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‘Degrees for sale’ at UK universities

Published on August 2, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, University / Academia

The Observer

Cash-strapped British universities are awarding degrees to students who should be failed, in return for lucrative fees, The Observer can reveal. The ‘degrees-for-sale’ scandal stretches from the most prestigious institutions to the former polytechnics and includes undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, foreign and home students. In the most extreme case, The Observer has evidence of a professor ordering staff to mark up students at risk of failing in order to keep the money coming in.

At Swansea, the government’s University Visitor, Phillip Havers QC, is conducting an investigation into why the vice-chancellor had ordered the closure of five traditional departments – chemistry, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and development studies. Staff believe the decision has been made to boost the numbers of foreign students coming to study at the university’s new management school on lucrative masters’ degrees >>continue

The Observer

Cash-strapped British universities are awarding degrees to students who should be failed, in return for lucrative fees, The Observer can reveal. The 'degrees-for-sale' scandal stretches from the most prestigious institutions to the former polytechnics and includes undergraduate and postgraduate…

Unknown Traditions: Tomatoe fights in Malta

Published on July 29, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Europe

Today, the inhabitatants of a village in Malta have descended into a field close to Dahlet Qorrot Bay for a massive tomato fight. For two hours, two teams will hurl huge amounts of ripe tomatoes at each other. This tradition was borrowed from Spain, and the newspaper Malta Today raises the question how ‘right’ is it for traditions to be borrowed. Anthropologist Ranier Fsadni answers. Read more in >>Malta Today

The Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico and Fishing in the Solomon Islands

Published on July 28, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Pacific Oceania, Visual Anthropology

Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA)

Explore the Chea-villagers’ traditional “Kuarao”-fishing in the Solomon Islands – in an interactive presentation based on professor Edvard Hviding and SOTFilm a/s filmproject “Chea’s Great Kuarao” (1996).

We also have an interactive presentation of The Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico, based on films made by Frode Storaas. >>continue

Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA)

Explore the Chea-villagers' traditional "Kuarao"-fishing in the Solomon Islands - in an interactive presentation based on professor Edvard Hviding and SOTFilm a/s filmproject "Chea's Great Kuarao" (1996).

We also have an interactive presentation of The Day of…

Book review: Ecstasy, Madness, and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas

Published on July 27, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books, religion cosmology

Nepal News

Martino Nicoletti, an Italian anthropologist, explains Kulunge Rai’s practice of shamanism in Nepal in his book “Shamanic Solitudes. Ecstasy, Madness, and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas”. Shamanism is widely practiced among the Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups living in most parts of the mid hills of Nepal. Unlike the world’s two old religions – Buddhism and Hinduism – the Shamanism has its own root and unique rituals.

This is what one can find in detail in the book. Nicoletti has completed the book following his long stay in the region observing the practices side by side with the Kulunge Rai community. >>continue (LINK UPDATED 12.8.2020)

Nepal News

Martino Nicoletti, an Italian anthropologist, explains Kulunge Rai’s practice of shamanism in Nepal in his book "Shamanic Solitudes. Ecstasy, Madness, and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas". Shamanism is widely practiced among the Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups living in most…

Visual anthropology: Documenting the economic exodus from Mexico

Published on July 26, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Latin- and Central America, migration, poverty, Visual Anthropology

Monterey County Herald

Men are absent from the streets. It is often several years before they return from their farmworking, gardening or construction jobs across the border. Sometimes they don’t return at all, leaving their wives and children to live in shame.

The rural Mexican town of Ayutla is like so many other pueblitos (villages) — where economic opportunities are so lacking that men leave their families to try their luck in the United States.

The compelling story of Ayutla’s economic flight has been put to film — a work called simply “Ayutla” — by CSU-Monterey Bay students Annalisa Moore, Jessica Schorer and Jaymee Castillo. The students came across the town while doing ethnographic field research as part of a CSU-Monterey Bay anthropology class last year.

“We wanted to show the human side, the sacrifices people make to be part of the globalized marketplace,” said Moore, who is shopping it around various film festivals. >>continue

Monterey County Herald

Men are absent from the streets. It is often several years before they return from their farmworking, gardening or construction jobs across the border. Sometimes they don't return at all, leaving their wives and children to live in…