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The Magic Mountains: New Book on British Hill Stations and Hill Tribes in India

Published on August 11, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books

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 demonstration of superiority. More convincely, the author shows how much of ‘home’ was recreated up the hill rather than down on the plains. Fascinating stuff. >>continue

Ideas Bazaar Weblog

Ricksha art as political indicator in Bangladesh

Published on August 4, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, Asia, fieldwork / methods

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 the chhoto lok, stand. Yet these are the very people the jihadis and worse are so successful in organizing.

Thus, it behooves analysts to take a look at the rickshas, an important source of visual revelations on public opinion. Ricksha pictures tend to be ignored by the gentry as vulgar and not art, but my years of research on ricksha art have shown me all too clearly what the common man in the streets has on his mind >>continue

Anthropologist Joanna Kirkpatrick, Outlook India

Book review: Ecstasy, Madness, and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas

Published on July 27, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books, religion cosmology

Nepal News

Martino Nicoletti, an Italian anthropologist, explains Kulunge Rai’s practice of shamanism in Nepal in his book “Shamanic Solitudes. Ecstasy, Madness, and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas”. Shamanism is widely practiced among the Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups living in most parts of the mid hills of Nepal. Unlike the world’s two old religions – Buddhism and Hinduism – the Shamanism has its own root and unique rituals.

This is what one can find in detail in the book. Nicoletti has completed the book following his long stay in the region observing the practices side by side with the Kulunge Rai community. >>continue (LINK UPDATED 12.8.2020)

Nepal News

Martino Nicoletti, an Italian anthropologist, explains Kulunge Rai’s practice of shamanism in Nepal in his book "Shamanic Solitudes. Ecstasy, Madness, and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas". Shamanism is widely practiced among the Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups living in most…

India considers historic rewrite

Published on July 21, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, history, Us and Them

The Christian Science Monitor

In the past five years, Indian schoolchildren of all faiths have learned quite a bit about the culture of the Hindu majority. Last week, the allies of the newly elected Congress government, the Communist Party of India, called for yet another rewrite of Indian history, this time with a broader view of India’s many cultures instead of focusing on the religion of the majority. >>continue

The Christian Science Monitor

Hmong: An Endangered People

Published on July 7, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, 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 relatively unknown. With this challenge, Dr. Eric Crystal introduced his lecture for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies on the UCLA campus. Eric Crystal is an anthropologist who has researched highland Southeast Asian cultures for over three decades.

The Hmong have had a long and distinctive history in China. Over the centuries they migrated south so that today they are dispersed throughout the highlands of southern China and northern Southeast Asia, including in Laos and Vietnam >>continue (Link updated 23.8.2022)

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 relatively unknown.…