chairman of the Commission, who announced this at the opening of the 14th Annual Pan African Association of Anthropologists Conference, urged social anthropologists on the continent to help inform policy-makers to enable them to solve the many problems facing Africa within its cultural context and setting.
Prof. Hagan was of the view that culture could be a useful tool to analyse problems such as HIV/AIDS and conflicts and he expressed surprise at the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) document made up of several pages yet had only about one or two paragraphs dealing with culture. >>continue
Thursday, August 05, 2004, 08:29
Food company works with anthropologists for ad-campaign
AP/ The News-Sentinel
Tyson Foods Inc. introduced what company officials said would be the largest ad campaign in its history to analysts Wednesday, making major changes in its advertising approach and highlighting its lines of prepared food products.
Bob Corscadden, Tyson's chief marketing officer, said the company worked with cultural anthropologists to understand the food wants and needs of different demographics to better know how to market its full range of products and highlight the importance of protein as body fuel. >>continue
Thursday, August 05, 2004, 08:21
New Research Study about Traditional Folk Knowledge related to Plants in Albania
OneWorld Southeast Europe
The overall goal of this project is to provide information, data and instruments to NGOs and policy makers about the persistence of high-quality folk know-hows on local plant foods and herbal medicines, which could be used in the future for promoting and implement eco-touristic activities and for improving bio-cultural conservation and rural development of Northern Albania, especially in the framework of the initiative "Balkan Peace Park" project..
It will be used traditional methodologies of the social and cognitive anthropology, and ethnobiology as well. >>continue
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