Wolfgang "Anthronaut" Wohlwend has returned from his two month fieldwork in a warehouse in Istanbul. He summarizes some of his experience with short-time fieldwork and gives us the advice: "Start at the general and go into the specific!":
Two months… more »
Category: "fieldwork / methods"
You can download several articles and papers on Anthropology of Mongolia on Christopher Kaplonski's website. He is currently doing research on concepts of democracy in Mongolia and political Violence and its legacy.
He writes:
Among other things,… more »
Interesting article in the International Herald's Tribune on recent research on Gossip. If there's a list of universal human traits, gossip must be part of it:
"Long-term studies of Pacific Islanders, American middle-school children and residents of r… more »
by lorenz on Aug 10, 2005 in technology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia • 1 comment »
"Rebekah Nathan" isn't the only anthropologist who is studying students.
The article in Democrat & Chronicle starts like this (quite typically for journalists who are somehow puzzeled by recent changes in anthropology)
On and off for two years… more »
by lorenz on Aug 8, 2005 in corporate & business anthropology, Us and Them, books, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general)
(Post in progress)
Here a short summary of some stories published during the summer break:
Most discussed: Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" and the reasons for differences in progress for different societies
From a summary of the de… more »
by lorenz on Aug 4, 2005 in fieldwork / methods, youth, University / Academia, ethics • 8 comments »
Gil Klein, Media General News Service
WASHINGTON - When most anthropologists do field work, they head off to places like Indonesia to study such things as 20th century head-hunting rituals. But when Rebekah Nathan wanted to study a foreign culture, sh… more »
by lorenz on Aug 3, 2005 in fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), Visual Anthropology, websites
Norwegian Anthropologist Brigt Dale has started to blog in English - additionally to Norwegian. In his first post, he writes:
First of all, I will try to follow up on my motto for my Norwegian blog, and relentlessly attack and scrutinise all things w… more »
Anthopologist Dan Fessler tells us about a new research project "Children and Fire" and asks us to participate and be informants >> read more in antropologi.info Forum
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