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When cultures shape technology – Interview with Genevieve Bell

Published on July 8, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, design anthropology, 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 Intel a new way to think about the connection between people and technology, their cultural practices and “daily habits,” she says. Rather than innovating and then trying to make people use products, the idea is to start with people and their needs first and learn what individual cultures care about. >>continue (updated link)

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 Intel a new way to…

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.…

Forgotten culture: Ignored by society, black Mexicans deny their history

Published on July 5, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Us and Them

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 more African slaves than anywhere else in the New World. But countless Mexicans are unaware of that history or that there are blacks in the country. The Mexican census does not acknowledge them. Indians get more recognition than blacks, who speak Spanish. >>continue

Houston Chronicle

Key to governing Afghans: the clans

Published on June 24, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, politics

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”, says David Edwards, an anthropologist with extensive experience in Afghanistan >>continue

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", says David Edwards,…

Tokelauans resist offers of autonomy

Published on June 2, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, 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 no capital city. Visitors can reach the islands only by the weekly boat making the 30-hour voyage from the Samoan capital Apia >>continue

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,…