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, June 02, 2004, 01:05
Citizenship and multicultural values in Mauritius and Reunion Island
AllAfrica.com
Anthropologist Barbara Waldis wonders whether there is not a trend which exists nearly all over the world today, namely the gap between the inhabitants of a country and the state. Citizenship education could ideally help bridge the gap >>continue
Tuesday, June 01, 2004, 01:02
Working out the English
The Western Mail (Wales)
"When we feel uncomfortable in social situations (that is, most of the time) we either become over-polite, buttoned up and awkwardly restrained, or loud, loutish, crude, violent and generally obnoxious", says Kate Fox - social anthropologist who has spent the last 10 years studying the habits of her fellow countrymen and women >>continue
Saturday, May 29, 2004, 01:00
Development fuels jungle sex trade
The Age Australia
Muang Xai has long been a place where ethnic minority hill tribes come to sell tree bark and bamboo shoots. Now it is also where young hill tribe girls come to sell sex. "There is the potential for some of these groups to be both physically and culturally wiped out, because you are dealing with small populations," said anthropologist David Feingold, a co-ordinator for regional anti-trafficking and HIV/AIDS prevention projects >>continue
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 00:56
Labrador Inuit set for milestone vote on self-government
The Globe and Mail
The Inuit of Labrador will decide if they are in favour of an agreement that would give them self-government over a 72,500-square-kilometre area, a sparsely populated swath of land the size of the Republic of Ireland >>continue
UPDATE: Labrador Inuit back land-claims agreement (The Globe and Mail, 29.5.04)
Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 00:53
Local taboos could save the seas
New Scientist
The island nations of the south-western Pacific are considering allowing citizens to reclaim legal control of their local seas, in the hope they can use their traditional knowledge, customs and laws to protect fish stocks and biodiversity
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 00:52
How Dispersed Sierra Leoneans Maintain Sense of Community
Newswise
A new book by anthropologist JoAnn D’Alisera explores how displaced Sierra Leonean Muslims sought and found their identity and a sense of community in the United States. “Communities don’t have to be bound geographically,”
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Monday, May 24, 2004, 00:50
Survival at stake for unrecognized Indians
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Despite traditions and age-old bloodlines, government says some tribes don't exist
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Saturday, May 22, 2004, 00:48
Professor studies society's poor by picking through trash
Free Detroit Press
How do poor people or street people meet their basic needs in the world's wealthiest nation? "We think of the world as being increasingly mean-spirited and competitive, but here were homeowners and small-business owners and homeless folks and the poor cooperating in a way to redistribute useful materials", said Prof. Jeff Ferrell >> continue
Saturday, May 22, 2004, 00:46
Focus on culture, not just economics, says World Bank in new book
Worldbank MediaCenter
By bringing a “social-anthropological perspective that focuses on social behavior,” Rao said he hopes the book will encourage a synthesis between social scientists and economists. The co-editors’ collaborators include distinguished anthropologists Arjun Appadurai and Mary Douglas >> continue
>> read parts of the book online
Thursday, May 20, 2004, 00:44
Anthropologists in product design
The Hindu Business Line
Don't fool yourself into thinking that consumers want more functionalities, because the opposite could be true. Ethnography can help see changes in the marketplace before they occur by observing the frustrations and enthusiasm of customers to aspects of technology, style, and activity
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004, 00:42
Minority Languages Face Extinction
allAfrica.com
Linguistic experts estimate that by the end of this century 50 percent of the world's languages will have disappeared. A number of minority dialects in Zimbabwe have neither books nor documents to ensure their survival and rely on the spoken word for their continuity >>continue
Monday, May 17, 2004, 00:39
"I'm not the indigenous person people want me to be"
The Star Australia
Dr Anita Heiss is anthropologist and aboriginee. Last year, on a lecture tour in America, she was asked by an anthropology student what was the biggest problem now facing indigenous women in Australia. "Finding a decent man," she replied >>continue
Sunday, May 16, 2004, 00:37
Tricky body language
Indiana Gazette
"A native who held his chin in his hand was exhibiting an intent listening position - called 'wisakatu. It was never interpreted that he was bored", said anthropology professor Thomas D. Blakely after many years of fieldwork in Africa >>continue
Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 00:33
Anthropology professor working on organs trafficking
University of California Berkeley
Medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes is helping authorities in Brazil, Israel and South Africa investigate a shocking new "slave triangle" in which the poor are being taken to distant cities by criminal syndicates and coerced into selling their organs for illegal transplants >>continue
Saturday, May 08, 2004, 00:31
In Brazil, Bodies Are Personal Billboards
Brazzil.com
What body have you been wearing recently? What body is representing you in the imaginary market? Is it correct to write that we live in a culture of the body? These and other thoughts occurred to me after reading Nu e vestido (Naked and Clothed), bringing together studies by ten anthropologists concerning the culture of the body in Rio de Janeiro today, writes Maria Rita Kehl >>continue
Monday, May 03, 2004, 00:27
Anthropologists: U.S. Marriage Model Is Not Universal Norm
Newhouse News Service
In cross-cultural comparison, monogamous, heterosexual marriage, voluntarily entered into, is a pretty rare form of marriage >>continue
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