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, July 07, 2004, 13:58
Ideas Bazaar - Ethnography and Consultancy
London based research-based strategy consultancy using ethnograhic methods. "Ethnographic research is highly suited to telling us what we don't know about a given subject: it can tell us what really happens and how your product or service really fits into people's lives. It's good for bringing lives to life: generating intimacy but also new perspectives."
Check their articles and weblog!
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004, 11:24
The Rediff Interview/Nandini Chattopadhyay: Music and Protest
Rediff India
"I was doing my first major anthropology project studying the Baul protest movement and how it used music to talk about injustice, superstitions and hypocrisy. In Brazil too some of its most popular music and dance started in the ghettos as a protest against colonial rule and later against social inequities in general."
"Anthropology is what I do in my everyday life. In addition to living in India, I have lived in Singapore, Montreal, Canada and San Francisco. I have also traveled extensively across Asia and Europe. Learning different languages, philosophies, belief systems and social codes of conduct are what I have been doing as part of my everyday life. Being an anthropologist is somewhat of a continuation of that"
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Monday, July 05, 2004, 00:24
Forgotten culture: Ignored by society, black Mexicans deny their history
Houston Chronicle
They call each other negro and sing and joke about living in an all-black community. But ask the villagers here about their African ancestry, and they respond with blank stares. Around the turn of the 17th century, Mexico imported more African slaves than anywhere else in the New World. But countless Mexicans are unaware of that history or that there are blacks in the country. The Mexican census does not acknowledge them. Indians get more recognition than blacks, who speak Spanish.
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Sunday, July 04, 2004, 00:57
Indian's Adivasi set to battle Canada's biggest multinational mining company
Toronto Star
On one side is Alcan Inc., the Montreal-based aluminum giant. Standing in their way are the Adivasis — indigenous tribes and their supporters from watchdog groups in India and Canada. Their blockades and mass protests culminated in deadly violence when state police fired at crowds of unarmed Adivasis. Adivasis want to keep their land. Alcan wants to buy their bauxite, the raw material for aluminum. Increasingly, that activity encroaches on rainforest tribes sitting on the most coveted mineral resources in countries like India, which has 10 per cent of estimated world bauxite reserves.
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Friday, July 02, 2004, 00:31
Book Review: Uqalurait - Oral history of Nunavut requires some refinement
Nunatsiaq News
At 473 pages, the book is unlikely to appeal to the audience its authors say they’re aiming for: children, young parents, and teachers of Nunavut. It is more likely to attract academics, who should be its secondary audience. No one would refute the idea that Nunavut needs to hang onto the history that its elders can only safeguard temporarily. It’s to be hoped that in this case, the achievement will inspire someone else to produce a book that people want to read late into the night, and maybe pass on to someone else.
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Thursday, July 29, 2004, 00:28
Rats Rule at Indian Temple
National Geographic
The floors are a living tangle of undulating fur. Small, brown blurs scurry across marble floors. Thousands of rats dine with people and scamper over their feet. In India's small northwestern city of Deshnoke, this is a place of worship: Rajastan's famous Karni Mata Temple. It was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata.
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Sunday, June 27, 2004, 00:24
Predictive science of human history no longer unthinkable
Dallars Morning Star
A loose confederation of research enterprises share a goal of better understanding the present in order to foresee the future, and possibly help shape it. Almost daily, research papers in this genre appear in scientific journals or on the Internet. Some examine voting patterns in diverse populations, others describe ways to forecast trends in the stock market or the likely effect of antiterrorist actions. Psychologists are learning more about what goes on in the brain when humans interact. And anthropologists have begun to study how economic activity influences behavior in different cultures
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Thursday, June 24, 2004, 00:22
Key to governing Afghans: the clans
Christian Science Monitor
For centuries, it was tribal leaders rather than kings who truly ruled Afghanistan. "Given the fact that the present administration neither is very strong nor has a great deal of legitimacy, tribal structures have rebounded", says David Edwards, an anthropologist with extensive experience in Afghanistan
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 00:20
Crop Diversity Continues Thanks to Modern, Traditional Practices
UC Davis News
Peruvian peasants, Italian consumers and California peach farmers are all helping to promote crop diversity in unexpected ways, says a UC Davis anthropologist who studies agriculture
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Monday, June 21, 2004, 00:12
Odyssey of an Anthropologist - new book about Malinowski
Daily Telegraph
Michael Young's 690-page book is the first of two projected volumes. It takes Malinowski from his birth in Poland in 1884 to his return to England from the Trobriand Islands in 1920 - when his most famous work was yet to be written, and his public career lay ahead of him. Young has made use of a wealth of private papers, especially diaries and love-letters; he has also tracked down archival sources in Poland, England, Australia, Papua New Guinea and elsewhere >>continue
Sunday, June 20, 2004, 00:09
9 reservations in Arizona are now headed by women
Arizona Daily Star
Bernard "Bunny" Fontana , an anthropologist and retired Arizona State Museum ethnologist, noted that strong female American Indian leaders are not unprecedented
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Sunday, June 13, 2004, 00:07
An anthropologist finds insight into Japan's bad-loan crisis
The Japan Post
"Unless you understand how money is moving about the economy, it is impossible to have any meaningful analysis of a society or its culture; and unless you look at cultural issues, it is difficult to ever understand how a financial system works when it is outside your own culture", saya anthropologist Gillian Tett
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Thursday, June 10, 2004, 00:04
Survival of the fittest? Survival of the nicest!
Washington University in St. Louis
Are altruism and morality artificial outgrowths of culture, created by humans to maintain social order? Or is there, instead, a biological foundation to ethical behavior? "We believe that, instead of being genetically predisposed to competition and aggression, humans have a biological foundation for unselfish social interaction," sazs Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology >>continue
Wednesday, June 09, 2004, 00:01
Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
Innovations Report
"If I had one place to go to find medicinal plants, it wouldn’t be the forest," said John Richard Stepp, a University of Florida anthropologist. "There are probably hundreds of weeds growing right outside people’s doors they could use." He found the area’s Mayan residents use weeds for all sorts of day-to-day illnesses, such as common colds, upset stomachs, skin rashes, and aches and sprains
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Monday, June 07, 2004, 01:16
Corporate Anthropology: Off with the pith helmets
The Economist
Management: The use of anthropologists in technology firms, once a novelty, has now become commonplace. What changed? >>continue
Sunday, June 06, 2004, 01:15
Migration and development - a report from Tonga
New Zealand Herald
Millions of dollars pour out of New Zealand every year. Remittance, the practice of migrant Pacific Islanders sending money and goods back home, is deeply ingrained in the culture. Remittances as no different from aid, albeit less effective. The money goes on daily needs, school fees, church conferences, consumables and capital development like building houses >>continue
Saturday, June 05, 2004, 01:12
Microsoft hires five anthropologists
Inc Magazine
Nelle Steele is one of five anthropologist-ethnographers that Microsoft hired full-time to conduct a field study. Called "Dawn to Dusk," the study documents the work habits and thought processes of a species the software behemoth had never before tried to understand: owners and employees of small businesses >>continue
Monday, July 05, 2004, 01:10
Saving native languages
University of Berkeley News
Chochenyo, the language of the Muwekma Ohlone people, has been silent since the 1930s, but a handful of tribal members working with mentors from the University of California, Berkeley's linguistics department are bringing it back to life >>continue
Friday, June 04, 2004, 01:09
Indians told to quit Benetton land
BBC
The Italian clothing giant Benetton has won a court case against a Mapuche Indian couple in southern Argentina over a disputed strip of land >>continue
Wednesday, June 02, 2004, 01:07
Tokelauans resist offers of autonomy
The New Zealand Herald
Moves to give more independence to one of the world's smallest and last remaining colonies are being held up by the population of the country itself. Each atoll has a single village, and there are no harbours, no airstrips and no capital city. Visitors can reach the islands only by the weekly boat making the 30-hour voyage from the Samoan capital Apia >>continue
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