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AAAs Anthropology News March: Tsunami, Unemployment, Muslims in Thailand

Published on March 8, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers

Here are three more articles from the Anthropology News March 2005 by the American Anthropological Association:

Vishvajit Pandya: “When Land Became Water”. Tsunami and the Ongees of Little Andaman Island
I had a chance to visit the Ongees in the last weeks of January to find out how my old friends explained the tsunami and what they planned for their future. >> continue

Carrie Lane Chet: Work and Unemployment in the Global Labor Market
Since the fall of 2001, I had been conducting ethnographic fieldwork among unemployed high-technology workers in and around Dallas, Texas. >> continue

Raymond Scupin: Polarized Cultural Stereotypes Contribute to New Violence
The Thai government’s insensitivity toward the people and cultures of South Thailand is undoubtedly one factor contributing to the new violence in this region. >> continue

Here are three more articles from the Anthropology News March 2005 by the American Anthropological Association:

Vishvajit Pandya: "When Land Became Water". Tsunami and the Ongees of Little Andaman Island
I had a chance to visit the Ongees in the last weeks…

Knowledge Fades As Africa Languages Die

Published on March 6, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, language

Sun-Sentinel / AP

A U.N. Conference on Trade and Development report on protecting traditional knowledge argues that beyond a devastating impact on culture, the death of a language wipes out centuries of know-how in preserving ecosystems — leading to grave consequences for biodiversity. >> continue

Sun-Sentinel / AP

Anthropologist shoots down stereotypes about gun enthusiasts (Book review)

Published on February 18, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, culture traditions, Northern America

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Shooters: Myths and Realities of America’s Gun Cultures, by Abigail A. Kohn, New Fork: Oxford University Press, 224 pages, $29.95

Abigail A. Kohn calls Shooters an ethnography, an anthropological study conducted from within a culture to gain the “natives’ point of view.” Rather than studying gun enthusiasts though literature and statistics, or from behind a duck blind to ensure “objectivity,” Kohn spent time with enthusiasts, interviewing them, taking classes with them, and shooting with them.

The result is a fascinating look into the world(s) of gun enthusiasm that puts real, human faces on a gun debate dominated by antiseptic statistics and abstract principles. After reading Shooters, you’ll wonder why no one has done such a study before. The omission may stem from the typical attitude toward guns among academics, which Kohn addresses in her preface. >> continue

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Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures, by Abigail A. Kohn, New Fork: Oxford University Press, 224 pages, $29.95

Abigail A. Kohn calls Shooters an ethnography, an anthropological study conducted from within a culture to gain the…

Women in Cameroon:Information technology as a way out of the cultural cul-de-sac

Published on February 7, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology in the news, culture traditions, gender, technology

IPS News Service

As is the case in much of Africa, cultural and religious factors in Cameroon have proved formidable obstacles to the advancement of women in the workplace. Traditional beliefs dictate that a women’s place is in the home, prompting many parents to take their daughters out of school at an early age – and allow them to be married. Information technology has proving especially useful in showing women a way out of the cultural cul-de-sac they so often find themselves in. >> continue

MORE ON IT AND DEVELOPMENT
Digital Opportunity Channel (oneworld.net / digital divide network)

IPS News Service

Pop goes Japanese culture

Published on February 6, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, globalisation, Us and Them, youth

San Francisco Chronicle

Five years into the millennium, Japan’s most visible export isn’t economic, but cultural. The jury’s still out on whether anime (Japanese animation), manga, toys, gadgets and fashion will sweep across middle America. “This stuff is getting globalized like never before,” says Anne Allison, chair of cultural anthropology at Duke University, whose examination of the subject, “Millennium Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination” (University of California Press) will be out in 2006.

“In the last decade, especially in the last five years, Japanese pop culture, particularly youth culture — anime, manga, Pokemon, kids cards — has circulated not just in the United States, but in Western Europe, East Asia and South America.” >> continue

SEE ALSO:
Interview with anthropologist Anne Allison about her research in Japan (Japan Review)
Book review: Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture (Japan Review) , see same book reviewed by H-Net Review

San Francisco Chronicle

Five years into the millennium, Japan's most visible export isn't economic, but cultural. The jury's still out on whether anime (Japanese animation), manga, toys, gadgets and fashion will sweep across middle America. "This stuff is getting globalized like…