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MARSHALL ISLANDS: Preserving culture with new technologies

Published on August 17, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, technology

Go Asia Pacific

The Alele Museum in the Marshall Islands has joined with the Historical Preservation Office to launch a new internet website, in English and Marshallese. The aim is to make Alele’s collection more accessible to students, researchers and the wider public. In the Marshalls, cultural officers are working to protect fragile records of the past, like the De Brum collection, thousands of etched glass plates, with pictures of Micronesia from past centuries. >>continue (link updated)

Go Asia Pacific

The Alele Museum in the Marshall Islands has joined with the Historical Preservation Office to launch a new internet website, in English and Marshallese. The aim is to make Alele's collection more accessible to students, researchers and the…

Do doctors simply cure or can they heal?

Published on August 17, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, medical anthropology / ethnobothany

Cape Times, South Africa

Dr Cecil Helman, born in Cape Town, is a family practitioner, anthropologist and the author of the widely used text book Cultural Dimensions of Illness used in all major universities in Britain and over 120 medical schools in America. He believes the Western medical model is insufficient and traditional medicine is slowly and surely going up a cul-de-sac.

According to Helman, reductionism is at the core of modern medicine and is driving it into a lung, a heart or an artery and away from a whole person. It reduces the complex idea of human suffering down to the disease of a particular organ, distorting the picture as it does. >>continue

Cape Times, South Africa

The Impact Of A Small-scale Irrigation Project On Gender In West Bengal Terai

Published on August 17, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books, development empowerment, gender

The Hindu

“COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION” and “Community managed and government supported” approaches are buzzwords in the realm of development cooperation. The discourse on gender analysis in development planning has contributed to an increasing interest in women and water management issues.

This book attempts a historical analysis of gender by describing the prominent role played by women in the Tehbaga and Naxalbari agrarian peasant movements that swept the three districts of the small-scale irrigation projects. The volume should contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate in women’s studies and feminist anthropology on how to achieve an optimal “gender planning” with the aim to strengthen and/or to empower women in developmental interventions. >>continue

The Hindu

"COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION" and "Community managed and government supported" approaches are buzzwords in the realm of development cooperation. The discourse on gender analysis in development planning has contributed to an increasing interest in women and water management issues.

This book attempts…

The distance between us

Published on August 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, persons and theories, Us and Them

The Dallas Morning News

If they lean back in the chair, away from him, he’s got more work to do. But if they lean forward, he knows in a few minutes they’ll be huddled with him over a contract. “There’s so much you can glean from observing the distances between people when they interact,” says Dr. William Pulte, anthropologist, linguist and associate professor in Southern Methodist University’s Education Department.

Proxemics, the study of how people perceive and use the space around them, was founded in the 1950s by anthropologist Edward T. Hall, and popularized in several of his books – “The Silent Language” (1959) and “The Hidden Dimension” (1966). Hall observed that humans like to keep their distances from one another, and that those distances vary according to social interactions. >>continue

The Dallas Morning News

If they lean back in the chair, away from him, he's got more work to do. But if they lean forward, he knows in a few minutes they'll be huddled with him over a contract. "There's so…

The Value of Rituals

Published on August 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, politics

New York Times

You’ve probably heard that the presidential candidates have been crossing the country arguing about Iraq and taxes, but, as usual, the press has ignored the true anthropological significance of their journeys.

“Ritual is absolutely central to modern politics,” Professor David Kertzer, an anthropologist at Brown University, said. “The press wrings their hands at what they call the lack of substance at conventions, and some people think of political rallies as being outmoded or even dangerous, but rituals like these are essential for creating solidarity and allegiance to a leader.” >>continue

New York Times

You've probably heard that the presidential candidates have been crossing the country arguing about Iraq and taxes, but, as usual, the press has ignored the true anthropological significance of their journeys.

"Ritual is absolutely central to modern politics," Professor…