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Diaspora and Changing Identities: Korean Immigrants Are Not Always from Korea

Published on August 25, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, migration, Northern America, Us and Them

Pacific News Service

LOS ANGELES — Korean voices speaking Spanish, Russian or Portuguese in Los Angeles are those of the invisible immigrants who live among the largest Korean population in the United States. Hailing from places like Argentina, Brazil and Uzbekistan, they are a dispersed people within a community that they don’t always identify with. This Diaspora has challenged notions of what it is to be Korean since its members all have widely varied experiences. >> continue

Pacific News Service

LOS ANGELES -- Korean voices speaking Spanish, Russian or Portuguese in Los Angeles are those of the invisible immigrants who live among the largest Korean population in the United States. Hailing from places like Argentina, Brazil and Uzbekistan,…

Upcoming Ethnographic Filmfestivals

Published on August 24, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Visual Anthropology

There are at least 12 ethnographic film festivals somewhere on this planet until the end of the year. Check the August Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association >> continue or use the direct link to the rtf-document

Check also the overview at Visualanthropology.net

Check also the…

American Ethnologist: Book Reviews in Full-Text!

Published on August 24, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, books, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

You’re not allowed to read their articles, but American Ethnologist’s book reviews are available for the general public! >> continue

Currently, the American Ethnologist seems to reorganize its homepage and plans to add some interactive features like forums and blogs. >> continue

You're not allowed to read their articles, but American Ethnologist's book reviews are available for the general public! >> continue

Currently, the American Ethnologist seems to reorganize its homepage and plans to add some interactive features like forums and blogs.…

The complex relationship between culture and technology

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, indigenous people / minorities, internet, technology

Telepolis

During the 4th conference on “Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication”, Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a “urban metropolis”.

A special focus was laid on the investigation of the ICT access and usage by indigenous peoples. The ritual collective artwork of Australian aborigines seems to be endangered by a second expropriation in the anonymous global data worlds. On the other hand, a multi-lingual Internet could help to rescue small languages at the edge of extinction to survive in a kind of virtual reservoir.

Especially exciting were those presentations paying attention to alternative forms of Internet usage by the seemingly unprivileged and marginalized cultures. Thus the escape from spatially closed Internet-environments in South America or India underlined the potential creativity of these non-conventional solutions (Rodrigues). >>continue

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Telepolis

During the 4th conference on "Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication", Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a "urban metropolis".

A special focus was laid on the…

The ‘earth house’ recreates a traditional Lebanese lifestyle in exacting detail

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Middle East

The Daily Star – Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you’d think you were wandering around in a doll house. The “Earth House,” as this newly opened museum in the Western Bekaa is called, aims to revive the traditional house style of the rural Bekaa region.

“This project was conceived thanks to a book by anthropologist, ethnologist and photographer Hoda Kassatly called “Terres de Bekaa””, said the museum’s coordinator Nicole Nachnouk.

“The Earth house is just what we and the younger generations need to get over our ‘lost memory’ and to remember how our ancestors used to live,” the Bekaa photographer Kassatly said. And indeed, as Kassatly explained further, the museum is specially dedicated to the Bekaa inhabitants whose “ignorance and lack of interest” in their ancestors’ culture is “alarming.” >> continue

The Daily Star - Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you'd think you were wandering around in a doll house. The "Earth House," as this newly…