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Columbus Day: Celebrating a holocaust

Published on October 12, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, indigenous people / minorities, Native American, Northern America, Us and Them

MSNBC / The Indian Country

Stannard, board member of the new American Indian Genocide Museum being established in Houston, said the most massive act of genocide in the world followed the arrival of Columbus in the Americas.

When Columbus first sighted land on Oct. 12, 1492, the American Indian Holocaust began. The Spanish were driven by their lust for gold and silver and the English fueled by their desire for property. Christians killed with zeal those they believed defiled with sin. Their goal was exterminating the Indian race. Overall, 95 percent were obliterated. >> continue

SEE ALSO
Professors deconstruct heroic myth of Columbus (Daily Nebraskan)
Venezuela: The Transition from Columbus Day to Indian Resistance Day (The NarcoSphere)

MSNBC / The Indian Country

Stannard, board member of the new American Indian Genocide Museum being established in Houston, said the most massive act of genocide in the world followed the arrival of Columbus in the Americas.

When Columbus first sighted land…

New link: Pictures from Tibet

Published on October 12, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, websites

Tibet Information Network has published a huge collection of pictures about different topics like Culture and Society, Education, Environment and Religion >> continue

(via tibet.ethno.info)

Tibet Information Network has published a huge collection of pictures about different topics like Culture and Society, Education, Environment and Religion >> continue

(via tibet.ethno.info)

Jacques Derrida – Father of deconstruction dies

Published on October 10, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, persons and theories

The Guardian

Virtually every area of humanistic scholarship and artistic activity in the latter part of the 20th century felt the influence of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who has died aged 74 from pancreatic cancer.

“Deconstruction”, the word he transformed from a rare French term to a common expression in many languages, became part of the vocabulary not only of philosophers and literary theorists but also of architects, theologians, artists, political theorists, educationists, music critics, filmmakers, lawyers and historians. Resistance to his thinking, too, was widespread and sometimes bitter, as it challenged academic norms and, sometimes, common sense. >> continue

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More on Derrida in Wikipedia
Jacques Derrida Online (site navigation on the top)

The Guardian

"Deconstruction", the word he transformed from…

Why do we laugh? – Interdisciplinary project on cartoons

Published on October 8, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, interdisciplinary, persons and theories

TownOnline.com

A team of researchers from several fields at the University of Michigan is launching a study of why people laugh at cartoons. Come on, guys: Because they’re funny! That’s not good enough for the psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, historians and others who will be able to confront their subjects with every cartoon every published in The New Yorker magazine, all 68,647 of them. (no longer available online), see more here: What’s so funny about humor (The New York Times / kniff.de)

TownOnline.com

A team of researchers from several fields at the University of Michigan is launching a study of why people laugh at cartoons. Come on, guys: Because they're funny! That's not good enough for the psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, historians and others…

Study Finds New York City’s Muslims Growing Closer Since 9/11

Published on October 5, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Northern America, religion cosmology, Us and Them

The New York Times

Facing increased discrimination after the Sept. 11 attacks, New York City’s Muslims have identified more deeply with their religious roots, setting aside the sectarian and linguistic differences that have traditionally divided them according to a six-year study released yesterday by Columbia University.

The study also assessed news coverage of Muslim Americans before and after Sept. 11 and concluded that negative visual depictions of the group rose substantially after the attacks.

The study, financed by the Ford Foundation, provides the most comprehensive look yet at the religious, social and political affiliations of New York City’s estimated 600,000 Muslims both before and after Sept. 11, 2001, and involved work by more than a dozen academic researchers and professors. It was coordinated by Louis Abdellatif Cristillo, a Columbia anthropology professor >> continue or use this link (Islam Online)

The New York Times

Facing increased discrimination after the Sept. 11 attacks, New York City's Muslims have identified more deeply with their religious roots, setting aside the sectarian and linguistic differences that have traditionally divided them according to a six-year study…