Sosialantropolog Arne Martin Klausen i Fredriksstad Blad
Reisehåndbøker er en populær sjanger i dag. Men få er klar over at fra 1879 til 1915 kom det i Norge ut tolv utgaver av en meget spesiell reisehåndbok. Boka het bare «Yngvar» blant de velstående… more »
Posted by lorenz on 09 Jul 2004 in Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers
Fiona Moore, Anthropology Matters 1 (2004)
Transnational business people are seldom studied by anthropologists. Here, I examine the role that two ‘global cities’ — London and Frankfurt — play in the lives of a group of employees from a German transnat… more »
Posted by lorenz on 09 Jul 2004 in innvandring migrasjon, medisin og helse, doktoravhandlinger
Nasjonal kompetanseenhet for minoritetshelse (NAKMI)
Tamilene som reiste til Finnmark på 1980- og 90-tallet ble en livsnødvendig ressurs for lokal fiskeindustri. Om tamilene er godt økonomisk integrert, betyr ikke det det samme som at de er sosialt in… more »
Posted by lorenz on 09 Jul 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Us and Them, inuit, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions
Nunatsiaq News
Erin Brubacher, who, with Odile Nelson, is co-directing and acting in the play in Iqaluit this weekend, says this is a play that "fits with the community". "The issues involved are universal: interracial marriage, the concept of cultura… more »
Posted by lorenz on 08 Jul 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, inuit, books, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions
Kenai Peninsula Online (Alaska)
Generations of anthropologists have appeared in Alaska Native villages and attempted, with varying degrees of tact, naivete or insight, to explain the villagers' lives. Margaret B. Blackman who teaches anthropology at t… more »
Posted by lorenz on 08 Jul 2004 in corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, culture traditions, persons and theories
Tom's Hardware Guide
Tech firms flood consumers which new products every month. In an interview with Tom's Hardware Guide, Intel's anthropologist Genevieve Bell explains why cultures will determine the development of new products. Dell initiated at In… more »
Posted by lorenz on 08 Jul 2004 in Bücher, Arbeit(sleben)
FAZ
Das heutige Arbeitsleben genießt ja nicht unbedingt den besten Ruf.Da kann uns die Diagnose, die an diesem Dienstag im „Tagesspiegel“ der Berliner Ethnologe Wolfgang Kaschuba erstellt, auch nicht mehr überraschen: Früher war alles viel besser. Auc… more »
Posted by lorenz on 08 Jul 2004 in religion kosmologi, musikk, samer
Adressavisa
Nasjonale kirker og lokalmenigheter, framfor alt i Afrika og Latin-Amerika har vist at det ligger sosial og politisk sprengkraft i å stedegengjøre det kristne budskapet; knytte det til egne tradisjoner og erfaringer. Ja gjerne gripe tilbak… more »
Posted by lorenz on 08 Jul 2004 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, youth
Business Week
Timothy Malefyt is now an in-house anthropologist for BBDO New York, the advertising firm. His mission is to study a group of college students at Columbia University and figure out how in the world they process all of the information tha… more »
Posted by lorenz on 08 Jul 2004 in miljø og økologi, Arktis, inuitter
Aftenposten
Klimaendringer vil gjøre Arktis ugjenkjennelig. Isbjørn, hvalross og fugler finner ikke isdekkede områder å leve på, og flere og kraftigere stormer kan tvinge urbefolkningen til å flytte. Allerede i dag merker urbefolkningen at livsgrunnla… more »
Posted by lorenz on 07 Jul 2004 in religion cosmology, migration, Caribbean
National Geographic
The ceremony begins with a Roman Catholic prayer. Then three drummers begin to play syncopated rhythms. The attendees begin to dance around a tree in the center of the yard, moving faster and harder with the rising pulse of the bea… more »
Posted by lorenz on 07 Jul 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Asia, migration
University of California, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
There are more Hmong people today than Tibetans, yet the campaign to "Free Tibet" is widely popular in the U.S. and is internationally recognized, while the plight of Hmong people is relativ… more »
Posted by lorenz on 07 Jul 2004 in politics, anthropology (general), persons and theories, music
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… more »
Posted by lorenz on 07 Jul 2004 in corporate & business anthropology, websites
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 int… more »
Posted by lorenz on 06 Jul 2004 in turisme
Verdensmagasinet X
- Lonely Planet tar eventyret ut av reisen og gjør den forutsigbar. Standardrepertoaret for masseturismen er lik overalt og har ikke nødvendigvis noe med kulturell annerledeshet å gjøre. Nå har også Lonely Planet gjort det samme for… more »
Posted by lorenz on 06 Jul 2004 in antropologi allment, antropologi utenfor akademia, business antropologi, konferanser
antropologi.info
En paneldebatt under årskonferansen i Norsk Antropologisk Forening avslørte at mange antropologer utenfor akedemia lider under "faglig ensomhet". De fleste er overbevist om at det er bruk for antropologisk kunnskap i næringslivet. Men… more »
Posted by lorenz on 06 Jul 2004 in antropologi allment, antropologi utenfor akademia, business antropologi, designantropologi
antropologi.info
I USA er det blitt vanlig at storkonserner, spesielt teknologibedrifter ansetter antropologer i produktutviklingen. Teknologien må tilpasses menneskenes behov - og hvem kan kartlegge dem bedre enn antropologer! Men samtidig har denne… more »
Posted by lorenz on 05 Jul 2004 in culture traditions, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America
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 mo… more »
Posted by lorenz on 05 Jul 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, language, Native American
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 i… more »
Posted by lorenz on 04 Jul 2004 in kommune stat forvaltning, organisasjoner, ledelse
Herning Folkeblad
Ledelsen i Åskov Kommune vil gerne kende den inderste sandhed om den kultur, der omgiver kommunens arbejde. Derfor har kommunen i et stykke tid arbejdet sammen antropolog Vibeke Hedemann Schmidt fra Århus.
Selv om der umiddelbart… more »
Aftenposten
Snakke et godt engelsk er langt fra nok til å få innpass hos de reserverte engelskmennene. De vender deg raskt ryggen hvis du ikke kjenner deres innfløkte sett av skjulte regler for hvordan man skal oppføre seg. Kate Fox er sosialantropolo… more »
Posted by lorenz on 02 Jul 2004 in forskning(spolitikk) akademia
Dagens Nyheter
Bertrand Russell hade knappast kunnat forska i Sverige i dag, skriver Sverker Sörlin. Universiteten tycks ha glömt att kunskap är ett äventyr. >> les mer more »
Posted by lorenz on 02 Jul 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, inuit, books
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 woul… more »
Posted by lorenz on 01 Jul 2004 in Ethnologie und Beruf, Jobsuche
Rheinischer Merkur
Spannender Lebenslauf, fließend Suaheli – aber die Ethnologin findet keine Stelle. Schuld könnte ihr Anschreiben sein. Auf zur „Trainingsmaßnahme“! Ein humoristischer Bericht im Rheinischen Merkur >>weiter more »
Posted by lorenz on 01 Jul 2004 in innvandring migrasjon, musikk
NRK Sogn og Fjordane
Informasjonsmateriellet inneheld grove faktafeil og no stiller professor i sosialantropologi Thomas Hylland Eriksen spørsmål ved måten folkemusikkfestivalen rekrutterer og presenterer artistane. Han meiner det er eit problem å pre… more »
Posted by lorenz on 27 Jun 2004 in utdanning, medisin og helse
"Aarhus Universitet bliver først til at udklække en ny type mastere, master i sundhedsantropologi. Første hold bliver færdigt i denne uge", skriver Århus Stiftstidende. "Uddannelsens antropologiske tilgang til sundhedsområdet giver en ny og efterspurgt v… more »
Posted by lorenz on 25 Jun 2004 in antropologi allment, forskning(spolitikk) akademia
Sydsvenska Dagbladet
De två etnologiprofessorerna Billy Ehn och Orvar Löfgren tar oss med bakom kulisserna och beskriver den akademiska vardagen med alla dess oskrivna regler, koder och mönster i boken Hur blir man klok på universitetet? De analyserar… more »
Posted by lorenz on 24 Jun 2004 in politics, culture traditions, Asia
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",… more »
Posted by lorenz on 24 Jun 2004 in Wir und die Anderen, interdiziplinär
Humboldt Universität Berlin / BerliNews
Politische und religiöse Repräsentationen während des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit in Europa, jüngere polische Mythen in Deutschland, jüngere Europarepräsentationen, politische Erinnerung in Marokko und i… more »
Posted by lorenz on 23 Jun 2004 in antropologi allment, antropologi utenfor akademia, business antropologi
Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen, Kulturell Dialog AS
I samarbeid med Universitetet i Oslo og Norges Forskningsråd startet vi et prosjekt som skulle skape lønnsomme bedriftsetableringer blant akademikere med humanistisk og samfunnsvitenskapelig kompetanse - ti… more »
Posted by lorenz on 22 Jun 2004 in development empowerment, ecology nature
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 >>continue more »
Posted by lorenz on 21 Jun 2004 in books, anthropology (general), persons and theories
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, an… more »
Posted by lorenz on 19 Jun 2004 in Religion Spiritualität, Kosmologie, Asien, Schamanismus, Kultur Tradition
Der Standard
Hildegard Diemberger und ihre Mitarbeiter gehen nur auf die Suche nach alten Texten und Traditionen, sondern auch nach individuellen Lebensgeschichten, etwa jene weiblicher Orakel. Die Orakel beziehen sich auf den tibetischen Buddhismus,… more »
St.Galler Tagblatt
Ist Fussball nicht schlicht und einfach nebensächlich? Die Ethnologie hat das lange geglaubt. Mit der wachsenden Bedeutung von Freizeit und Musse im Leben des Menschen hat sich dies aber verändert, erklärt Volkskundlerin Johanna Rol… more »
Posted by lorenz on 17 Jun 2004 in Kultur tradisjon kunnskap, bøker, feltarbeid metode etnografi, arbeid(sliv), livet
Karen Ellen Spannow, Center for Rusmiddelforskning, Aarhus Universitet
Sørhaug demonstrerer også på bedste vis antropologiens potentiale for at analysere hverdagslivet et hvilket som helst sted. I bogen er der en kritik af den måde, hvorpå kvantitativ… more »
Posted by lorenz on 15 Jun 2004 in innvandring migrasjon, globalisering transnajonalt, utvikling, Asia, doktoravhandlinger
egen tekst / utrop.no, 15.6.04
En fersk doktoravhandling viser at flyktninger og arbeidsmigranter bidrar mer til utvikling i hjemlandet enn bistandsarbeidere. Hvis det internasjonale samfunnet vil bekjempe fattigdom, bør det støtte migrasjon. Disse pr… more »
Posted by lorenz on 13 Jun 2004 in corporate & business anthropology, books, fieldwork / methods
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 syste… more »
Posted by lorenz on 11 Jun 2004 in Kultur tradisjon kunnskap, bøker, portretter og intervjuer, Midt-Østen, vi og de andre
Dagbladet
Edward W. Saids «Orientalismen» er en av de mest kontroversielle bøkene fra det forrige århundret. Said studerte ikke bare akademiske bøker for å finne ut av hvordan vi forholder oss til Østen, men også skjønnlitteratur, politiske pamfletter… more »
Posted by lorenz on 10 Jun 2004 in Us and Them, persons and theories
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 geneticall… more »
Posted by lorenz on 09 Jun 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Native American
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 u… more »
Posted by lorenz on 07 Jun 2004 in corporate & business anthropology
The Economist
Management: The use of anthropologists in technology firms, once a novelty, has now become commonplace. What changed? >>continue more »
Posted by lorenz on 07 Jun 2004 in indianere, politikk, Latin-Amerika
Ny Tid
Bak mordbølgen mot wayúuindianerne nord i Colombia, der tolv indianere er myrdet og 30 "forsvunnet" siden 18. april i år, finnes det interesser som er mektigere enn de paramilitæres motorsager og økser. De virkelige kreftene skjuler seg bak den… more »
Posted by lorenz on 06 Jun 2004 in development empowerment, Pacific Oceania, migration
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 e… more »
Posted by lorenz on 05 Jun 2004 in corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology
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 neve… more »
Posted by lorenz on 04 Jun 2004 in globalisation, Native American
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 more »
Posted by lorenz on 02 Jun 2004 in culture traditions, Pacific Oceania
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 n… more »
Posted by lorenz on 01 Jun 2004 in culture traditions, Us and Them, Europe, books
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… more »
Politiken.dk
En dansk antropolog drager til det vestafrikanske land Gambia, betages af menneskene og kulturen og skriver en række feltnoter om sine observationer. Det lyder rigtig lilla-bleagtigt, men heldigvis har Trine Paludan ikke ladet det blive v… more »