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What ads tell you about New Zealands and Australians

Published on February 6, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, Pacific Oceania

The New Zealand Herald

For New Zealanders the land represents everything that is pure and authentic. It’s. the essence of who we are. We love it so much that we fear losing it which is why we get so upset about foreign ownership and Maori claims to the foreshore. But Australians see the land as something to be tamed. The land is something to be observed, or crossed, not something to integrate with.

Buy it or not – and being from an advertising agency they hope you do – these are some of the results of an eight-month study by FCB New Zealand. Chief executive Nick Baylis analysed advertisements in both countries. “This piece of research gives us the jump on everyone else because it uses semiotic and anthropological studies that people in New Zealand just don’t use” >> continue

The New Zealand Herald

For New Zealanders the land represents everything that is pure and authentic. It's. the essence of who we are. We love it so much that we fear losing it which is why we get so upset about…

Book review: Mahmood Mamdani: "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim"

Published on February 1, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, culture traditions, globalisation, politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them

Media Monitors Network

A valuable new contribution to unearth and interpret America’s bizarre conduct is Mahmood Mamdani’s study “GOOD MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM”. The author, a distinguished political scientist and anthropologist, explains that the book grew out of a talk at a church in New York after 9/11 when to bear an identifiably Muslim name was to be made aware that Islam had become a political identity in America.

Perhaps the heart of this book can be found in the first chapter titled “Culture Talk; Or How Not To Talk About Islam And Politics”. The author is able to penetrate the limits of conventional discourse on democracy and dictatorship, poverty and wealth and also succeeds in locating “culture” within the chasm of globalisation. >> continue Link updated 29.5.18

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Interview with Mahmood Mamdani (Asia Source) Link updated 29.5.18

Media Monitors Network

A valuable new contribution to unearth and interpret America's bizarre conduct is Mahmood Mamdani's study "GOOD MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM". The author, a distinguished political scientist and anthropologist, explains that the book grew out of a talk at a…

Anthropologists wonder about iPod-culture

Published on January 31, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, culture traditions, internet, music, technology

Detroit News

Portable music players create their own culture. iPod users, who also call themselves “iPeople,” say they can’t get enough of the music downloaded from computer hard drives, the Internet and CD collections. Cultural anthropologists and techno experts wonder what the impact of their actions will be. At this point, experts are still grappling for answers. >> continue (updated link, original no longer available)

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iPod Nation? (The Tufts Daily, updated link)

Detroit News

Portable music players create their own culture. iPod users, who also call themselves "iPeople," say they can't get enough of the music downloaded from computer hard drives, the Internet and CD collections. Cultural anthropologists and techno experts wonder what…

BBC: Tsunami “folklore” saved islanders

Published on January 20, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Andaman & Nicobar societies, anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, ecology nature, indigenous people / minorities, Tsunami Dec 2004

BBC

Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami, anthropologists say. Samir Acharya, convenor of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology (Sane), said the aboriginals have a collective memory of earthquakes and tsunamis so they knew to move to higher ground. >> continue

BBC

Traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation helped to save ancient tribes on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the worst of the tsunami, anthropologists say. Samir Acharya, convenor of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology (Sane), said…

Anthropologists on fieldwork for Microsoft in India

Published on January 12, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, Asia, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, design anthropology, technology

RedNova News / Seattle Post – Intelligencer

Microsoft Corp.’s research unit is turning to social scientists in a new effort to understand the long-term possibilities for computer technology in developing countries.

A Microsoft Research lab, to be inaugurated tomorrow in Bangalore, India, plans to employ anthropologists, ethnographers and others to observe and document the lives of people in India’s rural villages.

A primary aim of the new group is to help Microsoft understand the situation in rural villages before the company tries to create appropriate technologies for them – rather than first creating the technologies and then trying to find areas where they might apply. >> continue

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RedNova News / Seattle Post - Intelligencer

Microsoft Corp.'s research unit is turning to social scientists in a new effort to understand the long-term possibilities for computer technology in developing countries.

A Microsoft Research lab, to be inaugurated tomorrow in Bangalore, India,…