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Mary Douglas critical of the new anthropology

Published on August 9, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, books, persons and theories

Haaretz, Israel

Mary Douglas:

“Today too much dominance is given to the anthropologists themselves within the research. This is strange, as it used to be that the main criticism was that anthropologists kept themselves invisible in the research in a way that was really artificial. This accusation – pretending to be anonymous on the part of the writers – changed, and in its stead there has been an opposite phenomenon: dominance of the writers over the research material. Thus, today we are exposed far more to the experiences and thoughts of the writer, while the methodology and the orderly method have declined considerably.”

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Haaretz, Israel

Mary Douglas:
"Today too much dominance is given to the anthropologists themselves within the research. This is strange, as it used to be that the main criticism was that anthropologists kept themselves invisible in the research in a way…

Food company works with anthropologists for ad-campaign

Published on August 5, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, corporate & business anthropology

AP/ The News-Sentinel

Tyson Foods Inc. introduced what company officials said would be the largest ad campaign in its history to analysts Wednesday, making major changes in its advertising approach and highlighting its lines of prepared food products.

Bob Corscadden, Tyson’s chief marketing officer, said the company worked with cultural anthropologists to understand the food wants and needs of different demographics to better know how to market its full range of products and highlight the importance of protein as body fuel. >>continue

AP/ The News-Sentinel

Bob Corscadden, Tyson's chief…

New Research Study about Traditional Folk Knowledge related to Plants in Albania

Published on August 5, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Europe, fieldwork / methods, medical anthropology / ethnobothany

OneWorld Southeast Europe

The overall goal of this project is to provide information, data and instruments to NGOs and policy makers about the persistence of high-quality folk know-hows on local plant foods and herbal medicines, which could be used in the future for promoting and implement eco-touristic activities and for improving bio-cultural conservation and rural development of Northern Albania, especially in the framework of the initiative “Balkan Peace Park” project..

It will be used traditional methodologies of the social and cognitive anthropology, and ethnobiology as well. >>continue

OneWorld Southeast Europe

Ricksha art as political indicator in Bangladesh

Published on August 4, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, Asia, fieldwork / methods

Anthropologist Joanna Kirkpatrick, Outlook India

Much has been written on jihadism, terrorist training camps and anti-secularism, but so far none of the published material has ever provided grass-roots evidence of where public opinion, the views of the chhoto lok, stand. Yet these are the very people the jihadis and worse are so successful in organizing.

Thus, it behooves analysts to take a look at the rickshas, an important source of visual revelations on public opinion. Ricksha pictures tend to be ignored by the gentry as vulgar and not art, but my years of research on ricksha art have shown me all too clearly what the common man in the streets has on his mind >>continue

Anthropologist Joanna Kirkpatrick, Outlook India

Spotting the fieldworker in the field

Published on August 3, 2004 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods

Gabriel Klaeger, eloweb.nl

While the ethnographic fieldworker is famous for producing countless photographic impressions of his own field, the documentary evidences of his presence and involvement in the research process are rather scarce. Hence, this ‘Cherchez le Chercheur’ series presents photographs which focus on one essential element of the fieldwork setting: the researcher himself.

The following pictures stem from my fieldwork project carried out in Kyebi (Akyem Abuakwa, Eastern Region/Ghana) in 2002. >>continue

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Gabriel Klaeger, eloweb.nl