A few hours ago I was shocked to read that David Graeber has died. He was only 59 years old. Graeber was one the most known and most original anthropologists in the world. He was one of the leading figures of the Occupy movement and got famous among the… more »
Category: "persons and theories"
Book Review. Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective edited by Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman & Michael Redclift. Ashgate, 2010. Tereza Kuldova, PhD Fellow, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo Chicken i… more »
by lorenz on Nov 1, 2011 in globalisation, books, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), persons and theories • 4 comments »
By Aleksandra Bartoszko. Oslo University Hospital, Equality and Diversity Unit See part I of the interview Being radical critical without being leftist and part II The global trade with poor people's kidneys Nancy Scheper-Hughes is currently… more »
by lorenz on Oct 31, 2011 in globalisation, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, poverty, anthropology (general), persons and theories
By Aleksandra Bartoszko. Oslo University Hospital, Equality and Diversity Unit See part I of the interview Being radical critical without being leftist Spring 2011 I attended seminar “Engaging medicine” at the University of Oslo in honor of one o… more »
by lorenz on Nov 4, 2010 in development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), persons and theories, journal articles / papers
What kinds of theoretical insights have emerged from the anthropology of development? What can anthropologists learn from development work? Anthropology Through Development: Putting Development Practice into Theory is the topic of the new issue of the op… more »
(via anthropologyworks) British-Canadian anthropologist Robert Paine died at the age of 84. Eveybody who's interested in the Northern and Polar areas will know his name. He sent his most recent article for publication just weeks ago. Last year his… more »
A month before his 101.birthday, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the most influential anthropologists, died at the age of 100. He died over the weekend, according to the office of the president of the School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Pa… more »
by lorenz on Aug 24, 2009 in medical anthropology / ethnobothany, persons and theories, journal articles / papers • 1 comment »
How to deal with "mental illness"? Are people who are labelled ill actually ill? Is it ok that psychologists call "adolescent rebellion" for “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”? What is anthropologists' role here? Eugenia Tsao discusses these questions in an… more »
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