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Testfeature: Anthropology Newspaper “The Anthro Daily”

Published on August 4, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, internal notes

Instead of a blogroll, I’ve created a kind of anthropology newspaper, using anthropology blogs I read. Currently, you can see the headlines of more than 30 anthropology blogs on one single page. Most blogs are updated four times a day, some few more frequently. >> take a look

Instead of a blogroll, I've created a kind of anthropology newspaper, using anthropology blogs I read. Currently, you can see the headlines of more than 30 anthropology blogs on one single page. Most blogs are updated four times a day,…

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.

>> continue to “the occational blog”

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…

Blog has moved, 1 year anthro-news sorted into categories

Published on August 2, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, internal notes

I’ve finally upgraded my blog, and moved my entries to my new blog here, powered by b2evolution. Now, more than one year’s anthropology news are sorted into categories like books, corporate anthropology, language and much more.

Recent comments show up on the front page, search is improved.

A new calendar with RSS-support is also installed. Everyone is allowed to add events (moderated by me).

During moving the entries from my old blog, some errors might have occured.

The following days, I’m going to “finetune” the categories.

If you have comments or suggestions or have envountered errors let me now

UPDATE 4.8.05: Anthropology “newspaper” added

I've finally upgraded my blog, and moved my entries to my new blog here, powered by b2evolution. Now, more than one year's anthropology news are sorted into categories like books, corporate anthropology, language and much more.

Intel is using locally hired anthropologists in new development centers

Published on August 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, Asia, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, technology

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In a bid to eventually sell more chips, Intel plans to announce Monday that it has set up four new offices around the world that are staffed with anthropologists and engineers to help design computers with features for emerging markets. Traveling from dusty rural villages in India to busy Internet cafés in Brazil, these Intel employees will collect data from weather to the content needs of people in regions where computers are not yet popular.

The company began sending ethnographers to study how people interact with technologies. One anthropologist spent a year living in rural China. With the creation of its new business unit and four development centers, Intel has set up permanent and locally hired staff to do ethnographic studies and engineering. The efforts appear to be paying off. >> continue

Comment by Judd Antin, Technotaste: What I particularly like about their approach is that they aren’t just sending Western researchers overseas, they’re hiring local folks to help understand their own communities

Anthropologist helps Intel see the world through customers’ eyes

When cultures shape technology – Interview with Genevieve Bell

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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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