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New articles on AnthroGlobe: Western Cybermythology / People of the open sea

Published on May 23, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, internet, journal articles / papers, Pacific Oceania

Signs of activity at AnthroGlobe – one of the eldest anthropology web journals. Two new texts and they seem to work with the site layout, it seems:

Carmen Petrosian-Husa: Powerful & Powerless: The Rei Metau on the Outer Islands of Yap

Since 1982 I visited the islands of the rei metau several times. My main focus of research were the “rites de passage”, weaving, structures of authority and medicine. In due course of my research I visited all their islands and atolls and analyzed the differences in the social structures of each single atoll. The way I will describe the rei metau in this paper represents the lives and self-esteem of the people as it can be experienced today. >> continue

Darrell A. Joyce: Modern Folklore: Cybermythology in Western Culture

Throughout the years, humans have used the oral tradition of folklore and legend to share stories, entertain, and to teach moral social lessons. The purpose of this paper is to briefly look at the evolution of urban legends from their “beginnings” in the turn of the 20 th century to present day, with specific attention to contemporary urban legends, and the application of internet/e-mail communications as a medium to further spread this modern form of folklore. Also, this paper attempts to answer the question of whether or not folklore continues to exist and be propagated in today’s society. >> continue

Signs of activity at AnthroGlobe - one of the eldest anthropology web journals. Two new texts and they seem to work with the site layout, it seems:

Carmen Petrosian-Husa: Powerful & Powerless: The Rei Metau on the Outer Islands of Yap

Since…

Book review: Political Competition and State-Society Relations In Mount Hagen

Published on April 7, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, politics

Edward P. Wolfers, The National (Papua New Guinea)

The book “The Name Must Not Go Down: Political Competition and State-Society Relations In Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea” by Dr Joseph Ketan is primarily a study of political competition in the area around Mount Hagen. It began as a PhD thesis, and as a work of scholarly analysis, it is a mega-success.

The award of his PhD and publication of his book make Dr Ketan, himself a member of a local group, the Kawelka, in the Mount Hagen area, afully-fledged member of the academic community. As a member of one of the groups of whom he writes, Dr Ketan, is in the unusual position for a student of anthropology of being, at least in linguistic and many cultural terms, an insider from the community about which he writes. >> continue

Edward P. Wolfers, The National (Papua New Guinea)

The book "The Name Must Not Go Down: Political Competition and State-Society Relations In Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea" by Dr Joseph Ketan is primarily a study of political competition in the area…

First Anthropologist Wins Premier Ocean Award

Published on February 7, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, ecology nature, Pacific Oceania

Scoop, New Zealand

For the first time in its fifteen-year history, the world’s most prestigious award in marine conservation has been given to an anthropologist.

Dr. Shankar Aswani, an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Auckland, will use his Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to continue his work with communities in the western Pacific’s Solomon Islands. >> continue

Scoop, New Zealand

For the first time in its fifteen-year history, the world's most prestigious award in marine conservation has been given to an anthropologist.

Dr. Shankar Aswani, an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at The University of…

What ads tell you about New Zealands and Australians

Published on February 6, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, Pacific Oceania

The New Zealand Herald

For New Zealanders the land represents everything that is pure and authentic. It’s. the essence of who we are. We love it so much that we fear losing it which is why we get so upset about foreign ownership and Maori claims to the foreshore. But Australians see the land as something to be tamed. The land is something to be observed, or crossed, not something to integrate with.

Buy it or not – and being from an advertising agency they hope you do – these are some of the results of an eight-month study by FCB New Zealand. Chief executive Nick Baylis analysed advertisements in both countries. “This piece of research gives us the jump on everyone else because it uses semiotic and anthropological studies that people in New Zealand just don’t use” >> continue

The New Zealand Herald

For New Zealanders the land represents everything that is pure and authentic. It's. the essence of who we are. We love it so much that we fear losing it which is why we get so upset about…

Mobile phone company Vodafone gets inspired by traditional Kula exchange system

Published on December 18, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, gift economy gift giving, Pacific Oceania

New Scientist

Every year, the people of the Trobriand Islands in the Solomon Sea off Papua New Guinea exchange ornamental seashell armbands and necklaces. It is a social ritual that according to Malinowski cements social bonds between fishing communities. Strange as it may seem, this tradition has inspired a recent new service from communications company Vodafone.

Anthropologist Richard Harper has been working for Vodafone in the UK since 2003, where he has adapted kula-style gift-giving rules to encourage social bonding among groups of people in phone-texting networks. Under his guidance, Vodafone has launched its Postcard service. You send an MMS picture-and-text message to Vodafone, who will print it as a postcard and mail it to whomever you want. Like the islanders’ gifts, Vodafone’s postcards are permanent – unlike text messages.

The idea is that the recipient will then want to send a postcard of their own, perhaps to a third party, and so draw more subscribers into the network. Exchanging more valuable artefacts, such as music or video files, may be next. >> continue

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