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The occational blog – New Anthropology Blog from Norway

Published on August 3, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, Visual Anthropology, websites

Norwegian Anthropologist Brigt Dale has started to blog in English – additionally to Norwegian. In his first post, he writes:

First of all, I will try to follow up on my motto for my Norwegian blog, and relentlessly attack and scrutinise all things which irritates me or puzzles me, but I will also comment upon spesific areas of interest like research politics (including the “bullitics” of our present government), visual and social anthropology (which happens to be my caling, if not my present occupation), as well as some personal rambling on films, music and litterature.

My hope is that this blog might join some of those excellent others which together constitute a Norwegian-based sphere in the international blogging-community (if such a singular entity exists).

As he is a “big fan of accessabillity when it comes to scientific work”, he has put online several texts, including his thesis, based on an anthropological fieldwork on the island of Tobago, West Indies.

As noted earlier here, you can watch his film Boys Will Be Boys online.

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Norwegian Anthropologist Brigt Dale has started to blog in English - additionally to Norwegian. In his first post, he writes:

First of all, I will try to follow up on my motto for my Norwegian blog, and relentlessly attack and…

Online Research Project: Children & fire

Published on July 30, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, youth

Anthopologist Dan Fessler tells us about a new research project “Children and Fire” and asks us to participate and be informants >> read more in antropologi.info Forum

Anthopologist Dan Fessler tells us about a new research project "Children and Fire" and asks us to participate and be informants >> read more in antropologi.info Forum

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Social Neuroscience – Psychologists neuroscientists and anthropologists together

Published on June 30, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, interdisciplinary

The Guardian

A rapidly growing field of research called “social neuroscience” draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for the social interaction between humans.

Traditionally, cognitive neuroscientists focused on scanning the brains of people doing specific tasks such as eating or listening to music, while social psychologists and social scientists concentrated on groups of people and the interactions between them. To understand how the brain makes sense of the world, it was inevitable that these two groups would have to get together. >> continue

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The Guardian

A rapidly growing field of research called "social neuroscience" draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for the social interaction between humans.

Traditionally, cognitive neuroscientists focused on scanning the brains of people doing specific tasks such…

Ethnomusicologist uses website as an extension of the book

Published on June 14, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, fieldwork / methods, internet, music, websites

(via Fieldnotes): Ethnomusicologist Aaron Fox has set up a website and blog as an “extension of the book”: “I’m not going to republish the book on the site, but the book deals so much with sound that I had to make it possible for people to hear the music”, he explains and adds: “I also really wanted to be able to interact with readers — as we are doing now! Seems to me this is just the most under-used capacity of the web as an adjunct to traditional publishing. It’s not like academic books sell in the tens of thousands, so it seems perfectly reasonable and possible to enter into a real dialogue with serious readers.”

Anthropologist Tad McIlwraith on Fieldnotes comments: “I think about this in the context of my work with First Nations people and wonder if I could convince them to allow their actual voices to be found in files on my website. I think my work would be enhanced if they’d agree to that.”

Aaron Fox’ book is called Real County: Music and Language in Working Class Culture and is according to Tad McIlwraith “a fantastic ethnography”.

(via Fieldnotes): Ethnomusicologist Aaron Fox has set up a website and blog as an "extension of the book": "I'm not going to republish the book on the site, but the book deals so much with sound that I had to…

Local Foods – New issue of Open Access journal “Anthropology of Food”

Published on June 6, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, food and drink, journal articles / papers

Lots of interesting articles can be read in full-text in the new issue of the journal “Anthropology of Food”, edited by Virginie Amilien and Gunnar Vittersø at SIFO – Norwegian Institute for Consumption Research, f.ex about “coalho” cheese in the northeast of Brazil, José Muchnik, Estelle Bienabe and Claire Cerdant write: “This pressed curd cheese made with non pasteurized milk, typical of this region, “is not just a cheese” for the local consumers. It represents their culture, their way of life and their way eating.

Rachel Eden Black conducted ethnographic fieldwork at Porta Palazzo in Turin, which has one of the largest and oldest farmers’ markets in Italy. Farmers’ markets not only support the local production of food, but also help in the sharing of local knowledge of culinary traditions.

“France has Champagne, Norway has tjukkmjølk”, Virginie Amilien, Hanne Torjusen and Gunnar Vittersø write in their article From local food to terroir product? – Some views about Tjukkmjølk, the traditional thick sour milk from Røros, Norway.

>> overview over all articles in Anthropology of Food “Local Foods”

Lots of interesting articles can be read in full-text in the new issue of the journal "Anthropology of Food", edited by Virginie Amilien and Gunnar Vittersø at SIFO - Norwegian Institute for Consumption Research, f.ex about "coalho" cheese in the…