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Connecting Art and Anthropology

Published on September 15, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, interdisciplinary, websites

What happens when artists and anthropologists are asked to do something together rather than talk from the safety of their own practice? The result can be seen on the website Connecting Art & Anthropology: Transcripts of discussions, short reports, a video and even a sound notebook based on the workshop! Read also Anne Galloway’s comments on this website/workshop.

Last year we had a similar event in Oslo, see Cosmoculture: Preferably more art than books!. Thomas Hylland Eriksen said: “The most important thing the Palestinian intellectual Edward Said did was to establish a Jewish-Arabic youth orchestra. This was more important than writing 100 books.”

"A unique art form" – Anthropological Research on Anime

Published on February 7, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, Asia, cyberanthropology, internet, Northern America, technology

An old drawing style in Japan is being reintroduced as new in the United States, and USC anthropology research scientist Mizuko Ito presented the development of Anime at the UCLA Faculty Center, UCLA University writes on their homepage. Academics should view anime fan art as its own unique art form, she said: “It is important for academic institutions to acknowledge popular culture (such as anime).”

Ito is known for her research on mobile phones. Currently she is part of the research project Digital kids.

The article also mentions Rachel Cody, a research assistant who works with Ito and studies the interaction of anime enthusiasts on the Internet and in front of the computer in private rooms.

>> read the whole story

>> read “Anime and Learning Japanese Culture” by Mizuko Ito

SEE ALSO:

Pop goes Japanese culture

Ethnographic Study on “Digital Kids”

Technologies of the Childhood Imagination- new text by anthropologist Mizuko Ito

Why cellular life in Japan is so different – Interview with anthropologist Mizuko Ito

Mizuko Ito’s homepage

LINKS UPDATED 5.1.2023

The Smithsonian Institution starts blogging

Published on November 30, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, internet, technology, websites

(via vrulje) Museums start blogging! It’s called Eye Level and is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s blog and according their self-description “the first blog by the Smithsonian and one of just a handful of museum sites in the blogosphere”.
Their hope is that their blog “hosts a vital conversation among artists, curators, collectors, and enthusiasts on a broad range of subjects related to American art”:

Over the long term, Eye Level will look at both art and museums, offering the kind of close examination that new media affords, in part simply to find out how new media can enhance the museum’s role.

Especially interesting from an anthropological point of view:

(…) To cite the old cliché, the eye is the window to the soul. If art is a window to a culture, Eye Level is a way to take it in.

>> visit Eye Level

(via vrulje) Museums start blogging! It's called Eye Level and is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's blog and according their self-description "the first blog by the Smithsonian and one of just a handful of museum sites in the blogosphere". …

Visual designanthropology: Watch film about the design chair online

Published on September 26, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, design anthropology, Visual Anthropology

Anthropologist Kristiina Lavia has already three years ago made a film about designing a chair: She portraits the Norwegian designers Svein Gusrud, Torstein Nilsen and Sigurd Strøm – and the way they experience their work with design and creativity. Lavia is currently giving the first course in design anthropology for designers at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She even encouraged her students to publish their fieldnotes in a blog (only in Norwgian, though).

>> more about the film / watch the film (English subtitles) (I have problems with viewing the film with Firefox, it works with IE)

Dance Anthropology: “Even when borders blur, dance movements retain ethnic roots”

Published on May 27, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, culture traditions, language, music, Us and Them

SanDiego.com Union Tribune

The way we move tells us who we are. The rhythm of our walk, the sports we play and our dances define us as individuals and cultures. Movement also can cross borders. That makes modern dance a stunning example of global communication, since, according to dance anthropologist Judith Lynne Hanna, there may be as many dance languages as humanity’s 6,000-plus verbal languages. >> continue

Book review: Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow. Tara Browner (American Ethnologist)

Book review: Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes. Zoila S. Mendoza. (American Ethnologist)

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