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New blog: Sarapen. Online anthropology on Filipino bloggers

Published on July 8, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, globalisation, internet, migration, Northern America, Us and Them, websites

(via Livejournal Anthropology Community) Jesse de Leon, Master’s student in Social Anthropology, has started blogging on his research on Filipino bloggers – a very interesting blog about migration, transnationalism, identity and internet research. In his second post he explains:

I’m what’s known as a 1.5 generation immigrant: someone who immigrated as a child old enough to remember the country they were born in. In my case, I immigrated to Canada from the Philippines when I was ten years old. I consider myself as having grown up in both countries. I know that if I had grown up entirely in the Philippines, I would be a different person than what I am today.

It’s therefore understandable that I’m interested in issues of migration, transnationalism, and identity. I’m particularly interested in what identity is like for other Filipinos who have migrated. Do they consider themselves as being completely Filipino? Or do they see themselves as being Canadians now (or American, or Australian, or so on)?

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Now, this is all well and good, but lots of other people have examined these issues. What am I doing that’s new? Well, I’m investigating Filipino migration and identity, but I’m investigating them through blogs. Specifically, I’m looking at how Filipino bloggers talk about these issues. I’m also looking at how Filipino bloggers don’t talk about these issues.

>> visit Sarapen. Online anthropology on Filipino bloggers

His blog is hosted at edublogs.org – a free blog host that he recommends.

(via Livejournal Anthropology Community) Jesse de Leon, Master’s student in Social Anthropology, has started blogging on his research on Filipino bloggers - a very interesting blog about migration, transnationalism, identity and internet research. In his second post he explains:

I’m…

“Welcome to an Engaged Anthropologist’s Blog”

Published on June 26, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cosmopolitanism, Middle East, websites

Former professor of anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and peace activist for over 30 years, Jeff Halper has started blogging. In his post “Welcome to an Engaged Anthropologist’s Blog” he explains:

My idea for this blog is to to bring you into the world of a peace activist in Israel-Palestine, an American-born Jew who became an Israeli some 35 years ago when he immigrated from Minnesota to Israel, who nevertheless believes in peace, justice, human rights, international law and critical thinking — thinking “out of the box” when it come to framing solutions to the world’s problems.

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I’m not really conspiratorial or nutty as some of my words on the link among Israel, Jewish “leaders” and American Empire might imply (…). In fact, I’m a mild-mannered professor of Anthropology (used to teach at Ben Gurion University and elsewhere) who would love to do nothing more than go back to teaching and writing about the deconstruction of consciousness among the Nacirema or some other such stuff.

>> visit Jeff Halper’s blog (but why is there no RSS-feed??)

Halper has been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his grass root peace activities, along with Professor Ghassan Andoni

>> ‘As Israelis, We Also Fight for Palestinians’ – Interview with Jeff Halper at OhMyNews

Former professor of anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and peace activist for over 30 years, Jeff Halper has started blogging. In his post "Welcome to an Engaged Anthropologist's Blog" he explains:

My idea for this blog is to to…

Anthropologist: "The proper way of eating is with a spoon and a fork"

Published on May 14, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, food and drink, migration, websites

(Links updated 7.9.2020) A Montreal newspaper story has rapidly sent Filipino tempers rising around the world. Luc Cagadoc, a 7-year-old pupil, was punished by a lunchtime day-care monitor: “You are in Canada. Here in Canada you should eat the way Canadians eat,” the Quebecois educator allegedly said, and went on to observe that Luc “ate like a pig.” The reason: Luc insisted on eating with a spoon and fork as most Filipinos do.

“Educators and parents alike should find ways to work together to avoid traumatizing children who deserve more than to be made to feel inferior because of their parent’s culture”, the editor (I suppose) of the Philippine Daily Inquirer comments (text no longer online).

In a follow-up article called “Spoon Wars” (no longer online), anthropologist Michael L. Tan gives us more information about food, eating habits and cultural history (that’s the role anthropologists should play, isn’t it?):

For Filipinos, and most Asians, spoons were the greatest invention ever. Throw away the knife and the fork but never the spoon, which we use for soups, desserts, vegetables, even to cut meat.

Anyone with knowledge of culinary history can tell you the spoon was the first eating utensil to have been invented. Knives, well, they were originally invented as weapons, and then got reduced for the dining table. And the fork, the infamous fork that westerners insist is the main eating utensil? They come much later, introduced from the Middle East into southern Europe, but treated with disdain by the northern Europeans.

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Etiquette changes all the time because they’re based on meanings we give to people, events, places. In earlier less civil times, meals could become quite violent so the last thing you needed were utensils brandished like weapons, which is why the Chinese resisted knives and forks and stuck to chopsticks.

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But don’t worry, with 8 million Filipinos living and working in Canada and all kinds of other remote, savage lands, many infiltrating homes as nannies and cooks and housekeepers, we’ll teach the world that the proper way of eating is with a spoon and a fork.

Michael L. Tan is an engaged anthropologist. He publishes most of his columns in a blog called Pinoy Kasi. His older texts can be found at http://www.pinoykasi.homestead.com. His current texts are available here: https://opinion.inquirer.net/byline/michael-l-tan

(Links updated 7.9.2020) A Montreal newspaper story has rapidly sent Filipino tempers rising around the world. Luc Cagadoc, a 7-year-old pupil, was punished by a lunchtime day-care monitor: “You are in Canada. Here in Canada you should eat the way…

Deep Thoughts – new anthropology blog by Denise Carter

Published on April 19, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, internet, websites

Is there life after a PhD? and Internet Nicknames – what’s in a name? are the titles of the first entries in a new anthropology blog by Denise Carter.

She has recently completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Hull, UK. Many might know her as frequent poster in anthropology email-lists. She’s particularily interested in internet and its effect on our daily lives. Her doctoral research is an ethnographic account of my three years living and working in a virtual community.

>> continue to Denise Carter’s blog

Her blog is included in the overviews over anthropology blogs http://www.antropologi.info/blog/ and http://www.antropologi.info/feeds/anthropology

Is there life after a PhD? and Internet Nicknames – what’s in a name? are the titles of the first entries in a new anthropology blog by Denise Carter.

She has recently completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the…

Two more Anthro-blogs and an anthropological consultancy

Published on March 22, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, corporate & business anthropology, websites

My so-called anthropology newspaper is getting more and more crowded. The most recent addition is Cultural commentary”, a blog by anthropologist Marcel J. Harmon. He is partner and founding member of the consultancy Human Inquiry, that “applies anthropological/ethnographic methods within an evolutionary framework” to among others “improve human applications of technology, increase profits, and maximize productivity by analyzing how people use technology – from laptop computers to architectural spaces – thus enhancing the enjoyment, comfort, efficiency, satisfaction, and safety of both customers and employees”.

Also added: The life of PhD with the subtitle “Writing a PhD can be fun, but it can also be torture. This is my space for coming to terms with writing my thesis”. Many thoughts about the writing and working process!

>> anthropology newspaper

>> anthropology newsticker

My so-called anthropology newspaper is getting more and more crowded. The most recent addition is Cultural commentary", a blog by anthropologist Marcel J. Harmon. He is partner and founding member of the consultancy Human Inquiry, that "applies anthropological/ethnographic methods within…