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Alex Golubs list on popular ethnographies

Published on February 8, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, books

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A week or so ago I asked the question “what are the most popular ethnographies today that give you a sense of where the field is going, or at least what is popular right now?” With the help of a few friends, some commentors, a very large gin and tonic, and the internet, I came up with a few names I had never (or only vaguely) heard of before. >> continue (Link updated)

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Book review: Mahmood Mamdani: "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim"

Published on February 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, culture traditions, globalisation, politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them

Media Monitors Network

A valuable new contribution to unearth and interpret America’s bizarre conduct is Mahmood Mamdani’s study “GOOD MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM”. The author, a distinguished political scientist and anthropologist, explains that the book grew out of a talk at a church in New York after 9/11 when to bear an identifiably Muslim name was to be made aware that Islam had become a political identity in America.

Perhaps the heart of this book can be found in the first chapter titled “Culture Talk; Or How Not To Talk About Islam And Politics”. The author is able to penetrate the limits of conventional discourse on democracy and dictatorship, poverty and wealth and also succeeds in locating “culture” within the chasm of globalisation. >> continue Link updated 29.5.18

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Interview with Mahmood Mamdani (Asia Source) Link updated 29.5.18

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A valuable new contribution to unearth and interpret America's bizarre conduct is Mahmood Mamdani's study "GOOD MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM". The author, a distinguished political scientist and anthropologist, explains that the book grew out of a talk at a…

Stories of an African Bar Girl – “an ethnography done by an illiterate”

Published on January 27, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology in the news, books, fieldwork / methods, gender

Anthropologist Eric Gable, allAfrica.com

It is hard to decide what to call this remarkable book, the first of two volumes. It is for the most part a collection of stories told by a West African bar girl,”Hawa,” to anthropologist and musicologist John Chernoff in the mid 1970s. She tells about her life as a girl in a Muslim village and as a young woman in Accra, Lomé, and several other places, the lives of her fellow bar girls and about the men (mostly European but also African) she encountered, took from, gave to and left.

Chernoff wants the reader to approach Hawa’s stories as “an ethnography done by an illiterate.” Hawa is not only an ethnographic subject; she is also an observer, an ethnographer. Like all ethnographers her observations are partial, skewed, but also enlightening. >> continue

Anthropologist Eric Gable, allAfrica.com

It is hard to decide what to call this remarkable book, the first of two volumes. It is for the most part a collection of stories told by a West African bar girl,"Hawa," to anthropologist and musicologist…

New Compendium on Yanomami Language and Culture

Published on November 24, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, indigenous people / minorities, language, Native American

IPS News

After 15 years of research, ”we have concentrated our efforts on producing something more useful and rich in information than a simple dictionary — a book that can support the didactic measures that the Venezuelan society and state have the obligation to undertake with respect to the indigenous communities,” anthropologist and linguist Marie-Claude Mattéi told IPS.

It is more than a mere dictionary, instead serving as an encyclopaedic manual that can be used in Yanomami schools and for outsiders studying the Yanomami language and culture.

”A high-speed globalisation process is taking place in the world, but at the same time there is a revival of interest in minority groups and a vindication of traditional ways, to keep ethnic groups from being lost. In Venezuela, under the new constitution and the government of Hugo Chávez, there is a desire to do something,” said Mattéi. >> continue

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After 15 years of research, ”we have concentrated our efforts on producing something more useful and rich in information than a simple dictionary -- a book that can support the didactic measures that the Venezuelan society and state have…

Race and Early Modern Studies: The Power of an Illusion and Its Genesis

Published on November 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, persons and theories, Us and Them

RedNova reviews two books:

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. By Joyce Green MacDonald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 188 pages.

English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama. By Mary Floyd- Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 256 pages.

“The books reviewed share some noteworthy aspects. Both refuse to focus not only on people of color as raced, but instead analyze the significance of whiteness for cultural and gender identity, and for the development of Britain as a nation. In addition, both demonstrate that aspects of Africa and Africans were purposely forgotten in the early modern period to sustain the development of England as the leader in the slave-trade.”

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RedNova reviews two books:

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. By Joyce Green MacDonald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 188 pages.

English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama. By Mary Floyd- Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii…