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[i]Aftenposten[/i] Antropolog Inger-Lise Lien ved Norsk institutt for by- og regionsforskning (NIBR) er i disse dager ferdig med en forskningsrapport laget på oppdrag fra Kommunaldepartementet, som blant annet handler om hvordan innvandrermiljøene sel… more »

Uniforum – Alle norske universitet og høgskular må slutta seg til arbeidet med å fremja publisering av forskingsartiklar i fritt tilgjengelege elektroniske tidsskrift på verdsveven. På den måten kan forskarane ta retten til publisering tilbake frå for… more »

Pacific News Service LOS ANGELES -- Korean voices speaking Spanish, Russian or Portuguese in Los Angeles are those of the invisible immigrants who live among the largest Korean population in the United States. Hailing from places like Argentina, Brazi… more »

There are at least 12 ethnographic film festivals somewhere on this planet until the end of the year. Check the August Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association >> continue or use the direct link to the rtf-document Check also the over… more »

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft Anfang Oktober wird im saarländischen Merzig ein Kongress des internationalen Wissenschaftler-Netzwerks Transcultura stattfinden. Transcultura wurde 1988 von Professor Umberto Eco und dem Pariser Ethnologen Professor Al… more »

You're not allowed to read their articles, but American Ethnologist's book reviews are available for the general public! >> continue Currently, the American Ethnologist seems to reorganize its homepage and plans to add some interactive features like… more »

Telepolis During the 4th conference on "Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication", Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a… more »

På vår jakt etter antropologiske konsulentbyråer har vi kommet til Splitvision. Det er sannsynlig et av de største av sitt slag i Norden. I Splitvision er det ansatt fem antropologer og en internettpedagog. De har kontorer i Stockholm og Gøteborg: "Sp… more »

The Daily Star - Lebanon News TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you'd think you were wandering around in a doll house. The "Earth House," as this newly opened museum in the W… more »

Jyllands-posten Studier med fokus på terrorisme og Mellemøsten oplever en øget søgning efter 11. september 2001. Efterretningstjenesterne efterspørger akademikere med netop sådanne specialer. At Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet, Center for Mellemøstlige… more »

For those of you with a fast broadband connection: On the website of the Visual Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, you can download / view several anthropological films: Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abe… more »

CNN/ CBS News -- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection. Designed like temple carriages… more »

scanews.com What is Chinese cultural heritage? How do we pass it on to the next generation, particularly as it changes in the context of U.S. society? These are issues shared by many adoptive Chinese families and Chinese American families. Since 20… more »

The Guardian The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many. To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Piraha, are… more »

Die Welt Tatsächlich haben diese Ureinwohner aber auch keinen Begriff von größeren Zahlenmengen. Offenbar bestand keine kulturelle Notwendigkeit, größere Zahlen zu benennen. Das berichtet Peter Gordon von der Columbia-Universität in New York heute im… more »

WOZ Das Volk der Mari in der russischen Wolga-Republik Marij El bezeichnet sich selbst als das «letzte heidnische Volk Europas». Es spricht mit den Geistern des Wassers und der Sonne. Aggressivität, erklärt der Historiker und Ethnologe Nikandr Popow,… mehr »

Arvid Hallén, konstituert administrerende direktør i Forskningsrådet, forskning.no "Evalueringer viser at vi har klare kvalitetsproblemer selv om vi finner topp prestasjoner innenfor mange fagområder. Vi har et fordelingsproblem. Forskerne med det stø… more »

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… more »

Hamburger Abendblatt Geisteswissenschaftler befürchten die Halbierung der Professorenstellen und das Sterben ganzer Fächer an der Uni Hamburg. Um die Details wird hinter den Kulissen mit der Behörde hart verhandelt. So soll nach Drägers aktuellem E… more »

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 an… more »

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… more »

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 i… more »

VG Har du opplevd å få et «unnskyld» fra en nordmann som har skumpet borti deg på bussen? Sannsynligvis ikke, ifølge sosialantropolog Anh Nga Longva. Hun har skrevet en avhandling om nordmenns uhøflighet. Som førsteamanuensis holder hun nå foredrag fo… more »

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 distanc… more »

Humsam / Kulturell dialog Akademikerbedriften er et konkret tiltak for å hjelpe humanister og samfunnsvitere (humsamere) med å starte egen virksomhet. Gode forretningsideer får her et nettverk og en ramme for å utvikle en levedyktig bedrift. I 2003 sø… more »

antropologi.info / utrop Hva har gamle damer på Frogner til felles med pakistanske innvandrere? Hvorfor er dans viktig for det tamilske samfunnet i Oslo? Bidrar lønnsarbeid til integreringen av innvandrerkvinner? I boka "Andre bilder av de andre - tra… more »

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 c… more »

taz Nikolaus Geyrhalter reiste im Jahr 2000 jeden Monat in ein anderes ländliches Gebiet der Welt, von Namibia bis Grönland. Aus 12 Geschichten machte er den Episodenfilm "Elsewhere". Der Ethnologe Michael Rösler, der an der Uni München ein Seminar üb… more »

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 ac… more »

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 hu… more »

MATTIS GOKSØYR, PROFESSOR VED NIH, Dagbladet DE OLYMPISKE LEKER begynner i Athen i dag. Felles for den moderne oppfatningen av lekene er at dette er kosmopolitiske megabegivenheter som angår og interesserer folk fra hele kloden. Forestillingen om d… more »

Svenska Dagbladet När Olympiska spel invigs i dag står det antika arvet i fokus. Men idén om det moderna Grekland som arvtagare till antiken är en romantisk uppfattning som bland annat inneburit att Akropolis rensats på ”felaktiga” arkeologiska lämnin… more »

Antropos består av antropologene Christina Krag Degn Petersen & Jan Kanne Petersen som er utdannet ved Universitetet i Århus, Danmark. "Hos antropos tilbyder vi en faglig kvalificeret rådgivning, der udfra antropologiens grundbegreber, har til for… more »

Swissinfo Die beiden Basel projektieren ein neues Integrationsgesetz: Keine Aufenthaltsbewilligungen für Nicht-EU-Bürger ohne Sprachkurse und Abschlusstest. Die Ausländer sollen die Kurse auch weiterhin selber bezahlen. "Grundsätzlich ist es nötig,… more »

Kilden, Forskningsrådet Neste uke er skoleferien slutt, og mange småjenter vil møte klassen sin iført hijab. Et barneperspektiv på plagget har lenge vært fraværende i den norske debatten. Nå skriver Lucy Smith og Birte Simonsen om barn med skaut i den… more »

Deutsche Welle Erst langsam taucht die Geschichte von Deutsch-Südwest Afrika, dem heutigen Namibia, wieder aus dem Nebel des historischen Vergessens auf. Jetzt nimmt sich einen Ausstellung in Köln des Themas an. Michael Bollig ist Professor für Völ… more »

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 demons… more »

Aftenposten Culiacán er Mexicos narkohovedstad. Byens selvutnevnte skytshelgen er en banditt. Her toppes hitlistene av sanger om smuglere, drapsmenn og lovløse som kalles narcocorridos - narkoballader. Selv om det er forbudt å spille disse sangene på… more »

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.… more »

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 gener… more »

Haaretz, Israel Mary Douglas: "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… more »

Vårt Land Religiøse minoriteter og dissentere har alltid vært utsatt for mistro og forfølgelse. Dette er utgangspunktet for to uvanlige reiseskildringer: En blant russiske sekter og en blant europeiske jøder og sigøynere. Begge forfatterne - Jan Brøgg… more »

Dagbladet I Dagbladet kunne du i går lese om norske ungdoms ville fester i den populære feriebyen Ayia Napa. Flere steder er det nå en økende skepsis blant lokalbefolkningen til hordene av turister som invaderer hjemmene deres uten tanke på lokalskikk… more »

Arte TV Die Iatmul in Papua-Neuguinea sind der Auffassung, der Kopf enthalte das Wesen des Menschen. Deshalb konservieren sie die Schädel der Vorfahren. Milan Stanek lebte mehrere Jahre mit den Iatmul zusammen, erlernte ihre Sprache und machte sich mi… more »

Svein Lund's hjemmeside Eg er hovudredaktør for eit bokverk som Davvi Girji skal gi ut, der bl.a.tidligare lærarar, elevar, foreldre, internatarbeidarar og skolepolitikarar fortel sin versjon av historia. Det kjem eitt og eitt bind, det første skal et… more »

DIE ZEIT Die China-Forschung habe sich allzu lange auf die Ideengeschichte konzentriert. Wie in China die Menschen aber leben, wie sie sich kleiden, ernähren oder fortbewegen, davon wisse man erstaunlich wenig, sagt Mareile Flitsch, Privatdozentin und… more »

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.… more »

Die Weltwoche Basels Integrationspolitik gilt als vorbildlich. Nächste Woche präsentiert die Regierung ein Gesetz, das gar Sanktionen bei Nichtanpassung ermöglicht. Doch nach den jüngsten Gewalttaten von Ausländern bleibt die Bevölkerung misstrauisch.… more »

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… more »

Anthropologist Joanna Kirkpatrick, Outlook India Much has been written on jihadism, terrorist training camps and anti-secularism, but so far none of the published material has ever provided grass-roots evidence of where public opinion, the views of th… more »