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The ‘earth house’ recreates a traditional Lebanese lifestyle in exacting detail

Published on August 23, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Middle East

The Daily Star – Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you’d think you were wandering around in a doll house. The “Earth House,” as this newly opened museum in the Western Bekaa is called, aims to revive the traditional house style of the rural Bekaa region.

“This project was conceived thanks to a book by anthropologist, ethnologist and photographer Hoda Kassatly called “Terres de Bekaa””, said the museum’s coordinator Nicole Nachnouk.

“The Earth house is just what we and the younger generations need to get over our ‘lost memory’ and to remember how our ancestors used to live,” the Bekaa photographer Kassatly said. And indeed, as Kassatly explained further, the museum is specially dedicated to the Bekaa inhabitants whose “ignorance and lack of interest” in their ancestors’ culture is “alarming.” >> continue

The Daily Star - Lebanon News

TERBOL, Lebanon: In an old peasant house in the village of Terbol, everything is so perfect, so miniature that you'd think you were wandering around in a doll house. The "Earth House," as this newly…

Anthropological Films online

Published on August 20, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, Visual Anthropology

For those of you with a fast broadband connection: On the website of the Visual Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, you can download / view several anthropological films:

Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abebe):
This film is about a small group of people, found in northwest Ethiopia and categorized as Weyto. In the conversation, which my friend and I made with some members of the group, I tried to convey the voices of the Weyto and also the virtual experience of being Weyto. >> continue

Boys Will Be Boys (by Brigt Dale):
A film shot during student fieldwork in social and visual anthropology, “Boys Will Be Boys” tells the story of the inexperienced fieldworker, trying to master a foreign environment, and how his appearance and behaviour produce knowledge. >> continue

Across troubled Water (by Petia Mankova):
The film is about the everyday life in Krasnoschelye, an isolated village in the heart of the tundra on Kola peninsula (North-West Russia) and how the local eople experience the political and economic reforms of the last ten years. >> continue

UPDATE: The Nordic Anthropological Film Association has listed around 110 films that you can watch online (broadband)

Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abebe):
This…

Research Shows FCC and Chinese American Families Share Similar Issues

Published on August 20, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, migration, Northern America

scanews.com

What is Chinese cultural heritage? How do we pass it on to the next generation, particularly as it changes in the context of U.S. society? These are issues shared by many adoptive Chinese families and Chinese American families.

Since 2000, Dr. Andrea Louie, a cultural anthropologist from Michigan State University, has been interviewing St. Louis area families who have adopted from China. Her research focuses on whether, how, and why adoptive families teach their children about China and Chinese culture. She conducts her research by participating in adoption-related events, such as those organized by local adoption agencies and by the St. Louis chapter of Families with Children from China. She also interviews adoptive families about their adoption stories and attitudes toward China and Chinese culture. >> continue

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Since 2000, Dr.…

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…

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…