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Contemporary art from Africa is branching out in radical ways

Published on January 23, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology in the news, art, migration

Daily Telegraph

The biggest exhibition of contemporary African art ever held in Europe, Africa Remix (Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London) is a dizzying testimony to the variety of artistic expression throughout this vast continent – from Nigerian junk sculpture to Egyptian video installation, from South African sculptor Jane Alexander’s haunting animal-headed figures to the obsessive fantasy cities of Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez. Perhaps the biggest departure from previous showings is the fact that many of the artists don’t live or work in Africa. >> continue

Daily Telegraph

The Anthropological Association of Ireland has a new website

Published on January 21, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, websites

It’s no exciting website. There are no news, there are no articles to read, but you’ll find information about two upcoming conferences.

From their self-description:

“The Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI) is a small, non-profit organisation which exists to promote social and cultural anthropology within Ireland. Our activities involve the organisation of, usually, two conferences or workshops per year, and the publication of the Irish Journal of Anthropology.”

>> continue to The Anthropological Association of Ireland

(via Yahoo Group “Anthropology in Action”)

It's no exciting website. There are no news, there are no articles to read, but you'll find information about two upcoming conferences.

From their self-description:

"The Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI) is a small, non-profit organisation which exists to promote social and…

BBC: Tsunami “folklore” saved islanders

Published on January 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Andaman & Nicobar societies, anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, ecology nature, indigenous people / minorities, Tsunami Dec 2004

BBC

Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami, anthropologists say. Samir Acharya, convenor of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology (Sane), said the aboriginals have a collective memory of earthquakes and tsunamis so they knew to move to higher ground. >> continue

BBC

Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami, anthropologists say. Samir Acharya, convenor of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology (Sane), said…

Urban anthropology Inc. shares stories of Milwaukee’s homeless people

Published on January 19, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, Us and Them

Greater Milwaukee Today

Over a three-year period of time from 2000-2003, Urban Anthropology Inc., a Milwaukee nonprofit organization, deployed a handful of anthropologists, anthropology interns and former homeless individuals to document 109 stories of homelessness. The subjects, who were paid $5 and agreed to be tape recorded described life before being homeless, the path that led to their homelessness, life as homeless and, where applicable, how they got off the streets.

Dr. Jill Florence Lackey, Urban Anthropology executive director, says the homeless study fits into her organization’s mission of preventing and abolishing racism/ethnocentrism and creating bridges among cultural groups >> continue

Greater Milwaukee Today

Ten Little Niggers: Tsunami, tribal circus and racism

Published on January 16, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Andaman & Nicobar societies, anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, Asia, indigenous people / minorities, Tsunami Dec 2004, Us and Them

Kai Friese, Outlook India

Yes, anthropology is alive and well, in the islands and it’s having a field day in the news. The Indian Express on Sunday gave us a double-page spread (slugged ‘Black and White’) with a field guide to “the tribes and their survival tricks”. The Great Andamanese “whose strongest physical characteristics are distinctly Negroid”; the Jarawas who “look at heavenly bodies and can decipher what is to come”; the Shompen, “the only primitive tribe of the islands with Mongoloid features”, and so on.

It’s revealing that most journalists have invoked racial labels like Mongoloid or Negroid (I’ve even read ‘Negrative’) only as a marker of primitivism. Meanwhile, NDTV’s more sensitive reporter wittered on about the “dignity” of Nicobarese tribals, and the BBC’s web edition fretted about the fate of “some rare indigenous tribal groups”. >> continue

Kai Friese, Outlook India